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 […]
This conference is part of the LGBTI+ Junior Laboratory project, launched in January 2022 in response to a twofold observation: the growing institutionalization of LGBTI+ research on the one hand, and the sometimes persistent isolation in which young researchers working on these issues find themselves on the other. To support the growing interest in LGBTI+ […]
Speaker: Gary Kinsman is a long-time ‘Canadian’ queer liberation and anti-capitalist activist; the author of The Regulation of Desire and co-author of The Canadian War on Queers; and a member of the No Pride in Policing Coalition and Queers 4 Palestine – Toronto. Discussant: Peter Drucker is the author of Warped, Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism. […]
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, […]