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Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality
Results: 1 - 20 of 26
Results: 1 - 20 of 26
The Child, True Gender Self and the Clinic
10 Dec 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
In recent years, the field of clinical management of gender in children has expanded and new approaches to gender variant children have emerged. In this webinar, Sahar Sadjadi traces the shifts and continuities in ...
A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers, 1983-2008
12 Nov 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
The path to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) liberation has been narrated through a claim to long-term territory in the form of urban neighborhoods and bars. Lesbians and queers fail to attain ...
What is Essential Work? Social Reproduction in Pandemic Times
16 Sep 2020
17:30 - 19:00
Lecture
The Covid-19 pandemic has sharply clarified what social reproduction feminists have been saying for a while, namely that care work and life-making work are the essential work of society, and that this essential work ...
Nice to Meet You
10 Sep 2020
15:30 - 16:30
Event
Usually at this time of the year, we meet at our beloved CREA café with all those students within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences who are interested in what our Faculty has to offer when it comes to ...
CANCELLED: Mandating Protection: UN Peacekeeping and Sexual Violence in Civil Wars
15 May 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
While peacekeeping missions are often successful in preventing conflict and violence, significant variations exist in the quality of peace.
CANCELLED: Babies Wanted: China’s New Reproductive Complex
17 Apr 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
After decades of family planning campaigns and initiatives aimed at preventing birth, many countries in Asia are now facing the exact opposite problem – they need babies.
CANCELLED: Is queer kinship always already chosen? LGBTQ+ families and affective politics of race, gender and desire in (homo)nationalist times
20 Mar 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
This paper revisits Weston’s (1991) Families we choose and Butler’s (2002) discussion of (heterosexual) kinship to critically reflect on what their widespread arguments mean for queer subjects with and without wombs ...
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
11 Mar 2020
11:45 - 13:00
Lecture
Testosterone is not what most people think it is, and it is decidedly not a “male sex hormone.”
Barriers to Diversity in our Academic Institutions: The Case of Institutional Racism
14 Feb 2020
14:00 - 17:00
Lecture
Our academic institutions are shaped by deeply entrenched historical patterns of exclusion and processes of racialization, which often remain invisible or are poorly understood, yet account for the conspicuous ...
“Profiled cafes, beaches, and various associations”: Polish sexology, queerness, and the Cold War
17 Jan 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
The development of LGBTQ identity and rights in Poland is usually situated in the 1980s when the first queer magazines were published and the first associations were founded. In this talk, I look at processes that ...
Gender, Party Politics, and Democracy in Europe: A Study of European Parliament’s Party Groups
13 Dec 2019
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
The lecture is co-organized by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES).
A Transnational Queer Sociological Analysis of Sexual Identity and Civic-political Activism in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China
20 Nov 2019
11:45 - 13:00
Lecture
This research adopts the author’s newly proposed transnational queer sociology to examine young gay male identities, as revealed in 90 in-depth interviews conducted in Hong Kong (n = 30), Taiwan (Taipei, n = 30) and ...
Home-based Telework and the Gender Pay Gap. The Relevance of Different Forms of Implementation.
15 Nov 2019
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Home-based telework is increasingly discussed as a solution for problems in reconciling demands in work and personal life. It is, however, unclear to what extent home-based telework can also contribute to reducing ...
Disability: Between Equality and Difference?
18 Oct 2019
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
Disability provides a useful window through which to examine divisions that have emerged in feminist/gender/sexuality scholarship in the last forty years over equality, difference, and intersectionality.
The Gender of Labor Value and Social Dependence
13 Sep 2019
15:30 - 17:00
Event
The evolution of global capitalism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has raised unsettling questions about the increase in social dependence resulting from the decline in manufacturing jobs, the ...
Nice to Meet You
13 Sep 2019
14:15 - 15:15
Event
How are gender-neutral toilets, headscarf debates, working mothers, lipstick lesbians, sexual intimidation at festivals, Trump, underrepresentation of women in political leadership, Gay Pride, and more, interrelated, ...
European Conference on Politics & Gender (ECPG)
4 Jul 2019 - 6 Jul 2019
09:00 - 18:00
Conference
ECPG is the world-leading conference on politics and gender. ECPG offers a platform for exchange and dialogue about how understanding gender is central to understand politics and where diversity and plurality in ...
SOGI Policy and Human Security in Asia: An International Comparison
23 May 2019
11:45 - 13:00
Lecture
In June 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, and gender identity (SOGI)”.
Migrant Sex Workers: The Impact of Different Policymaking Approaches in the Global North
17 May 2019
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
What is the impact of different sex work policymaking frameworks on the rights and lives of migrant sex workers?
The Sociability of Risk: Sex Work, Criminalization, and HIV in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda
9 May 2019
11:45 - 13:00
Lecture
To better understand the everyday nature of risks associated with women engaging in sex work Dr. Serena Cruz pursued an almost three-year study—including 14-months of sustained ethnography—to answer the question: how ...
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