Thursday 18 June 930-1100
Opening Plenary
Welcome to Country
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(TBA)
Welcome to Distinguished Speakers
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HASS Assoc. Dean Research
Prof. Joanne Tomkins (TBC)
Speakers
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The Honourable Shannon Fentiman
Minister for Communities Women and Youth,
QLD Government
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Captain Jennifer Wittwer
Director, National Action Plan for Women, Peace
and Security
Australian Defense Force
Morning Tea 1100-1130
Thursday 18 1130-1300 Parallel Sessions 1
Panel 1 Queer Governance
Chair: Helen Berents, QUT
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The Materialities of Queer Governance in Modern
Turkey
Paul Gordon Kramer, University of Auckland
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Queer Just Wars?
Tom Moore, University of Westminster
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‘The Homosexual Question': Are LGBT rights a
security issue?
Corinne Mason, Brandon University.
Thursday 1300-1330 Lunch
Thursday 1330-1500 Parallel Sessions 2
Panel 4 Norm entrepreneurship and Institutional
Change
Chair: Ann Tickner, USC
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A ‘shift in attitude’? Institutional Change and
Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Emma Palmer,
UNSW
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Wilberforce for the 21st Century? William Hague,
Norm Entrepreneurship and the Prevention of
Sexual Violence (in Conflict) Initiative,
Sara Davies QUT, Jacqui True, Monash University
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Angelina Jolie and Sexual Violence in Conflict
Panel 2 - Gender, Women’s Rights and Political
Economy
Chair: Jindy Pettman, ANU
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'Life' at the Border: Reflecting on scholarship and
the experiences of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Ellen Finlay, University of Sydney
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Invisible Labour, Invisible Bodies: How the Global
Political Economy Affects Reproductive Freedom
Maria Tanyag, Monash University
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Women’s empowerment through resistance in
post-authoritarian Indonesia
Sri Wiyanti Eddyono, Monash Univeristy
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Gender and Precarity in Subaltern Struggles in
India
Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut
Panel 5 Gender and the Representation of conflict,
peace and displacement
Chair: Laura Shepherd, UNSW
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Desiring Peace: Women “Writing” Peace in Sri
Lanka and Ireland
Shamara Ransirini, UQ
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“If it bleeds it leads – unless it’s menstrual”: The
role of international media support in
perpetuating gender inequality in aftermath
environments
Jacky Sutton, ANU
Panel 3 Gendering conflict transition process
Chair : Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida
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Are we trading women's rights in transitions?
Susan G. Harris Rimmer, ANU
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Gender, mediation and peace negotiations
Karin Aggestam, Lund University
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UN missions and local women organisations:
Necessary partners or strange bedfellows in
peacebuilding?
Maria Martin De Amalgro, Universite de
Bruxelles
Panel 6 Women Peace Builders/ Spoilers
Chair: Bina D’Costa, ANU
Speakers: Paper Titles to be advised
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Jenny Hedström
Monash University
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Nyla Grace Prieto
International IDEA, Australia
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Swati Parashar
Monash University,
Annika Bergman Rosamond, Lund University
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Thursday 1500-1530 Afternoon Tea
Thursday 1530-1700 Parallel Sessions 3
Panel 7 Women, Peace and Security Agenda in ASEAN:
Chair: Sara Davies, QUT
 Framing Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in the
ASEAN: Mapping Regional Initiatives and
Exploring Institutional Mechanisms on Protecting
Women from Gender-based Mass Atrocities
Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza
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ACWC’s Review Mechanism: the Opportunity to
Integrate Responsibility to Protect Women and
Children in ASEAN
Yuyun Wahyuningrum, and Sarah Teitt,
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Situating gender in ASEAN’s journey to human
rights: De-politicisation, institutionalisation and
the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Mathew Davies
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Could ASEAN’s new gender & peace architecture
make a difference to the rights of Burmese women
in transition?
Susan Harris Rimmer,
Social Media/ ‘Girlhood’: Hashtagging Girlhood:
#IAmMalala, #BringBackOurGirls, and Engaging
Global Politics Through Gendered
Representations,
Helen Berents, QUT
“We must speak for them” : Constructing human
trafficking in Australia
Naomi Atkins, ANU
Panel 8 Inside/outside: grounded methodologies in
the study of feminist international politics
Chair : Swati Parashar, Monash University
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“Qu’attendez-vous de moi, madame?” Building
“insider/ outsider” collaboration when
researching gender violence in the Pacific Islands.
Nicole George, UQ
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‘It’s Complicated!’ The Insider-Outsider Dynamics
of Conducting Fieldwork in Post-Conflict Liberia
Michelle Dunn, UQ
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They trust me or they trust me not? Dilemmas of
an insider doing research on property rights of
women in patriarchal Pakistani Muslim society
Humaira Shafi, UQ
Panel 9 Development and Environment
Chair : Heloise Weber
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Addressing multiple, connected oppressive
structures for a better outcomes: Women, oil
exploitation, environmental degradation and
conflicts
Maryse Helbert, University of Melbourne
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Gender and agency in the face of environmental
crises: adaptation in southwest Bangladesh
Amy McMahon, UQ
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Women Leading the Battle against Ebola: Case
Studies in Courage, Creativity, Care, and
Community Champions
Roxanne Richter, University of Johannesburg,
South Africa
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Gender Inequality in Health - A study of RCH
programme in the district of Burdwan (West
Bengal, India)
Arindam Roy, The University of Burdwan,
Panel 13 Theorising Gender, Violence and Security in
international politics
Chair: Soumita Basu, South Asian University
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Cultural Norms and Violence Against Women:
Towards an “Empathetic Critique”
Swati Parashar Monash University and David
Duriesmith, University of Melbourne
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Radicalizing Feminist International Relations
Theory
David Duriesmith, University of Melbourne and
Panel 12 Gender violence in conflict and post conflict
transition
Chair: Karin Aggestam, Lund University
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The paradox of peacebuilding in the SADC region:
case study of South Africa
Sharon Groenmeyer, University of Johannesburg
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Sex-selective and gendered forms of violence: what
do the 1965-66 Indonesian massacres tell us about
gender and genocide?
Annie Pohlman, UQ
Evening Keynote and Reception 1730-1930
Head of School : Intro at 1730
Gaynel Curry 17.40-18.30
Reception 1830-1930
Friday 19 June 900-10.30 Parallel Session 4
Panel 10 Women Peace and Security: Translation,
Implementation and Challenges of UNSCR 1325
Chair : Jacqui True, Monash University
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“Light, heat and shadows: Women’s reflections on
peacebuilding in post-conflict Bougainville”
Nicole George, UQ
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Counting the Cost: The impact of the Single NonTransferable Vote on Women in Afghanistan
Author(s) and institutional affiliation
Jacky Sutton, ANU
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Paying for Peace and Gender Equality: The
Context of the UN Security Council Author(s) and
institutional affiliation:
Soumita Basu, South Asian University
Victims of Violence and/or Agents of Change:
Women (and Peace and Security) in UN
Peacebuilding Discourse
Laura J. Shepherd, UNSW
Shadowing the NAP: Civil society engagement
with state implementation of UNSCR 1325 in
Australia Author(s) and institutional affiliation:
Susan Hutchison, ANU, and Katrina Lee-Koo,
Monash University
Morning Tea 1030-1100
Friday 18 1100-12.30 Parallel Session 5
Panel 13 Gender, participation and the nation
Chair: Nicole George, UQ
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Women candidates in the 2014 Solomon Island
Elections – Beyond Magic Bullets and Motorways
Kerryn Baker and Priya Chattier, ANU
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Gender Norms, Motherhood as “Sacred Duty” and
National Identity in Turkey
Julia Richardson, Deakin University
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Beyond Tahrir: Understanding Sexual Harassment
in Cairo
Heba, Abd El Hamid, University of Manitoba
Lunch 1230-1330
Friday 1330-1500 Parallel Sessions 6
Panel 16– Gender, Force, Neutrality
Chair : Anne Tickner, USC
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Women Can't Fight: myth and American military
identity
Megan Mackenzie, University of Sydney
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‘Gender’ in the UN: From radical underpinnings to
current depoliticised understandings in
peacekeeping training
Lisa Carson, University of Melbourne
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The politics of protection in post-neutral states:
Gendered Security?
Christine Agius, Swinburne University, Karen
Devine, Dublin City University
Friday 1500-1530 Afternoon Tea
Friday 1530-1630
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Sara Meger, University of Melbourne)
Dialectic of Culture and Autonomy
Steve On, National Sun Yat-sen University
Close(d) Encounters: Feminist Security studies,
Feminist International Political Economy and the
return to basics
Heidi Hudson, University of the Free state
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It’s not personal; it’s just business: a gender
analysis of economies in Timor-Leste
Sara Niner, Monash University
Medical outcasts: Conflict-induced Zimbabwean
and Mexican undocumented migrants fighting
gendered and institutionalized xenophobia in
American and South African emergency
healthcare
Roxanne Richter, University of the
Witwatersrand
Panel 14 Gendering the Global Conflict Policy
Response framework
Chair: Jindy Pettman, ANU
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Feminist ripostes to the responsibility to protect
doctrine
Susan G. Harris-Rimmer, ANU
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Reparations for Rape: Policies, Promises, and
Consequences,
Alexis Leanna Henshaw, Bucknell University
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From soldier to civilian, savage to 'civilized': DDR
as Neo-Imperialism
Christopher Hills and Megan Mackenzie,
University of Sydney
Panel 15 Implementing the UNSCR 1325 Mandate
Chair: Cecilia Confortini, Wellesley College
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Women, Peace and Security: Translation,
Implementation and Challenges of UNSCR 1325 in
BiH
Jagoda Rosul-Gajic, University of Colombia
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United States National Action Plan on Women,
Peace and Security: Masculinity, Femininity and
the Politics of Protection
Barbara Trojanowska, University of Monash
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Bargaining for Peace: masculinities, peacebuilding
and patriarchal bargaining
David Duriesmith, University of Melbourne
Panel17: Gender, Peace and Security: Perspectives
from Indigenous Australia. TBC
Chair: Liz Strakosch, UQ
Speakers: TBC
Panel 18 Roundtable Gender Mainstreaming in
International Peace and Security – Is it Working?
Panelists: Jacqui True, Monash University Susan HarrisRimmer Australian National University Sarah Boyd –
Athena Consortium Melbourne Laura Shepherd,
University of New South Wales
Closing Parallel Sessions:
Publishing Feminist Research on International
Politics:
Laura Sjoberg
Jacqui True
Sara Davies
Anne Tickner
Laura Shepherd
Young Women Leaders Forum
Featuring: TBC