Past Activities

ANU Public Forum: Mothers: cross-cultural dialogues

Monday November 2, 9.30am-1pm
The Finkel Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Rd, ANU
hosted by ANU in association with Shared Spaces

This public forum explored the diverse experiences of motherhood. It brought together popular authors, researchers, dancers and policymakers in a series of conversations to explore questions about the diversity of mothering today – working mothers, ‘stay-at-home' mothers, single mothers. The forum examined a series of questions: What is the value and visibility of mothering in contemporary Australia? How are the demands of work and life, consumerism and care negotiated within families and societies as a whole, and how might policy-makers respond? How do the changing experiences of mothers in Australia compare with those of mothers in India and in Papua New Guinea?

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Book Launch: Two new books on the Pacific

Coombs Tea Room, ANU, Thursday July 9th

Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence,
edited by Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon,
published by ANU E-Press.

Launched by Professor Stewart Firth, Chair of the Pacific Editorial Board, ANU E-Press

Polynesie-Melanesie, l'invention française des 'races' et des régions de l'Océanie (XVIe-XXe siècles)
by Serge Tcherkézoff,
published by Au Vent des Iles, Papeete, Tahiti.

Launched by Pierre Labbe, Cooperation and Cultural Counsellor of the French Embassy, Canberra

Photographs by Darren Boyd/Coombs Photography