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<div><b style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: xx-large; ">Fishy Beginnings (We Are All Bodies of Water)</b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; ">Public lecture: Dr Astrida Neimanis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; ">Discussant: Professor Margaret Jolly</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; border: none; padding: 0cm; "><font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">5.30-7pm Thursday 11th February</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; "><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145); "><span style="font-family: Avenir; "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; ">Location: </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Seminar</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; "> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Room
1, </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Australian Centre for China in the World, </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Australian</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; "> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">National
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; "><font face="Avenir-Light"><span style="font-size: 13px; ">This public lecture is sponsored by the ANU Gender Institute as part of the workshop ‘Gender, Science and Wonder’. M</span></font><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light; ">ore
information, including the program when available, can be found at </span></span><a href="http://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/gender-science-and-wonder" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">http://genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/gender-science-and-wonder</a></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-family: Avenir; font-weight: bold; ">Registration: </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Please register for venue and catering purposes </span><a href="http://fishy-beginnings.%0deventbrite.com/">here</a><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-family: Avenir; font-weight: bold; "> </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Register
for the full conference </span><a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/e/gender-science-and-wonder-tickets-19525915539" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Avenir-Light; ">here</a>.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; "><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145); font-family: Avenir; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">Inquiries</span><span style="color: rgb(54, 95, 145); "><span style="font-family: Avenir; "><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; ">:</span></span></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Dr Rachel Morgain, </span><a href="mailto:rachel.morgain@anu.edu.au" style="font-family: Avenir-Light; ">rachel.morgain@anu.edu.au</a><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light; ">, School of Culture, History and Language,
College of Asia and the Pacific</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light; ">Dr Trang Ta, </span><a href="mailto:tx.ta@anu.edu.au" style="font-family: Avenir-Light; ">tx.ta@anu.edu.au</a><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light; ">, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts
and Social Sciences</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light; font-size: 16px; ">We are rather fishy, we humans. Right back to the first signs of life on earth at least 3.9 billion years ago, when small organic proteins likely interacted with their habitat to produce the first
bacterial life forms, water has been necessary for the gestation of all living beings. Our earliest ancestors were all apparently water babies, squirming, scuttling or swimming around their respective watery worlds. Drawing on feminist theory, phenomenology,
evolutionary biology, and some other queer tales of obstinate lungfish, nostalgic whales and aquatic apes, I am compelled to ask: how is my body an archive of these other watery bodies, anticipating aqueous paths not taken and remembering wet futures yet to
come? These speculations are more than mere metaphor; they demonstrate the need for more audacious imaginaries in the context of our planet’s current growing water crises. Experiencing ourselves as bodies of water, deeply indebted to the watery milieus which
bathed us all into being, is an ethical call from the deep.</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 3pt; "><font face="Avenir" size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">Astrida Neimanis</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> joined the Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney in 2015 after holding various teaching
and research positions at universities in Canada, the UK, and Sweden. She is Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press), a Key Researcher with the Sydney Environment Institute and co-convenor of the Composting: Feminisms
and the Environmental Humanities reading group hosted at the University of Sydney. She is also a founding member and University of Sydney contact faculty for The Seed Box: A MISTRA-FORMAS Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (a transnational research consortium
based at Linkoping University, Sweden). Her work connects feminist theory to water, weather, bodies, and other environmental matters. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenologies is forthcoming in 2016 (Bloomsbury).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<font face="Avenir" size="4"><b><span lang="EN-US">Margaret Jolly</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> (FASSA) is </span>an ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific. She is an historical
anthropologist who has written extensively on gender in the Pacific, on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art. <span lang="EN-US">She chaired the Advisory Committee of ECOPAS,
a European Union-funded consortium aiming to put the ‘human’ back into climate change in the Pacific</span>. Her recent work includes research into deep time and the gendering of climate change in Oceania.</font></span></div>
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