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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Course: Unmaking Man: Masculinities and Denial of Gender Plurality
NOG Course Unmasking Man: Masculinities and Denial of Gender Plurality Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, calling Donald Trump, the American President, the “daddy” who needs to use strong language, has brought about many reactions. These reactions discuss his remark as the colonial mindset of Global North toward [...]
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, AffectsIn Collaboration with NICA“We were there – erasing us is a real act of violence,” claimed scholar Syrus Marcus Ware about the lack of records on transgender community members in the Canadian national queer archive (2017, 174). The message that transgender people “don’t exist,” even [...]
Public Lecture by Gayatri C. Spivak (June 23, 2025, Utrecht)
Public Lecture by Gayatri C. Spivak Pan-Africanism & Decolonization: W.E.B. Du Bois in the World Hosted by the NOG in collaboration with the IOS Gender, Diversity & Global Justice Platform Theaterzaal, Bibliotheek Neude, Utrecht June 23 2025, 16:00-18:00h A leading voice in literary theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist thought, [...]
NOG Research Day: October 2, 2025
Fierce & Fearless or Stealthy & Strategic? Reclaiming the Feminist Project in the University NOG Research Day 2025 Hosted by the Radboud Network for Gender and Diversity Studies, Radboud University, 2 October 2025 What constraints and possibilities does the current political conjecture pose for the future of gender [...]
Masterclass: Paradoxes of Trans Recognition by CQ Quinan
NOG Masterclass: Paradoxes of Trans Recognition CQ Quinan 3-4 June: 13.15-16.00hUtrecht University On Tuesday June 3, and Wednesday June 4, dr. CQ Quinan (University of Melbourne, AUS), will give the NOG Masterclass 'Paradoxes of Trans Recognition'. Paradox is a central trope in trans studies – we might even say [...]
Publication: NOG Research Day 2024 Round Table (Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies)
The NOG is proud to announce that an article version of the opening Round Table of the NOG Research Day 2024, entitled 'Gender in Trouble, Gender in Transformation' has been published in the latest issue of Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (Vol. 28, Issue 1, April 2025). The journal is open [...]