The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) provides a platform for gender sensitive and postcolonial research. Since 1995, the NOG has offered a highly successful training programme and research environment for postgraduate students, PhD students and senior researchers. The NOG teaching and research staff consists of an international team of professors and senior lecturers from various universities.
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Workshop: Mx. Science X SWARM: Embodied Invitations to Playful Resistance
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 [...]
PhD Defense Elisa Melo Franco Santos, November 21, 2025
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. [...]
Workshop: ‘The Researcher’s Song: Storytelling through the lens of critical race theory’ with prof. dr. Manjeet Birk
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 [...]
In Memoriam: Paul Mepschen (1976-2025)
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 [...]
Winner Gender Studies Dissertation Prize 2025: Rodante van der Waal
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 [...]
Gender Studies Dissertation Prize Award Ceremony: 31 October 2025
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 [...]