On October 6, 2025, Selma Leydesdorff passed away. She was a prominent historian and professor emeritus of Oral History and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of oral history. Leydesdorff's scientific field of work was the systematic collection and recording of individual experiences through [...]
Sophie Withaeckx is assistant professor in philosophy (UD1) at Maastricht University. Previously, she held post as coordinator and post-doc researcher at RHEA (Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and as lecturer and researcher at Odisee University College. She holds master degrees in African Languages [...]
Adriano José Habed works as an Assistant Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW), Utrecht University. He has been investigating the notion of queer critique and the discontents with it, focusing on the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve K. Sedgwick, [...]
September 29, 2025, 16:15-17:15h, Utrecht University Hall, Domplein 29, Utrecht. Kathrin Thiele, Professor of Gender, Culture & Ecologies and academic director of NOG, and Birgit M. Kaiser, Professor of Comparative Literature, will deliver their inaugural lectures on September 29, 2025. Thiele will give her inaugural lecture titled 'Who's Afraid of Complexity?', followed [...]
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 [...]
Public Lecture by Achille Mbembe Futureproof Solidarity Organized by the International Spinoza Prize Foundation, in collaboration with NOG, IOS Gender, Diversity & Global Justice Platform, Network for Environmental Humanities, Pathways to Sustainability (Critical Pathways), and OSL: Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies Theaterzaal, Bibliotheek Neude, Utrecht (Neude 11, 3512 TA) November [...]
In 1985, the first institute for Women’s Studies in the Netherlands was established at the Radboud University. Now, 40 years later, it still exists as Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies. Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies offers interdisciplinary courses that students register for in increasing numbers. Our courses are taught by lecturers from [...]
Fierce & Fearless or Stealthy & Strategic? Reclaiming the Feminist Project in the University NOG Research Day 2025 Hosted by the Radboud Network for Gender and Diversity Studies, Radboud University, 2 October 2025 Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies hosts the annual NOG Research Day on Thursday 2 October, 2025. Titled [...]
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 [...]
NOG Course Unmaking Man: Masculinities and Denial of Gender Plurality Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, calling Donald Trump, the American President, the “daddy” who needs to use strong language, has brought about many reactions. These reactions discuss his remark as the colonial mindset of Global North toward the [...]
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, AffectsIn Collaboration with NICA“We were there – erasing us is a real act of violence,” claimed scholar Syrus Marcus Ware about the lack of records on transgender community members in the Canadian national queer archive (2017, 174). The message that transgender people “don’t exist,” even within queer [...]
Mélissa (Lili) Aïnseba is s a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies and part of ERC-funded project RESPIRE, which focuses on how planet Earth breathes and suffocates at the current socio-political-environmental conjuncture. In the project, breathing and suffocation are understood not as metaphors but as material [...]
