Yuyen Lin-Woywod is an artist whose practice primarily revolves around video media and installation works, focusing on themes of personal identity under political structures, queer theory, and cultural exchange. Yuyen’s research delves into how culinary practices become spaces where identity, memory, belonging, and difference are discussed across different cultures and countries. Starting [...]
Greta Carlevaro is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. Her research investigates how temporal, material, embodied, and affective practices of resistance among people aging with disabilities emerge through media representation, production, and interpretation. She is currently collecting and analysing counter hegemonic media discourses and [...]
Tessa Karsten (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies at the University of Amsterdam within the interdisciplinary project “In Our Own Words: Language, Life Story-Telling, and Empowerment in the United States.” She researches lesbian literary activism in the Feminist Bookstore Network during the last quarter of [...]
Mélissa (Lili) Aïnseba is s a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies and part of ERC-funded project RESPIRE, which focuses on how planet Earth breathes and suffocates at the current socio-political-environmental conjuncture. In the project, breathing and suffocation are understood not as metaphors but as material [...]
Vinicíus Borges Garcia Fonseca is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University. His PhD project is entitled 'Cancelling as a Postcolonial Strategy for Repairing Cultural Heritage'. The project will delve into the meaning and applications of canceling practices within antiracist and decolonial movements. The specific focus [...]
Christl de Kloe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the mediation of sexual subjectivities in relation with femtech technologies. Drawing from postphenomenological theory, critical- and feminist phenomenology, and feminist technoscience, she critically investigates how technologies co-shape the body, self-knowledge, [...]
Robyn Ausmeier is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender & Diversity at Radboud University. Her research focuses on doing Gender Studies in changing political climates in the Netherlands, examining the particular experiences of educators and researchers working in Gender Studies as well as related fields. The research employs qualitative [...]
Sharon Anyango is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University. She holds an MA in Globalization and Development Studies and an MBA in Project Management. Prior, she was a Teaching Fellow at FASoS and a staff representative in the University Council. Her research, funded [...]
Antonella Buono PhD project conduts a study on the consolatory reading of Christine de Pizan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) at Philosophy department of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Christine's work has yet to be acknowledged as significant within the academic sphere and continues to be excluded from the established [...]
Rana Kuseyri (she/they) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Her project is tentatively titled, “Data Subjects: Algorithmic Imaginaries and Legal Consciousness of Welfare Recipients in the Dutch Datafied Welfare State.” Seeking to understand the everyday experiences of navigating the digital and datafied [...]
David Lyons is a joint PhD candidate at Utrecht University and the University of Bologna within the programme of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion, specifically being part of the EDGES curriculum (women's and gender studies). The preliminary title of his project is Painting with Words: Re-Envisioning Gender Discourse and [...]
Weronika Zielińska-Klein is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM). Trained as an artist (BA, Willem de Kooning Academy, RUAS) and researcher (MAR, University of Amsterdam), she has been running Upominki, a project space in her family home [...]
