Gender Inclusive IWRM In Education and Research: The South Asia ‘Crossing Boundaries' Project

This presentation documents the approaches, outputs and outcomes of an initiative called the Crossing Boundaries Project; currently underway in four countries focusing on education, impact oriented research, networking and advocacy as a combined effort to contribute to a paradigm shift in water resources management in South Asia. This presentation will share experiences from regional, collaborative, partnership-based capacity-building initiatives undertaken by the project.

12.30-1.30pm Monday 6 February 2012 - Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 2

The Homoerotic Origins of Modern Korean Fiction

Professor John Treat's publications include: Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 1996), Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan (Oxford University Press, 1999) and others.

Book launch of Reaching for Health: the Australian women's health movement and public policy

The book is a history of the controversial feminist women's health movement and its place as part of the health reform movement that began in the 1970s. It traces the impact the movement has been able to exercise on public policy since that time. Friday 10 February, 4-6pm. RSVP to admin.genderinstitute@anu.edu.au.

Making Equality a Reality

To be presented by Professor Nevena Petrusic, Serbian Commissioner for the Protection of Equality.
When: 1-2pm
Where: Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law (Bldg 5) Fellows Road

Canberra International Women's Day Lunch

International Women’s Day 2012 is about celebrating the vital role women play in enhancing economic prosperity in their families, communities and countries while recognising that significant barriers to achieving women’s economic security and equality continue to exist. Ticket and raffle sales will go to supporting the UN Women Partners Improving Markets program, which is working to make marketplaces safe for women in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

Pragmatic resistance, law, and social movements: the case of gay collective action in Singapore

This talk is based on Dr Lynette Chua's, "How does law matter to social movements? A case study of gay activism in Singapore." This is a qualitative, empirical study that has received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the New York-based Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship.
When: 3:00pm - 4:30pm, 08 Mar 2012
Where:Seminar Room 1.04, Coombs Extension Building #8, ANU

Critical Approaches to Gender and Justice: A workshop with Sally Engle Merry

ANU early career researchers and doctoral students are invited to submit abstracts for participation in a day-long workshop on Critical Approaches to Gender and Justice with Professor Sally Engle Merry. This workshop follows the highly successful workshop on Gender and Human Rights with Professor Sally Engle Merry in March 2011. It raises the broad question of what constitutes gender justice. Human rights frameworks have been the object of sustained criticism from feminist and post-colonial scholars. Abstracts due by February 10. Read more for further information.

Colonial girlhood/colonial girls

Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls’ seeks to draw together international scholars for a multi-disciplinary examination of how colonial girlhood was constructed, and redefined, in both British and colonial texts and cultures.

Framing Lives IABA Conference

The Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, present Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association.

Engendering governance - from the local to the global