Graduate Gender Programme Utrecht University

01/05/2023

DOING GENDER LECTURE
On Thursday May 11, 2023 Prof. Rajendra Chetty (University of the Western Cape) will give the Doing Gender Lecture Critical consciousness and decolonisation.

Lecture: 'Critical consciousness and decolonisation'
This interactive lecture will focus on the decolonial turn in higher education. The objectives are to engage with key concepts in the decoloniality discourse and to reflect on the imperative for critical consciousness. Aspects to be covered include theoretical perspectives to decolonisation; and the role of scholars in social transformation. Critical consciousness is important to detect tendencies of inhumanity and is linked to critical theory’s purpose of revealing inequalities in society. Scholarship should be linked with the lived realities of society. Universities globally are representative of an instrumental reason that sustains a technological and bureaucratic society. Ironically, a decolonial education is found mainly outside universities – in social, artistic, and intellectual movements whose projects aim to secure transformative social change.

Biography:
Rajendra Chetty is Research Chair in Critical Pedagogy at the University of the Western Cape. He is a postcolonial scholar with trans-disciplinary research interests that draw from critical theory and social activism. He has written on the intersectionality of race, class, gender and inequality. His latest book, 'Fatima Meer: Choosing to be defiant' (2022), is a visual biography of a leading social activist and political prisoner. He was Fulbright scholar at the City University of New York (Graduate Centre) in 2015/6 in the area of social injustice and resistance.

Doing Gender Lecture by Prof. Rajendra Chetty
Thursday May 11, 2023
Lecture: 'Critical consciousness and decolonisation'
Time: 14.00 – 15.30 hrs.
Location: Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 2-3, room 0.13
Chair: Dr. Jamila Mascat
Registration: [email protected]

Please the link for more information.

The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept of DOING GENDER suppo...

01/03/2023

PHD DEFENSE IDA HANSEN

On 10 March, Ida Hansen will defend their thesis ‘Being Through Loss: A Q***r Performative Reckoning With Grief’. Hansen presents a q***r performative framework for ‘being through loss’ that contributes to contemporary debates on grief and scholarship on loss and death via engagement with contemporary texts that depict the loss of a loved one.

This dissertation’s chapters foreground the relevance of feminist poststructuralist and q***r uptakes of psychoanalysis for contemporary research on mourning, and they contribute in particular to the newly emerging field of q***r death studies. In unfolding its q***r performative framework for ‘being through loss’ through sustained engagement with contemporary grief literature, this dissertation not only reframes our understanding of the phenomenon of grief. It also provides us with a poetic sense of the organic and entangled qualities of the world and an experienced sense of being in it.

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On 10 March, Ida Hansen will defend their thesis ‘Being Through Loss: A Q***r Performative Reckoning With Grief’. Hansen presents a q***r performative framework for ‘being through loss’ that contributes to contemporary debates on grief and scholarship on loss and death via engagement with co...

27/02/2023

DOING GENDER LECTURE & MORNING SEMINAR by Nina Lykke

On Thursday 9 March 2023, Prof. Emerita Nina Lykke (Linköping University, Sweden and Aarhus University, Denmark) will give the Doing Gender Lecture 'Figuring a Posthuman Ethics of Vibrant Death'.

The lecture will discuss the posthuman ethics and figuration of vibrant death which I developed in my recent book (”Vibrant Death”, 2022). I shall present the theoretical framework as well as the poetic-philosophical coining of the concept through poetry writing and practicing of spiritmattering , q***rfeminine co-becoming with the watery assemblages with which my beloved le***an life partner’s ashes are merged. Moreover, I shall bring my concept of vibrant death in eco-political and eco-ethical conversation with the concept of double-death, coined by environmental humanities scholar Deborah Bird Rose (2004); with the concept of double-death,

Doing Gender Lecture by Emerita Prof. Nina Lykke
Thursday March 9, 2023
Lecture: ‘Figuring a Posthuman Ethics of Vibrant Death’
Time: 16.30 – 18.00 hrs.
Location: Drift 25, 0.02
Chair: Kathrin Thiele

MORNING SEMINAR
In the morning of that same day the NOG organizes an accompanying seminar hosted by Nina Lykke on ‘Posthuman phenomenology, vibrant mourning and autophenomenographic writing’. The seminar is open for RMA and PhD students.

Please see the link below for more information about both events:

The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG; hosted at Utrecht University) in cooperation with her partners organises the Doing Gender Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and researc...

27/02/2023

POSTDOC VACANCY within the EU Horizon project RE-WIRING

The UU HUB Gender, Diversity and Global Justice has been awarded the EU Horizon project RE-WIRING. Within the project there’s a vacancy at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape (South Africa) for a postdoc position on “Realising Girls’ and Women’s Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment”

Application deadline: March 3 2023

For more information see here:

06/02/2023

NOISE Summer School 2023: Q***R, TRANS, SEXUAL ARCHIVES

Twelve years after the first NOISE summer school devoted to le***an and gay s*xualities and Q***r Studies in Europe, this year’s NOISE returns to the topic while engaging with key transformations in the study of s*x, s*xuality, and s*xual politics. By now the field of Q***r and Le***an & Gay Studies has been reshaped by the emergence and consolidation of Transgender Studies and by an ongoing process of critical clarification (and transgression) of the boundaries between q***r and trans. Is there any difference between Q***r Studies and Transgender Studies? And how does each field engage with the study of s*x and s*xuality? Additionally, Q***r and Transgender Studies have been increasingly rethinking their objects – gender, s*x, s*xuality – through the kaleidoscope of colonial histories and racial formations. In the past twenty years, q***r and trans of color critiques and postcolonial/decolonial analyses have been moving, if precariously, from margin to center within the field. What are the effects of this shift on the theory and politics of s*xuality?

This edition of the NOISE summer school will introduce students to key debates and interventions at the crossroads of these developments, paying particular attention to the relations between q***r, trans, s*xual archives, ongoing processes of field formation in Q***r Studies and Transgender Studies, and contemporary s*xual politics.

Date and location:
28 August – 2 September 2023, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

For more information please see our NOISE 2023 webpage https://graduategenderstudies.nl/.../noise-summer-school.../ or visit the Facebook-event under our events header.

In 1991 Utrecht University started with a pilot for a Summer School in Women's Studies, called NOI♀SE: Network Of Interdisciplinary W♀men's Studies in Europe. Since 1994 NOISE has been a successful yearly event giving students and teachers the opportunity to exchange their knowledge in the field...

30/01/2023

PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHT

𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴: 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 edited by GGEP staff member Sandra Ponzanesi, Bolette Blaagaard, Sabrina Marchetti and Shaul Bassi (Ca'Foscari Press, 2023).

𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴: 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 presents a collection of sixteen chapters that explore the themes of how migrants, refugees and citizens express and share their political and social causes and experiences through art and media. These expressions, which we term ‘citizen media’, arguably become a platform for postcolonial intellectuals as the studies pursued in this volume investigate the different ways in which previously excluded social groups regain public voice. The volume strives to understand the different articulations of migrants’, refugees’, and citizens’ struggle against increasingly harsh European politics that allow them to achieve and empower political subjectivity in a mediated and creative space.

For more information please see the link below:
http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0

25/01/2023

Reminder! You can still register for the Doing Gender Lecture by Kehinde Andrews

On Monday 30 January 2023, Prof. Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City, School of Social Sciences, UK) will give the first Doing Gender lecture of the new year! 'The Battle for Black Studies: Decolonising knowledge is not just ‘academic'

In September 2017 we have launched the first Black Studies degree in Europe at Birmingham City University. Far from this being a celebration of having Black perspectives at universities, the aim is to use the opportunity to use the university to develop what Robert Staples called the ‘science of liberation’. Black Studies has a long history in the UK, being done in the grassroots in community organisations and supplementary schools. This talk will discuss the importance of developing a critical Black Studies at the intersection and the tensions of housing the degree and research in the university space. Black Studies is essential, but can it flourish in the institutionally racist space of academia?

Time: 17.30-19.00 hrs.
Location: Utrecht University Inner City campus
Chair: Dr. Koen Leurs

For registration please see our link below.

The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept of DOING GENDER suppo...

16/01/2023

Doing Gender Lecture by Kehinde Andrews

On Monday 30 January 2023, Prof. Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City, School of Social Sciences, UK) will give the first Doing Gender lecture of the new year! 'The Battle for Black Studies: Decolonising knowledge is not just ‘academic'

In September 2017 we have launched the first Black Studies degree in Europe at Birmingham City University. Far from this being a celebration of having Black perspectives at universities, the aim is to use the opportunity to use the university to develop what Robert Staples called the ‘science of liberation’. Black Studies has a long history in the UK, being done in the grassroots in community organisations and supplementary schools. This talk will discuss the importance of developing a critical Black Studies at the intersection and the tensions of housing the degree and research in the university space. Black Studies is essential, but can it flourish in the institutionally racist space of academia?

Time: 17.30-19.00 hrs.
Location: Utrecht University Inner City campus
Chair: Dr. Koen Leurs

For registration please see our link below.

The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies in cooperation with her partners organises the DOING GENDER Lecture Series. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept of DOING GENDER suppo...

14/12/2022

GGEP IN THE PRESS

In an opinion piece for the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Buikema intervenes in the public debate concerning unsafe working environments and the role of bystanders therein. The failure of the participants of the Dutch talkshow Op1 to critically intervene and act in solidarity with offended table guest Fleur Jongepier, she argues, is exemplary for the long road ahead when it comes to the public debate surrounding transgressive behaviors and its complex contexts and dynamics.

See here for the full article: (Dutch)

Het incident met Fleur Jongepier en Gordon toont aan dat het debat over grensoverschrijdend gedrag in Nederland nog een lange weg te gaan heeft, be...

13/12/2022

GGEP IN THE PRESS

Maria Barnas in conversation with Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Buikema on the occasion of the book launch of Barnas' collection of poems 'Diamant zonder r' (Diamond without an r). Together, they discuss Virginia Woolf, the entanglement of text and image, pre-language and the power of trials.

See also the Conversation Piece 6 | The Readings, in which a selection of Barnas' poems is recited by Alara Adilow, Anne Vegter, Dorothé Orczyk and Menno Hartman.

See the link for both videos:

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22/11/2022

NOG RMA COURSE: Gender Studies Now (spring 2023)

This course invites faculty members from the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG) to present current research and have interactive workshops with the students. The online sessions will be workshops that follow thematic streams such as e.g. ‘s*xualities today’, ‘homonationalism’, ‘posthumanist interventions’, ‘transitional justice’, ‘the affective turn’, or ‘beyond the gender binary’. The course works always in close cooperation with all partner programs present in NOG in order to connect the work and research done in Gender Studies in the Netherlands. The workshops will be prepared by readings related to the session’s topic. This year the course will be coordinated by Dr. Eva Midden (Utrecht University) and Dr. Eva Hayward (Utrecht University).

The course is open to Graduate Gender Programme RMA students and NOG RMA affiliates.

Registration deadline: Friday 25 November.
Please see below for more information.

Gender Studies Now This course invites faculty from the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies (NOG) to present current research and have interactive workshops with the students. The online sessions will be workshops that follow thematic streams such as e.g. 's*xualities today', 'homonationali...

21/11/2022

GGEP IN THE PRESS

Prof Dr. Rosemarie Buikema has been interviewed for the three-part documentary series "Vrouwen op de Bok" (Women on the Conductor's Stand) for AVROTROS KLASSIEK. Here she gives a response to the often-heard argument against women's quota as endangering the quality of the profession in question. Please see the link below for Rosemarie’s response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJaxrUDlRCk&ab_channel=AVROTROSKlassiek

See here for the full episode: https://www.npostart.nl/aflevering-3-vrouwen-op-de-bok/18-11-2022/WO_AT_20026450

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