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25.01.2022 THEME 4: REIMAGINING ACADEMIA Like [the pleasure of wearing] a loose-fitting garment finding liberating and enabling ways to wear an academic life Activating personal and professional alchemy, kindness, movement and change in the academy... This fourth and final theme uses the metaphor of the university as an infinite game (Harre, Grant, Locke, Sturm, 2017) to connect us to our heart for imagination, hope, and inclusion. We (re)turn to our contemplative beginnings, inward to our essence, to our own academic institutions, to our own stories and struggles as women in academia, and to our hopes and dreams to realise our potential as connected people living and working together. In these final hours of our conference we seek to draw strength from our collective care and deep listening. We use this final theme to articulate what matters to us, and to organise ourselves towards reimagining and recreating academia. And, like the article that inspires this theme, we conclude our conference with conversations and talking of STARs (Slow, Tiny, Acts of Resistance). We invite you to discuss and make room for imagining, planning, and enacting small creative acts of kindness, care, hope, disruption, in the company of others. We use this theme to remember who we are, remember we are enough, that we do enough, and to commit to keeping the infinite game in play.
25.01.2022 EXCITING NEWS! The MAKING shiFt HAPPEN blog is now live! Read our first post - One year on from our 36-hour virtual conference <3 https://www.makingshifthappen.com.au//making-shift-happen-
24.01.2022 THEME 1: CONTEMPLATIVE BEGINNINGS This first theme sets the scene for the conference, inviting us to dream, contemplate and connect to connect to the beginning of knowledge and story, to connect to our foundational relationships, to acknowledge the rich philosophies and holistic knowledges of First Nations peoples and what the embracing of life as a whole entity which has its source and meaning in the land might mean for us. This theme of contemplative beginnings invite...s us to reflect on our relationship within, to the essence of our spirit, soul, heart and body. It invites us to consider our experience of relationship and kinship with others in our local, academic and global communities and to commit to using this conference space to create new and caring connections. This theme also invites us to remember our relationship with the earth, water and sky, and the more-than human world. And to cultivate our embodied, aesthetic and sensory responses and expression. How might we transform our various worlds and experiences in ways that acknowledge respectful, holistic, integrated ways of living and being, and acknowledge the wisdom of First Nations peoples? This theme encourages us to create and hold spaces from which to dream new stories for ourselves, for the academy, for our collective futures. Let us feel our way gently and birth something new.
24.01.2022 Did you participate in our amazing USC Making SHIFT happen 2019 conference? Make sure you join the private Facebook group for attendees, to continue the conversations and connections made during this special event.
23.01.2022 Add a frame to your Facebook profile photo to share your passion for inspiring women in academia! How do I add a frame to my Facebook profile photo? 1. Desktop: Go to www.facebook.com/profilepicframes. Mobile: Click on the camera icon on your existing profile pic and select Add Frame.... 2. Search for the Make Shift Happen frame. 3. Click Use as Profile Picture to save. We cant wait to see all your amazing faces from across the world for this innovative event!
21.01.2022 As we prepare to kick off, use our sentence-starters and the hashtag #uscshift2019 to share your Shift! The shiFt I want to see/create/imagine... I am MAKING shiFt HAPPEN by... I am watching shiFt happen...
21.01.2022 Meet the presenters Agnes Bosanquet is an Australian academic in the field of critical university studies. Her research uses feminist theories and methodologies to explore the politics of higher education, university governance, academic roles and identities, and academic activism.... She blogs on these topics, alongside reflections on the experience of raising a child with a chronic illness, and reading dystopian fiction at The Slow Academic. The shiFt Agnes would like to contribute to is universities becoming slower, more reflective and contemplative.
21.01.2022 Were growing some AMAZING connections right now, make sure you tune in to our Curated Conversations rooms to join in!
19.01.2022 THEME 2: BUILDING CARING COMMUNITIES To take care of oneself and others, to flourish, and engage in slow scholarship. Academic life is changing with neoliberal agendas and ways of working and counting driving much of what we do, demanding so much of us. The academy compels us to compete, to work on our own, to overwork, to count narrowly.... This second theme encourages us to consider how we might change our own work situations and workplaces to support an ethic of care and caring. To care for ourselves and others, to work in more care-full ways. To find ways to slow down and claim time for slow scholarship and communal, collaborative ways of working and being an academic. With this theme we consider what it means to build caring academic communities, and we look to the ways those among us are building a kinder culture of possibilities that allow us to not only to do our best work, but to be our best selves. We use this theme to explore what it might mean to live well, and to give attention to how we work and interact with one another. And, to contemplate where we need support, where we might give support. We continue to trouble the intensification of our work by corporate techniques and remember our relational and heart-spirit-mind-body connections. Notions of care, slow scholarship, flourishing and community permeate this theme.
18.01.2022 Meet the presenters Trina Hamilton is an Associate Professor of Geography at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). She is a human geographer interested in how regulation, activism, and market mechanisms such as ethical consumerism jointly drive corporate change and sustainable development.... Her current research focuses on resistance to environmental gentrification, as well as the ethical diamond trade. I would like to see a shiFt toward a future where research excellence and caring practices are recognised and incentivised together.
18.01.2022 Meet the presenters Susan Walsh, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education at Mount Saint Vincent University. She works with innovative research practices that involve the breath, contemplation, the arts, and writing as inquiry, particularly in relation to her research with female teachers.... For more than a decade, Susan has been studying/practicing in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition; the latter has informed her new book, Contemplative and artful openings: Researching women and teaching (Routledge, 2018). Susan envisions and materializes shiFts in habit-formed ways of being and knowing through practices that invite spaces for compassion and gentleness, personally and collectively.
15.01.2022 Where in the world are you? Wed love to know where all our amazing USC Making SHIFT happen 2019 conference attendees are located! Let us know and well add you to our map!... (Not registered yet? Click the link in our bio to participate in this innovative event for female academics!)
15.01.2022 Meet the presenters Dr Kathryn Gilbey is an Alyawarr woman and Senior Lecturer of the College for Indigenous Studies, Education and Research at the University of Southern Queensland. Kathryn is a Fulbright Scholar and her forthcoming book, A Living Mudmap: Beyond Borders and Binaries is a gathering of stories from Australian and American First Nations women and radical women of colour who live and work at a grassroots level.... The book is born of a politics of necessity and the elder knowledge within models and gives guidance for the change we want to happen and become.
14.01.2022 Meet the presenters Ranu Basu is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at York University. Her research and teaching interests relate to the geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power, space and activism; critical geographies of education; and spatial methodologies including critical GIS.... She is currently involved in a SSHRC project entitled Subalterity, Education and Welfare Cities historically tracing the geopolitical impacts on cities and schools through questions of conflict and displacement in Havana, Toronto and Kolkata. She is envisioning a shiFT towards radical kindness and intolerance of discrimination and hate.
13.01.2022 Meet the presenters Professor Alison Mountz is geography professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Laurier University. Her work explores how people cross borders and access migration and asylum policies. Mountzs recent scholarship contends with detention and asylum-seeking on islands and with US war resister migration to Canada, asking what kinds of safe haven people seek, find, and forge. Mountzs monogra...ph, Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border (Minnesota), was awarded the Meridian Book Prize from the Association of American Geographers. She recently published Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States (California, with Jenna Loyd). Mountz directs Lauriers International Migration Research Centre, edits the journal Politics & Space, and was the 2015-2016 Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University. The shiFt I want to be part of is to more inclusive, slow, caring work environments where we an all be, express, and share all parts of ourselves. . . #USCmakingshifthappen #uscshift #WomenInAcademia #AcWri #AcademicTwitter #HigherED #ScholarSunday #AcademicLife #MyDayInHE #eLearning #highereducation #EdChat #academicsonline #academicsonsocialmedia #femaleacademics #femalephd #womenacademics #womenphd #pdhwomen #phdchat #zoompowered #withaphd See more
13.01.2022 Time to get the kettle brewing! The aim of the conference is to encourage openness of discussion and sharing of stories, and to facilitate connection, interaction, conversation and meaning-making. We encourage you to spend lots of time in Conversational Central during the 36 hours.... From this page there are a range of facilitated and self-directed ways to connect. In our Zoom Meeting Rooms, you can experience guided conversations via Curated Conversations, share and celebrate your projects in the Pop-Up Podium, and enjoy informal conversations around the Campfire. We also have a Social Hub with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram so you can continue conversations outside of the conference website and into the future. See more
12.01.2022 Whats shiFt about? a new beginning to create, to transform, to transport, to delight to take care of oneself-and others, to flourish, and engage in slow scholarship promoting ideas, sharing stories, finding connection, collaboration and friendship... a modifier key: creating meaning together, supporting and celebrating each other, lifting each other up like [the pleasure of wearing] a loose-fitting garment finding liberating and enabling ways to wear an academic life activating personal/professional alchemy, kindness, movement and change in the academy See more
12.01.2022 All of the keynotes and panels will be recorded and uploaded onto the conference website, for playback at a later time. This wont be available immediately as there is some processing time, but should be available on the same day in most cases. These will be available for some time afterwards, so youll be able to access the main presentation sessions when its convenient for you. There are some video discussion sessions that will only be available live, as well as some a...synchronous discussions on closed social media groups. The full timetable is now available online, in a range of timezones. Wherever you are in the world, and whatever your availability is, youll be able to participate!
11.01.2022 Not all of our shiFters are mothers, but there were many conversations about the juggle. This group are doing amazing work! How awesome is it to see mums supporting mums?
10.01.2022 Whilst were mindful that our attendees are joining us from across the globe, its breakfast time here at Making SHIFT Happen HQ. So we invite you to grab a cuppa, get comfortable, and join us shortly for Theme 3: Lived Experiences of Women in Academia, kicking off at 6.00am AEST (UTC+10). Featuring keynote by Ruth Behar, and a fantastic panel preceding, this third theme considers why it is important to shed light on womens lived experiences, to talk about what it has felt like, and feels like, to be a female academic.
10.01.2022 HI everyone, a new colleague has asked me to share this call with networks: Pooja Sawrika: "I invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration in the Special Issue Personal Essays in Social Science (http://www.mdpi.com/journal//special_issues/personal_essays), and to circulate this Call within your networks. I would like to reach the full range of scholars, from recent graduates to those who are well established. Personal essays require critical reflection and expert k...nowledge, and value authenticity to generate informed opinions. Examples of personal essays include: Sawrikar, P. (2018). Hypocritical wiring and its limits on empathy: The sense of agency bias. https://medium.com//hypocritical-wiring-and-its-limits-on- Sawrikar, P. (2018). A critical reflection on being an ethnic minority researcher of child sexual abuse in ethnic minority communities: Implications for social work and sociology. https://medium.com//chasing-a-dream-is-racial-equality-att Thank you for your time, and kind regards, Dr Pooja Sawrikar "
08.01.2022 Attendees, are you ready to activate personal and professional alchemy, kindness, movement and change in the academy? Were almost ready to kick off 36 hours of innovative communication! Make sure you request to join our Conference Attendee-only Facebook Group to continue the conversations and connection!
07.01.2022 THEME 3: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN IN ACADEMIA Promoting ideas, sharing stories, finding connection, collaboration and friendship Creating meaning together, supporting and celebrating each other, lifting each other up... This third theme considers why it is important to shed light on womens lived experiences, to talk about what it has felt like, and feels like, to be a female academic. We consider how women might in deliberate, activist, celebratory and heartful ways use research methodologies to unearth their individual and collective voices, to unveil their lived and embodied stories. With this theme we make space for reflection about the complexity and uncertainty of our academic work. We sit together to listen to each others stories, to bear witness and to hold space. The value of responsive, personal, and aesthetic ways for communicating our stories of experiences such as can be found in narrative, autoethnographic, arts-based, and contemplative research methods are explored. We use this theme to delve into the ways we can include our vulnerable selves, our hearts-spirits-minds-bodies-stories, in our academic work in evocative, reflexive, creative, thoughtful, meaningful and life-giving ways. And, we give time to stillness, contemplation, storytelling, art-making, experimentation and practice. In leaning in to these ways we are leaning into freedom, playfulness, friendship and hope. Flourishing and community permeate this theme.
06.01.2022 Less than a week until USC Making SHIFT Happen and we are EXCITED! The conference team have been working around the clock to build up our match-fitness for 36 hours of awesome. Its time to make a start on your homework, conference attendees, check your email for the latest!
06.01.2022 Meet the presenters Mabokang Monnapula-Mapesela is Senior Director and Associate Professor in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa. She is is a black woman who has been in academia for 19 years working in previously white universities. Her interests are higher education policy, transformation, and teaching and learning. She has supervised and mentored many postgraduate students mainly women.... Professor Monnapula-Mapesela has presented scholarly papers at conferences nationally and internationally and has published more than 25 research papers and chapters in scholarly books. In terms of making shiFt happen, collectively and individually we can create spaces for disrupting invisible and sometimes imaginary boundaries that constrain women in academia.
05.01.2022 Thank you so much for engaging with us during USC Making SHIFT happen 2019. After you have had an opportunity to engage with this website, its resources and presenter recordings, we invite all conference attendees to please provide feedback through the survey link within our private Facebook group.
05.01.2022 Did you participate in our amazing USC Making SHIFT happen 2019 conference? Make sure you join the private Facebook group for attendees, to continue the conversations and connections made during this special event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/491365378023361/
04.01.2022 Saw this on another site for women in academia #WIASN This is an interesting thought to ponder and enact. (Wish it had a photo of a woman)
03.01.2022 What are YOU seeking from USC Making SHIFT happen 2019? We are seeking to create conversation, care, connection and change. Tag your female academic friends to share our vision of promoting ideas, sharing stories, finding connection, collaboration and friendship.
01.01.2022 Meet the presenters Professor Tracey Bunda is a Ngugi Wakka Wakka woman, mother, educator and Head of the College for Indigenous Studies, Education and Research at the University of Southern Queensland. Her career in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander higher education has occurred over 3 decades. Traceys most recent publication Seeing the Aboriginal Sovereign Warrior Woman can be found at The Lifted Brow.... Tracey desires to have acknowledged the double labours sweated by Aboriginal peoples in being in the academy, in the forever educating of white people and in our agentic efforts for systemic change.
