Call for papers: NOG National Research Day

The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) is currently inviting abstracts from researchers who wish to present their papers during the annual National Research Day, which will take place on 10 June. The NOG Research Day is a dedicated platform for sharing the work of junior and senior researchers of Dutch universities in the fields of Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Diversity. This edition of the National Research Day will be called ‘Doing Gender in The Netherlands: TRANS* approaches, methods & concepts’, and will be held at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Call for papers

The 2016 edition of this NOG Research Day focuses in particular on trans* approaches, methods and concepts. Some immediate associations may arise in relation to transgender experience, transgenre cultural productions, transcultural interactions and transnational/translational politics. The asterisk (*) is a wildcard for the many possibilities for affixing trans to other terms. Trans, inter and multi show up very often in the fields of gender and sexuality, transnational/translational and transcultural theories, as well as in diversity and inclusivity studies. What are the semantic differences in the ways that they are used and/or function as concepts, approaches and methods? This year’s conference aims to examine underlying assumptions and support reflection on the various layers of meaning in our professional jargon and analytical language. It provides the space and opportunity for deliberating the multiple workings of trans* as a prefix, as well as for discussing case studies that demonstrate its (un)productivity.