Alongside the growing share of single people globally (Kislev, 2019; Adamczyk & Trepanowski, 2023), the need for scholarly attention to singlehood as an identity, an experience, and a socio-cultural phenomenon is increasingly recognized. Historically, research has tended to take singlehood as a byproduct of coupledom, implying that single lives are viewed as empty, meaningless and […]
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 […]
Unlock the power of inclusivity at this year’s LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Symposium, featuring keynote presentations by dr. Erin Cech (University of Michigan, USA) and Prof.dr. Jojanneke van der Toorn (Leiden University, NL) delving into the latest cutting-edge research on LGBTIQ+ inclusion. A panel including researchers and D&I professionals from the public and private sector will […]
This presentation develops ways of queering in Africa, paying particular attention to African terms and concepts that express fluidity and diversity in the African context. In revisiting existing work on the concept nongayindoda previously offered (Matebeni 2021), Zethu Matebeni moves away from the focus on gender, and argues for a version of existence that is non-tangible, […]
How is the relation between sexuality and solidarity conceptualized in Queer and Transgender Studies, practiced by queer and trans movements historically and in the present, and recorded by LGBTQ+ and other specialized archives? Does the sexual dimension of queer and trans identities and communities facilitate and/or limit solidarity across differences and different regimes of (in)equality, […]
Histories of class, gender, race, sexuality and disability intersect, yet the impact of these convergences on overall accounts of the past has gone unacknowledged for a long time. While theoretical debates on intersectionality, especially in the social sciences, have been productive, there remains a lot of scope for empirical research. The summer school explores the […]
Het is ruim veertig jaar geleden dat Amerikaanse artsen in juni 1981 alarm sloegen: zij ontdekten een nieuw virus, dat vooral rond leek te gaan onder homoseksuele mannen. Enkele jaren later zal het virus hiv genoemd worden. Miljoenen mensen zijn wereldwijd overleden, onder wie duizenden in Nederland. Vandaag praten we over de erfenis van de […]
Speakers: Rabin Baldewsingh: National Coordinator against Racism and Discrimination, will give the keynote; Tofik Dibi: author and former politician. He wrote about the fight (Twitter) activists wage against injustice in The Monster of Wokeness (2020); Dr. Saskia Bonjour: associate professor of Political Science. Her research and teaching focus on themes such as citizenship, racism and […]