Two events with Rita Segato on gender: coloniality, feminicide, and power

Rita Segato in Utrecht | 8-9 June

The In/Equality Platform, together with the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) and the Graduate Gender Programme at UU (GGeP), will organise two events featuring Rita Segato. Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Bioethics at the University of Brasília, Segato is one of the leading international voices on gendered violence, coloniality, and power, whose work has been widely read and debated across Latin America and Europe. We warmly invite you to join us!

Event 1 - Doing Gender Lecture 
Gender and Coloniality: From Communitarian to Colonial Modern Patriarchy 
In this lecture, Segato argues that contemporary violence cannot be understood without looking at how colonialism transformed (and intensified) existing gender hierarchies. Central to her talk is the distinction between more diffuse, community-based forms of patriarchy and the more rigid, high-intensity form that emerged with colonial modernity. 
 

• Monday 8 June 2026, 17:15-19:00
• Janskerkhof 2-3, room 0.13, Utrecht
• Chair: Ana Miranda Mora 
• Respondent: Sofia Forchieri

Registration is appreciated, please send your name and affiliation to nog@uu.nl. Click here for more information on the event. 

Event 2 - Panel on violence, power and masculinity 
This panel discusses Segato’s work together with scholars from Utrecht University and Bielefeld University. Amongst other things, it will cover what Segato's ideas help us understand about violence today, including feminicide and antifeminist backlash, as well as how patriarchy is being strengthened under (global) inequality.
 

• Tuesday 9 June 2026, 15:15–17:00 
• Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 0.06, Utrecht 
• Chair: Kathrin Thiele 
• Participants: Rita Segato, Lorena Sosa, Ana Miranda Mora, and Philipp Wolfesberger 

Registration is required, please send your name and affiliation to nog@uu.nl. Click here for more information on the event. 

We hope to see many of you there!