Symposium | National Research Day: Gender in Trouble, Gender in Transformation

The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) hosts the annual National Research Day, organized this year by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Sexuality and Diversity Studies. Faculty, Postdoctorate fellows, PhD candidates and Research Master students are cordially invited to participate in this event.

This year the National Research Day is called ‘Gender in Trouble, Gender in Transformation’ and will take place on Saturday October 19, 2024 in Amsterdam.

Gender and sexuality are intensely intertwined with a range of crises of our time: as sites of moral panics, as terrains of social and political transformation, as symptoms of contemporary crises. The intense and distinct roles that gender and sexuality play within contemporary societies worldwide raises many questions: from “Who’s afraid of Gender?” to what kinds of transformations are taking place in the name of gender and sexuality; from how questions of gender and sexuality are reshaping our societies to what is happening with our understanding and conceptualization of sex and gender along the way; from a discursive focus on gender and sexuality, to the entrenched ways in which these are also crises and transformations of class, race, ability, citizenship regimes, and other markers of inequality and difference.

The NOG Research Day opens with a panel session, co-organized with the Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, in which some of the intense dynamics around gender and sexuality in the Dutch landscape are discussed. The whole day will be concluded by attending together the event Who’s Afraid of Gender? A Conversation with Judith Butler, co-organized by Ten Have, Paradiso, and SPUI25, on the occasion of the Dutch translation of Butler’s latest book (people who are selected to present also get admission to the Butler event. We have a limited amount of tickets so unfortunately cannot guarantee admission for everyone).