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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Book Launch: The Gloria Wekker Reader
Book Launch The Gloria Wekker Reader June 12, 2026 - Aula, University of Amsterdam On June 12, 2026 we celebrate the ongoing legacy of the Afro-Surinamese Dutch feminist theorist and activist Gloria Wekker with the launch of The Gloria Wekker Reader (Duke University Press, 2026). The Gloria Wekker [...]
Public talk Ren Loren Britton on ‘Indexing for Disability Justice’ – May 7, 2026
In this talk on May 7, 2026 Ren Loren Britton will share their ongoing artistic indexing project called “Indexing for Disability Justice.” They will share an essay they are writing that works on tracing agency, via a few stories and hir-stories from the index.These artifacts speak of technical trans*crip [...]
Doing Gender Lecture – Zaida Capote Cruz – May 8, 2026
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies organises the DOING GENDER Lecture Series in cooperation with her partners. 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 [...]
NOISE Summer School 2026
NOISE Summer School 2026 Sites of Struggle and Contestation: Social Reproduction Theory Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies 24 – 28 August 2026, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. In what ways does the reproduction of human life—biological, social, cultural, and affective—function as a precondition for capitalist accumulation? How can we [...]
Workshop Series: Critical Feminist Research Methods for PhD and RMA Students
The NOG PhD Council is organising a workshop series on critical feminist research methods for PhD and RMA students. Seeing the popularity of a recent PhD methods course organised by Radboud Gender and Diversity Studies and NOG, it became clear that there is a demand for more critical and [...]
Film screening ‘Guerrilla Archive’ – April 1, 2026
Guerrilla Archive A documentary film by Chowra Makaremi, Shahrzad Mojab, and Setar Faithi Screening in presence of the directors Discussant: Nermin Elsherif (Utrecht University) Synopsis: Through the lens of Setar Faithi Awihang, a Kurdish fighter turned photographer, Guerrilla Archive explores a previously unseen visual archive—photographs, sounds, and videos documenting the daily lives of Kurdish Peshmergas after the [...]





