News archive

  • The Doing Gender Lecture Series of Spring 2010 has finished.See here for more information on the lecture series. The lecture of Henrietta Moore & Gloria Wekker was cancelled due to the vulcanic ash cloud.
  • Prof. Azar Nafisi's lecture was a success: Thursday November 26 2009 Prof. Azar Nafisi, best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Teheran held a lecture on women, literature and politics in Iran. In dialogue with Shervin Nekuee (author of De Perzische Paradox 2006) the audience caught a glimpse of Nafisi's views and work. She also read a touching paragraph from her newest book Things I've been silent about (2008). Prof. Azar Nafisi's Belle van Zuylen-lecture on November 26, 2009 can be watched here. 
  • New report: ‘Je hebt een kleur, maar je bent Nederlands.’ Identiteitsformaties van Geadopteerden van Kleur, (You are of Colour, yet you are Dutch.’ Identity formations of Adoptees of Colour). The report is written by Prof. Gloria Wekker, Dr. Cecilia Asberg, Drs. Nathalie Frederiks and Drs. Iris van der Tuin. You can order the report (with ISBN 9789079329014) for €10,- at: info@imageteam.nl
  • Welke genderstudies student (BA of MA) zoekt een communicatiekundige stage? Het gaat om de evaluatie van het succes van en de eventuele doorgroeimogelijkheden voor een cultureel festival. Neem contact op met Iris van der Tuin (Iris.vanderTuin@let.uu.nl). 
  • On Friday June 20th 2008 Iris van der Tuin defended her PhD thesis at Utrecht University. The thesis was entitled 'Third Wave Materialism: New Feminist Epistemologies and the Generation of European Women's Studies' and Iris graduated Cum Laude!
  • Prof. Gloria Wekker has been awared the Ruth Benedict Prize 2007 for her book The Politics of Passion; Women’s sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora (Columbia University Press, 2006).  The Ruth Benedict Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) annual meetings in acknowledgment of excellence in a book written from an anthropological perspective on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic. The public acknowledgement was at the annual meeting of the AAA, on Saturday December 1st 2007 in Washington DC.
  • Prof. Rosemarie Buikema is the co-editor of the recently published book 'From Boys to Men. Social constructions of masculinity in contemporary society'. (UCT Press, Cape Town, 2007) Click here to see the book cover!
  • WomenSpeak! Lecture Series 2008. For more information click here.
  •  Are you interested in doing genderstudies in Utrecht? International Announcement for BA and graduate students! 
  • On May 25th 2007 Prof. Rosi Braidotti received a Honorary Degree by the University of Helsinki. Prof. Braidotti will receive the Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa. This is the highest degree the university can bestow. For information in Dutch, click here.  
  • On 7-30-2007, Staatscourant published an interview with Prof. Rosemarie Buikema on art and culture. To read the interview (Dutch), click here.
  • In the ' Volkskrant' (8-1-2007) an article was published on the adoption project of Nathalie Frederiks, Gloria Wekker, Cecilia Asberg and Iris van der Tuin. You can read the article here.
  • Master student Nathalie van Wingerden was accepted as a member of the Dutch Third Chamber! See here!
  • On Friday November 10th 2006 Rosemarie Buikema held her inaugural lecture 'Theft and Flight in the Arts' ('Kunst en Vliegwerk. Coalities in de Cultuurwetenschappen'). You can download her lecture here.
  • In 2005 students of Genderstudies performed the Vagina Monologues with great succes!