Decolonised Sexualities: The Lived Experiences of Black Township Women Who Love Women On January 24, 2018 Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki will defend her PhD thesis at Utrecht University. This thesis centres the lived experiences of black township women in same-sex relationships in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The main question—‘How do black township women construct [...]
On February 20-22, 2018 the InterGender Consortium in cooperation with the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies and the Graduate Gender Programme is organizing a PhD course on the Politics of Vulnerability at Utrecht University. This PhD course will focus on vulnerability as a political matter. In contemporary Western contexts, vulnerability is [...]
On Thursday October 5 artist Tabita Rezaire will give a lecture on her video work. The session is titled 'Decolonial trinity: technologies of the spiritual, erotic and politic'. Tabita Rezaire (b.1989, Paris) is a French - of Guyanese and Danish descent - video artist, health-tech-politics practitioner and Kemetic/ Kundalini Yoga teacher [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the eighteenth round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The [...]
In November 2017 Professor Rosi Braidotti will give a masterclass for the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies. This intensive masterclass offers an introduction to contemporary critical debates on the construction of (nomadic) subjects. Cultural diversity, global migration, digital ‘second life’, genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are [...]
Prof. dr. Selma Leydesdorff is hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam / Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen met als leeropdracht Oral history and Culture. Zij geeft vanwege haar aftreden als hoogleraar in een academische zitting op donderdag 28 september 2017 om 15.00 uur precies een openbaar afscheidscollege getiteld: Het verhaal, trauma en herinnering in het [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the seventeenth round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the seventeenth round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept [...]
Donderdag de 6e juli 2017, des namiddags om 4.00 uur, zal de Hooggeleerde Vrouwe dr. G.A. Mak, vanwege de Stichting Wilhelmina Drucker Fundatie benoemd tot Bijzonder hoogleraar Politieke geschiedenis van gender in Nederland, haar hoogleraarsambt openlijk aanvaarden door het uitspreken van een rede, getiteld: Huishouden in Nederlands Nieuw Guinea. Geschiedenis van geslacht [...]
Professor Marieke van den Brink, hoogleraar aan de Radboud Universiteit, Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen met de leeropdracht Gender & Diversity zal in een academische zitting op vrijdag 19 mei 2017 om 15:45 uur precies haar ambt aanvaarden, met het uitspreken van haar rede getiteld: "De zevenkoppige draak van ongelijkheid: Heldinnen en hindernissen in de queeste [...]
On 19 May 2017 Gianmaria Colpani will defend his PhD thesis. In his dissertation, Gianmaria explores the transformations of the field of queer theory in times of neoliberalism, homonormativity, homonationalism, and sexual imperialism. He focuses especially on the formation of queer of color and queer diasporic critique and on the emergence [...]
On 26 April 2017 Heather Hermant will defend her PhD thesis. In her dissertation, Hermant complicates eighteenth century crossdressing and argues for an intersectional approach to retell colonial era stories of transgression in service of queer, feminist and decolonial worldmaking!The argument is performed through attention to the case of Esther Brandeau/Jacques La [...]
