Gender Studies Now
Gender Studies Now is one of the core courses of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies and it invites faculty from participating universities in NOG. It presents current scholarship undertaken in the research school in interactive workshops with RMA (and PhD) students. It takes place throughout block 3 of the academic year at Utrecht University. This course invites faculty from the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG) to present current research and have interactive workshops with the students. The sessions will be workshops that follow thematic streams such as e.g. ‘sexualities today’, ‘homonationalism’, ‘posthumanist interventions’, ‘transitional justice’, ‘the affective turn’, ‘beyond the gender binary’ or ‘feminist techno-science’.
The course works always in close cooperation with all partner programs present in NOG in order to connect the work and research done in Gender Studies in the Netherlands. The workshops will be prepared by readings related to the session’s topic.
This year’s course edition is organized around three workshops that engage in diverse (and heterogeneous) ways with one central concern that this course aims to focus on this year: How to reconfigure global and planetary futures in continued times of crisis? We aim to address this urgent feminist question in our course by further zooming in on how our highly technologized human (and-more-than-human) conditions of existence are both contributing to this crisis and might be also tools for change.
Previous teachers: Dr. Liesbeth Minnaard (Leiden University), Dr. Layal Ftouni (Utrecht University), Dr. Maria Boletsi (Leiden University), Dr. Marie-Louise Janssen (UvA), Dr. Niels Spierings (Radboud University Nijmegen), Dr. Louis van den Hengel (Maastricht University), Dr. Magda Gorska (Utrecht University), Prof. Liedeke Plate (Radboud University Nijmegen), Dr. Eva Midden (Utrecht University), Prof. Lies Wesseling (Maastricht University), Prof. Marieke van den Brink (Radboud University Nijmegen), Anne-Louise Schotel (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Katrine Smiet (Radboud University Nijmegen), Dr. Alex Thinius (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Nishant Shah (ArtEZ University of the Arts), Dr. Koen Leurs (Utrecht University), Dr. Christine Quinan (Utrecht University), Dr. Diego Semerene Guimaraes Semerene Costa (University of Amsterdam), Prof. Misha Kavka (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Lieks Hettinga (Leiden University).
This year’s is co-taught by Prof. dr. Payal Arora (UU), Prof. dr. Annette Markham, Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele (UU) with further collaborators from the NOG partner universities. Coordinator of the course in 2025 is Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele.
- Dates: 3.5 days in Spring 2025
- Location: NOG – Utrecht University
- Credits: 5 ECTS (credits will only be awarded after an accepted written paper. Students not requiring any credits will receive a certificate of attendance)
- Details: open to NOG RMA students, as well as Research Master students enrolled in LOGOS Research Schools.
- Registration: please email nog@uu.nl. The registration period follows the Utrecht University schedule, which is open between 4 November 2024 until 22 November 2024. Late registration is possible between 20-21 January 2025. Please email for details about the application process.