International Feminist Summit
“Women of Ideas: Feminist Thinking for a New Era”
17 – 20 July 2007 – Townsville Australia
DETAILED PROGRAM
The Organising Collective reserves the right to amend the program or to substitute speakers as circumstances dictate.
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FOR INFORMATION:
While most presentations will be delivered to the whole summit assembly, concurrent sessions have been scheduled for the Short Papers presentations on Wednesday only. This arrangement has allowed us to accommodate the number of high quality papers submitted on Day 1 themes.
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PLEASE NOTE:
THE INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST SUMMIT COMMENCES ON TUESDAY EVENING WITH REGISTRATION AND A CIVIC RECEPTION.
THE CIVIC RECEPTION WILL BE HELD AT THE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CULTURAL CENTRE. ALL OTHER PROCEEDINGS WILL BE AT THE SOUTHBANK CONVENTION CENTRE.
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TUESDAY 17 JULY
5 pm:
REGISTRATION OPENS
(at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre, Flinders St)
6.00pm – 8.00pm:
OFFICIAL WELCOME AND CIVIC RECEPTION
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre, Flinders Street
WEDNESDAY 18 JULY
8.30am: Registration .. .. .. (Southbank Convention Centre, Palmer St)
9:00am – 12.30pm:
SESSION 1: MILITARISM AND VIOLENCE Chair: Pauline Woodbridge
9.00am PLENARY SESSION
Betty McLellan Introduction & Welcome
Pauline Woodbridge Opening Comments
Purna Sen Keynote Address: “Loudly, quietly, separately and
together: every which way”
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am SHORT PAPERS
Olivera Simic Violence in Peace, Violence in War: Women. Warriors and UN Peacekeepers
Lyn Ariel Male Domination’s Double Act: How domestic terrorists also as trainee warriors reinforce female oppression
Bronwyn Winter What does Hurricane Katrina have to do with the Subic rape
case?
Angela Castellanos Colombian Women in times of War
Karen Wilcox Politicising Responses to Domestic Violence
Ricky Hunter Project Plan to Empowerment
Lekkie Hopkins Naming domestic violence as a workplace issue
Liz Olle & Marg D’Arcy Peer Review as Feminist Activism? Women Against Violence,
An Australian Feminist Journal
(Alternate Concurrent Session)
Liz Olle & Marg D’Arcy Peer Review as Feminist Activism? Women Against Violence, An Australian Feminist Journal (repeat)
Catherine Gander Who Do Child Protection Mandatory Reporting Laws Protect ?
Melissa McEwen Narratives of Australian Women
Tasneem Ahmar Use of Veil by Women Politicians in Pakistan: A Symbol of Expression or Oppression?
Jack Draper Lesbian Health: A Matter of Discrimination
Dalomabi Lao Bula Let us put an End to Moro exclusion
Anja Light Integrating Motherhood and Activism
Spiderlily Redgold Sappho had a Party and……
12.30pm Lunch
WEDNESDAY 18 JULY
1.45pm – 5.00pm: SESSION 2: IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP
Chair: TBA
1.45pm POINT OF VIEW
Pauline Woodbridge Challenging Patriarchy in Men’s behaviour Change Programs
Julie Oberin for Perpetrators of domestic violence: Can we? Should we?
Margaret Augerinos
Cheryl Munzel
2.15pm PLENARY SESSION
Florence Onus Keynote Address: TBA
Shamima Ali Keynote Address: “Militarisation and Women’s Rights in
Fiji and the Pacific”
3.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.00pm THINKING ALOUD….
Moderator: Pauline Woodbridge
Purna Sen, Florence Onus, Shamima Ali and others TBA
5.00pm Close Day 1
5.30pm BOOK LAUNCH (details TBA)
THURSDAY 19 JULY
8.30am: Registration
9:00am – 12.30pm: SESSION 3: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION Chair: Joanne Baker
9.00am PLENARY SESSION
Sheila Jeffreys Keynote Address: “Feminists and the international sex
industry: cheerleaders or critics?”
Catharine MacKinnon Keynote Address: “Women’s Status, Men’s States”
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am SHORT PAPERS
Caroline Norma The role of “geisha” in legitimising sexual servitude for women
Elbie Lombard The portrayal of black women in South African magazine advertisements in 1996 and 2006: a comparative study.
Amanda Shea Hart Mother victims of domestic violence constructed as alienating parents in Australian family law
Judy Rose & Pym Schaare Hard Core Activism fights Soft Core Tokenism
Charmaine Saunders Hysterectomy and Female Castration: Popular choices for women in affluent societies.
Fiona Baranowski Don’t worry, it happens all the time
Georgina Abrahams Feminism, Anger and Depression
Lavender Lesbian Human Rights in Australia and Internationally
– Progress or Dilemma?
12.30pm Lunch
THURSDAY 19 JULY
1.45pm – 5.00pm: SESSION 4: ETHICS AND POWER Chair: Chantal Oxenham
1.45pm POINT OF VIEW
Cheryl Adam The Celibate Suit
Beth Tinning Stand by your man or else: how Family Law reform is taming all those unruly, liberated women
Merci Llarinas-Angeles Peace Women Partners: Feminist art and Activism
Nonie Harris Child Care is a Radical Feminist Issue!
Ryl Harrison Radical Money
Bronwyn Winter Manifesto2.15pm PLENARY SESSION
Betty McLellan Keynote Address: “Feminism: a spent force or still a
force to be reckoned with?”
Sohaila (RAWA) Keynote Address: TBA
3.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.00pm THINKING ALOUD….
Moderator: Sheila Jeffreys
Catharine MacKinnon, Sheila Jeffreys, Betty McLellan, Sohaila and others TBA
5.00pm Close Day 2
7.00pm SUMMIT DINNER
Keynote Address: Judy Horacek
“I am Woman, Hear Me Draw”
FRIDAY 20 JULY
8.30am: Registration
9:00am – 12.30pm: SESSION 5: GLOBALISATION Chair: Coralie McLean
9.00am PLENARY SESSION
Maha Jabeen Short Paper: “Women in the era of globalisation”
(Poetry presentation)
Susan Hawthorne Keynote Address: “Heteropatriarchy: Globalisation, the
institution of heterosexuality and lesbians”
Farida Akhter Keynote Address: “‘Seeds’ as the site of strategic
resistance”
10.30am Morning Tea
11.00am SHORT PAPERS
Diane Bell Water Wise: a feminist critique
Sumita Sarkar Globalisation and Women at Work: the Flip Side
Panel:
Melinda Tankard Reist Female Body Trading
Mary Sullivan Women and girls as consumer items in Australia’s legalised prostitution system
Farida Akhter Trafficking of women for marriage
Katrina George Eggs for sale: women as raw material for cloning research
Susan Hawthorne Somatic Piracy and Dissociation: the Commodification of Phallic Biofantasies
Renate Klein From Altruism to Annihilation: the reduction of women to cell
lines
12.30pm Lunch
FRIDAY 20 JULY
1.45pm – 5.00pm: SESSION 6: 21ST CENTURY ACTIVISM Chair: Betty McLellan
1.45pm SHORT PAPERS
Sazz Langford The Industrialisation of reproduction: a radical feminist
issue for the 21st Century
Mei-Fang Fan Environmental Citizenship, Justice and Governance: the Case
of a Controversial industrial waste Facility siting in Taiwan
Sand Hall A Visual Journey of Women’s Land
Maksuda Aitieva Media and Cooperation with women’s organisations for
women’s political empowerment
Sasi Victoire Using Art practice to address issues of domestic violence:
Through the Looking Glass
Margaret Harris The Need for Embodied Wisdom of the Postmenopausal
Woman
3.00pm Afternoon Tea
3.30pm THINKING ALOUD….
“A Manifesto for the Future” Moderator: Betty McLellan
Purna Sen, Florence Onus, Shamima Ali, Sheila Jeffreys, Catharine MacKinnon, Sohaila, Judy Horacek, Susan Hawthorne, Farida Akhter.
5.00pm CLOSE of SUMMIT and FAREWELL