PhD Gathering: Collaging Café The NOG PhD Council is hosting our first PhD get-together of the academic year, a cozy collaging café. We will provide sweet treats, tea, and coffee, as well as materials for collaging (but feel free to bring your own). We’ll spend the afternoon getting to [...]

On Tuesday October 6, 2026, NOG member Tegiye Birey will defend her PhD dissertation "Relational Solidarity: A Decolonial Feminist Ethnography of the Asylum Movement in Malmö." In her dissertation, Tegiye Birey examines how solidarity is practiced across differences of legal status, race and gender within the asylum movement that [...]

On Friday, September 11, NOG Member Sherilyn Deen will defend the dissertation 'Racialized Intimacies and National Imaginaries. ‘Mixed’ Marriages and the Configuration of the ‘Muslim Question’ in the Netherlands' at the University of Amsterdam.       Details PhD Defense Date: Friday, September 11, 2026 Time: 10:00-11:30h. Location: Hybrid. Live: [...]

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 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 [...]

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, [...]