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Discipline of Gender, Work & Social Enquiry
Level 5, Ligertwood Building
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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Gender, Work and Social Inquiry


2009 Seminar Series

Seminar room 529 Ligertwood Building
Fridays 9.30am – 12.15pm

• Seminars are scheduled for MOST Fridays during teaching term 9.30am – 12.15 pm. (there are two papers per session broken by morning tea)
• On ‘non-seminar’ Fridays there will be an informal get-together over morning tea 10.30 -11am

Date

9.30am -10.40am

11.00am - 12.10pm

Friday 20 March

12.30pm Post grad welcome lunch and round table and information.

Friday 27 March

10am start. Workshop. Managing a big project: Kathie Muir

Friday 3 April

Morning tea 10.30am –11 am

10 – 24 April

Easter and Mid –semester break

Friday 1 May

Screening of Noise- a 2007 Australian crime/drama. Followed by morning tea and a round table discussion of the representations of gender and of research ‘technique’ in Noise. Margie Ripper

Friday 8 May

Morning tea 10.30am –11 am

 

Friday 15 May

Penelope Eate 
Saving The World From Tomorrow: The Flaneur as Vigilante
Crime Fighter in Taxi Driver

Anna Szorenyi
Constructions of race in depictions of suffering.
Friday 22 May Ruth Walker    (Flinders University)
"Trying to switch off": the impact of relationships, roles and transitions on sleep difficulties among older women.
Megan Warin
Sinner ladies: mother blame and obesity.
Friday 29 May Suzanne Franzway   (UniSA)
New feminist politics.
Title: TBA
Heather Brook    (Flinders University)
Third-Wave Weddings: Gender, Feminism & ‘Bride Wars’
Friday 5 JuneMorning tea 10.30am –11 am
Friday 12 JuneKirsty Whitman
Working class masculinity and popular culture in Australia.
Title: TBA
Alison Dundon
The smell of sex: HIV, women and sexuality in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.

19 June - 26 July

  End semester 1        Mid-year break       Commence semester 2

Friday 31 July Toni Delaney
Constructions of maternal responsibility within medical & public health discourse: exploring the broader implications.
Sally Gibson
Towards a new ethical approach to sex education in schools:issues and implications.
Friday 7 August

Pam Papadelos
The establishment of 'Women's Studies' as an academic discipline and the implications of 'Origins' for theoretical directions in feminist teaching and research.

Friday 14 AugustTegwen King
Urban redevelopment, identity and difference
Title: TBA
Clare Bartholomaeus
How primary school children understand gender in their lives and the fit of 'adult' gender theory to children.
Friday 21 August Margie Charlesworth
Image, competence and emotion work.
Title: TBA
Chilla Bulbeck
From justice to choice?: changes in generational understandings of feminism and gender equality.
Friday 28 August Karina Bria 
Paternal postnatal depression in first time fathers: a work in progress.
Pauline McLoughlin
Couch surfing
Title: TBA
Friday 4 September

Gilbert Caluya (UniSA)
The relation between race and sexuality (particularly influenced by corporeal feminism and Deleuze).
Title: TBA

Kathryn Stone Honours proposal
Black faces in white spaces: Indigenous sovereignty at work.
Friday 11 SeptemberTom Cole
Organisational change in VFL football clubs.
Title: TBA
Gabbie Zizzo
Breast milk banking.
Title: TBA
Friday 18 September Helen Ewart
Gender in the Australian Bush.
Title: TBA
Jane Andrews
Creative Capital and Arts industries
Title: TBA
25 September - 5 OctoberMid-semester break
Friday 9 OctoberSonja Kurtzer
Identity, place and belonging in relation to recent works of Australian autobiography.
Title: TBA
Margaret Allen
Collecting India: The materiality of Eleanor Rivett’s 40 years in India.
Friday 16 OctoberKanchana Bulumulle
Understanding male privilege in the academy: Sri Lanka and Australia.
Title: TBA
Susan Oakley
Governing urban change in a global financial crisis: a comparative analysis of waterfront renewal in Adelaide, Darwin and Melbourne.
Friday 23 October

Kirsty Whitman
Working class masculinity and popular culture in Australia.
Title:  TBA

Friday 30 OctoberRuthie O’Reilly
Living alone in contemporary Australia.
Title: TBA
Kate Cadman
Narrative Inquiry and Notions of Learning.
All Fridays in NovemberMorning tea 10.30am –11 am
Friday 4 December End of Year celebration.     (To be confirmed.)

 

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