On Thursday September 15, 2022 NOG PhD Rozemarijn van de Wal will defend her dissertation Dancing in the Kitchens of History. Eileen Power (1889-1940). Her dissertation is part of the wider project SPICE ‘Scientific Personae in Cultural Encounters’. As the aim of the project is to research the construction of scientific [...]
Introduction: How to Think Change? This year-long seminar creates a space to become more conscious of how the small movements of body and mind are shaped by intersecting power structures. How does capitalism determine our daily habits? How do online platforms like Google re-orient people’s desire? And how does patriarchy affect [...]
On Friday June 24th, 2022 from 10.30 - 13.00 hrs. the NOG organizes the masterclass "Collaborative Research: towards safer spaces of/for research with migrants." by Dr. Nerina Boursinou and Dr. Evie Papada. The topic of mobility, its uneven forms and hierarchization as well as the panoply of devices/agencies that seek to [...]
The upcoming NOG Research Day will take place on Friday June 3, 2022, via Zoom. Organized by Maastricht University Centre for Gender and Diversity (the Netherlands), the program will include: a lecture by our keynote speaker SA Smythe (UCLA); a roundtable featuring recently launched research projects in the field of gender [...]
On Monday June 13, 2022 Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University and founding director of the NOG and the UU Gender Studies programme, will formally retire by giving her farewell lecture ‘Affirmative Ethics: We Are Rooted But We Flow’ in the Aula of the Academiegebouw. After the lecture you [...]
Elisa M F Santos is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, and the University of Bologna. Her research uses an interdisciplinary methodology that draws from queer theories, graphic design, literature and childhood studies to investigate roles that children’s literature can assume in historical, political and social processes, as well as in [...]
Gohar Parissa Rahimi is a Joint PhD Candidate at the University of Utrecht (Department of Media and Culture Studies) and the University of Bologna (Department of Modern Literature, Languages and Cultures), curriculum EDGES (European PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies). Her research interest is focused on contemporary articulations of feminisms. Her [...]
Kathrin Thiele is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. She is the current director of the NOG and also directs the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University. Trained transdisciplinarily in Gender Studies, Sociology, Literary Studies and Critical [...]
On Wednesday May 11, 2022 from 17.00 – 18.30 hrs Dr. Evren Savci will give the lecture ‘Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). In this talk, Evren Savcı will speak about her book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam [...]
On Thursday May 12, 2022 from 11.00 – 15.00 hrs Dr. Evren Savci will teach the masterclass ‘Queering Political Economy’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). In this masterclass, we will think about what queer studies has to offer to rethinking political economy and what Marxist theory (still) [...]
On May 10, 2022, NOG PhD Adriano Habed will defend his thesis Queer Critique and Its Discontents at Utrecht University. It is a joint supervised PhD project between Verona University and Utrecht University within the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie project INVITE. Critical scholarship Lately, there has been [...]
On Tuesday May 17, from 15.00 - 17.00 the NOG PhD Council organizes the publishing workshop 'Get Published! An afternoon on the intricacies of publishing through the eyes of Gender Studies publishers' with Suzanne Clisby (Coventry University, UK) and Eliza Steinbock (Maastricht University, NL). This workshop gives insight into the selection [...]
