Public Lecture by Carolyn Pedwell On Thursday 15 December, 2022 Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent, UK) will give the public lecture “Intuition as a ‘Trained Thing’: Sensing, Thinking, and Speculating in Computation Cultures”. What happens when intuition becomes algorithmic? This talk explores how approaching intuition as a ‘trained thing’ (Berlant, 2011) [...]
Inaugural Lecture NOG Board Member Annemie Halsema On December 12 2022, at 4:00 pm, NOG board member Prof. Annemie Halsema will be delivering her inaugural lecture “Hermeneutiek van het Lichaam” at Leiden University. Date: Monday 12 December 2022, from 16.00-17.00 hrs. Location: Leiden University, Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73 and via the livestream [...]
My research examines the ontological foundations of female spirituality and leadership in pre-colonial Kalabari-Ijaw society (in Southern Nigeria), with the aim of exploring the ancient wisdom behind these spiritual practices, and how the philosophical aspects of this spirituality may be adopted in solving modern-day societal challenges specifically, women empowerment and environmental [...]
With an English teaching experience extending over 24 years, M.A. Ahl Ben Taleb is a Moroccan researcher in the field of race, ethnicity and alterity in literature and culture. The approach of otherness in Western awareness framed his early interest in Jewish alterity as it was represented on the English renaissance [...]
On Wednesday November 9, 2022 from 17.00 – 18.30 hrs Associate Professor Maya Mikdashi will give the talk ‘Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). In this talk, Maya Mikdashi will speak about her new book Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in [...]
On Thursday November 10, 2022 from 11.00 – 15.00 hrs Associate Professor Maya Mikdashi will teach the masterclass ‘Sex and Multiplicity: Contingency and Unknowability as Feminist Praxis’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). What are the relationships between visibility, opacity, and possibility in how, when, and where we [...]
In solidarity with the women and marginalized bodies in Iran, the NOG likes to show its support to "Listen to the Voices of a Feminist Revolution in Iran", a petition set up by a group of feminist academic-activists . This petition calls for stronger transnational feminist solidarity with the ongoing protests [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises 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 approach to gender [...]
In collaboration with the Feministisch Cultuurfonds Gender&wetenschap (Feminist Cultural Foundation Gender&knowledge) the NOG organizes national symposia featuring the latest developments in the field of gender and postcolonial studies. We are happy to announce that these biennial symposia will host the award ceremony of two FC G&W prizes. One prize (€5.000) will be [...]
On Monday September 26, 2022 NOG staff member Widya Fitria Ningsih will defend her thesis More than the wedding ring – Engaged women of the Indonesian state formation, 1940s-1960s. The dissertation focuses exclusively on the life stories of engaged women who participated in the Indonesian nation-state formation that was immensely affected [...]
On Friday September 16, NOG PhD Gerwin van Schie will defend his thesis The Datafication of Race-Ethnicity: An Investigation into Technologically Mediated Racialization in Dutch Governmental Data Systems and Infrastructures. Van Schie investigates how data on race and ethnicity of Dutch citizens are created, distributed, and used. Many authorities use these [...]
Op vrijdag 16 september 2022 neemt Prof. dr. Mineke Bosch afscheid van de Faculteit der Letteren na ruim twaalf jaar aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen als hoogleraar Moderne Geschiedenis verbonden te zijn geweest. Zij doet dat met een afscheidsrede, getiteld Vrouwen – Gender – (Geschied)wetenschap – een persoonlijke terugblik. De afscheidsrede wordt [...]
