Part of the International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender program of SIT Abroad, we provide a screening of We Were Here, followed by a short discussion about the film. We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised […]
Lecture by Professor Marie Evertsson (Stockholm University, Sweden) Same-sex couples are, so far, largely missing in research on the transition to parenthood. In this talk, I discuss and analyse identity formation and the relative importance of gender for the division of care and career outcomes among birth mothers, social mothers and fathers. Based on large-scale, […]
Lezing door prof. Jojanneke van der Toorn over homo’s, lesbo’s, bi’s, transgenders en werk. We organiseren dit seizoen een reeks voordrachten over (homo)seksualiteit, diversiteit, gender, en homocultuur. Initiatiefnemers zijn Gert Hekma, voormalig docent homostudies aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, en Lode Wigersma, voormalig oprichter van de werkgroep homo’s in de gezondheidszorg en van de weekendpolikliniek […]
On March 8, esteemed sociologist Judit Takács will speak at Leiden University on "Disciplining Gender and (Homo)sexuality in Hungary." Drawing on her work on the social history of homosexuality, Dr. Takács will discuss the ways that social acceptance of gays and lesbians is often portrayed as a desirable European (or Western) value by local LGBTQI+ […]
Ms. Asa Ekvall's research studies how attitudes to gender (in)equality, heteronormativity and various types of violence are related to each other. Specific attention is given in the paper to the relations between patriarchal attitudes and violent conflict, next to the more often studied relations between patriarchy and violence against women and gay men. It also investigates possibilities […]
The Gender and Diversity Hub is setting up a series of monthly lunch conversations around issues of gender equality and diversity. The first meeting, titled ‘Speaking gender and diversity across the disciplines: how not to get lost in translation?', will take place on 26 March. The aim of the lunch conversations is to provide researchers […]
On Thursday 28 March the next edition of the Utrecht Colloquia in the Musicologies 2018-19 will take place, titled 'I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes'. Judith Peraino (Cornell University) will speak. This presentation tells the story of a cassette tape housed in the Andy Warhol Museum Archive, […]
Jarenlang werd Nederland gezien als de voorloper op het gebied van homorechten. Het werd zelfs onderdeel van onze nationale identiteit: tolerantie was Neerlands trots. Inmiddels is er heel wat tijd voorbijgegaan. We spreken nu over LHBTQIA*-rechten en Nederland staat niet langer in de top 10 van ranglijstjes op dit gebied. Wat is er gebeurd? Sociaalwetenschapper […]
On May 17, Dr. Kateřina Lišková will present her research into “sexual misfits and state socialism” in Czechoslovakia. With the recently published histories of sexuality in communist Central and Eastern Europe, it is becoming clear that: first, the ‘Eastern’ histories differ from the well-known narrative of the liberationist 1960s stemming from the Western situation, in […]
The title of this year’s NOG Research Day takes its inspiration from Sara Ahmed’s monograph Living a Feminist Life. Ahmed reminds us that as feminists, we experience the devastating effects of racism, genderism, ableism, ageism, homo- and transphobia on a daily basis. In addition to these challenges, we are faced with the ongoing neoliberalization of […]