The Executive Committee of the Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria) Inc.

announces and gives notice of the

Fortieth Annual General Meeting

Featuring The Annual Sister Shirley Sedawie Oration

‘Recalibrating Citizenship in the 21st century’

Delivered by Professor Kim Rubenstein, University of Canberra

In this presentation, Professor Rubenstein will share some of her work around citizenship as membership and participation, by examining democracies around the world where polarisation (and religious extremism) is impacting on the quality of citizenship.

Kim Rubenstein is a Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Harvard University, she is Australia’s leading expert on citizenship, both around its formal legal status and in law’s intersection with broader normative notions of citizenship as membership and participation. This has led to her scholarship around gender and public law, which includes her legal work and her oral history work around women lawyers’ contributions in the public sphere. She was the Director of the Centre for International and Public law at the ANU from 2006-2015 and the Inaugural Convener of the ANU Gender Institute from 2011-2012. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and the Australia Academy of Social Sciences, and in 2024 she was awarded the Council of Australian Law Dean’s Lifetime Achievement Medal, in recognition of her significant and impactful contributions to legal research in Australia. She has appeared in media across Australia and is a sought after speaker in her chosen areas of expertise.

Kosher refreshments to follow ~ free event