The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, better known as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), was opened for signature in Rome on 4 November 1950. The Convention will thus be 70 next autumn. The Human...
Two young men publicly posted a photograph of themselves kissing on Facebook. The post ‘went viral’ and attracted around 800 comments, most of which were hateful. Some of the comments featured suggestions to burn, exterminate, hang, beat, castrate...
The International Federation for Public History World Conference (August 18 – 22, 2020. Berlin, Germany) seeks participants for a working group that will bring together public historians, archivists, scholars, artists, oral historians, and...
Nicole Moolhuijsen did an internship at IHLIA in the past three months. Nicole is a researcher and freelancer, specializing in museum studies that she attended at the University of Leicester (UK). She has extensive experience working with and for...
The Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (Journal of Gender Studies) is a forum for the scientific problematization of gender in relation to ethnicity, sexuality, class, and age. The journal is an interdisciplinary medium operating at the intersection of...
This year, Laura Baams will become the new coordinator of the Flemish/Dutch LGBTI Research Network. The network consists of researchers, students and professionals with a shared interest in LGBTI-related topics. In 2012, Jantine van Lisdonk...
Registration is now open for the 2020 edition of the Summer School on Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity in International Law (The Hague & Amsterdam, 22-31 July 2020). The programme focuses on the emergence of SOGI and intersex issues in...
IHLIA congratulates Wigbertson Julian Isenia with the honorable mention for the Gregory Sprague Prize of the Committee on LGBT history. He received this appreciation for his article Looking for kambrada: Sexuality and social anxieties in the Dutch...
The Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW) at Utrecht University is looking for a candidate whose research adds to the research programme ‘Doing Gender: Media, Art and Politics’, which consists of four strands. These are: 1...
This conference – May 21st – 22nd 2020 – aims to examine how LGBTQ representation has changed through time, continues to evolve in the present, and what role it might play in the future. It draws on recent developments in queer on...