Event Archive

We nodigen jou van harte uit op het 10-jarig jubileum van de interuniversitaire master Gender & Diversiteit op woensdag 20 november 2024.

We'll kick off our Brown Bag Seminar Series with a feedback session for the Postdoc proposals of RHEA-members. 

25 years after Margaret Walker’s Moral Understandings was first published by Routledge, we invite scholars to carry forward Walker’s examinations. 

Are you passionate about gender research and eager to enhance your methodological toolkit?

Kom mee met Rhea naar de Vrouwenmars (start om 17:00 aan het Centraal Station van Brussel). We vertrekken collectief van op de VUB Main Campus Etterbeek om 16:30. Haal je bordjes, face-paint en beste wandelschoenen uit de kast!

De verkiezingen zijn in aantocht, wat voor veel VUB-studenten betekent dat ze voor de eerste keer naar de stembus trekken.

'Voorbij het klassieke gezin?' is een panelgesprek dat exploreert hoe het maatschappelijk beeld van 'familie' verandert onder invloed van nieuwe reproductieve technologie. 

Experten Julie Nekkebroeck (UZ Brussel), Olivia Wittock (Cavaria), Michiel De Proost (Ugent) en Caroline Roelen

Op dinsdag 5 maart gaat Soumaya Naamane Guessous in gesprek met studenten over haar geprezen onderzoek over Islam en seksualiteit en haar strijd voor vrouwenrechten in Marokko.

Inschrijven voor 1 maart (verplicht) via e-mail.

Crosstalks, Fatima Mernissi Leerstoel et Rhea vous invitent pour un recontre avec Soumaya Naamane Guessous, pour une conversation fascinante sur la féminité et la sexualité en Islam.

Soumaya Naamane Guessous partagera ses perspectives éclairante

Join Rhea and VISU for the screening of a fascinating documentary, followed by an exclusive Q&A with director Sarah Baur. Prof. Dr.

Respect Existence or Expect Resistance: The Costs of Resisting the Heteropatriarchy in Uganda

Still a few spots left, register now before they are gone!

This year our inaugural Machteld De Metsenaere lecture is given by Dr. Stella Nyanzi.

Symposium: Islamitische ethiek en samenleven in etnisch-culturele diversiteit

Op 21 juni organiseert Rhea samen met het Onderzoekscentrum Cultuur en Gender van de UGent en partnerorganisaties het symposium: Islamitische ethiek en samenleven in etnisch-culturele diversiteit.&nb

Join us for the last Rhea Seminar of the academic year, with Ruth Candlish!

Accounting for the different motivational factors explaining the substantively different quality of political representation.

Bio:

Ruth Gazsó Candlish is a visiting PhD student from Central E

On the 24th of April we welcome Dr. Chloé Janssen at the Rhea Seminar series! Bring your lunch and join us at 12:30 on the second floor of Pleinlaan 5.

2nd activity of Gender week 2023: A debate about female entrepreneurship by VUB TechTransfer!

Featuring Yasmien Naciri (author and columnist), Sofie Baeten (Qbic Fund) and Elien Van Hecke (co-founder of Lavima, a VUB spin-off).

Crosstalks sluit de Gender week 2023 af met een matineevoorstelling van de Arabisch gesproken film 'L'enfant endormi'.

Frans ondertiteld met een nabespreking in het Frans.

After our online misogyny lecture in the morning (open to all - dutch), you can join the first evening of the Lost Stories film festival, organized by our partner Crosstalks.

Let's talk about the elephant in the womb. Een abortuspil zonder voorschrift, de toekomst?

Gender, intimiteit en online misogynie

Ongewenste dick-pics, de goeroestatus van Andrew Tate, expose-groepen, de Silhouette challenge ...

RHEA invites you to the inaugural Machteld De Metsenaere lecture of Gender week 2023! Save the date for our panel discussion on the Iranian uprising and women's rights. 

Key-note speaker: Ladan Rahbari (UVA)

Registrations closed

The Rhea Seminar Series 2023 continues! Bring your lunch and join us on the 27th of February, 12:30, PL.5.2.03 .

Our next presenter is Elias Woodbrid

EDGE and BIRMM warmly invite you to the presentation and discussion of the book ‘An Ugly Word. Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States’ (2021).

Welcome to the New Rhea seminar series.

GENDERWEEK: VERBORGEN LEED: ALS JE VULVA PIJN DOET: EEN INKIJK IN HET LEVEN VAN VULVODYNIEPATIËNTEN

As part of the VUB gender week, this one hour session will focus on how NEW gender research requirements for Horizon Europe projects should improve the scientific quality and societal relevance of European projects.

19 mei 2021 

(Pour le français, veuillez faire défiler vers le bas - For English, please scroll down) 

After the terrorist attacks in France (2015) and Belgium (2016), radicalisation in Belgian prisons gained tremendous international attention in the public and political debate.

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Since June 2019, 12 Belgian women and 30 children have returned from the Kurdish detention camps in northeast Syria. Once they reach Belgium, the women/mothers are taken to prison and the children are either fostered by their families or in youth institutions.

ELO Session: Horizon Europe and the gender dimension in research

Are you a researcher interested in preparing a Horizon Europe project proposal?

LIJF-elijk ANDERS photo exhibition

'LIJF-elijk ANDERS’ is a photo exhibition and vernissage by photographer and cultural scientist Hilde Braet, which explores the boundaries of 'women' with a 'disability' and their experience of sexuality.

Het tweeoudergezin met het heteroseksuele monogame koppel en eerstegraads genetisch verwante kinderen in één huishouden lijkt steeds minder de realiteit.

AGAINST THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF COLONIAL CAPITALISM

Colonial occupation has been the driving engine behind a prolific and highly profitable defence industry for Israel and Israeli companies.

Inclusive dementia care for an ethnically diverse population: a new conceptual lens

RHEA Research Seminar by Dr. Saloua Berdai Chaouni

Together with Europe, Belgium knows an increasing share of older migrants with dementia.

Expect a presentation of the 'Blueprint study', lively debates, poetry and dance

Calls to decolonize the university in South Africa and the United Kingdom starting in 2015, and have also been present in Europe.

On April 21, Michiel De Proost will publicly defend his PhD-thesis "Frictions with autonomy and future fertility: Towards a feminist empirical bioethics of social egg freezing".

To celebrate the publication of Lucy van de Wiels's new book 'Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Ageing', RHEA will be hosting a book symposium with the author and comments from: Michiel De Proost (VUB) and Susan Dierickx (VUB).

Welcomed as liberation

In verband met het FOR ALL QUEENS! Pride festival nodigen For all queens met steun van RHEA mode icoon en eerste zwarte transgender model Tracey Norman Africa uit.