The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) provides a platform for gender sensitive and postcolonial research. Since 1995, the NOG has offered a highly successful training programme and research environment for postgraduate students, PhD students and senior researchers. The NOG teaching and research staff consists of an international team of professors and senior lecturers from various universities.
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Doing Gender Lecture – Jelke Boesten
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises 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 approach [...]
PhD Defense Claudia Minchilli, November 19, 2021
On 19 November, NOG PhD Claudia Minchilli will defend her thesis Localizing Digital Diasporas: Diasporic Digital Networking Among Somali, Romanian and Turkish Women Through the Lens of Social Class. In her dissertation, Claudia investigates the diasporic digital practices of Somali, Romanian and Turkish migrant women living in Rome with [...]
PhD Defense Valeria Stabile, November 12, 2021
On 12 November, NOG PhD Valeria Stabile defends her PhD dissertation titled Pues no soy mujer. The Upheaval of Singularity in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, which centers on the revolution that sor Juana started in the debate about singularity, sexedness, and in-betweenness—not only in the field of literary [...]
PhD Defense Lieke Hettinga, November 5, 2021
On 5 November, NOG PhD Lieke Hettinga will defend their thesis titled Appearing Differently: Disability and Transgender Embodiment in Contemporary Euro-American Visual Cultures. In their dissertation, they examine how contemporary cultural practices shape and reimagine the legibility and intelligibility of disability and transgender embodiment. Through an analysis of various [...]
Presentation of “Oceanic swimming-writing-thinking for justice-to-come scholarship”
Terra Critica – UU Graduate Gender Programme – Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies Wednesday November 3, 2021 @ 15:30-17:00h Utrecht University, on location Moderation: Birgit M. Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele (Terra Critica) Presentation of “Oceanic swimming-writing-thinking for justice-to-come scholarship” by Nike Romano, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Tamara [...]
PhD Defense Deirdre Donoghue, October 1, 2021
What happens at the intersection of mothering and art-making? On Friday October 1 2021, NOG PhD Deirdre Donoghue will defend her PhD thesis Maternal Subjectivity and Practices of Care as Aesthetic, Political and Environmental Forces in The Creative Practices of Five Contemporary Mother-Artists at Utrecht University. Severality Positioning both mothering [...]