National Research Day in the fields of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Sexuality and Diversity Studies
" The title of this year’s NOG Research Day takes its inspiration from Sara Ahmed's monographLivinga Feminist Life.Ahmed reminds us that as feminists, we experience the devastating effects of racism, genderism, ableism, ageism, homo- and transphobia on a daily basis. In addition to these challenges,we are faced with the ongoing neoliberalization of academia, with its emphasis on the marketing of knowledge, and on surveillance and control. This market model of academia has been incorporatedinto the universities, for example through the emphasis on ‘earning power’, the bureaucratization of student-teacher relationships, and an increasingly internalized ‘audit culture’ that seeks to reduceeveryone and everything to quantifiable data or measurable ‘output’. Therefore, the main question of the NOG Research Day is: “Is it still possible to lead a feminist life in neoliberal academia?”
Abstracts for papers (300 words maximum) can be sent to NOG@uu.nl until Sunday March 31, 2019.