Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies

23/01/2025

*The call for applications for the 19th edition of GEMMA is OPEN*

The call for applications for the 19th edition, 2025-2027 of the GEMMA Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies IS NOW OPEN (The link to the online application form is in the middle of the page).

If you want to send your application, please follow the instructions for this call available on our website.

The funding of the GEMMA programme by the Erasmus+ programme is coming to an end and we will not receive the results of the EU funding renovation until the summer. For that reason, this Call for applications is open to self-financed students only (no EM Scholarships available this time). Nevertheless, the GEMMA Consortium is working to implement a number of scholarships (to be determined) for the 2025-2027 intake enrolled students. We invite applicants to join the Programme with an alternative source of funding. Please visit our funding opportunities page for more information.

IMPORTANT: The University of York (United Kingdom) will not participate as full partner on the 19th edition (no Home or Mobility university). Nevertheless, it will continue participating as GEMMA associate partner for future collaborations.

The deadline for receiving your application is February 21st, 2025, 2 pm (Granada local time), including the letters of recommendation. Documents received after that deadline will be automatically rejected so we strongly encourage you to please send your application well in advance so your referees have time to send the letters of recommendation before the deadline.

The call for applications for the 19th edition of GEMMA is OPEN

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...

29/03/2023

REMINDER!!

CALL: Dissertation Award Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge

DEADLINE: send the required documents before April 1, 2023.

Did you write a dissertation in the field of Gender Studies or did gender as a category take center stage in your PhD research? Do you have a concrete plan to further disseminate your research findings?

Apply for the Dissertation Award 2023 of the Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge in cooperation with the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG)!

The award consists of 5.000 euros of which at least half is reserved for the dissemination of the research. The award has been initiated by the Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge ‘to stimulate and spread feminist knowledge with a particular focus on historical knowledge and a critical reflection on culture and science from an intersectional and inclusive perspective’.

To qualify:
- The dissertation (in Dutch or English) ought to have been defended at a Dutch University, regardless of discipline. Did you write in another language then please contact the NOG first, [email protected]
- The dissertation has been defended between 1 July 2018 and 1 July 2022.

Application and deadline: please send the required documents before April 1, 2023.

For more information please visit de NOG website:
ENG: https://graduategenderstudies.nl/call-dissertation-award-feminist-cultural-fund-genderknowledge/

NL: https://graduategenderstudies.nl/oproep-dissertatieprijs-feministisch-cultuurfonds-genderwetenschap/

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.

See here for more information on Ida'' defense:

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

CALL: Dissertation Award Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge

Did you write a dissertation in the field of Gender Studies or did gender as a category take center stage in your PhD research? Do you have a concrete plan to further disseminate your research findings?

Apply for the Dissertation Award 2023 of the Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge in cooperation with the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG)!

The award consists of 5.000 euros of which at least half is reserved for the dissemination of the research. The award has been initiated by the Feminist Cultural Fund Gender&knowledge ‘to stimulate and spread feminist knowledge with a particular focus on historical knowledge and a critical reflection on culture and science from an intersectional and inclusive perspective’.

To qualify:
- The dissertation (in Dutch or English) ought to have been defended at a Dutch University, regardless of discipline. Did you write in another language then please contact the NOG first, [email protected]
- The dissertation has been defended between 1 July 2018 and 1 July 2022.

Application and deadline: please send the required documents before April 1, 2023.

For more information please visit de NOG website:
ENG: https://graduategenderstudies.nl/call-dissertation-award-feminist-cultural-fund-genderknowledge/

NL: https://graduategenderstudies.nl/oproep-dissertatieprijs-feministisch-cultuurfonds-genderwetenschap/

30/01/2023

PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHT

𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴: 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 edited by NOG 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

PHD DEFENSE WOUTER OOMEN

On 27 January Wouter Oomen will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'What Brings Us Together? Platforms, Common Humanity and the Challenges of Post-Humanitarian Communication'.

Stories of international development are no longer justified beyond dispute, Wouter Oomen writes. NGOs working in the development sector are confronted with an increasing amount of critique and with a fragmentation in terms of communication channels and ideology. The NGOs struggle with the colonial legacy of their work and the (audio-visual) language that they use, and are confronted with both conservative and progressive critiques. Parallel to this, the rise of digital media complicates their aim to construct a consistent narrative about international solidarity. As a result, NGOs seek new and reflexive ways to communicate with their audiences – with mixed results. In their organisational structure as well as in their external communication NGOs reflexively showcase themselves: their successes and failures, their position in society at large, and the stories of ‘distant suffering’ that dominate the sector’s image.

For more information on the defense, including the link to the livestream see here:

On 27 January, Wouter Oomen will publish his PhD thesis entitled 'What Brings Us Together? Platforms, Common Humanity and the Challenges of Post-Humanitarian Communication'.