In January 2024, prof em. Selma Sevenhuijsen passed away. She was one of first professors in Gender Studies in the Netherlands and a co-founder of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies in 1995, now NOG (Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies). Selma Sevenhuijsen studied at the UvA and was one [...]
On Friday, May 3, 2024. NOG PhD member Petar Odak will defend his PhD project. Odak’s dissertation traces and analyses the affective, ghostly presences of state socialist pasts of twentieth-century Europe. He focuses on these presences within the vast field of experience economy, by analysing immersive museums, performative practices of historical [...]
Lisa Burghardt is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and part of the NWO funded project Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. Within the project, she conducts research on how we can assess the experience of audiences being immersed in VR [...]
Laurence Herfs is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies and part of the NWO funded project Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. She conducts research into the representation of refugees, migrants and the suffering Other within immersive and VR media technologies. For [...]
María Auxiliadora (Auxi) Castillo Soto is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, more specifically in Literary and Gender Studies; and she is part of the EUTERPE Project: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. For this project, she analyzes how European belonging and [...]
Fleur Renkema is a PhD candidate at the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University. Her project aims to write a cultural history of the gay and lesbian left in the Netherlands in the period of 1970-1990. Her research mainly focuses on the ideologies and cultural practices of leftist gay [...]
Charlie Loopuijt (he/they), a PhD candidate at Radboud University’s Department of Language and Communication, explores trans linguistics and queer health with the research titled, Linguistic Desire Paths: Exploring Strategies of Transgender and Non-Binary Identity Expression through Language Play and Negotiation. Exploring how transgender and non-binary folks forge new linguistic avenues to [...]
The Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University is organising a film series entitled Frames of Palestine, screening a variety of films that show the Palestinian occupation and struggle. The program for part 2 is as followed: Photo Booth by John Greyson (2022) Q&A with director When: January 24, 16.30-19.00 Where: Janskerkhof 2-3, [...]
