The upcoming NOG Research Day will take place on Friday June 3, 2022, via Zoom. Organized by Maastricht University Centre for Gender and Diversity (the Netherlands), the program will include: a lecture by our keynote speaker SA Smythe (UCLA); a roundtable featuring recently launched research projects in the field of gender [...]
On Monday June 13, 2022 Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University and founding director of the NOG and the UU Gender Studies programme, will formally retire by giving her farewell lecture ‘Affirmative Ethics: We Are Rooted But We Flow’ in the Aula of the Academiegebouw. After the lecture you [...]
On Wednesday May 11, 2022 from 17.00 – 18.30 hrs Dr. Evren Savci will give the lecture ‘Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). In this talk, Evren Savcı will speak about her book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam [...]
On Thursday May 12, 2022 from 11.00 – 15.00 hrs Dr. Evren Savci will teach the masterclass ‘Queering Political Economy’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). In this masterclass, we will think about what queer studies has to offer to rethinking political economy and what Marxist theory (still) [...]
On May 10, 2022, NOG PhD Adriano Habed will defend his thesis Queer Critique and Its Discontents at Utrecht University. It is a joint supervised PhD project between Verona University and Utrecht University within the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie project INVITE. Critical scholarship Lately, there has been [...]
On Tuesday May 17, from 15.00 - 17.00 the NOG PhD Council organizes the publishing workshop 'Get Published! An afternoon on the intricacies of publishing through the eyes of Gender Studies publishers' with Suzanne Clisby (Coventry University, UK) and Eliza Steinbock (Maastricht University, NL). This workshop gives insight into the selection [...]
On 8 April, NOG PhD Nike Romano will defend her thesis Reconfiguring a History of Art and Design Curriculum in a South African University of Technology. Becoming-With Critical Arts-Based Pedagogical Encounters. In her dissertation, Nike explores the question of how critical-arts based pedagogies can be used to reconfigure an art history [...]
On Wednesday April 13, 2022 the NOG PhD Council is organizing a lecture with Dr. Asli Zengin (Rutgers University). Dr. Zengin will give the lecture Gendering Extralegality: State Securitization, Surveillance and Trans Lives in Turkey on her forthcoming book, Violent Intimacies: Trans Lives, State Power, Kinship and Urban Geography. It examines extralegality [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises 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 of DOING GENDER supports a hands-on approach to gender [...]
Former Belle van Zuylen professor Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, has died aged 69 in the United States. bell hooks taught at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) in 1992 and delivered her inaugural lecture May 15, 1992 entitled Feminism: Theory as Liberatory Practice. “ Well, I [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises 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 of DOING GENDER supports a hands-on approach to gender [...]
The PhD/RMA workshop on January 27/28 is fully booked! But you can still register for the public lecture on January 26: nog@uu.nl On January 26 and January 27-28 2022, the NOG PhD Council and Accessible Academia are organizing an online lecture and workshop on Ableism in Academia. The lecture and workshop will be [...]
