On Wednesday January 7, 2026, NOG member Guanqin He will defend her PhD dissertation “Blooming in the Cracks: Women Migrant Workers and their Everyday Practices in the China’s Plaform-mediated Gig Economy.” In her dissertation, Guanqin He uncovers the less visible and often undervalued lived experiences of women migrant workers in China’s [...]
By Sandra Ponzanesi Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University Achille Mbembe came to Utrecht to ask a hard question: how do we make solidarity futureproof? From abolition and anti-apartheid to Gaza and planetary justice, he called for sharing, caring, and repairing—with Africa as a laboratory of the future. [...]
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 [...]
This masterclass brings together the methodologies of drag and collective dance and movement. The event is organized by the minor program Gender and Sexuality in Society and Culture in collaboration with NOG, and engages with methodologies of embodied knowing and play. Together with Mx. Science (Saskia de Wildt), and the Swarm [...]
On Friday November 21, 2025, NOG member Elisa Melo Franco Santos will defend her PhD project ‘Unruly Pictures: Queering Children's Literature under Dictatorial Regimes in Brazil (1964-1985)’. In her disseration, Melo Franco Santos shows that the picturebooks reflect the social, political, and cultural contexts of their time and place. They are [...]
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, prof. dr. Manjeet Birk (Carleton University, Canada) will give the Workshop "The Researche's Song: Storytelling through the lens of Critical Race Theory". Description In this workshop prof. Birk will share principles of various forms of storytelling as feminist and anti-racist research methodology to sing the researcher’s [...]
The sad news reached us that Paul Mepschen has passed away in November 2025. Some of you might have known him or his work. Paul was an Assistant Professor at UCU, where he taught among other topics on decolonizing anthropology and the anthropology of power. Paul has given many guest lectures [...]
On Friday October 31, 2025 the Gender Studies Dissertation Prize was awarded for the second time for the best feminist dissertation defended at a Dutch university between 1 July 2022 and 30 April 2025. The Dissertation award has been initiated by the Dutch Feminist Culture Fund Gender&knowledge to stimulate and spread feminist knowledge [...]
Invitation Ceremony Gender Studies Dissertation Award 2025 ~ Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge The Dissertation award has been initiated by the Dutch 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. For [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
