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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 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 perspective. The award consists [...]

Gender Studies Dissertation Prize Award Ceremony: 31 October 20252025-10-16T16:17:58+02:00

In Memoriam: Selma Leydesdorff (1949-2025)

On October 6, 2025, Selma Leydesdorff passed away. She was a prominent historian and professor emeritus of Oral History and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of oral history. Leydesdorff's scientific field of work was the systematic collection and recording of individual experiences through [...]

In Memoriam: Selma Leydesdorff (1949-2025)2025-10-13T16:02:25+02:00

Double Inaugural Lecture Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele & Prof. dr. Birgit M. Kaiser, Utrecht University

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 [...]

Double Inaugural Lecture Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele & Prof. dr. Birgit M. Kaiser, Utrecht University2025-09-23T15:18:21+02:00

Doing Gender Lecture & Masterclass – Leticia Farfán

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 & Masterclass – Leticia Farfán2025-10-06T11:07:07+02:00

Public Lecture by Achille Mbembe (November 25, 2025)

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 [...]

Public Lecture by Achille Mbembe (November 25, 2025)2025-09-15T15:59:17+02:00

40 Years of Gender Studies at Radboud University

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 [...]

40 Years of Gender Studies at Radboud University2025-09-10T12:58:42+02:00

NOG Research Day: October 2, 2025

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 [...]

NOG Research Day: October 2, 20252025-09-10T12:53:34+02:00

Doing Gender Lecture – Svitlana Biedarieva

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 – Svitlana Biedarieva2025-09-09T12:09:41+02:00

Course: Unmaking Man: Masculinities and Denial of Gender Plurality

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: Unmaking Man: Masculinities and Denial of Gender Plurality2025-09-22T12:56:02+02:00

Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects

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 [...]

Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects2025-07-01T14:19:36+02:00

Public Lecture by Gayatri C. Spivak (June 23, 2025, Utrecht)

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 [...]

Public Lecture by Gayatri C. Spivak (June 23, 2025, Utrecht)2025-06-17T12:50:52+02:00

NOG Research Day: October 2, 2025

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 Research Day: October 2, 20252025-07-02T15:10:03+02:00
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