2024 Order of Australia Lecture: A Possible World – Transforming Gender Relations for Sustainability

The Australian National University, in association with the ACT Branch of the Order of Australia Association, is pleased to present the 2024 Order of Australia Lecture. 

Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt AO will deliver this year's keynote: A Possible World: Transforming Gender Relations for Sustainability. 

Today’s environmental challenges require us to urgently rethink how we envision the future. This lecture will help us do just that. Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt argues that to address the challenges of sustainability, we must prioritise gendered livelihoods and care, and create a world that is more sustainable and gender equitable. She offers a forward-thinking yet realistic plan, placing gender equality, social justice, and sustainability at the heart of efforts to shape a better future for us all. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain new perspectives and contribute to the conversation. Listen and engage with the speaker as she advocates for a better world. 

There will also be an opportunity for audience questions, facilitated by Mr Andrew Phelan, who will deliver the vote of thanks. 

Before the event, there will be a reception in the RSSS foyer from 5.30-6pm. 

About the speakers 

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt AO is a Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. She has spent decades examining the gendered challenges of livelihoods in developing countries in Southeast Asia. She has also researched social and ecological aspects of resources, and how global decarbonisation can be ‘gender-just’. Her work has been used by both international and grassroots-level development organisations.  

Earlier this year, Professor Lahiri-Dutt was recognised in the Australia’s Day Honours, when she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia for her distinguished service to natural resource management research and innovation, to gender equality, and to tertiary education. 

Mr Andrew Michael Phelan AM is the Chair of the ACT Branch of the Order of Australia Association, and was the Chief Executive & Principal Registrar of the High Court of Australia from 2007 until his retirement in 2018. In the two decades prior to his appointment to that office, Andrew held numerous Commonwealth senior executive law enforcement, court administrative, legal, international and general management positions. Mr Phelan was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to judicial administration in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours List. 

The Order of Australia Lecture 

The annual Order of Australia Association - The Australian National University Lecture was established in 2010 to further recognise the contribution made by academic members of the Order of Australia to the fabric of Australian society. Now in its 14th year, this lecture has seen distinguished scholars covering topics including national security, First Nations issues, sciences, and the arts.

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