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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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 [...]
Doing Gender in the Netherlands: Taking Turns in Feminist Theory ~ April 5, 2013
The Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG) would like to invite you for the annual National Research Day dedicated to the cutting edge work of junior researchers of Dutch universities in the field of Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Diversity. This year the National Research Day is called 'Doing Gender in the Netherlands: [...]
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 [...]