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SUMMARY:Book launch and panel discussion\, "Fathering: An Australian History"
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a book launch and panel discussion for Fathering: An Australian History (bookings essential)\n\nPanel Discussion\, 3.30-5.30pm Enjoy three fascinating panels discussing fathering and family life: historical perspectives and contemporary issues\, co-presented by the authors and other experts.\nBook Launch\, 5.30-7pm by Hon. Ged Kearney\, MP\n\nPlease RSVP below to attend the panel or the launch or both sessions. \nFathering: An Australian History \nThe 21st-century father is expected to be actively engaged in the everyday care of his children\, as epitomised by the celebrated dad of children’s cartoon Bluey\, the Blue Heeler Bandit. Fathering: An Australian History explores why fathers often struggle to meet social and cultural expectations. The authors’ groundbreaking research reveals the forces that have shaped Australian family life and fathering since the early twentieth century\, and how Australian fathers have managed their evolving role and its responsibilities. \nFocusing on lived experience and drawing upon a century of personal accounts\, Fathering reveals how the experience of being a father is as much shaped by social class and material wellbeing as it is by race and ethnicity\, geography and sexuality\, and by family legacy and personal character. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Book Launch\n				Venue: Downstairs in RHSV exhibition space at 239 A’Beckett Street\, Melbourne \n5.30pm Drinks and food / canapes + book sales by RHSV \n6.00pm Welcome by Prof Alistair Thomson\, and Acknowledgement of Country \n6.05pm Launch by Hon. Ged Kearney MP (Assistant Minister for Social Services and Assistant Minister for Prevention of Family Violence) \n6.20pm Closing Remarks by Prof Michael Roper (Essex University) \nBook sales\, signing\, drinks and food / canapes \n7.00pm Finish \nPlease RSVP to attend. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Panel Conversations / Q and A \n				Fathering and Family Life: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues\nVenue: Upstairs in the RHSV Drill Hall at 239 A’Beckett Street\, Melbourne \n3.30 Afternoon tea \n4.00 Welcome and introductions: Emeritus Prof Alistair Thomson \nPanel Moderator: Prof Michelle Arrow (Macquarie University; President of the Australian Historian Association) \nPanel 1: Fathering and MotheringFocusing on how expectations about and experiences of fathering – and mothering – have changed across time and varied across culture and circumstance\, and how cultural expectations enable and disable men’s ability to be active and effective fathers. \n\nProf Jacqui McDonald (Deakin University\, convenor\, Australian Fatherhood Research Consortium)\nAssociate Prof Richard Fletcher (Principal Investigator\, SMS4dads & SMS4DeadlyDads\, Fathers and Families Research Program\, University of Newcastle)\nDr Johnny Bell (Fathering author)\nEmeritus Prof Alistair Thomson (Monash University\, Fathering author)\n\nPanel 2: Fathering and WorkFocusing on how men’s paid work and employment policies and practices have impacted fathering\, and how fathers and families\, and society and policy\, can make paid work less of an impediment to active and effective fathering. \n\nBelinda Probert (author of Bill’s Secrets: Love\, War and Ambition\, formerly Professor at Melbourne and LaTrobe universities)\nProf Sean Scalmer (University of Melbourne\, author of A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time)\nEmeritus Prof John Murphy (University of Melbourne\, Fathering author)\n\nPanel 3: Fathering and Fractured FamiliesFocusing on the changing experience of fathering in families that have been fractured – by parental illness\, death or separation\, by war and trauma\, by violence or neglect\, by child removal – and how fathers\, families and Australian society best manage such difficult situations) \n\nHon. Ged Kearney MP (Assistant Minister for Social Services and Assistant Minister for Prevention of Family Violence)\nAssociate Prof Catherine Kevin (Flinders University\, ARC Strategic Research Initiative\, ‘A History of Domestic Violence in Australia 1850-2020’)\nDr Sean Martin\, (Program Lead\, Ten To Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health at the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS))\nDr Kate Murphy (Monash University\, Fathering author)\nDr Jill Barnard (author of the PhD ‘The Family Lives of Forgotten Australians)\n\nPlease RSVP to attend. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Housekeeping\nThese events will not be delivered online via Zoom. \nIf you have questions about the program please contact Jill Barnard on jill.barnard1@monash.edu \nIf you have questions about the venue please contact the RHSV on office@historyvictoria.org.au | 03 9326 9288
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-launch-fathering-an-australian-history/
LOCATION:Royal Historical Society of Victoria\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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