On 19 November, NOG PhD Claudia Minchilli will defend her thesis Localizing Digital Diasporas: Diasporic Digital Networking Among Somali, Romanian and Turkish Women Through the Lens of Social Class. In her dissertation, Claudia investigates the diasporic digital practices of Somali, Romanian and Turkish migrant women living in Rome with a particular [...]
On 12 November, NOG PhD Valeria Stabile defends her PhD dissertation titled Pues no soy mujer. The Upheaval of Singularity in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, which centers on the revolution that sor Juana started in the debate about singularity, sexedness, and in-betweenness—not only in the field of literary studies and [...]
On 5 November, NOG PhD Lieke Hettinga will defend their thesis titled Appearing Differently: Disability and Transgender Embodiment in Contemporary Euro-American Visual Cultures. In their dissertation, they examine how contemporary cultural practices shape and reimagine the legibility and intelligibility of disability and transgender embodiment. Through an analysis of various aesthetic practices, [...]
Terra Critica – UU Graduate Gender Programme – Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies Wednesday November 3, 2021 @ 15:30-17:00h Utrecht University, on location Moderation: Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele (Terra Critica) Presentation of “Oceanic swimming-writing-thinking for justice-to-come scholarship” by Nike Romano, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Tamara Shefer, University [...]
Leiden University Looi van Kessel is assistant professor in literary studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), where he is the coordinator for the minor program Gender and Sexuality in Society and Culture. He has finished his PhD in 2019, writing on melodrama and sexual identity in [...]
