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 [...]
Zeynep Anli is an external PhD candidate at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). Her current research focuses on the intersection of utopian/dystopian literature of the 20th and 21st century written by female authors, postcolonial literature and European colonial enterprise. Working closely with gynocritical and literary studies perspectives, [...]
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 [...]
