On Thursday 10 September, NOG member Nisrine Chaer will defend her dissertation ‘The Paradox of Respectability and the Pitfalls of Gender Queer Migration in Lebanon and the Netherlands’. In this thesis, she examines how queer people in Lebanon and the Netherlands are confronted with the ‘paradox of respectability’. In her dissertation, Chaer [...]
Masterclass with Dr. Adriana Qubaiova How to study sexuality in West Asia (Middle East)? September 11, 2026, 13:30 - 17:00 hrs Utrecht University Sexuality studies in the field of Middle East Area Studies face an irreconcilable tension today: how can scholars employ a European modern category of analysis such as [...]
Comics, Memory, Activism: Reimagining the Past and the Future through Words and Images will take place on Monday 24 August 2026, from 10.00 to 14.00, at Janskerkhof 2–3, room 0.19, Utrecht University. Walk-in and coffee will begin at 9.30. The event brings together interdisciplinary scholars and artistic researchers working at the [...]
Lecture/Masterclass with Jad Melki Media Literacy of Genocide, War and Colonialism August 31, 2026 Lecture: 13:15-15:00h & Masterclass: 15:30-17:00h Utrecht University Lecture: Media Literacy of Genocide, War and Colonialism The presentation summarizes an alternative approach to media literacy pedagogies for marginalized communities and postcolonial countries, especially in the Global South, tackling [...]
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 [...]
