Winter Tales in aid of the Australian Women’s Archives Project (womenaustralia.info) Professor Emerita Diane Bell FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGIST and RIVER ADVOCATE Re-routing the Anthropological Male-Stream Sunday 27 July “Anthropology is a stance on life” Professor Emerita Diane Bell declares as she takes us on a fast-paced journey of her past 40 years working as an anthropologist in Australia and the USA. She has written on land rights, women’s rights, religion and the environment. She contested a proposal to build a bridge to Hindmarsh island, which would have destroyed a Ngarrindjeri women’s sacred site in SA; ran for the federal seat of Mayo; turned her hand to fiction and blogs and campaigned to protect the Murray Darling river system. Can there be retirement for a feminist anthropologist? “Too much work remains” says Diane. 2pm-4pm Fourth Floor Conference Room, National Library Entry $15, includes afternoon tea
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:00:00 +0000
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