[csaa-forum] Cultural Diversity and Communication Research Colloquium (UTS, Friday, August 17)

[Timothy Laurie]

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (UTS) Cultural Diversity and Communication Research Colloquium | August Colloquium



Please feel free to join us this Friday for three exciting papers in our FASS Cultural Diversity and Communication Research Colloquium, University of Technology Sydney.

Room: CB08.03.004 (UTS Brodway campus, Room 004, Level 3, Building 8 Chau Chak Wing Building, Ultimo Road)
Date: Friday, 17/08/2018
Time: 15:00-17:00


Gender and racial power landscapes in the dating scene – Chinese international students navigating intimacies in Sydney

Xi Chen, University of Sydney



Peer pressure, Tinder ‘dic pics’, “I’m not racist, I just prefer Asian women…” For Chinese international students in Sydney, navigating the local dating scene is complicated, to say the least. Besides the obvious question of “how”, the hidden, and arguably, more important question is “why” and “what does it all mean?” Xi Chen, recently finishing her Honours thesis at the University of Sydney, aims to answer these questions by zooming in onto the intersection of race, sexuality and power that Chinese sojourners navigate in Sydney on a daily basis. Using an approach informed by key thinkers in epistemic injustices and intersectional feminism, this talk aims to shed light on the hidden risk and danger in the everyday life of non-white sojourners inhabiting a white social space.



Sixes and behinds: Successes and missed marks in the move toward gender equity in Australian sport

Greg Joachim, PhD candidate, UTS Business



The increased promotion of women's sport in Australia - which has coincided with an increase in professional career opportunities for sportswomen - is a welcome and overdue change in a traditionally male-dominated field. Greg Joachim, who is using Design Thinking in his doctoral research on sports, will present two contrasting case studies that are central to this shift. The first is that of Cricket Australia, who have gone from strength to strength in their move toward gender equity (though work still remains in reaching true parity). The second is AFL Women's (AFLW), who have recently attracted scrutiny for questionable - and potentially discriminatory - management decisions.

Muslim Women and Sport in Sydney: Moving beyond the 'Challenging Stereotypes' Model
Dr. Jennifer Cheng, Career Development Research Fellow, Western Sydney University

When we think of Muslim women playing AFL or participating in swimming, 'challenging stereotypes' may come to mind. However, this may firstly, reinforce stereotypes of Muslim women as submissive and inactive, and secondly, come across as patronising to the women who want to take part in physical activities without any agendas. Presenting Muslim women playing sport as 'normal' while simultaneously making them an object of research becomes a challenge. This talk will look at the behind the scenes challenges of conducting research on Muslim women and sport, as well as at preliminary research findings. Three groups of participants will be explored: Muslim women who play AFL, Muslim women who are members of a swimming group, and Muslim mothers whose children learn AFL.

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