This initiative aims to 'normalize' the role of women in international security, through exposing key academic audiences regularly to some of the leading scholars and practitioners in international security, who are high-achieving women.
WIIS 2018-19 Events
13 November 2019 | Senator the Hon Penny Wong in conversation with Professor Evelyn Goh and Dr Amy King | Protecting and Promoting Australia's Interests in a Time of Strategic Competition
Penny Wong has been a Senator for South Australia since 2001 and has held various cabinet positions since 2004, including the Minister for Climate Change and Water, and the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. In 2013, Penny Wong was elected Leader of the Government in Senate and, after the change of government in September 2013, subsequently became Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions in Australia. Following the 2016 federal election, Penny was also appointed the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. In this role, she has advocated Australia’s commitment to the rules-based international order and to being a model of good global citizenship.
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7 November 2019 | Priyanka Sunder, Dr Amy King and Professor Evelyn Goh | Talking across the economic-security divide: development, securitization and infrastructure
In the 1940s, E.H. Carr argued that the economic and security dimensions of policy making ought to be studied in a more integrated way, and yet a persistent and artificial divide remains, both in scholarship and policy practice. One fruitful way to straddle the economic-security divide is through the lens of development. Economic development, particularly in the form of investment in developing country infrastructure, is increasingly viewed as both a source of regime and national security for developing countries, and as a vital source of power and influence for international lending states.
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12 August 2019 | Professor Laura J. Shephard: Narrating the Women, Peace and Security A
The year 2020 will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 1325, the first resolution to be adopted by the Council under the title of ‘Women and Peace and Security’. With the subsequent adoption of eight further resolutions, ‘Women and Peace and Security’ now represents a significant and well-established thematic agenda for the Council, and its relevance as an area of political practice extends well beyond the Council Chamber at United Nations Headquarters in New York. This research focusses on the stories that are told about the WPS agenda, by the organisation that claims to be its institutional ‘home’ – the United Nations – and those who work in and around this organisation.
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In this seminar, three prominent women scholars at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs address one of the most significant demands of a scholar’s career: academic publishing. Drawing from their extensive experience of publishing as well as editing book series and journals related to international security, they discuss issues such as: working out the most suitable academic publishers or outlets; crafting a convincing book proposal; dealing with reviews; and the publishing and production process.
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29 May 2019 | SDSC International Security Women Scholars and their Scholarship
“The field of international security is particularly male-dominated, whether in academia, the armed forces, policy practice, or the private sector. In academia, courses related to international security tend to be heavily delivered by male lecturers and tutors, reading lists feature predominantly male writers, and critical approaches that focus on gendered practices or analysis are rarely covered.” Discuss.
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Featuring: Professor Joan Beaumont, Professor Evelyn Goh, Dr Aurore Chow, Dr Amy King, Dr Meighen McCrae, Dr Joanne Wallis.
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20 March 2019 | Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis | Adjustment and Recognition in the Reform of Global Institutions: Nuclear Non-proliferation and Beyond
What are the key forces at play in the ongoing adaptation of global governance to power shifts and multilateral retrenchment? Linking concerns about the relationship between power and normativity, Nicolaïdis will argue for a pragmatic progressive agenda grounded in a global and decentred International Relations field. She takes stock of multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations since the 1960s leading up to the nuclear ban treaty in 2017, the first departure from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) framework.
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12 November 2018 | Assistant Professor Ji-Young Lee | International Hierarchy, Legitimacy, and the Founding of Joseon Korea
How is hierarchy created and maintained in international politics? This seminar examines the role of legitimacy in the formation of hierarchical order in international relations, drawing on historical insights from Joseon Korea’s relations with Ming China – widely considered to have been the “model tributary relationship.” Specifically, Lee explores a series of decisions made by Joseon’s founding fathers vis-à-vis the Ming in the late 14th and 15th centuries, in the two-level dual authority situation that existed between Joseon kings and Ming emperors.
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2 October 2018 | Frances Adamson: Shaping Australia's Role in Indo-Pacific Security in the Next Decade
Frances Adamson has led the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as Secretary since 25 August 2016. From 2011 to 2015, Ms Adamson was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. She served in the Australian Consulate-General in Hong Kong in the late 1980s during the early years of China’s reform and opening. From 2001 to 2005, she was seconded as Representative to the Australian Commerce and Industry Office in Taipei.
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24 May 2018 | Lieutenant Colonel Clare O'Neill and Wing Commander Hannah Jude-Smith: Making it in the Military
Among the many ways in which graduates can engage in the practice of international security, serving in the armed forces stands out as a front-line option. This special seminar features two speakers who are alumni of ANU’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre’s Masters of Military and Defence and Studies Program. Both were also distinguished graduates of Professor Daniel Marston’s ‘Art of War’ Program at the Australian Command and Staff College.
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19 April 2018 | Associate Professor Sarah Percy: "The Death of this Security Norm is greatly exaggerated" - Beyond the Violation/Compliance Dichotomoy
Our current understanding of the ‘death’ of important norms governing international security is both empirically and theoretically flawed. The literature has argued that a wide range of norms – such as those against torture, mercenary use, or unrestricted submarine warfare – are either ‘dead’ or under significant challenge. It suggests that the key cause of norm death is widespread violation. Yet, this claim is problematic because, for methodological reasons, these mainly constructivist studies tend to focus on single norms and measure their strength using degree of compliance. The project proposes a different model of norm change, focusing instead on obsolescence, modification and replacement.
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