In a documentary by Peter Rodis (1970), Nina Simone is asked what freedom means to her, and she considers the question with serious reflection: “It’s just a feeling, it’s just a feeling.” Becoming more animated, she says: “I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear. It is something […]
In this symposium we propose to examine the bending of gender and genre in recently published works of fiction written by trans* authors. The keynote lectures will present novel methodological frameworks and theoretical concepts for the analysis of such texts, allowing students to study their transcending character. During the panel round, several researchers in the […]
In 2014 organiseerden historici Amandine Lauro en Magaly Rodríguez García aan de ULB een studiedag over de historiografie van subalterne groepen en mensen in de marge van de samenleving. Ze betreurden de terughoudendheid van Belgische historici om met deze concepten aan de slag te gaan en hun relatieve afwezigheid op het domein van de ‘subaltern […]
QueerCon Maastricht invites scholars from all academic disciplines and at every stage of their academic career to come together to advance LGBTQIA+ knowledge. The conference is the first of its kind in UM history, and it aims to be interdisciplinary, international, and intergenerational. A festival that aims to celebrate and advance LGBTQIA+ inclusion and equity runs parallel to […]
Our Standing Group on Gender and Politics is pleased to announce that its next Conference is headed to Belgium, offering three days of rich academic and social exchange in the beautiful city of Ghent. The European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG) has become a must attend biennial event that furthers the Standing Group's mission […]
The Historians’ Days (in Dutch: Historicidagen) are jointly organized by the Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG), Maastricht University, Open University and Fontys University of Applied Sciences from 22-24 August 2024, and are meant for everyone interested in history, professionally or otherwise. The event showcases the many diverse and dynamic ways of doing history. Through a wide spectrum […]
How are grief, loss and death conceptualized in the fields of queer feminist, posthuman and eco-critical, anti-racist and post- and decolonial studies, and what do these distinct, yet resonant, onto-epistemologies offer for critical and explorative engagements with contemporary socio-political realities? What insights do contemporary landscapes of death—their formations, their organizations, their rationalizations—provide about the exclusionary […]
We are pleased to announce the 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) that takes place from 3 to 7 September 2024. The conference is hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), the University of Luxembourg’s third interdisciplinary research centre, focusing on new digital methods and tools for historical research and […]
ILGA-Europe is thrilled to announce that the 2024 ILGA-Europe Annual Conference will take place on 16-19 October in Bucharest. They express their deepest appreciation to their Romanian members, ACCEPT and MozaiQ, with whom they will join forces to create an inclusive, engaging and purposeful event. The Annual Conference is a key arena for agenda-setting and […]