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 with Raka Shome
In the autumn of 2014 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises the thirteenth round of the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the [...]
Seminar Claudia Nelson, September 11, 2014
On Thursday September 11, 2014 Professor Claudia Nelson will give a seminar entitled Why Feminist Scholars Should Care about the Literature of Childhood: Four Case Studies. The seminar draws on age studies, adoption studies, and the close reading of texts for and/or about children to suggest that childhood is an [...]
Inaugural lecture Lies Wesseling: September 12, 2014
Lies Wesseling has been appointed Extraordinary Professor of the Opzij Chair ‘Cultural Memory, Gender and Diversity’ at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. The Governing Body of the Opzij foundation awarded a rotating professorship to the University of Maastricht in 1997. The Centre of Gender [...]
Doing Gender Lecture by Sunny Bergman
June 19, 2014: Sunny Bergman. Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman will give the last Doing Gender Lecture of Spring 2014. In 2013 Bergman published the book and film Sletvrees and she previously made Over the Hill (Beperkt Houdbaar; 2007), a film challenging the beauty industry and criticising how it distorts [...]
Masterclass on Interviews and Life Narratives
On April 29, 2014 Dr. Izabella Agardi will give a masterclass on Interviews and Life Narratives (flyer). Dr. Agardi discusses the various ways interviews can be useful for collecting material for gender research in the humanities and social sciences in order to produce better understanding of so far under-researched [...]
Doing Gender Lecture Marie-Luise Angerer
On May 7 Prof. Marie-Luise Angerer will give the lecture 'When we move, who is it moving? On time gaps, plasticity, and the question of affect'. In recent years it has become more and more noticable that the libidinal economy based on sexuality and the unconscious has been replaced by a new [...]