Anita Ramcharan is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Utrecht University. In her research she investigates the role of women in folksongs in Surinam Indian culture. For centuries women have gathered together on special occasions to sing typical songs (These songs are never published). Anita investigates also how women are [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the seventeenth 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 [...]
In this course (jointly organized with the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies), participants reflect on academic writing as a genre and acquire a wider range of skills. They learn to use creative writing techniques as forms of artistic research and methodological inspiration. The morning sessions introduce recent research on creative writing [...]
This course invites faculty from the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG) to present current research and have interactive workshops with the students. The 3 sessions will be day-long workshops that follow thematic streams such as e.g. ‘sexualities today’, ‘homonationalism’, ‘posthumanist interventions’, ‘transitional justice’, ‘the affective turn’, or ‘beyond the gender [...]
This course – taught by Dr. Alex Martinis Roe and Vasso Belia – takes as its starting point a practice which the Women’s Studies community at Utrecht University undertook over many years. This practice could be described as a ceremony or rite of passage, where the Women’s Studies community would dramatize the [...]
Emeritus professor Gender Studies Department of Humanities Utrecht University White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race Date: 15 June 2016 Time: 13.00 – 17.00h Location: Utrecht University This afternoon is dedicated to the farewell address of prof. dr. Gloria Wekker. She has been part of the UU Gender Studies [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the sixteenth 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 [...]
Professor Radhika Gajjala will give a masterclass at Utrecht University on “E-diasporas in big and small “data” space: A postcolonial and feminist perspective". With the growth of international (im)migration, refugee crises, labor recruitment, leisure activity and social diasporic community connectivity through digital space across time zones the last two decades, the Internet [...]
Thursday June 9, 2016, from 14.00-17.00 hrs at Leiden University (the Netherlands). Workshop with Trish Salah, Assistant Professor of Transnational Studies in Gender, Sexuality, Race and Minority Cultural Production at the Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada). Hosted by Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), in [...]
There're 3 positions at NOG partner universities available for associate/assistant professors in Gender Studies. Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Assistant Professor Gender Studies & Postcolonial Studies (0,8 FTE). For more information, click here. Deadline: March 27, 2016. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Associate professor of the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality For [...]
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the sixteenth 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 [...]
Postcolonial theorist and novelist Professor Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK) will have a conversation with Prof. Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht University, NL) about her latest novel The Shouting in the Dark (Sandstonde Press, 2015) and the performance of white citizenship in South Africa. This conversation will be held on [...]
