Yearly Archives: 2013

This symposium will assess the effects of material and affective turns in contemporary cultural theory on the production and reception of art and visual practices, situating the aesthetic experience as a relationship between the human and non-human, the material and immaterial, the social and physical, the analogue and the digital. Different [...]

In the autumn of 2013 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises an eleventh round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice [...]

  In the spring of 2013 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises a tenth round of the series of lectures entitled DOING GENDER.  This title stresses the importance of doing gender work and active involvement in the [...]

From August 26-30, 2013 the NOISE Summer School will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The title is Naturecultures in Feminist Academia, Art and Activism and it will be coordinated by Dr. Iris van der Tuin, Prof. Maaike Bleeker and Liu Xin. This year’s (the 21st) edition of NOI♀SE will introduce [...]

On Friday June 14, 2013 Sanne Koevoets will defend her PhD dissertation 'Into the the labyrinth of power and knowledge: The library as a gendered space in the western imaginary'. Libraries are strange places: on the one hand they bear the promise of unlimited access to the truth, as epitomized in [...]

The Postcolonial Europe Network (PEN) is organizing a conference on April 18-19, 2013 on 'Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Conflict, Transitional Justice and Cosmopolitanism'. This conference focuses on the relevance of postcolonial theories for the understanding of world-systemic transformations and the shifts in geopolitics in terms of conflict, transitional justice and cosmopolitanism. [...]

Masterclass: 'Separate spheres? Gender history in writings and records.' On Thursday April 25, 2013 (14.00 - 17.30 hrs) the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (Utrecht University) and the N.W. Posthumus Institute (Leiden University) are co-organizing a masterclass on gender history. The masterclass will be taught by Dr. Alison Twells, principal lecturer in [...]

The Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG) would like to invite you for the annual National Research Day dedicated to the cutting edge work of junior researchers of Dutch universities in the field of Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Diversity. This year the National Research Day is called 'Doing Gender in the Netherlands: Taking Turns [...]