Yearly Archives: 2014

Alex Martinis Roe, Their desire rang through the halls and into the tower, performance alongside a screening, Wednesday December 3, 2014, 20:00 hrs, Casco Their desire rang through the halls and into the tower (2014) is a spoken performance by artist Alex Martinis Roe. The artist focuses on the intertwining histories [...]

On Friday November 7 NOG, GGeP, PCI and Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory are organizing a Doing Gender Lecture and an Open Seminar with Professor Leela Gandhi. Professor Gandhi's Doing Gender Lecture is entitled 'On Ethics of Imperfection: Practices of Self and Becoming Common' and she will approach this enterprise through [...]

The book 'Everyday Feminist Research Praxis: Doing Gender in The Netherlands' (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 340 p.) offers a selection of previously unpublished work presented during the annual Research Days of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Reflecting the wide spectrum of interdisciplinary gender [...]

In the autumn of 2014 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the thirteenth 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 [...]

On Thursday September 11, 2014 Professor Claudia Nelson will give a seminar entitled Why Feminist Scholars Should Care about the Literature of Childhood: Four Case Studies. The seminar draws on age studies, adoption studies, and the close reading of texts for and/or about children to suggest that childhood is an area that [...]

Lies Wesseling has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of the Opzij Chair ‘Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity’ at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. The Governing Body of the Opzij foundation awarded a rotating professorship to the University of Maastricht in 1997. The Centre of Gender and Diversity [...]

June 19, 2014: Sunny Bergman. Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman will give the last Doing Gender Lecture of Spring 2014. In 2013 Bergman published the book and film Sletvrees and she previously made Over the Hill (Beperkt Houdbaar; 2007), a film challenging the beauty industry and criticising how it distorts the image [...]

On April 29, 2014 Dr. Izabella Agardi will give a masterclass on Interviews and Life Narratives (flyer). Dr. Agardi discusses the various ways interviews can be useful for collecting material for gender research in the humanities and social sciences in order to produce better understanding of so far under-researched or missing [...]

On May 7 Prof. Marie-Luise Angerer will give the lecture 'When we move, who is it moving? On time gaps, plasticity, and the question of affect'. In recent years it has become more and more noticable that the libidinal economy based on sexuality and the unconscious has been replaced by a new one grounded [...]

The registration for the NOISE Summer School 2014 is now open! Have you ever thought about the difference between affect, emotion, and feeling? Are you curious about the use of these concepts in feminist theory? Would you like to study how certain aesthetic strategies in the mass media are employed to [...]

On March 25 Ala'a Basatneh and Inna Shevchenko will give a lecture on 'How to start a Revolution?' The Syrian Ala'a Basatneh is a 21 year old student pursuing her Bachelor Degree in political sciences at the Loyola University of Chicago. Next to her academic activities, she is also a human rights and [...]