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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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years it has become more and more noticable that the libidinal economy based on sexuality and the unconscious has been replaced by a new [...]

The registration for the NOISE Summer School 2014 is now open! Have you ever thought about the difference between affect, emotion, and feeling? Are you curious about the use of these concepts in feminist theory? Would you like to study how certain aesthetic strategies in the mass media are [...]