On Tuesday October 6, 2026, NOG member Tegiye Birey will defend her PhD dissertation "Relational Solidarity: A Decolonial Feminist Ethnography of the Asylum Movement in Malmö." In her dissertation, Tegiye Birey examines how solidarity is practiced across differences of legal status, race and gender within the asylum movement that mobilised in [...]
On Friday, September 11, NOG Member Sherilyn Deen will defend the dissertation 'Racialized Intimacies and National Imaginaries. ‘Mixed’ Marriages and the Configuration of the ‘Muslim Question’ in the Netherlands' at the University of Amsterdam. Details PhD Defense Date: Friday, September 11, 2026 Time: 10:00-11:30h. Location: Hybrid. Live: Agnietenkapel, or [...]
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,” [...]
On Friday, October 2, NOG member Marta Olivi will defend her dissertation ‘Food That Matters: Food Figurations in Contemporary Anglophone Feminist Dystopias’. In her thesis, Olivi explores how contemporary feminist dystopian novels use food to illustrate how people are oppressed and how they resist this oppression. In her thesis, Olivi analysed [...]
Yuyen Lin-Woywod is an artist whose practice primarily revolves around video media and installation works, focusing on themes of personal identity under political structures, queer theory, and cultural exchange. Yuyen’s research delves into how culinary practices become spaces where identity, memory, belonging, and difference are discussed across different cultures and countries. Starting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
