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: Postcolonial Transitions in Europe
The book Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Contexts, Practices and Politics (eds. Sandra Ponzanesi and Gianmaria Colpani, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015) is a comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of Europe’s colonial past in relation to present multicultural, cosmopolitan and/or neocolonial experiences, assessing political, cultural and mediatized transitions. Is the notion of postcolonial Europe [...]
Fully booked: Doing Gender Lecture by Gloria Wekker
The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the fifteenth 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 [...]
Vacancies: 2 ESR positions in Marie Curie GRACE project
GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality) is an EU funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network, that aims to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe. The GRACE project will recruit, employ and provide advanced training for fifteen Early Stage Researchers. These GRACE Early Stage Researcher’s (ESRs) [...]
Handboek genderstudies in media, kunst en cultuur
Het boek Handboek genderstudies in media, kunst en cultuur (eds. Rosemarie Buikema en Liedeke Plate, Uitgeverij Coutinho, 2015) is hét handboek voor studenten genderstudies in de cultuur- en maatschappijwetenschappen. Het is een onmisbare gids voor docenten en studenten in het hoger onderwijs die op zoek zijn naar zowel een [...]
Afscheidsrede Willy Jansen, Radboud Universiteit
Prof. dr. Willy Jansen is hoogleraar aan de Radboud Universiteit / Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen met als leeropdracht Vrouwenstudies. Zij geeft vanwege haar aftreden als hoogleraar in een academische zitting op vrijdag 6 november 2015 om 15.45 uur precies een openbaar afscheidscollege getiteld: Spelen met verschil. Professor Willy Jansen [...]
PhD Defense Arla Gruda (Utrecht University, NL)
Date: Friday November 13, 2015, at 14.30 hrs Location: Academiegebouw, University Utrecht (Domplein 29) Title: ‘Lone mothers and welfare policies in Albania. Conditions, experiences, expectations. 1944-2013’ Supervisors: Prof. dr. Berteke Waaldijk and dr. Saemira Pino Registration: no registration; free entrance ‘Lone mothers’ are a women category of all times. [...]