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08Nov2016
Read moreLunch Lecture: Time, Words and the Death of a Concept: Telling Stories about Women’s Progress
12:00 - 14:00 | Lecture
The central problem I am addressing is the paradoxical belief, especially among feminist scholars, that progressive politics today requires a principled rejection of ideals of progress associated with the Enlightenment.
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20Oct2016
Read moreOpposition to Gender Equality: Current Dynamics in Europe
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Opposition to gender and sexual equality in Europe is on the rise. At the same time there are signs that democracy across Europe is endangered. How can we understand these developments and how are they connected? ...
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06Oct2016
Read moreWhat is Diversity?
17:30 - 19:00 | Event
The Rethink debates tend to lean towards favouring colour when speaking of diversity. While this is a significant question at the UvA in the 21st century, ARC-GS would like to discuss the broadening of the debate by ...
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15Sept2016
Read moreTedious, thorny and quintessential: Gender mainstreaming in academia
14:30 - 17:30 | Event
Prof. Fiona Mackay (University of Edinburgh), Dr Maxime Forest (Sciences Po University Paris), and Dr Liza Mügge (University of Amsterdam) examine the mechanisms that (re)produce inequalities from different ...
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15Sept2016Read more
Nice to meet you
13:30 - 14:30 | Event
How are gender-neutral toilets, headscarf debates, working mothers, lipstick lesbians, sexual intimidation at festivals, Femen-feminists, underrepresentation of women in political leadership, Gay Pride, and more, ...
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04Aug2016 05Aug2016
Read moreProud In Europe? LGBTI Emancipation in Comparative Perspective
Conference
In August 2016 the city of Amsterdam will host Europride. In the two days preceding the canal parade an international scientific conference will take place in collaboration with the Amsterdam Research Center for ...
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19May2016
Read moreSpeculative Futures In The Time Of Debt
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
In this talk Lisa Adkins is concerned with the temporality of debt. Against the claim that the society of debt has emptied out futures via the elevation of the promise to pay to a total social fact, Adkins suggests ...
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21Apr2016
Read moreForgotten feminists of the eighteenth century
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Professor Eric Schliesser introduces eighteenth century authors, male and female, that theorized female oppression in a male dominated society. His examples will include John Toland, Bernard Mandeville, and Sophie De ...
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17Mar2016
Read moreNegotiating Concurrent Realities in Ghana: Indigenous Religions and Sexuality in Contemporary Society
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
What is the position of indigenous ideas and practices in contemporary Ghana regarding sex and sexuality?
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18Feb2016
Read moreMizrahi Mothers, Wrapped in the Flag: Ultra-Nationalism and the Divinity of Bureaucracy in Israel
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Professor Smadar Lavie's recent book, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, posits a model of state bureaucracy that operates by theological decree. In this system, the categories of religion, gender, and race become the ...
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28Jan2016
Read moreFrench Gender: The Languages of National and Racial Politics from PaCS to “Marriage for All”
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Gender is supposed to be alien to French culture. However, sexual politics have been at the center of French politics since the 1990s – from PaCS (and parité) to “marriage for all” and the attacks against the ...
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15Jan2016
Read moreBook Seminar
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
In this book seminar, Peter Drucker will discuss his book with three scholars working in the field of feminism, sexuality and politics.
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10Dec2015
Read moreTransitional justice, feminist theory and the arts
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Drawing from feminist theory concerning the conceptualization of revolution and revolt, professor Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht University) will explore how the arts have the medium-specific potential to transcend the ...
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26Nov2015Read more
From Orientalism to Homonationalism: Queer Politics, Islamophobia and European Enlargement in the Balkans
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
This lecture addresses the convergence of European Union expansion and queer politics in the production of Islamophobia in Muslim majority countries in the Balkans. It looks at how EU enlargement assemblages of civil ...
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20Nov2015
Read moreSYMPOSIUM: ‘The feminist methods myth – why gender studies has to overcome methodological determinism’
14:00 - 17:00 | Event
The debate about ‘feminist’ methods has a long and contentious history in gender studies. Many researchers in the field of gender studies show an antipathy towards the use of quantitative analysis because of its ...
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19Nov2015Read more
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Marriage Equality Debates in Slovenia
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
Placing same-sex partnership debates in Slovenia in its historical context, the lecture focuses both on the role of political parties – the right-wing government of Janez Janša adopted Registered Same-sex Partnership ...
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05Nov2015Read more
Queering Marx and Marxing the Queer: Normality of the Belgrade Gay Pride
15:00 - 17:00 | Lecture
This lecture will consist of two parts: first I will try to explicate the term queer in opposition to hetero/homonormativity and offer a brief introduction to queer theory and its critique of identity politics and ...
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23Oct2015
Read moreClass, Race, Gender and all that Jazz
16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture
In my presentation, I will examine the purview and the relations between these three major axes of signification: class/race/gender.
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22Oct2015 23Oct2015
Read moreSocial Class in the 21st century
Conference
The question of social class has re-emerged as a central concern for the analysis and politics of gender and sexuality in the public sphere in many societies worldwide. The ascent and subsequent crisis of global ...
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11June2015
Read moreLunch Lecture: Masculinities and male sex work in Spain (1975-2015). An ethnographic approach.
12:00 - 14:00 | Lecture
The research presented here is a preliminary approach and proposes a conceptual and historical framework of male sex work in Spain. To understand the development and evolution of male sex work in Spain it is ...