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Transgender Health Care reading groupApril 14, May 12, June 16 2025 (15:30-17:30)Utrecht UniversityThree reading group sessions dedicated to critically discussing transgender health care, grounded in frameworks of transgender liberation and disability justice.Trans politics have become a lightning rod for contemporary culture wars and a primary target of right-wing nationalist politics. Anti-trans [...]

Masterclass with Prof. Mandy Rose: Virtual Reality and the Immersive TurnIn this masterclass, we will critically analyze immersive technologies through, amongst others, media, postcolonial, and gender studies lenses, reflecting on their ethical implications. We will also explore the potential of decolonial storytelling to enable new ways of engaging with social realities [...]

  The NOG PhD Council is organising a workshop series on critical feminist research methods for PhD and RMA students. Seeing the popularity of a recent PhD methods course organised by Radboud Gender and Diversity Studies and NOG, it became clear that there is a demand for more critical and [...]

On our own terms?On the contestations of feminist knowledges and minoritarian politics in current timesRINGS Conference 2025October 30-November 1, 2025 at Utrecht UniversityHosted by the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht Universityand the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG)We are at a time when critical knowledges and minoritarian politics are [...]

NOISE Summer School 2025Sexual Citizenship:Bodies, Technology, and GovernanceNetherlands Research School of Gender Studies25-29 August, 2025, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.• How is sexual citizenship constructed and negotiated in relation to contemporary practices and technologies of biopolitical governance?• How do communities use technology to extend the boundaries of their social and political spaces/networks, [...]

On 26 February, the Centre for Gender and Diversity in collaboration with Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) is excited to host Prof. Clare Hemmings (London School of Economics) for the next Vectors for Change lecture: Feminist Knowledge Struggles: Telling Stories DifferentlyProf. Hemmings will explore queer feminist methodologies to counter [...]

The NOG board shares its concerns with SEKSO (Network of sex researchers in the Netherlands and Flanders) about the increasingly impending limitations of academic research within the fields of gender, diversity, and sexuality, and with this, the limitation of academic freedom on a broader scale. As research school we are one [...]

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 [...]

Op vrijdag 2 mei 2025 neemt Prof. dr. Lies Wesseling - hoogleraar Gender, Cultural Memory and Diversity en tot 2022 voorzitter van het NOG Bestuur - afscheid van de Faculteit der Cultuur- en Maatschappijwetenschappen in verband met haar emeritaat. Zij doet dat met een afscheidsrede getiteld Leed is geen rekensom: Nogmaals [...]

Dissertation Award Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge Did you write a dissertation in the field of Gender Studies or did gender as a category take center stage in your PhD research? Do you have a concrete plan to further disseminate your research findings? Apply for the Dissertation Award 2025 of the [...]

NOG Masterclass & Book Talk  On January 13 & 14, 2025, the NOG is organising a book talk and masterclass with Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró (Escola Massana, Autonomous University of Barcelona) on 'Decolonizing Feminist Futures: What kind of economies do we want?'. Book Talk: Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures What [...]