Hear Virginia Woolf's classic feminist text A Room of One's Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from the Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we've come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.
PRODUCERS
Lara Nicholls - PhD candidate in the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory
Fiona Jenkins - Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute and Associate Professor in the ANU School of Philosophy
Evana Ho - Communications Coordinator in the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
EDITORS
Evana Ho and Grace Nicholls (student at ANU)
MUSIC
“String Quartet in E minor” composed by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth and performed by the Archaeus String Quartet. Released by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd). To purchase the full digital album, visit: www.lorelt.co.uk/114
ARTWORK
Our beautiful Virginia Woolf artwork was designed by ANU School of Art & Design students Lara White and Kate Rice.
WARM THANKS
This podcast is a reading of the Popular Penguins edition of A Room of One’s Own. Penguin Random House provided copies of the book; these were vital to this project.
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Hear Virginia Woolf's classic feminist text A Room of One's Own as never before: read aloud by 40 academics, students, alumni and leaders from the Australian National University community. Together, they engage with the question of how far we've come in achieving gender equality since the book was published almost 100 years ago.
PRODUCERS
Lara Nicholls - PhD candidate in the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory
Fiona Jenkins - Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute and Associate Professor in the ANU School of Philosophy
Evana Ho - Communications Coordinator in the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
EDITORS
Evana Ho and Grace Nicholls (student at ANU)
MUSIC
“String Quartet in E minor” composed by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth and performed by the Archaeus String Quartet. Released by LORELT (Lontano Records Ltd). To purchase the full digital album, visit: www.lorelt.co.uk/114
ARTWORK
Our beautiful Virginia Woolf artwork was designed by ANU School of Art & Design students Lara White and Kate Rice.
WARM THANKS
This podcast is a reading of the Popular Penguins edition of A Room of One’s Own. Penguin Random House provided copies of the book; these were vital to this project.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
“Of the two - the vote and the money - the money, I own, seemed infinitely the more important.”
Our Readers:
Brian Schmidt
Professor Brian Schmidt is a world-renowned astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize (Physics) recipient and the 12th Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University. Brian was born in Missoula, Montana, received his PhD in Astronomy from Harvard University, and owns a winery in NSW, Australia.
Jessica Urwin
Jessica Urwin is a PhD candidate in the school of history researching a history of nuclear colonialism in South Australia. Twitter: @JessUrwin95
Margaret Jolly
Margaret Jolly, AM FASSA, Emerita Professor at the Australian National University is a transdisciplinary scholar of gender and Pacific studies, researching and teaching on gender and sexuality in colonial and contemporary Oceania. She is presently focused on gender and the climate crisis and the challenges of decolonial, intersectional feminisms.
Hilary Charlesworth
Hilary Charlesworth is a Melbourne Laureate Professor and Harrison Moore professor at Melbourne Law School and a Distinguished Professor in RegNet at the ANU. She is also the first Australian woman to be elected to the UN International Court of Justice.
Kim Rubenstein
Kim Rubenstein is a Professor at the University of Canberra. She is the co-director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra, and has announced that she intends to be an independent candidate to nominate for representing Canberra or the ACT at the next federal election.
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