In the autumn of 2014 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the thirteenth 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 [...]
On Thursday September 11, 2014 Professor Claudia Nelson will give a seminar entitled Why Feminist Scholars Should Care about the Literature of Childhood: Four Case Studies. The seminar draws on age studies, adoption studies, and the close reading of texts for and/or about children to suggest that childhood is an area that [...]
Lies Wesseling has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of the Opzij Chair ‘Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity’ at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. The Governing Body of the Opzij foundation awarded a rotating professorship to the University of Maastricht in 1997. The Centre of Gender and Diversity [...]
June 19, 2014: Sunny Bergman. Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman will give the last Doing Gender Lecture of Spring 2014. In 2013 Bergman published the book and film Sletvrees and she previously made Over the Hill (Beperkt Houdbaar; 2007), a film challenging the beauty industry and criticising how it distorts the image [...]
On April 29, 2014 Dr. Izabella Agardi will give a masterclass on Interviews and Life Narratives (flyer). Dr. Agardi discusses the various ways interviews can be useful for collecting material for gender research in the humanities and social sciences in order to produce better understanding of so far under-researched or missing [...]
On May 7 Prof. Marie-Luise Angerer will give the lecture 'When we move, who is it moving? On time gaps, plasticity, and the question of affect'. In recent years it has become more and more noticable that the libidinal economy based on sexuality and the unconscious has been replaced by a new one grounded [...]
The registration for the NOISE Summer School 2014 is now open! Have you ever thought about the difference between affect, emotion, and feeling? Are you curious about the use of these concepts in feminist theory? Would you like to study how certain aesthetic strategies in the mass media are employed to [...]
On March 25 Ala'a Basatneh and Inna Shevchenko will give a lecture on 'How to start a Revolution?' The Syrian Ala'a Basatneh is a 21 year old student pursuing her Bachelor Degree in political sciences at the Loyola University of Chicago. Next to her academic activities, she is also a human rights and [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) would like to invite you for the annual National Research Day dedicated to the cutting edge work of junior researchers of Dutch universities in the field of Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Diversity. This year the National Research Day is called 'Doing Gender in [...]
This symposium will assess the effects of material and affective turns in contemporary cultural theory on the production and reception of art and visual practices, situating the aesthetic experience as a relationship between the human and non-human, the material and immaterial, the social and physical, the analogue and the digital. Different [...]
In the autumn of 2013 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises an eleventh round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice [...]
On May 29th and 30th, 2013 Susan Stryker will give a public lecture in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, won an Emmy for her 2005 documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. She is [...]
