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  • Tue
    03
    Dec
    2024

    PhD defense Nika Looman: "Queer late/r life sex Women and non-binary people's unruly stories"

    4:00 pmAmsterdam/online

    Cover of the dissertation with a blue background and white rhizomatic line displaying the title and author of the dissertation.

    On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Nika Looman's public defense will take place. We would like to cordially invite you to attend in person or via live stream.

    Nika has been working on their research 'Queer late/r life sex. Women and non-binary people's unruly stories' for four years. To conclude this trajectory, Nika will defend their research and receive their doctorate.

    After the defense, there will be a reception where you can congratulate Nika. In support of Palestine and in line with the BDS (boycott, divest and sanctions) guidelines, only coffee and tea will be served.

    We hope to see you on this special day. If you have any questions about the defense, please do not hesitate to contact us (mars@essb.eur.nl).
    About the research
    This dissertation centralizes the unruly sexual stories of queer women and non-binary people between the ages of forty-four and eighty-six. Their stories disrupt the limiting and contradicting narratives of ageing as decline or that promise success when sexual attractiveness and sexual availability are maintained late/r in life.

    By paying careful attention to the entangledness of materiality, discourse, and un/expected relations to sex late/r in life, this dissertation examines how stories of old/er queer women and non-binary people can (re)configure prevailing narratives of ageing, sex, and intimacy.

    Nika Looman completed their doctoral research within the ERC-project LiLI 'Later-in-Life Intimacy: Women's Unruly Practices, Places and Representations'at Ghent University's Centre for Research on Culture and Gender.
    Details

    Date and time
    Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 16h00 (GMT+1)
    After 16h15 it will not be possible to enter the ceremony hall anymore.

    Join in person
    Chapel of the Convent of Saint Agnes
    Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231
    1012 EZ Amsterdam
    The Netherlands

    Join the live stream by simply clicking the link below, no registration required
    Queer late/r life sex. Women and non binary people’s unruly stories Online.

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  • Mon
    09
    Dec
    2024

    CRCG Lunch seminar Anandita Pan: "Justice for whom? Gender, Caste, and Intersectionality"

    12:00 - 13:30Ghent University - Campus Tweekerken Room 1.10 Sint-Pietersplein 7 - 9000 Ghent

    The seminar
    The topic of gender justice must begin with the inevitable question: what gender is justice? Linda R. Hirshman asks, “Is the law male?” Hirshman’s question points out how the "maleness" of the legal system affects every woman.

    Dr. Pan's lecture will focus on gender justice through the lens of intersectionality to emphasize the necessity of recognizing the interconnectedness as well as differences among categories. Intersectionality challenges traditional notions of justice that treat social categories as separate or distinct.

    Instead, it calls for an approach to justice that acknowledges how various systems of oppression (e.g., sexism, casteism, classism) intersect and compound one another. Achieving gender justice, therefore, requires addressing these interconnected forms of oppression holistically.

    About the speaker
    Dr. Anandita Pan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad. Her areas of interest are Feminist theory, Gender Studies, and Dalit Feminism. She is the author of Mapping Dalit Feminism: Towards An Intersectional Standpoint (Sage-Stree, 2020) and Aesthetics in India: Transitions and Transformations (Orient Blackswan, 2023). She is the recipient of the President's Award for Best paper at the IAWS conference, 2020.

     

    9 December 2024
    12h00 - 13h30

    Join us in person
    Ghent University - Campus Tweekerken
    Room 1.10
    Sint-Pietersplein 7 - 9000 Ghent

    Register and attend online
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    Organised by
    SANGH - South Asia Network Ghent
    CRCG - Center for Research on Culture and Gender

    Contact: Hannah.VandenBroucke@UGent.be

     

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