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.
“A woman must have money and a room of her own...”
Our Readers:
Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and is the inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College London and the Australian National University, which through research, practice and advocacy, is addressing women’s under-representation in leadership.
Lara White
Originally from Melbourne, Lara is a second-year student at the Australian National University studying a double degree of Arts and Design, and residing at Burgmann College.
Michael Brand
As director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Dr Michael Brand @michaelbrandsydney is leading the largest expansion in the art museum’s history – the Sydney Modern Project – due to open in 2022. Michael is a global cultural leader and art scholar and his work spans art museums and academia as well as government, philanthropic and community sectors.
Celia Roberts
Celia Roberts is a Professor in the School of Sociology. She is currently co-writing a book on reproduction in climate crisis. Twitter:@CeliaMRoberts
Evana Ho
Communications Coordinator in the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences. She previously produced the podcast Future Self, featuring students interviewing people doing their dream job, and produced and hosted the podcasts This Academic's Life and Better Things.
Angela Woollacott
Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University, and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Historical Society.
Fiona Jenkins
Fiona Jenkins is the Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy. Her recent research on “Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences” takes up themes close to those Virginia Woolf broaches in ‘A Room of One’s Own’, looking at the causes of women’s persistent under-representation in some disciplinary areas and the impacts this has on knowledge.
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