We are at a time when critical knowledges and minoritarian politics are contested by a variety of actors, ranging from social movements to political parties and institutions. Think of the – by now (in)famous – anti-gender and anti-feminist discourses that pervade the global landscape, casting sexual and gender education as well as reproductive and LGBTQIA+ […]

Queer history commonly refers to the study and documentation of the lives, experiences, cultures, and struggles and joys of LGBTQ+ people in the past. It covers a wide range of topics, including how gender and sexual diversity has been expressed, understood, and regulated in different societies, as well as how political, social, and cultural movements […]

The international conference Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History aims to discuss and critically explore the “queer” in queer and trans history. We invite dialogues about and engagement with methodologies, temporalities, theories and analytical approaches that interpret, imagine and preserve queer and trans history as queer. The conference will be held with in-person attendance.

The aim of the ‘Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: Roles, norms and transgressions’ conference, to be held in Paris on 12 and 13 June 2025, is, through the various communications which will be proposed, to establish an overview of the issues surrounding gender roles and sex relations in Ancient Egypt. This approach is in […]

The inaugural European Intersectional Humanities Summer School will be held at Maynooth University in Summer 2025. It will offer an innovative and transformative experience at the intersection of critical theory, social justice and humanities scholarship. Convened by Professor Anna Hickey-Moody, the Summer School will bring together scholars, activists and students for an immersive exploration of how intersectionality […]

DCDC is an international, cross-sectoral conference, hosted each year by The National Archives (UK), the British Library and Jisc. Founded in 2013, it brings together delegates from the gallery, library, archive, and museum sectors and the academic community (GLAMA) with the key aim of promoting cross-sector collaboration and knowledge sharing between communities. The physical and […]

Het KNHG lanceert in 2025 het KNHG Geschiedenis Fonds. Dit fonds beoogt historisch onderzoek van historici die in eigen tijd en voor eigen rekening onderzoek doen te faciliteren door toekenning van een beurs. Het onderzoek moet gericht zijn op een onderwerp uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Het moet worden uitgevoerd op eigen initiatief, inhoudelijk of qua […]

On our own terms? On the contestations of feminist knowledges and minoritarian politics in current times We are at a time when critical knowledges and minoritarian politics are contested by a variety of actors, ranging from social movements to political parties and institutions. Think of the – by now (in)famous – anti-gender and anti-feminist discourses […]

Between emergence, institutionalization and reassessment, gender and sexuality studies have continued to mutate, transform and question the humanities and social sciences in the last decades. These developments have provoked reactions, criticism and resistance both inside and outside the academic arena. Gender studies, as much as gender itself, is on the move. For its twentieth anniversary, […]