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Reading Feminism: September Book Club Meeting
Trinh T. Minh-ha's book Woman, Native, Other is this month's read. Join us to talk post-colonial, third world feminist challenges to western feminism's hegemonic centre, subjectivity, the problem of ethnography, and much much more. When: Wednesday 29th September, 5:30pm. Where: Join the Facebook event for this meeting to stay up-to-date with the meeting place: https://fb.me/e/2C1r3ZDi4.
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The Fay Gale Centre Lunchtime Seminars
Please join us this month for a presentation by Dr Nathan Manning and Dr Djordje Stefanovic titled: Beyond Angry White Men: Social Democratic Imaginations as an Alternative to Aggrieved Entitlement. Feel free to bring a long your lunch. Zoom is available. Please contact Nathan for information. When: Friday 8th of October, 1:10-2:00pm. Where: Napier 209.
A Workshop on Gender in the Health Curriculum
The Alliance of Gender Scholars took part in a workshop with Professor Vivienne Moore on Thursday 27th to discuss her efforts to challenge the ideas that our evolutionary biology creates distinctive brains, aptitudes and behaviours in men and women. And that these can unwittingly be reinforced in reproductive health and other subjects, merely through silence. Please email gender@adelaide.edu.au if you know/have any Honours or post-graduate students with a focus on gender who would like to get involved with the Alliance or if you would like to run a workshop/discussion group or presentation with Alliance members.
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The Fay Gale Centre Lunchtime Seminar Series
This months seminar will be presented by PhD candidate Tarmia Klass and will be outlining her research proposal. Her work is titled 'Disruptive Bodies in Discursive Space: An Auto/Ethnographic Exploration of Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance on Instagram.' You are welcome to bring along your lunch. When: Tuesday 24th, 12:30-1:15pm Where: Napier, Lower Ground 19.
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True Selfie: Adelaide Festival of Ideas
Fay Gale Centre Director, Professor Megan Warin, and PhD student Cambrey Payne will be taking part in a panel alongside activist Clementine Ford and writer/director Taryn Brumfitt on the topic of how social media has reshaped our lives and how we view ourselves. Where: Bonython Hall, Noth Terrace, The University of Adelaide. When: Saturday 17th of July, 3:30-4:30 pm. More information here. Link to event registration here.
SA Women's & Gender Studies Annual Public Lecture 2021
Dr Juliet Watson, President of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association, will be giving a public lecture in July entitled 'Miscarrying in the Car: Centring Gendered Experiences of Homelessness.' By putting gender at the centre of how we understand homelessness, this lecture will bring to light complexities and dynamics that too often are ignored when exploring this space. Where: Napier 102 lecture theatre When: Thursday, 15 July, 5:30-8:00 pm
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Reading Feminism: June Book-club Meeting
This month we are looking at poetry as a decolonising feminist practice/methodology with two texts, ARCHIVAL-POETICS by Dr. NATALIE HARKIN, a Narungga poet and theorist, and BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA by GLORIA ANZALDÚA, a Chicana poet and theorist. Where: Napier 210, The University of Adelaide. When: Wednesday the 30th of June, 5:30 pm.
NTEU - The Carolyn Allport Scholarship
The National Tertiary Education Union's annual Carolyn Allport scholarship is calling for applicants. The scholarship is available for any student undertaking postgraduate feminist studies, by research, in any discipline. $5000 per year for up to three years will be awarded to the successful applicant. If you wish to apply, applicants must be currently enrolled in postgraduate study, by research, at an Australian institution. Further specifics apply. Visit the NTEU website for more information. Application deadline: Friday 30th of July.
2020s Vision - Economic Future of Women in Australia
Centre member Associate Professor Duygu Yengin took part in a very important and relevant panel discussion on the topic of the economic security of women in Australia. Presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and BPW Adelaide, a recording of the panel can be found here.
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Special Fay Gale Seminar: Courage to Change by Professor Alison Phipps
The Courage to Change: Ending Gender Inequality and Sexual Harassment in Australian universities. The Fay Gale Centre is excited to be hosting a special seminar by Professor Alison Phipps (The University of Sussex, UK). At this Fay Gale seminar, Professor Phipps will address the policies and practices that can enable and support structural and cultural change around issues such as gender inequity, bullying, sexual harassment and violence. This event will generate collective understanding of how change at universities can occur, providing practical steps to create a workplace in which gender equity, diversity and care can flourish. The seminar will also be accessible over Zoom. When: 6 pm, 7th of June, 2021. Where: Adelaide University, Ingkarni Wardli Building, Level 7 Conference Room. Please RSVP for the event here.
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