Women's Studies Conferences, Symposia, Seminars

Research Symposium - August 14, 2009

Modernist Women and the Scene of Displacement:
An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Patricia Juliana Smith, “‘Everything to Dread from the Dispossessed’: Changing Scenes and the End of the Modernist Heroine in Elizabeth Bowen’s Eva Trout”

Lorraine Sim, “Dorothea Lange: On Documenting Displacement and Photographing the Familiar”

Ann Vickery, “Green Ambivalence: Reading English Colour in the Work of Stella Bowen”

Research Workshop  - Friday 24 July 2009

The Politics Of Reproduction

All Aboard? Travel, tourism and Canadian women's access to abortion services, 1960-1980
Presenter: Professor Christabelle Sethna, Institute of Women's Studies, University of Ottawa

Abortion and its spaces: RU486 and the home
Presenter: Sarah Tayton, PhD candidate, CCLCS

Maoist women in between two patriarchies
Presenter: Neeti Aryal Khanal, Masters candidate, CWSGR

Research Seminar: Thursday 9 April 2009

The Consequences of Realism: Drugs, the Visual and Affect

Dr Nicole Vitellone, Liverpool University
Assoc. Prof. John Fitzgerald, University of Melbourne

Research Seminar:  Wednesday 29 April

Reproducing the White Nation: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality During the Howard Years
Presented by:  Barbara Baird, Department of Women’s Studies, Flinders University.

"Women’s Objective - A Perfect Race": The Women’s Movement and the Making of White Australia, 1900-1930s
Presented by: Jane Carey, Monash Fellow within the Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research and the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies.

Biological citizenship: New spaces of hope and fear

…while citizenship has long had a biological dimension, a new kind of biological citizenship is taking shape in the age of rapid biological discovery, genomics, biotechnological fabrication and biomedicine. New subjectivities, new politics and new ethics are shaping today's biological citizens. As aspects of life once placed on the side of fate become subjects of deliberation and decision, a new space of hope and fear is being established around genetic and somatic individuality. (Novas & Rose, 2000)

Recent formulations of the idea of 'biological citizenship ' offer productive new ways of thinking about the encounters between bodies, technologies, subjectivity and governance. To explore some of these new approaches the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research and Sociology will host a half-day workshop to be held on Thursday, December 11 at Monash in the City, 20 Collins Street, Melbourne.

Presenters: Dr Helen Keane, Dr Kane Race and Associate Professor Catherine Waldby

Sociability, Sexuality, Self: relationality and individualization

July 15 2008

by Sasha Roseneil
Professor of Sociology and Social Theory Co-Director Birkbeck
Institute for Social Research Birkbeck, University of London Malet

Public Images: Role Playing and Female Consciousness in 1960s British CULTURE

17 July 2008

by Dr Patricia Juliana Smith,
Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Culture

With papers by:
Dr Janine Burke: "Picturing Karen Blixen: Out of Africa and Beyond"
Dr Steven Angelides: "Hot for Teacher: The Cultural Erotics and Anxieties of Heterosexuality"
Dr Sharon Bickle: "Author-izing Incest"

21st Anniversary Colloquium

Robyn Wiegman Professor of Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University
The Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash University  celebrated its twenty-first anniversary in 2008. To commemorate this significant milestone the Centre, in partnership with the School of Political and Social Inquiry and Monash University, hosted an International Research Colloquium in Melbourne. Distinguished Women's Studies Scholar, Professor Robyn Wiegman from Women's Studies and Literature at Duke University gave a Public Lecture to launch the Colloquium. Professor Robyn Wiegman has made a vital contribution to the field of Women's Studies internationally and her leadership has been critical to establishing and developing feminist academic work within the Academy.

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