Nov 11, 2023 | Annual Meetings, Events, News
On 20 September 2023 the annual Lova Study Day was organised at Leiden University as a seminar to commemorate Karin Willemse, Lova chair 1999-2004. Karin had passed away in March 2023 at the age of 61 because of illness she had coped with for quite some time. Lova...
Oct 26, 2023 | Events, News, Thesis Award
In a ceremony on the Lova Study Day of September 20, 2023, the tenth Lova Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award was handed out to the three winners. Organiser Marina de Regt first explained the history of the award and then presented the report of the jury formed by...
Apr 26, 2023 | Annual Meetings, Events, News
On 10 March 2023, Anne-Maria Makhulu presented the lecture From Epistemicide to Epistemological Disobedience for which the invitation had been sent out in February. The lecture focused on the importance of citing black women scholars in academic publications. The...
Mar 13, 2023 | Events, News, Summer school
From 15 to 18 December 2022, Lova was having its second Winter School on Motherhoods and Feminisms (poster). The four-day event was organised by Irene Arends (UvA), Emmy De Wit (VU), and Joke Struyf (University of Antwerp). Intended for an international...
Feb 21, 2023 | Annual Meetings, Events, News
On 10 March 2023, 15:00-16:00 hrs, Anna-Maria Makhulu will talk about epistemic issues in decolonial and feminist anthropology. The lecture is co-organised by Lova, The Decolonizing Collective of Leiden University and the Department of Cultural Anthropology of the...
Feb 2, 2023 | Events, News, Thesis Award
In 2023 Lova will award the tenth Lova Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award. This award is for the best Master’s thesis in the field of gender studies in Anthropology and Development Sociology in the Netherlands. The award consists of 500 euros. The three nominated...
