Women and Australian International Affairs

This La Trobe Asia event launches the newly released Australian Journal of International Affairs special issue “Critical Analyses in Australian Foreign, Defence and Strategic Policy”, a collection of essays by early- to mid-career Australian women researchers that arose as a response to ongoing issues around women’s visibility and representation in Australian International Affairs. Session One:vWomen in Australian International Affairs What challenges face women's equitable participation in the discipline & vocation of International Relations, & what strategies and responses might help redress gender imbalances in the field? This keynote panel will discuss the findings of the article “Women in Australian International Affairs”, written Dr Jasmine-Kim Westendorf and Dr Bec Strating of La Trobe Uni who co-edited the special issue. Panel: Dr Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, La Trobe U Professor Sara Davies, Griffith U Associate Professor Sarah Percy, Queensland U Chair: Dr Bec Strating, La Trobe U Session Two: Critical Analyses of Australian Foreign, Defence & Strategic Policy panel This session (chaired by Jasmine-Kim Westendorf) presents the ground-breaking research of women scholars published in the Special Issue with time for questions after each short presentation. Topic 1: The politics of strategic narratives on regional order in the Indo-Pacific: Free, open, prosperous & inclusive? Dr Monika Barthwal-Datta, UNSW & Dr Priya Chacko, Adelaide U Topic 2: Perceptions of terrorism in Australia: 1978 – 2019 Dr Danielle Chubb, Deakin U Topic 3: The Australian Foreign Policy White Paper, gender & conflict prevention: Ties that don’t bind Dr Chris Agius, Swinburne U & Anu Mundkur, Flinders U Topic 4: The externalization of Australian refugee policy & the costs for queer asylum seekers & refugees Dr Jaz Dawson, The Refugee Hub - Ottawa U Topic 5: Enabling authoritarianism in the Indo-Pacific: Australian exemptionalism Dr Bec Strating Held on 3 June, 2020