Archive Events - ARC-GS - University of Amsterdam

19May2016

Speculative 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 ...

21Apr2016

Forgotten 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 ...

17Mar2016

Negotiating 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?

18Feb2016

Mizrahi 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 ...

28Jan2016

French 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 ...

15Jan2016

Book 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.

10Dec2015

Transitional 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 ...

26Nov2015

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 ...

20Nov2015

SYMPOSIUM: ‘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 ...

19Nov2015

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 ...

05Nov2015

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 ...

23Oct2015

Class, 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.

22Oct2015 23Oct2015

Social 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 ...

11June2015

Lunch 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 ...

22May2015

Paradoxes of the Homosexuality Debates in Uganda

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

In this lecture, I will examine the points of departure, overlap and contestations of the Anti-Homosexuality and Pro-Homosexuality camps involved in debating diverse aspects of the homosexual question in Uganda.

24Apr2015

Homosexual Listings in 20th Century Hungary

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Similarly to other iron curtained countries, gay life during state socialism was not very well documented in Hungary – except perhaps by certain secret police files. Judit Takács (Hungary Academy of Sciences) ...

14Apr2015

Recent Standpoints on Decoloniality

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

Social justice movements, such as feminism, anti-racism, and postcolonialism, have produced a standpoint methodology that is more competent to maximize objectivity than the conventional requirement that natural and ...

20Mar2015

The Other Sex Work: Sexuality Research and the Persistent Problem of Shame

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

This talk explores a paradox in sexuality studies: sexuality research has a long history of controversy, and at the same time, broad public interest fuels ongoing demand for it.

12Mar2015

Queering Montenegro: Challenging Homophobia in Montenegro

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

This talk discusses the LGBTIQ activism in Montenegro, focusing on how it has been shaped by complex relationships between the NGOs, the state, international donors, the EU, and everyday forms of oppression.

27Feb2015

An Ambiguous Affair: The Yugoslav Socialist State and Its Homosexuals

15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture

In Yugoslavia a partial and slow decriminalization, and a tacit depathologization in the 1970s, dispensed "from above", opened the door not only to an increasingly westernised sexological frame, but also to models of ...