CENTRE FOR GENDER AND DIVERSITY

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To be rooted in feminist theories and methods of intersectionality.
To specialize in (trans)gender, post-colonial, age and disability studies.
To analyze how gender and diversity manifests in various cultural forms.
To focus on collaborating with societal stakeholders and public outreach.
To reassess the humanism at the core of intersectionality. Doing so through the key question we ask of these art forms interfacing with society: what composes the Human? Here, there, now, and then?
This brings their scholarship to debates in science (technicity), ethics of medicine and care (personhood), to the exigencies of enslavement (coloniality), and to the realm of nature (animality).
To contribute to Critical Life Studies that grapples with the multiple ‘turns’ (e.g. new materialism, Anthropocene, affective) and multiplying field ‘studies’ (trans, queer, critical race, postcolonial, animal, age, disability) in critical theory that interrogate the ontological hold of the Human in the face of global crises of climate and social justice.

European Network in Aging Studies – ENAS (Aagje Swinnen). Information in its website: temp.agingstudies.eu
LACUNAE: Lasting Legacies: Contemporary Artists’ Estates Between Public Heritage and Private Inheritage (Christoph Rausch, Vivian van Saaze, Pip Laurenson, Renée van de Vall and Eliza Steinbock, along others from University of the Arts London and Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Events: (10 June 2021) Networks of Care: Preserving Artists’ Legacies through Collaborative Archival Practices Hosted by neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin. (23 & 24 January 2020): Preserving Artists’ Legacies: Research Workshop, hosted by the Hybrid Lab in Berlin. Network website in Maastricht University’s website.
Learning to make IT: An intersectional approach to communities of practice for information technology specialists (Annika Richterich).
Mapping the Ecosexual Movement: Cartographies of Nonhuman Desire (Louis van den Hengel).
Challenging masculinities? The institution of marriage for young Senegalese migrant men under conditions involuntary return to Senegal (Karlien Strijbosch and Valentina Mazzucato).
Mobility Trajectories of Young Lives (MO-TRAYL) (Valentina Mazzucato, 2017-2021).
Radical Worlding: Performance and the Ethics of Decreation (Louis van den Hengel).
Shaping participation- Children’s and Teacher’s Language Practice in Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Education and Care (Marie Rickert).

Well-being, Women, and Work in Ethiopia (Valentina Mazzucato, 2019-2023).
Mitigating Gender Citation Bias in Academia (Sharon Anyango and Aurélie Carlier, 2022-2023).
Rewind and Record: Preserving the People’s History (Nicole Emmenegger, 2022-2023).
Biography about Coen van Emde Boas (104-1981) (Annemieke Klijn, until 2025).
Care matters: The making and valuing of homes in mobility (Lauren Wagner, 2019-2024).
Diversiteit & Inclusie Onderzoek (Arent Boon and Eliza Steinbock, 2022-2024).
Fandom and Participatory Censorship: Boys’ Love fiction and globalized activities across the Great Firewall of China (Yiming Wang, Emilie Sitzia, Elsje Fourie, 2021-2025).
Redrawing feminism: graphic narrative engagements with the feminist past (Vasiliki Belia, 2020-2024).
The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces (Eliza Steinbock, 2020-2025).