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, [...]
Eliza Steinbock is Chair in Transgender Studies, Art and Cultural Activism based in the Literature and Art Department at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. As chairholder, Eliza investigates inclusion and exclusion mechanisms operative in the art, culture, media, and heritage sectors and studies a range of [...]
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 [...]
Elisa M F Santos is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, and the University of Bologna. Her research uses an interdisciplinary methodology that draws from queer theories, graphic design, literature and childhood studies to investigate roles that children’s literature can assume in historical, political and social processes, as well as in [...]
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 [...]
Guanqin He, is a PhD candidate in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Graduate Gender Programme, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University. Guanqin has received funding from CSC (China Scholarship Council) to conduct her research for the project ‘ Digital Crossroads in China: Chinese Women Negotiating Migration, Urbanisation, and Digitisation’. [...]
Nik Linders is a PhD candidate at Radboud Social and Cultural Research for Gender & Diversity Studies. He has studied political theory and his master thesis focused on the role of the replacement conspiracy theory in Dutch right wing politics. For his current research, Nik is supervised by prof. dr. Marieke [...]
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 [...]
