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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Two events with Susan Stryker
On May 29th and 30th, 2013 Susan Stryker will give a public lecture in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, won an Emmy for her 2005 documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria. [...]
Doing Gender Lectures Spring 2013
In the spring of 2013 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) in cooperation with the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) at Utrecht University organises a tenth round of the series of lectures entitled DOING GENDER. This title stresses the importance of doing gender work and active involvement [...]
NOISE Summer School 2013
From August 26-30, 2013 the NOISE Summer School will take place in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The title is Naturecultures in Feminist Academia, Art and Activism and it will be coordinated by Dr. Iris van der Tuin, Prof. Maaike Bleeker and Liu Xin. This year’s (the 21st) edition of NOI♀SE [...]
PhD Defense Sanne Koevoets
On Friday June 14, 2013 Sanne Koevoets will defend her PhD dissertation 'Into the the labyrinth of power and knowledge: The library as a gendered space in the western imaginary'. Libraries are strange places: on the one hand they bear the promise of unlimited access to the truth, as [...]
Conference ‘Postcolonial Transitions in Europe’
The Postcolonial Europe Network (PEN) is organizing a conference on April 18-19, 2013 on 'Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Conflict, Transitional Justice and Cosmopolitanism'. This conference focuses on the relevance of postcolonial theories for the understanding of world-systemic transformations and the shifts in geopolitics in terms of conflict, transitional justice [...]
Masterclass with Dr. Alison Twells
Masterclass: 'Separate spheres? Gender history in writings and records.' On Thursday April 25, 2013 (14.00 - 17.30 hrs) the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (Utrecht University) and the N.W. Posthumus Institute (Leiden University) are co-organizing a masterclass on gender history. The masterclass will be taught by Dr. Alison Twells, principal [...]