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LOVA MARJAN RENS MASTER’S THESIS AWARD 2021
In 2021 LOVA organises the nineth round of the biennial LOVA Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award. Graduates who recently completed their Master’s thesis at a university in The Netherlands in the field of gender studies and feminist anthropology are cordially invited to...
Lova Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award 2023
In a ceremony on the LOVA Study Day 2023 of September 20, 2023, the tenth LOVA Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award 2023 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...
Honorary membership awards
LOVA - Honorary membership awards November 25, 2022, former LOVA co-chairs Gerdien Steenbeek and Annelou Ypeij have been awarded a Duo Honorary Membership of LOVA. It was presented to them during the retirement party of Gerdien Steenbeek at the Department of Cultural...
Lecture ‘Epistemicide and epistemic disobedience’
Pictures by Ina Keuper.Lecture ‘Epistemicide and epistemic disobedience’ by Anne-Maria Makhulu and response of Naomi van Stapele. Friday, March 10, 2023, Anne-Maria Makhulu (link to https://scholars.duke.edu/person/amakhulu) presented a lecture about the importance of...
LOVA Winter School 2022
15 -18 December 2022, LOVA is having its 2nd Winter School on motherhoods and feminisms. The four-day event is organised by Irene Arends (UvA), Emmy De Wit (VU), and Joke Struyf (University of Antwerp). Intended for an international audience, the nineteen participants...
Very Sad News
Dear LOVA-members, We are sorry to have to bring you the very sad news that one of our former LOVA chairs and good friend Karin Willemse has passed away. She died last Saturday the 18th of March surrounded by her loved ones after a period of illness. Karin will be...
LOVA Winter School 2022
15 -18 December 2022, LOVA is having its 2nd Winter School on motherhoods and feminisms. The four-day event is organised by Irene Arends (UvA), Emmy De Wit (VU), and Joke Struyf (University of Antwerp). Intended for an international audience, the nineteen participants...
“From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'” by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Date: Friday 10 March 2023 Time: 15:00 - 16:30 wwwxxxtube.comwwwxxxtube.com Location: WijnhavenTurfmarkt 992511 DP The Hague Room: 2.02 I think that on a fundamental level, the process of decolonization requires that we are undone and unmoored by the idea of living in...
Safety in the Field: the unexpected critical shift
By Kiki Bijleveld The intimate practices of ethnographic fieldwork are imbued with power relations, that sometimes lead to (sexual) harassment and other forms of unsafety. What can the narratives of (ex-)fieldworkers tell us about unsafe working conditions and how can...
Feminist Anthropologists Worldwide
By Jasmijn Rana From 8 to 10 June 2022, the first ‘Congreso Internacional de Antropologia Feminista’ took place at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Donostia /San Sebastian. The organizer AFIT (Antropologie Feminista Ikerketa Taldea) invited LOVA to...
Feminist Anthropologists Worldwide
By Jasmijn Rana From 8 to 10 June 2022, the first ‘Congreso Internacional de Antropologia Feminista’ took place at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Donostia /San Sebastian. The organizer AFIT (Antropologie Feminista Ikerketa Taldea) invited LOVA...