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years it has become more and more noticable that the libidinal economy based on sexuality and the unconscious has been replaced by a new one grounded [...]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 [...]
In the spring of 2013 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises a tenth round of the series of lectures entitled DOING GENDER. This title stresses the importance of doing gender work and active involvement in the [...]
From August 26-30, 2013 the NOISE Summer School will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The title is Naturecultures in Feminist Academia, Art and Activism and it will be coordinated by Dr. Iris van der Tuin, Prof. Maaike Bleeker and Liu Xin. This year’s (the 21st) edition of NOI♀SE will introduce [...]
On Friday June 14, 2013 Sanne Koevoets will defend her PhD dissertation 'Into the the labyrinth of power and knowledge: The library as a gendered space in the western imaginary'. Libraries are strange places: on the one hand they bear the promise of unlimited access to the truth, as epitomized in [...]
The Postcolonial Europe Network (PEN) is organizing a conference on April 18-19, 2013 on 'Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Conflict, Transitional Justice and Cosmopolitanism'. This conference focuses on the relevance of postcolonial theories for the understanding of world-systemic transformations and the shifts in geopolitics in terms of conflict, transitional justice and cosmopolitanism. [...]
