Canberra, Friday 21 September, 2001

Women in Asia conference at ANU to focus on violence

More than 200 scholars from around the world are gathering at The Australian National University next week for the sixth Women in Asia Conference (23-26 September 2001).

Violence, war and international migration will be discussed as part of the conference sessions. Participants include academics and activists from India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia Vietnam, Thailand, Laos Indonesia the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Mongolia and Japan.

Two highlight sessions:

1. Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU) will deliver an address: Preparing for Peace: The Clash of Civilisations Revisited. Time: 9:15 to 10:30am, Monday 24 September Venue: Coombs Lecture Theatre, Fellows Road, ANU

2. A plenary session will focus on the way we deal with the needs of people who have suffered the consequences of violent conflict. Topic: "Women Confronting Violence" Time: 9am to 10:30am, Tuesday 25 September Venue: Coombs Lecture Theatre, Fellows Road, ANU

This plenary will include presentations from Saparinah Sadli, the head of the Indonesia Commission on Violence Against Women and the deputy chair of the Human Rights Commission; Nelum Gunasekera, from the Family Rehabilitation centre in Sri Lanka, which deals with widows from the ongoing civil war, and Marion Le from the Independent Council on Refugee Advocacy, who will discuss Australia's response to (and responsibilities for) refugees.

The conference will also feature an exhibition of women artists from the Seniwati Gallery in Bali (at the Foyer gallery, Canberra School of Art, Ellery Cres, ANU) and a screening of Safinah Uberoi's prize-winning film, My Mother India (at the Coombs Lecture Theatre).

For the program and abstracts click here.

To arrange contact with particular conference speakers phone: 0416 249 561

No: 75/2001

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