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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CFP: Edited volume on papers presented on the NOG Research Days
Domitilla Olivieri ( D.Olivieri@uu.nl ) and Koen Leurs ( K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl ) (both graduated PhD students from the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies, NOG), invite you to submit an abstract for an edited book with the title “Everyday feminist research praxis”. More specifically, they welcome submissions by early career [...]
Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics
Art today is an increasingly multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing transgressive works that intervene in war, inequalities, ecological disasters, and revolutionary changes in technology. Carnal Aesthetics is a fascinating new examination of this aspect of contemporary visual culture. Employing recent theories of transgressive body imagery, trauma, affectivity and sensation, this book [...]
Seminar ‘Life narratives: memory, citizenship and gender’
On 10 January 2013 a seminar will be organised at Utrecht University about the interaction between life narratives and writing history. Papers will be presented on ways in which the critical analysis of memories and biographies inform – change, corroborate, disturb — historical narratives of national citizenship. Organisers are [...]
Chiara Bonfiglioli wins Graduate Prize
A chapter of the dissertation of Chiara Bonfiglioli (doctoral degree cum laude on September 14 at Utrecht University, NOG PhD student) won the graduate essay prize given by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies. The selection committee praised her work as original and well developed in terms of [...]
Retirement Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University
See below a message from our retiring NOG member professor Gloria Wekker. We are gratefull for the 18 years of productive, inspiring and harmonious cooperation and are delighted to announce her decision to stay affiliated as a professor of the NOG. Best wishes, NOG Board Dear colleague, contact, friend, In [...]
PhD Defense Izabella Agardi
On the Verge of History. Rupture and Continuity in Women’s Life Narratives from Romania, Hungary and Serbia. Date: Friday January 11, 2013 at 12.45 hrs Location: Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht (Domplein 29) PhD thesis: After 1989, with the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, narratives about rupture [...]