The workshop will consist of a maximum of ten presentations of twenty-minutes each (11:00-15:00, incl. breaks and time for questions). The participants will be asked to present a work-in-progress of a historical research project in which they are engaging—directly or indirectly—with porn archives. Scholars working on any aspect, region, and period of sexual history are […]

D’Aphrodite au biopouvoir, les dispositifs de la sexualité connaissent des formes multiples et produisent des identités variées dans le temps et dans l’espace. Alors qu’elles ont souvent servi de prestigieux modèles pour légitimer des pratiques et des normes actuelles (« le » droit, « la » démocratie, « la » philosophie), la Grèce et Rome […]

The dynamic landscape of gender and sexuality studies has witnessed a paradigm shift towards embracing diverse and inclusive perspectives. This transformation has been a part of the larger imperatives of global and local decolonization of higher education and research in general. Mainstream research on gender and sexuality has been a particular space for the reproduction […]

In 2018 is het Actieplan Veiligheid LHBTI 2019-2022 opgesteld om de veiligheid van LHBTI-personen te vergroten. Desondanks blijft de discriminatie van LHBTI+ personen hoog. Onderzoeks- en adviesbureau Breuer&Intraval evalueerde het actieplan. Informatie over het onderzoek vindt u hier (het rapport wordt begin mei openbaar). Op 20 maart is het onderzoek ‘Richten op de Regenboog’ van […]

The Sex Negativity research group, in collaboration with ARC-GS, the Queer Analysis research group, NICA and ASCA welcomes NYU scholar Dr. Emma Heaney for a one-day masterclass and lecture event titled 'Against Cisness'. Following on the recent publication of Dr. Heaney's edited collection Feminism Against Cisness, the event sets the stage for imagining the future […]

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 […]