Summer School 2023 Queer, Trans, Sexual Archives Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies 28 August – 1 September 2023, Utrecht University, The Netherlands What makes an archive “queer” or “trans”? What practices of archival reading are being developed in Queer and Transgender Studies? How can queer, trans, sexual histories – from [...]
On December 8, 2021 (22 months after his arrest in Egypt) GEMMA student Patrick Zaki was released on parole! On February 14, 2022 Patrick uttered a statement of gratitude to everyone who supported him. He remains on trial however by an emergency court on "false news charges". After numerous hearings the [...]
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 [...]
Public Lecture by Carolyn Pedwell On Thursday 15 December, 2022 Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent, UK) will give the public lecture “Intuition as a ‘Trained Thing’: Sensing, Thinking, and Speculating in Computation Cultures”. What happens when intuition becomes algorithmic? This talk explores how approaching intuition as a ‘trained thing’ (Berlant, 2011) [...]
Inaugural Lecture NOG Board Member Annemie Halsema On December 12 2022, at 4:00 pm, NOG board member Prof. Annemie Halsema will be delivering her inaugural lecture “Hermeneutiek van het Lichaam” at Leiden University. Date: Monday 12 December 2022, from 16.00-17.00 hrs. Location: Leiden University, Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73 and via the livestream [...]
On Wednesday November 9, 2022 from 17.00 – 18.30 hrs Associate Professor Maya Mikdashi will give the talk ‘Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). In this talk, Maya Mikdashi will speak about her new book Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in [...]
On Thursday November 10, 2022 from 11.00 – 15.00 hrs Associate Professor Maya Mikdashi will teach the masterclass ‘Sex and Multiplicity: Contingency and Unknowability as Feminist Praxis’ (organized by the NOG and the NOG PhD Council). What are the relationships between visibility, opacity, and possibility in how, when, and where we [...]
In solidarity with the women and marginalized bodies in Iran, the NOG likes to show its support to "Listen to the Voices of a Feminist Revolution in Iran", a petition set up by a group of feminist academic-activists . This petition calls for stronger transnational feminist solidarity with the ongoing protests [...]
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 [...]
In collaboration with the Feministisch Cultuurfonds Gender&wetenschap (Feminist Cultural Foundation Gender&knowledge) the NOG organizes national symposia featuring the latest developments in the field of gender and postcolonial studies. We are happy to announce that these biennial symposia will host the award ceremony of two FC G&W prizes. One prize (€5.000) will be [...]
On Monday September 26, 2022 NOG staff member Widya Fitria Ningsih will defend her thesis More than the wedding ring – Engaged women of the Indonesian state formation, 1940s-1960s. The dissertation focuses exclusively on the life stories of engaged women who participated in the Indonesian nation-state formation that was immensely affected [...]
On Friday September 16, NOG PhD Gerwin van Schie will defend his thesis The Datafication of Race-Ethnicity: An Investigation into Technologically Mediated Racialization in Dutch Governmental Data Systems and Infrastructures. Van Schie investigates how data on race and ethnicity of Dutch citizens are created, distributed, and used. Many authorities use these [...]
