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Masterclass: Queer(y)ing the past: queer oral history and archival research

Masterclass Queer(y)ing the past: queer oral history and archival research March 12, 2026: 14:00-17:00h University of Amsterdam What were the lives of LGBTQ people like in the past? Can we use labels like ‘lesbian’, ‘gay’, ‘bisexual’, ‘trans’ or ‘queer’ when we talk about the past? How can we access these historical experiences? [...]

Masterclass: Queer(y)ing the past: queer oral history and archival research2026-01-29T17:47:58+01:00

Doing Gender Lecture – Brenna Bhandar

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 [...]

Doing Gender Lecture – Brenna Bhandar2026-01-28T11:40:36+01:00

Doing Gender Lecture – Falestin Naïli

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 [...]

Doing Gender Lecture – Falestin Naïli2026-01-28T10:30:16+01:00

Doing Gender Lecture – Rahul Rao

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 [...]

Doing Gender Lecture – Rahul Rao2026-01-07T14:06:18+01:00

PhD Defense Guanqin He & Symposium: ‘Beyond Platform Labor’, January 7, 2026

On Wednesday January 7, 2026, NOG member Guanqin He will defend her PhD dissertation “Blooming in the Cracks: Women Migrant Workers and their Everyday Practices in the China’s Plaform-mediated Gig Economy.” In her dissertation, Guanqin He uncovers the less visible and often undervalued lived experiences of women migrant workers in China’s [...]

PhD Defense Guanqin He & Symposium: ‘Beyond Platform Labor’, January 7, 20262026-01-07T14:04:57+01:00

Blog & Recording – Achille Mbembe, ‘Futureproof Solidarity’, November 25, 2025, Utrecht

By Sandra Ponzanesi Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University Achille Mbembe came to Utrecht to ask a hard question: how do we make solidarity futureproof? From abolition and anti-apartheid to Gaza and planetary justice, he called for sharing, caring, and repairing—with Africa as a laboratory of the future. [...]

Blog & Recording – Achille Mbembe, ‘Futureproof Solidarity’, November 25, 2025, Utrecht2026-01-13T12:00:53+01:00

Doing Gender Lecture – Ankita Mukherjee

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 [...]

Doing Gender Lecture – Ankita Mukherjee2025-12-01T14:15:50+01:00

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 the Swarm [...]

Workshop: Mx. Science X SWARM: Embodied Invitations to Playful Resistance2025-11-20T10:36:21+01:00

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. They are [...]

PhD Defense Elisa Melo Franco Santos, November 21, 20252025-11-17T10:49:24+01:00

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 the researcher’s [...]

Workshop: ‘The Researcher’s Song: Storytelling through the lens of critical race theory’ with prof. dr. Manjeet Birk2025-11-20T10:33:39+01:00

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 feminist knowledge [...]

Winner Gender Studies Dissertation Prize 2025: Rodante van der Waal2025-11-06T10:51:57+01:00
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