AWGSA Conferences

At each Conference from 2018, AWGSA will award a Most Distinguished Paper Award.

28th – 30th November 2022

Activist Energies

Melbourne

The 2022 AWGSA Conference celebrates feminist energies, efforts and advocacy taking place across activism, scholarship, praxis and policy. It acknowledges affect, emotion, and fatigue.

13th – 16th July 2021

‘Unknowing’ Institutions :
Decolonisation & Critical Intersectional Practise

Flinders University City Campus, Victoria Square, Adelaide

This conference asks: what does it mean to undertake feminist, queer and related critical work within and in relation to institutions that privilege certain ways of ‘knowing’.

June 29 – 1 July 2016

De-Story the Joint

Brisbane

This conference was held at Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point in Brisbane June 29-31. It was hosted by a group of Queensland universities: the Committee was led by Dr Sharon Bickle (USQ). Keynote Speakers were Professor Clare Hemmings (London School of Economics) and Professor Irene Watson (UniSA).

23th –25th June 2014

Responsibility

Melborne

This conference was held at Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point in Brisbane June 29-31. It was hosted by a group of Queensland universities: the Committee was led by Dr Sharon Bickle (USQ). Keynote Speakers were Professor Clare Hemmings  (London School of Economics) and Professor Irene Watson (UniSA).

Conference information

21th –23th November 2012

Interventions : Reflections, Critiques, Practices

Kensington NSW
The 2012 conference was themed Interventions: Reflections, Critiques, Practices, and was hosted by the University of New South Wales, Kensington NSW from 21-23 November.

The keynote speakers included Professor Feona Attwood (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Dr Kath Albury (UNSW) and Professor Juanita Sherwood (UTS).

The 2010 conference,  Emerging Spaces: New Possibilities in Critical Times was jointly hosted by universities in Adelaide, featuring keynote speakers Zillah Eisenstein (Ithaca College, NY), Dorothy Broom (ANU), and Lyn Parker (UWA). Selected proceedings are published in Outskirts  Vol 24.

In 2008 the conference Vision, Memory, Spectacle was hosted by the University of Western Australia, featuring keynotes by Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck, U London), Felicity Collins (LaTrobe) and Pat Dudgeon (UWA).

The 2006 conference 21st  Century Feminisms was hosted by Monash University and marked the change of name of the Australian Women’s Studies Association to include Gender Studies.