Lieke Hettinga, PhD candidate, Central European University & Utrecht University. Lieke’s research responds to the fast-paced changes in the cultural visibility of transgender issues across neoliberal Western-European and North-American contexts in the last two decades. It examines the ways in which artists and activists visualize, represent and/or enact non-normative embodiments, more specifically looking at the intersection of [...]
On Thursday November 22, 2018 (10.00-12.45 hrs) NOG is organizing a Masterclass with Kata Diefenbach on 'Possessive Individualism and Transatlantic Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy'. One of Spinoza’s first biographers noted that the philosopher’s ink-and-charcoal drawings included a self-portrait in the pose and costume of Masaniello. The Neapolitan revolutionary was involved in [...]
Tegiye Birey, PhD Candidate, Central European University & Utrecht University. Tegiye's current research examines the gendered politics of migrants' and solidarity networks in Malmö, and her research interests are migration, postcolonial/decolonial feminisms and politics of resistance. Tegiye has a BA in Women’s Studies and Political Science with a minor in French [...]
Wenxuan Peng just started the PhD research in Gender Studies/Media Studies/Modern China Studies at Leiden University under the supervision of Dr. Eliza Steinbock from Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Prof. Maghiel van Crevel and Dr. Florian Schneider from Institute for Area Studies (LIAS). The working title of the research [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises the nineteenth round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept of DOING GENDER supports a hands-on [...]
On Monday November 5, 2018 (15.00-17.30 hrs) NOG is organizing a Masterclass with Ramy Aly and Nisrine Chaer on The Ethnographic Turn in Cultural Studies and the Cultural Studies Turn in Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies share the same object of study while maintaining distinct disciplinary approaches to culture. Yet, so [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises the nineteenth round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept of DOING GENDER supports a hands-on [...]
