28 May

4.00 – 5.30 pm,

by ZOOM

Synopsis: Sisters in Peace: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia, 1915–2015 (ANU Press) examines the rise of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), providing a gendered history of this country’s engagement with the politics of internationalism.

 

Bio: Dr Kate Laing received her PhD in 2017 from La Trobe University focussing on the history of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia. Laing received the Nancy Millis Award from La Trobe for her thesis in 2018, a Norman McCann Summer Scholarship from the NLA in 2014, and has published in peer reviewed journals.

Bookings: Dr Christine Jennett (cjennett@ozemail.com.au)