By Sandra Ponzanesi Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University Achille Mbembe came to Utrecht to ask a hard question: how do we make solidarity futureproof? From abolition and anti-apartheid to Gaza and planetary justice, he called for sharing, caring, and repairing—with Africa as a laboratory of the future. [...]
On Wednesday January 7, 2026, NOG member Guanqin He will defend her PhD dissertation “Blooming in the Cracks: Women Migrant Workers and their Everyday Practices in the China’s Plaform-mediated Gig Economy.” In her dissertation, Guanqin He uncovers the less visible and often undervalued lived experiences of women migrant workers in China’s [...]
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 [...]
Annelies Kleinherenbrink is assistant professor of gender and diversity in AI at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she works at the department of Gender and Diversity and the department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. She holds master degrees in Clinical Psychology (Radboud University) and Comparative Women's Studies (Utrecht University), and a [...]
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 [...]
This masterclass brings together the methodologies of drag and collective dance and movement. The event is organized by the minor program Gender and Sexuality in Society and Culture in collaboration with NOG, and engages with methodologies of embodied knowing and play. Together with Mx. Science (Saskia de Wildt), and the Swarm [...]
On Friday November 21, 2025, NOG member Elisa Melo Franco Santos will defend her PhD project ‘Unruly Pictures: Queering Children's Literature under Dictatorial Regimes in Brazil (1964-1985)’. In her disseration, Melo Franco Santos shows that the picturebooks reflect the social, political, and cultural contexts of their time and place. They are [...]
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, prof. dr. Manjeet Birk (Carleton University, Canada) will give the Workshop "The Researche's Song: Storytelling through the lens of Critical Race Theory". Description In this workshop prof. Birk will share principles of various forms of storytelling as feminist and anti-racist research methodology to sing the researcher’s [...]
The sad news reached us that Paul Mepschen has passed away. Some of you might have known him or his work. Paul was an Assistant Professor at UCU, where he taught among other topics on decolonizing anthropology and the anthropology of power. Paul has given many guest lectures in our courses [...]
On Friday October 31, 2025 the Gender Studies Dissertation Prize was awarded for the second time for the best feminist dissertation defended at a Dutch university between 1 July 2022 and 30 April 2025. The Dissertation award has been initiated by the Dutch Feminist Culture Fund Gender&knowledge to stimulate and spread feminist knowledge [...]
Tessa Karsten (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies at the University of Amsterdam within the interdisciplinary project “In Our Own Words: Language, Life Story-Telling, and Empowerment in the United States.” She researches lesbian literary activism in the Feminist Bookstore Network during the last quarter of [...]
Invitation Ceremony Gender Studies Dissertation Award 2025 ~ Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge The Dissertation award has been initiated by the Dutch Feminist Culture Fund Gender&knowledge to stimulate and spread feminist knowledge with a particular focus on historical knowledge and a critical reflection on culture and science from an intersectional perspective. For [...]
