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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri;" lang="FR">The Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe
University </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri;">Seminar
Series </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri;">presents </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri;">Between Earth
and Heaven: the Politics of Gender in Timor-Leste </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri;">with Sara Niner </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri;">Thursday 26th May 12:30 - 2:00pm </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="PT">Centre for Dialogue Seminar Room 301 </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Social</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Sciences Building La Trobe University,
Bundoora </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Light lunch provided </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gender
inequality in post-conflict Timor-Leste (East Timor)
is well-documented and there is pressure for women to conform to ‘traditional’
cultural norms now the war is over, yet a strong women’s movement resists this
pressure. However, any rise in status for the majority of women must be made
through an engagement with indigenous or ‘traditional’ society as that is
culturally dominant in Timor. The impact of
recent conflict and violence has been profound for the new nation and its
people, with public and private or domestic violence still pervasive. The male political
and military elite dominant in Timor-Leste today is seen as largely responsible
for outbreaks of violence on a national scale (2004-8) and these contemporary events
lead us to define Timorese post-conflict society as militaristic in nature. A
strong culture of male political domination in Timor-Leste today holds back the
women’s movement, along with development, security and a more expansive version
of democracy. While ‘gender’ has featured heavily on the development agenda of
Timor- Leste over the last ten years little intellectual analysis has been made
of what these trends mean for development, security and democracy there. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr Sara Niner </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">is an Adjunct Research
Fellow in the Arts Faculty at Monash
University. She has
recently completed a research program on gender relations in the post-conflict
period while on an Endeavour Fellowship in partnership with the National
Directorate of Culture in Timor-Leste. This follows a two year postdoctoral fellowship
at Monash researching women, development and handcrafts in Timor-Leste. She is
the editor of ‘</span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To Resist is to
Win: the Autobiography of Xanana Gusmão with selected letters and speeches</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">’ (Aurora/ David Lovell Publishing 2000). Her new book ‘</span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">XANANA: Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">’ (2009) is published by Australian Scholarly Publishing
and is currently being translated into Portuguese. This book was based on her
PhD completed in the politics department at La Trobe University in 2005. Please
visit <a href="http://saraniner.blogspot.com/">http://saraniner.blogspot.com</a>.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">RSVP: Christine Siokou 9479 1893 or <a href="mailto:c.siokou@latrobe.edu.au">c.siokou@latrobe.edu.au</a> Enquiries: Dr
Sven Schottmann 9479 6621 or <a href="mailto:s.schottmann@latrobe.edu.au">s.schottmann@latrobe.edu.au</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></p>