Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality - (ARC-GS)
The Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars and students of gender and sexuality, within the Social Sciences.
The centre aims to strengthen and consolidate cutting edge research and teaching of its researchers and PhD-affiliates. At the same time the centre functions as a hub at the UvA where new questions and collaborations are generated.The centre organizes monthly lectures with internationally renowned scholars as well as seminars, public debates, roundtables, conferences and workshops. ARC-GS also offers visiting scholars a lively intellectual community for scholarly debate and exchange.
This community is shaped by many differences in disciplinary contexts and traditions, different theoretical and epistemological approaches, different methodologies, and also differences in emphasis on gender or sexuality within one’s research, and we are committed to make this an expansive community – where such differences are welcomed and provide fertile ground for conversations and new questions and ways of thinking. The centre is also committed to fostering intersectional approaches to gender and sexuality, and seeks to attend in particular to questions of material inequalities and social class on the one hand, and questions of race and (institutional) racism on the other.
The research centre organizes various kinds activities, including monthly lectures with internationally renowned scholars to seminars, public debates, roundtables, international conferences, and workshops. ARC-GS has a vibrant PhD community and also hosts visiting scholars within a lively intellectual community for scholarly debate and exchange.
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Political Sociology: Power, Place and Difference
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Globalising Culture and the Quest for Belonging
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Cultural Sociology
Founding members
Niko Besnier, Sébastien Chauvin, Robert Davidson, Jan-Willem Duyvendak, Gert Hekma, Amade M’charek, Rachel Spronk
Former directors
2010-2013 Sébastien Chauvin (Director) & Rachel Spronk (Associate Director)
2013-2016 Rachel Spronk (Director) & Liza Mügge (Associate Director)
2016-2019 Liza Mügge (Director) & Stephanie Steinmetz (Associate Director)
Former board members
Niko Besnier, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Marlies Glasius, Frances Gouda, Daniela Grunow, Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Liza Mügge, Stephanie Steinmetz
Former PhD representatives
Willemijn Krebbekx, Marieke van Eijk, Dragana Stojmenovska, Natalie Welfens, Anne Louise Schotel
Former PR assistants
Anne Louise Schotel, Simone Schneider
Please find below the ARC-GS 2018 and 2019Annual Reports 2018 2019. The reports document the activities organized by and financial support given to the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality. Please contact us, should you wish to receive older annual reports.