Reading the Room
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<p>Hear Virginia Woolf's classic feminist text A Room of One's Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from the Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we've come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.</p><br><p>PRODUCERS </p><p>Lara Nicholls - PhD candidate in the <a href="https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/cahat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory</a></p><p>Fiona Jenkins - Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute and Associate Professor in the <a href="https://philosophy.cass.anu.edu.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU School of Philosophy</a></p><p>Evana Ho - Communications Coordinator in the <a href="https://cass.anu.edu.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences</a></p><br><p>EDITORS</p><p>Evana Ho and Grace Nicholls (student at ANU)</p><br><p>MUSIC</p><p>“String Quartet in E minor” composed by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth and performed by the Archaeus String Quartet. Released by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd). To purchase the full digital album, visit: <a href="www.lorelt.co.uk/114" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.lorelt.co.uk/114</a></p><br><p>ARTWORK </p><p>Our beautiful Virginia Woolf artwork was designed by <a href="https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU School of Art & Design</a> students <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laraclairecreative" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lara White</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katerice_art" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kate Rice</a>. </p><br><p>WARM THANKS</p><p>This podcast is a reading of the Popular Penguins edition of <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/a-room-of-ones-own-popular-penguins-9780141044880" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Room of One’s Own</a>. Penguin Random House provided copies of the book; these were vital to this project.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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November 24, 2021
Reflections on gender equality today
<p>We asked a handful of our Readers to reflect on the question: Do you think Virginia Woolf’s discussion of women’s under-representation and wider inequality is still relevant today?</p><br><p>They gave thoughtful, insightful responses.</p><br><p>Speakers:</p><br><p><strong>Julia Gillard</strong></p><p>Julia Gillard was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and is the inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College London and the Australian National University, which through research, practice and advocacy, is addressing women’s under-representation in leadership.</p><br><p><strong>Hilary Charlesworth</strong></p><p>Hilary Charlesworth is a Melbourne Laureate Professor and Harrison Moore professor at Melbourne Law School and a Distinguished Professor in RegNet at the ANU. She is also the first Australian woman to be elected to the UN International Court of Justice.</p><br><p><strong>Angela Woollacott</strong></p><p>Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University, and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Historical Society.</p><br><p><strong>Ben Jefferson</strong></p><p>Ben is studying Economics and Philosophy at the ANU and hopes to work in sustainable development in the future. He looks up to his many women role models and friends, and after their example tries to make the world a better place and himself a better person. LinkedIn: Ben Jefferson, Twitter @benjeff199</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
November 24, 2021
Chapter 6
<p>“Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine.”</p><br><p>Our Readers: </p><br><p><strong>Ben Jefferson</strong></p><p>Ben is studying Economics and Philosophy at the ANU and hopes to work in sustainable development in the future. He looks up to his many women role models and friends, and after their example tries to make the world a better place and himself a better person. LinkedIn: Ben Jefferson, Twitter @benjeff199</p><br><p><strong>Chris Wallace</strong></p><p>Chris Wallace is a writer, scholar and active political citizen with a PhD in History from ANU. Reading Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf: A Biography in 1976 was the gateway drug to her lifelong engagement with Bloomsbury. Twitter: @c_s_wallace</p><br><p><strong>Sarah Scott</strong></p><p>Sarah Scott is a Lecturer in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at ANU who is currently co-editing a book entitled Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous art for Routledge publishers.</p><br><p><strong>Lara Nicholls</strong></p><p>Lara Nicholls is completing a PhD on the professionalisation of women artists in the nineteenth century and is the inaugural Jennifer Strauss Fellow in the Humanities for her research in women artists and Impressionism. She is a Residential Fellow at Burgmann College.</p><br><p><strong>Will Salkeld</strong></p><p>Will Salkeld is an Arts Representative and an Academic Network Coordinator at Burgmann College. He is studying a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at the ANU and is an active musician outside of his studies. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/willsalkeldstudent/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/willsalkeldstudent/</a></p><br><p><strong>Raihan Ismail</strong></p><p>Raihan Ismail is a DECRA Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU. Follow her on Twitter @ismail_raih</p><br><p><strong>Poppy Thompson</strong></p><p>Poppy Thomson is a young singer-songwriter and aspiring curator from Sydney. She is currently in her second year of a Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship at the ANU and attends Burgmann College.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
November 24, 2021
Chapter 5
<p>“I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends... almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men.”</p><br><p>Our Readers:</p><br><p><strong>Jilda Andrews</strong></p><p>Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay cultural practitioner and museum ethnographer, currently a research fellow with the Australian National University and National Museum of Australia.</p><br><p><strong>Kristen Farrell</strong></p><p>Kirsten Farrell is an artist, knowledge worker, queer, mother. She holds a PhD from the ANU School of Art (2016). Instagram: kirsten_farrell/vivisector oracle</p><br><p><strong>Sally Renouf</strong></p><p>Sally Renouf is the Principal of Burgmann College, an independent university residential College at the Australian National University. Sally is the ninth Principal of Burgmann and the first woman to hold the role in its 50 year history.</p><br><p><strong>Rebecca Mayo</strong></p><p>Rebecca Mayo is a lecturer at the ANU School of Art & Design. Her print and textile-based art, informed by and practiced with ethics and labours of care, aims to frame care, or its absence as a critical tool for understanding contemporary lived conditions, particularly in relation to environmental, non-human and feminist concerns.</p><br><p><strong>Elizabeth Reid</strong></p><p>Elizabeth Reid has worked as a national and an international public servant and as a consultant in most developing regions of the world. Her particular focus included feminism, ethics, community development, and the HIV epidemic.</p><br><p><strong>John Fitzgerald</strong></p><p>John Fitzgerald is a student at the Australian National University, studying a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics / Bachelor of Commerce (Finance).</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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<p>Hear Virginia Woolf's classic feminist text A Room of One's Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from the Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we've come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.</p><br><p>PRODUCERS </p><p>Lara Nicholls - PhD candidate in the <a href="https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/cahat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory</a></p><p>Fiona Jenkins - Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute and Associate Professor in the <a href="https://philosophy.cass.anu.edu.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU School of Philosophy</a></p><p>Evana Ho - Communications Coordinator in the <a href="https://cass.anu.edu.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences</a></p><br><p>EDITORS</p><p>Evana Ho and Grace Nicholls (student at ANU)</p><br><p>MUSIC</p><p>“String Quartet in E minor” composed by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth and performed by the Archaeus String Quartet. Released by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd). To purchase the full digital album, visit: <a href="www.lorelt.co.uk/114" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.lorelt.co.uk/114</a></p><br><p>ARTWORK </p><p>Our beautiful Virginia Woolf artwork was designed by <a href="https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ANU School of Art & Design</a> students <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laraclairecreative" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lara White</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katerice_art" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kate Rice</a>. </p><br><p>WARM THANKS</p><p>This podcast is a reading of the Popular Penguins edition of <a href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/a-room-of-ones-own-popular-penguins-9780141044880" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Room of One’s Own</a>. Penguin Random House provided copies of the book; these were vital to this project.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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