NOG Course Life, Love, Lust. Visions of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Contemporary Speculative Fiction Since the late 1960s, feminist, queer, Indigenous, and African or Afro-diasporic writers, filmmakers and artists have challenged patterns of domination in the rocket-propelled worlds of speculative or “science” fiction. By developing alternative visions on (re-)production and [...]
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects In 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 [...]
Workshop Teaching Gender History: a Comparative Workshop July 6. 2026, 09:00-17:00h Herta Mohr, Room 1.80, Leiden University On Monday, July 6, 2026, Leiden University is organizing a workshop entitled 'Teaching Gender History: a Comparative Workshop' (09:00-17:00). Graduate Students and teaching staff interested in the topic are welcome to join. How can [...]
Greta Carlevaro is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. Her research investigates how temporal, material, embodied, and affective practices of resistance among people aging with disabilities emerge through media representation, production, and interpretation. She is currently collecting and analysing counter hegemonic media discourses and [...]
Masterclass with Dr. Giulia Sbaffi Unreliable Archives: Malleability, Repetition, Withholding, and the Choreography of Action in Sex Work June 10, 2026, 10:00-13:00h Utrecht University Paraphrasing Laurence Louppe, one might consider sex work as “the true avatar of Orpheus: one who has no right to turn back for fear of being denied [...]
The Centre for Gender Studies at Groningen University is co-organizing a two-day symposium and workshop on women's oral and everyday histories in the Middle East, put together by Dr. Donya Ahmadi and Dr. Sepideh Yousefzadeh (Rudolf Agricola School, Development, Security and Justice group), in collaboration with ICOG (The Groningen Research Institute [...]
Masterclass with Lynnée Denise From DJ Scholarship to Turntable Epistemology: Subversive Methodologies in Creative Research Organized by Open University The Netherlands (OU) & Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) May 28, 2026, 13:30-17:00h, Open University, Study Center The Hague Description This masterclass and workshop is hosted by Lynnée Denise, who [...]
Masterclass with Prof. dr. Teagan Bradway Queer and Trans Narrative Theory June 2, 2026: 14:00 - 17:00 hrs Leiden University What is queer about narrative form? How has narrative shaped queer and trans theory? And what can contemporary queer and trans narrative teach us about the politics of gender, sexuality, and [...]
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 panel brings into dialogue the work of Rita Segato on sexual violence, masculinity, and the modern-colonial transformation of patriarchy. Building on Segato’s influential theorization of sexual violence as a structured practice of power—articulated through the “mandate of masculinity” and its communicative and territorial logics—the discussion will explore how gendered violence [...]
Book Launch The Gloria Wekker Reader June 12, 2026 - Aula, University of Amsterdam On June 12, 2026 we celebrate the ongoing legacy of the Afro-Surinamese Dutch feminist theorist and activist Gloria Wekker with the launch of The Gloria Wekker Reader (Duke University Press, 2026). The Gloria Wekker Reader compiles [...]
In this talk on May 7, 2026 Ren Loren Britton will share their ongoing artistic indexing project called “Indexing for Disability Justice.” They will share an essay they are writing that works on tracing agency, via a few stories and hir-stories from the index.These artifacts speak of technical trans*crip pasts that [...]
