Invitation
Ceremony Gender Studies Dissertation Award 2025 ~ Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge
The Dissertation award has been initiated by the Feminist Culture Fund Gender&knowledge to stimulate and spread feminist knowledge with a particular focus on historical knowledge and a critical reflection on culture and science from an intersectional perspective. The award consists of 5.000 euros, of which a portion has to be spent on the dissemination of the research. It’s a collaboration between the Feminist Culture Fund Gender&knowledge and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies.
The Award Ceremony will take place on Friday October 31 at the Kanunnikenzaal of the Academiegebouw Utrecht (Domplein 29, Utrecht), starting at 5 PM (walk in from 4.30 PM onwards) – drinks afterwards.
The three shortlisted nominees of 2025 are:
- Aranka Ballering: Twists and Turns. Sex and Gender Differences in the Illness Trajectories of Common Somatic Symptoms (University of Groningen, 2024)
- Rodante van der Waal: Birth Justice. From Obstetric Violence to Abolitionist Care (University of Humanistic Studies, 2025)
- Antonia Weiss: The City of Nature. Women and the Making of Green Space in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam and Berlin (University of Amsterdam, 2025)
The three shortlisted nominees will summarize their PhD research (max. 10 minutes each).
The jury of 2025 consist of:
- Lies Wesseling, UM (chair)
- Petra Rudolf, RUG
- Liesbeth Lijnzaad, UM
- Maria Grever, EUR
- Benedicta Deogratias, University of Aruba (laureate 2023)
- Rosemarie Buikema, UU
The Dissertation Prize Award Ceremony will take place back-to-back with the closing reception of the annual RINGS Conference which is hosted by the UU Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) this year.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please register for the Award Ceremony by sending an email to: nog@uu.nl
Best wishes,
Feminist Culture Fund Gender&knowledge and the NOG Board
