Sharing Knowledge

Gender Studies researchers at Utrecht University are specialised in gender and post-colonial studies. They are keen to share their expertise and they participate in various national and international initiatives and networks. 

Co-creating knowledge on gender and diversity

Media-makers, NGO’s, journalists, policy-makers, artists and activists are key players in deciding about how people and communities are represented. These actors hold the power of definition, they shape mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and are thereby automatically involved in power relations. Their communicative, mediating or curatorial processes may have a gender dimension which intersects with race, sexuality, class, ability, bodily capacities and age, among others. Our researchers are specialised in gender and post-colonial studies and are able to promote reflection about how biases, prejudices and intersectional normative expectations (unintentionally) shape or underpin texts, images, videos, policy reports and exhibits.

Initiatives 

GEMMA

Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe (GEMMA) is an interdisciplinary programme that provides high quality academic education and professional skills for people who are working or intend to work in the areas of Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities across Europe and beyond. GEMMA is the first and only Erasmus Mundus master in Women's and Gender Studies in Europe and has been endorsed by the European Commission in 2006, 2011, 2017 and 2019. The GEMMA Consortium consists of seven higher education institutions from six European countries.

NOISE Summer School

Gender and diversity

This annual Summer School at Utrecht University focuses on European Gender Studies from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives. NOISE stands for the Network Of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies in Europe and three decades ago it started as a pilot at Utrecht University. Since 1994, NOISE has been a successful yearly international study event, giving students and teachers the opportunity to exchange their knowledge in the field of intersectional gender studies in an international context.

Doing Gender Lectures Series

The Doing Gender Lecture Series is organised by the Graduate Gender Programme and the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies. It supports a hands-on approach to intersectional gender studies and related issues in the sense of social and political engagement with the new forms of gender inequalities that are taking shape in the world today. The lecture series wants to give space to the new generations of gender studies theorists and practitioners and to perspectives that innovate the transdisciplinary field of Gender Studies. Archive of recorded lectures

Postcolonial Studies Initiative

The Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI) is a platform for research into postcolonial issues, specifically focused on their application within Europe. The PCI organises activities such as lectures, film series, masterclasses and seminars, striving for greater interaction with society at large. As such it brings together a number of researchers from diverse areas and disciplines, both from Utrecht University and from other universities in the Netherlands and worldwide. It provides a regular newsletter and update Facebook page.

Networks

  • Gender, Diversity and Global Justice - Platform of research expertise area Institutions for Open Societies
  • (In)equality - Platform of research expertise area Institutions for Open Societies
  • Digital migration - Special interest group of research focus area Governing the digital society
  • InterGender - International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training
  • ATGender - The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation
  • RINGS - The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies
  • Terra Critica - Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities
  • Terra Critica ReadingRoom - Public engagement practice open to anyone interested in careful close readings