GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality) is an EU funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network, that aims to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe. The GRACE project will recruit, employ and provide advanced training for fifteen Early Stage Researchers. These GRACE Early Stage Researcher’s (ESRs) will conduct [...]
Date: Friday November 13, 2015, at 14.30 hrs Location: Academiegebouw, University Utrecht (Domplein 29) Title: ‘Lone mothers and welfare policies in Albania. Conditions, experiences, expectations. 1944-2013’ Supervisors: Prof. dr. Berteke Waaldijk and dr. Saemira Pino Registration: no registration; free entrance ‘Lone mothers’ are a women category of all times. Their stereotipization [...]
Date: Thursday November 5, 2015, at 10.00 hrs Location: Aula of the Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht Title: ‘Pandaemonium: Ken Russell's Artist Biographies as Baroque Performance’ Supervisors: Maaike Meijer, Karel Vanhaesebrouck and Jack Post Registration: no registration; free entrance Ken Russell (1927-2011) was a renegade talent and the self-styled enfant terrible of British [...]
Utrecht University Dr. Eva Midden is Assistant Professor in Gender Studies, at the Media and Culture Studies Department, at Utrecht University. She has a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Leiden (Netherlands) and a PhD in Philosophy (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom). Her thesis was entitled: 'Feminism in [...]
University of Amsterdam Dr. Marie-Louise Janssen lectures in the areas of gender and sexuality studies, migration and human trafficking and ethnographic research methods and techniques at the department of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. She got her master degree in Cultural Anthropology in 1991. In 2007 she completed her [...]
Subject: Classical and modern debate on the use of qualitative and quantitative research methods from a gender perspective. Organisers: dr. Inge Bleijenbergh, prof.dr. Willy Jansen Contact: i.bleijenbergh@fm.ru.nl or w.jansen@maw.ru.nl Time: Friday May 22 and June 5, 2015. Place: Huize Heyendaal, Radboud University Nijmegen Registration: Please send the fully completed Registration Form to [...]
Masterclass: 'The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies'. On Friday June 5, 2015 the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL) and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (Utrecht University) in cooperation with the Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI, Utrecht University) are organizing a masterclass with professor Sandra Ponzanesi around her publication 'The Postcolonial Cultural [...]
On May 29th and 30th, 2013 Susan Stryker will give a public lecture in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, won an Emmy for her 2005 documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. She is [...]
