Sharon Anyango is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University. She holds an MA in Globalization and Development Studies and an MBA in Project Management. Prior, she was a Teaching Fellow at FASoS and a staff representative in the University Council. Her research, funded [...]
Antonella Buono PhD project conduts a study on the consolatory reading of Christine de Pizan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) at Philosophy department of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Christine's work has yet to be acknowledged as significant within the academic sphere and continues to be excluded from the established [...]
On Friday 4 October 2024, NOG member Francois Jonker will defend his PhD project ‘Towards Response-able Arts-based Practices in Higher Education’. Jonker's dissertation aims to contribute to the proliferation of scholarship concerned with the challenging of normative traditions within higher education by foregrounding a methodological interest in ‘how else’ to do [...]
Rana Kuseyri (she/they) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Her project is tentatively titled, “Data Subjects: Algorithmic Imaginaries and Legal Consciousness of Welfare Recipients in the Dutch Datafied Welfare State.” Seeking to understand the everyday experiences of navigating the digital and datafied [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, organized this year by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields of Gender, [...]
On Thursday 12 September, 2024 the symposium 'Sexuality & Solidarity: Theories / Archives / Movements', organized by Gianmaria Colpani (UU) and Wigbertson Julian Isenia (UvA), will take place at IHLIA - LGBTI Heritage, in Amsterdam. The symposium consists of 3 panels and a film screening with a Q&A, and attempts to [...]
David Lyons is a joint PhD candidate at Utrecht University and the University of Bologna within the programme of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion, specifically being part of the EDGES curriculum (women's and gender studies). The preliminary title of his project is Painting with Words: Re-Envisioning Gender Discourse and [...]
On Friday 28 June 2024, NOG member Rosa Wevers will defend her PhD project “Facing Surveillance: Artistic and Curatorial Strategies in Times of Control”. Wevers’ dissertation investigates how recent contemporary art exhibitions have thematised surveillance. She analyses a corpus of exhibitions of 'surveillance art' that were on show in Europe [...]
Following the brutal attacks of riot police against students and staff in Amsterdam and Utrecht last week, we are deeply concerned about the breach in trust between leadership in Dutch universities and their communities. As members of the board of the National Research School of Gender Studies (NOG), we strongly believe in [...]
**please note: due to overwhelming interest, the location has changed for this event to: Drift 13, room 0.04!** On Tuesday May 14, Dr. Maya Wind (University of British Columbia) will come to Utrecht University to dicuss her recent book Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Istraeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2024). [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies organises the DOING GENDER Lecture Series in cooperation with her partners. 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 issues [...]
Weronika Zielińska-Klein is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM). Trained as an artist (BA, Willem de Kooning Academy, RUAS) and researcher (MAR, University of Amsterdam), she has been running Upominki, a project space in her family home [...]
