It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the tenth annual conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCEE), to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
This two-day workshop invites doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to reflect on the impact that the modernization of states and societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had on the construction of sexual and gender identities and experiences, as well as the notion of sexual deviance. While the 20th century was marked by increasingly modern (secular, […]
During this programme, participants build on their longstanding knowledge of sexuality as it intertwines with issues of ethnicity, nationality, class, and religion, deepening their familiarity with how sexuality is conceptualized. Participants will build on their previous coursework or professional experience in sexuality studies to investigate sexual health programming, and advocacy across a range of venues.
This summer school focuses on the emergence of sexual orientation, gender identity (SOGI) and intersex issues in different areas of international law, such as human rights law, refugee law, international economic law, and international criminal law. The eleven-day summer school on SOGI in International Law is held each summer in The Hague and Amsterdam, The […]
What makes an archive “queer” or “trans”? What practices of archival reading are being developed in Queer and Transgender Studies? How can queer, trans, sexual histories – from the archives of 1970s and 1980s sexual liberation movements, through archives of colonial sexual practices, to legal and medical archives productive of gender and sexual formations – […]
The International Bisexual+ Research, Activism, and Community Event will include a series of informal roundtables, workshops, and open discussions focused on research practices, community building, and political struggles, which we believe will continue to help foster the global bi+ community and improve our collective path towards better research and bi+ liberation. This new format will feature […]
On 31 October IHLIA welcomes British scholar Richard Dyer, whose writings on stardom, entertainment, and the representation of gender, sexuality and race have made a great impact in film and cultural studies. The Richard Dyer Reader (2023), co-edited by Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman, covers more than five decades of Dyer’s writing, and includes rare archival […]
The theme of the Research Day is Connecting Places and Spaces. Recent years have seen increasing polarisation in social, political, cultural, medical, and legal debates when it comes to matters of gender and sexuality that intersect with other markers of oppression and privilege. These debates also take place within universities in various ways. As researchers in gender […]
The Trans* and Psychoanalytic Perspectives group returns once again in the academic year 2023-2024 with a workshop and roundtable discussions that will bring together Psychoanalysis, trans studies, and a number of other disciplines and fields of study in light of the issues, topics, and problems critically redefining the contemporary world. The critical domain and scope […]
Organized and sponsored by: The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG), Masterlanguage, the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP), the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication (TLC) – Italian, and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) Thursday 18 January Book launch of Porpora Marcasciano’s AntoloGaia: Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir (Rutgers University Press, 2023) […]