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: Life, Love, Lust. Visions of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Contemporary Speculative Fiction
NOG Course Life, Love, Lust. Visions of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Contemporary Speculative Fiction Since the late 1960s, feminist, queer, Indigenous, and African or Afro-diasporic writers, filmmakers and artists have challenged patterns of domination in the rocket-propelled worlds of speculative or “science” fiction. By developing alternative visions on [...]
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects In 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 [...]
PhD Defense Marta Olivi, October 2, 2026
On Friday, October 2, NOG member Marta Olivi will defend her dissertation ‘Food That Matters: Food Figurations in Contemporary Anglophone Feminist Dystopias’. In her thesis, Olivi explores how contemporary feminist dystopian novels use food to illustrate how people are oppressed and how they resist this oppression. In her thesis, [...]
PhD Defense Nisrine Chaer, September 10, 2026
On Thursday 10 September, NOG member Nisrine Chaer will defend her dissertation ‘The Paradox of Respectability and the Pitfalls of Gender Queer Migration in Lebanon and the Netherlands’. In this thesis, she examines how queer people in Lebanon and the Netherlands are confronted with the ‘paradox of respectability’. In her [...]
Masterclass Adriana Qubaiova: How to study sexuality in West Asia (Middle East)?
Masterclass with Dr. Adriana Qubaiova How to study sexuality in West Asia (Middle East)? September 11, 2026, 13:30 - 17:00 hrs Utrecht University Sexuality studies in the field of Middle East Area Studies face an irreconcilable tension today: how can scholars employ a European modern category of analysis [...]
Event: Comics, Memory, Activism: Reimagining the Past and the Future through Words and Images
Comics, Memory, Activism: Reimagining the Past and the Future through Words and Images will take place on Monday 24 August 2026, from 10.00 to 14.00, at Janskerkhof 2–3, room 0.19, Utrecht University. Walk-in and coffee will begin at 9.30. The event brings together interdisciplinary scholars and artistic researchers working [...]