Archive Events

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

How can a transnational feminist approach contribute to re-thinking issues of women and gender with implication for feminist politics - in the global South as well as in the North?

13:00 - 17:30 | Symposium

The symposium is based on a research project which has been conducted at the Department of Sociology, UvA. The aim of the project was to contribute to a better understanding of sexual diversity among students and ...

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Feminist and LGBTQ rights are increasingly co-opted in public and political debates on the inclusion of refugees into receiving nation-states.

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

From anthropology to medicine to pedagogy to geography, many scholars engage in sexuality research. It is therefore high time to bring these researchers together and consider the sum of their rich research.

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.

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? ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

What is the position of indigenous ideas and practices in contemporary Ghana regarding sex and sexuality?

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...