Masterclass Queer(y)ing the past: queer oral history and archival research March 12, 2026: 14:00-17:00h University of Amsterdam What were the lives of LGBTQ people like in the past? Can we use labels like ‘lesbian’, ‘gay’, ‘bisexual’, ‘trans’ or ‘queer’ when we talk about the past? How can we access these historical experiences? [...]
On Friday February 7, 2025, NOG member Elizabeth Omoruyi will defend her PhD project ‘Women Oppressing Women: An Intersectional Reading of Women Authors in Nigeria’. In her dissertation, Elizabeth examines women to women discrimination and oppression in the selected texts of three Nigerian female writers: Zulu Sofola, Buchi Emecheta and Bunmi [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, organized this year by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields of Gender, [...]
Maastricht University Faisal Hamadah is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnationalism at the Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht University.
Francois Jonker is a PhD candidate at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, completing a joined PhD between UWC and Utrecht University. His research seeks to explore the generative potential of response-able arts-based practices within Higher Education by positioning itself in relation to critical pedagogies, feminist new materialism, [...]
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 [...]
Gohar Parissa Rahimi is a Joint PhD Candidate at the University of Utrecht (Department of Media and Culture Studies) and the University of Bologna (Department of Modern Literature, Languages and Cultures), curriculum EDGES (European PhD in Women’s and Gender Studies). Her research interest is focused on contemporary articulations of feminisms. Her [...]
Free University Amsterdam Dr. Roel van den Oever is assistant professor of English literature at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a ‘doctoraal’ degree, cum laude, in American studies from Radboud University Nijmegen (1997-2001). At Radboud University, he also completed a postgraduate program in philosophy on a Thomas More scholarship (2001-2002). He [...]
Radboud University Nijmegen Katrine Smiet is Assistant Professor in Gender and Diversity Studies at the Radboud Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies. She is a philosopher with an interdisciplinary background. Her areas of specialization are feminist philosophy and critical philosophy of race. In her current research project, she critically examines [...]
Rosa Wevers is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Utrecht University. She has received funding from NWO to conduct research for the project ‘Facing Surveillance: Artistic Strategies in Times of Control’, for which she analyses exhibitions of ‘surveillance art’ in Western Europe. She investigates how contemporary artists are creating tangible [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises the twentieth round of 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 [...]
On June 12, 2018 Aggeliki Sifaki will defend her PhD thesis at Utrecht University. How do Greek lesbian teachers construct their subjectivities and negotiate their sexuality in relation to the social contexts in which they are situated? This is the main question in the PhD dissertation written by Aggeliki Sifaki under [...]
