The AWGSA Conference 2010
Labour Studies Reunion
Hot off the Press!

The Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association Conference 2010

The Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association Conference is being held in Adelaide in July 2010 and hosted by the University of Adelaide, Flinders University of SA and the University of South Australia. 

       Keynote speakers include:          

                       Professor Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths, University of London) 
                       Professor Dorothy Broom (ANU)
                       Professor Lyn Parker (UWA)

Also in conjunction with the conference Professor Aileen Moreton - Robinson (Queensland University of Technology) will deliver the inaugural South Australian Women's Studies and Gender Studies Public Lecture

In a time of rapid social, economic and political transition this conference calls for consideration of the meaning and possibilities of change for gender in Australia and internationally.  We invite papers on themes including (but not limited to):
                                - Indigenous women and political change
                                - Global feminisms
                                - Asian women and women in Asia
                                - Feminist activism/politics
                                - Feminist economics
                                - Gender in technology & science
                                - Feminist models of governance
                                - Gender and Health
                                - Migration and gender
                                - Gender and youth cultures
                                - Gendered landscapes
                                - Masculinities
                                - Sexualities
                                - Arts / Creative spaces
                                - Gender and the media
                                - Gendered violence

 Abstracts for oral presentations of 20 minutes duration should include:
                          Title of the paper, name and institutional affiliation of author(s)
                          An abstract of no more than 300 words
                          Contact details for presenter (postal address, phone, fax and email) 
                          A brief biographical note about author/s -100 words.

Abstracts should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: AWGSAconference@flinders.edu.au
                                    Deadline: 5pm Monday 1st February 2010.
                      Further information about the conference can be accessed at:
              http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/womens-studies/awgsa/conference.php
                                     or e-mail AWGSAconference@flinders.edu.au

           Download information here: AWGSA Conference and Call for Papers.

Labour Studies Reunion - Celebrating 30 years!

The first Labour Studies class was held at Adelaide CAE in 1979 with a small group of GMH tradesmen entitled to five days study leave a year under the Metalworkers award.  Since then hundreds of men and women across Australia have been Labour Studies students, 230 graduating in a range of qualifications from Associate Diploma (at Adelaide CAE) to Bachelor, Master and PhDs after the incorporation into Adelaide University in 1991.

In 1996 Labour Studies merged with Women's Studies to form the Department of Social Inquiry and now survives as a teaching strand in the Discipline of Gender, Work and Social Inquiry as well as a research centre - the Centre for Labour Research within the University's Australian Institute of Social Research.

Over the last 30 years the Labour Studies program has provided a rare opportunity for tertiary study with a special focus on work and its economic, political and industrial contexts. Labour Studies graduates have left their mark, many going on to take on roles in the union movement, government and public service at both state and federal level. 

                                            
           Celebrating 30 years of Labour Studies
           Friday 13th November 2009, 7.00-10.00pm
           The Adelaide University Club (off the Hughes Plaza behind Elder Hall)
           Cocktail refreshments and first drinks ($20) + bar facilities
           PLUS optional BBQ ($15 beef/chicken/vegetarian)


• Search for the "Labour Studies Reunion" event page on Facebook: share your recollections - and photos
• We have lost contact with many previous students, so SPREAD THE WORD!
• Please pass on addresses of any ‘missing persons' you know to the event organiser:

                                    Ken Bridge at ken.bridge@adelaide.edu.au 

Download more information and the rsvp form here.  RSVP by 30 October please.

Special Issue

Following the GWSI Families Conference in 2008, two of our postgraduate students, Tegwen King and Toni Delany, have been working as guest editors on a Special Issue of the Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review.  The Special Issue is based on some of the themes explored during the Conference and it includes three papers from GWSI staff and postgraduate scholars - one each from Associate Professor Margie Ripper, Gabbie Zizzo and Toni Delany.

The Special Issue has just been released and you can access it though the following link:
http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/glip/glip_review/
When the page opens please scroll down to locate the link for the PDF of the Special Issue.

Hot off the press: latest publications

Dr Kathie Muir's latest book 'Worth Fighting For: Inside the Your Rights at Work Campaign', published in 2008 by the University of NSW Press examines the Australian union campaign that aimed to overturn the work choices legislation brought in by the Coalition government in mid-2000.

http://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/9781921410772.htm

Megan Warin's 2009 book 'Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia' (Rutgers University Press) takes an anthropological lens to anorexia, arguing that concepts of relatedness and embodiment are central experiences to this culturally embedded phenomenon.

http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Abject_Relations.html

Pam Papadelos' forthcoming book to be published by Peter Lang ‘Derridean Deconstruction and Women's Studies in Australia' (Working title) addresses the theoretical influences, especially deconstruction, on the establishment and development of Women's Studies as an academic discipline in Australian Universities.