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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PhD Defense Gianmaria Colpani on the transformations of queer theory in times of homonormativity, homonationalism, and sexual imperialism
On 19 May 2017 Gianmaria Colpani will defend his PhD thesis. In his dissertation, Gianmaria explores the transformations of the field of queer theory in times of neoliberalism, homonormativity, homonationalism, and sexual imperialism. He focuses especially on the formation of queer of color and queer diasporic critique and on [...]
PhD Defense Heather Hermant on 18th century ‘multicrosser’ Esther Brandeau/Jacques La Fargue
On 26 April 2017 Heather Hermant will defend her PhD thesis. In her dissertation, Hermant complicates eighteenth century crossdressing and argues for an intersectional approach to retell colonial era stories of transgression in service of queer, feminist and decolonial worldmaking!The argument is performed through attention to the case of Esther [...]
Doing Gender Lecture by Prof. Roderick A. Ferguson and Dr. Rahul Rao
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the seventeenth round of 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 [...]
Doing Gender Lecture by Ashok Mathur
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the seventeenth round of 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 [...]
NOG Research Day: ‘Borders and Bridges. Cultural Translation and Travelling Theory’ ~ June 2, 2017
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, held this year at the Graduate Gender Programme , Utrecht University. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields of Gender, [...]
NOISE Summer School 2017: ‘Reclaiming Critique in Times of Crisis: Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Interventions’
Reclaiming Critique in Times of Crisis: Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Interventions 28 August – 1 September 2017, Utrecht University, The Netherlands The status of critique today is undoubtedly in trouble. At the current socio-political conjuncture, one that is deeply characterised by multiple crises, the urgency, and paradoxically, redundancy of [...]