September 29, 2025, 16:15-17:15h, Utrecht University Hall, Domplein 29, Utrecht. Kathrin Thiele, Professor of Gender, Culture & Ecologies and academic director of NOG, and Birgit M. Kaiser, Professor of Comparative Literature, will deliver their inaugural lectures on September 29, 2025. Thiele will give her inaugural lecture titled 'Who's Afraid of Complexity?', followed [...]
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 [...]
Public Lecture by Achille Mbembe Futureproof Solidarity Organized by the International Spinoza Prize Foundation, in collaboration with NOG, IOS Gender, Diversity & Global Justice Platform, Network for Environmental Humanities, Pathways to Sustainability (Critical Pathways), and OSL: Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies Theaterzaal, Bibliotheek Neude, Utrecht (Neude 11, 3512 TA) November [...]
In 1985, the first institute for Women’s Studies in the Netherlands was established at the Radboud University. Now, 40 years later, it still exists as Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies. Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies offers interdisciplinary courses that students register for in increasing numbers. Our courses are taught by lecturers from [...]
Fierce & Fearless or Stealthy & Strategic? Reclaiming the Feminist Project in the University NOG Research Day 2025 Hosted by the Radboud Network for Gender and Diversity Studies, Radboud University, 2 October 2025 Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies hosts the annual NOG Research Day on Thursday 2 October, 2025. Titled [...]
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 [...]
NOG Course Unmaking Man: Masculinities and Denial of Gender Plurality Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, calling Donald Trump, the American President, the “daddy” who needs to use strong language, has brought about many reactions. These reactions discuss his remark as the colonial mindset of Global North toward the [...]
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, AffectsIn 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 within queer [...]
Public Lecture by Gayatri C. Spivak Pan-Africanism & Decolonization: W.E.B. Du Bois in the World Hosted by the NOG in collaboration with the IOS Gender, Diversity & Global Justice Platform Theaterzaal, Bibliotheek Neude, Utrecht June 23 2025, 16:00-18:00h A leading voice in literary theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist thought, and the [...]
Fierce & Fearless or Stealthy & Strategic? Reclaiming the Feminist Project in the University NOG Research Day 2025 Hosted by the Radboud Network for Gender and Diversity Studies, Radboud University, 2 October 2025 What constraints and possibilities does the current political conjecture pose for the future of gender studies and [...]
NOG Masterclass: Paradoxes of Trans Recognition CQ Quinan 3-4 June: 13.15-16.00hUtrecht University On Tuesday June 3, and Wednesday June 4, dr. CQ Quinan (University of Melbourne, AUS), will give the NOG Masterclass 'Paradoxes of Trans Recognition'. Paradox is a central trope in trans studies – we might even say that transness [...]
The NOG is proud to announce that an article version of the opening Round Table of the NOG Research Day 2024, entitled 'Gender in Trouble, Gender in Transformation' has been published in the latest issue of Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (Vol. 28, Issue 1, April 2025). The journal is open access, and [...]
