Harm reduction, intoxication and pleasure
Seminar
This paper aims to raise some of the issues related to pleasure and harm reduction. For example, are these two concepts at odds with each other, or can pleasure be incorporated into harm reduction approaches? The tensions in the relationship between harm reduction and ‘pleasure’ will be…
The Third Annual Australian Social Network Analysis Conference 2018
Conference
The Australian National University is hosting the 3rd Australian Social Network Analysis Conference at Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1. The conference will bring together scholars mainly from key universities and research institutes in Australia and neighbouring countries, but also other global…
‘Penetration, masturbation, ejaculation!’ – Lessons learned from facilitating sexual pleasure workshops with self-defining women in England
Seminar
This seminar will critically explore my own experience of delivering sexual pleasure workshops to self-defining women in different locations in the North of England. Drawing on six workshops hosted over the last three years. I will reflect on the international and UK context regarding women’s…
Protecting Reputation in a Digital Age: Perspectives from Canadian Young People
Seminar
Providing legal remedies for defamation has historically been one of the primary ways in which common law has supported people in protecting their reputations from harm. This form of support, however, is limited in a number of ways that constrain the degree of reputational protection, typically in…
Happy Anniversary? Reflecting on Marriage Equality
Symposium
Happy Anniversary? Reflecting on Marriage Equality Australian National University 12th – 13th November 2018, Canberra, Australia CONFERENCE PROGRAM Confirmed speakers include: Rosemary Auchmuty – University of Reading, England Tiernan Brady – Marriage Equality Campaigner (…
‘Imposter Syndrome’ and the Career Course: Striking out a Claim
Seminar
This paper re-visits ‘imposter syndrome’ in connection to contemporary debates on academic career categories, and explores how contested categories such as ‘early’ and ‘established’ career, circulate alongside ‘imposter’ positions on social media. It draws on two contemporary and on-going moments/…
Dangerous Ideas About Mothers
Book launch
Mothers are a topic on which almost everybody has an opinion, and always have. Now, however, those opinions are funnelled into and amplified on social media, where conversations turn ugly and advice is commercialised (read: the rise of the mumpreneurs). Often, social media is understood as a place…