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