Postcolonial Studies Initiative

PhD position on Images and Justice

University of Copenhagen

Deadline: 27 May

The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for one three-year PhD scholarship with expected starting date September 1st, 2026 or shortly thereafter.

The PhD will be part of the ERC Consolidator Grant, Before the Image – The Political Ontology of Images for Legal and Social Justice. The project will investigate how images used to document violence, war crimes and human rights violations are created – not only in the moment when they are taken or viewed, but also in processes of designing image technologies and developing camera and visual literacy skills.

As part of this larger project, the PhD will investigate how visual literacy, including memory, perceptions of truth, and training, impact ways in which images are seen, focusing on how experts and non-experts view images that document violence. It is expected that the PhD candidate will carry out ethnographic fieldwork at open source investigation trainings and do interviews with trainers and participants at these trainings in order to study the processes through which open source investigators are taught to view images for the purposes of verification, geo- and chronolocation etc.

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Doing Gender Lecture – Zaida Capote Cruz (Havana, 1967) – May 8, 2026

—— new location:
BAK (pauwstraat 13A, Utrecht)

Universes of Cuban Feminism in the 20th Century: Women in Revolution

Time: 17:15 – 19:00 hrs.
Location: Utrecht Janskerkhof 15A, 0.04
Chair: Jamila Mascat

This lecture is jointly organized by the NOG (Netherlands Research School
of Gender Studies) with the IOS Gender, Diversity and Global Justice Platform

What have women done during the Cuban Revolution, and what has the Revolution done for Cuban women? My talk offers a historical overview of Cuban women’s struggle for their rights and the scope of their emancipation throughout the 20th century. Engaging with the work of several Cuban authors in film and literature, it explores key milestones achieved by Cuban feminists since the 1959 Revolution and traces the evolving place of women in Cuban society up to the present day, with all its ongoing uncertainties.

Biography
Zaida Capote Cruz (Havana, 1967) is a senior researcher at the José Antonio Portuondo Valdor Institute of Literature and Linguistics (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM – location Havana, Cuba), where she coordinates the Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Chair and leads a project on Cuban feminist journals between 1900 and 1958. She is also a member of the Cuban Academy of Language (Academia Cubana de la Lengua).
Her work focuses on Latin American narrative and essay writing, archival research and critical editions, as well as cultural analysis related to the history of feminism in Cuba and the representation of women.

She has published the books Vindictas. Cuentistas cubanas (2025), El ensayo y la crítica literarios de la diáspora cubana. Índice bibliográfico (2023), Estado crítico (2023), Tribulaciones de España en América. Tres episodios de historia y ficción (2021), Loynacianas (2017), La nación íntima (2007), Contra el silencio. Otra lectura de Dulce María Loynaz (2005), and Tres ensayos ajenos (1994).

Doing Gender Lecture by Dr. Zaida Capote – in English and Spanish

Doing Gender Lecture – Zaida Capote Cruz – May 8, 2026 The Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies organises the DOING GENDER Lecture Series in cooperation with her partners. These lectures stress the importance of doing gender work combined with an active involvement in the practice of gender theory and research. The concept of DOING GENDER suppo...

PhD Position: Embodied Knowledge of the Past (Traumascapes)

Radboud University
Deadline 6 May

Are you eager to contribute to research on the colonial traumatic past within a transdisciplinary team? In the Traumascapes project, you will explore how embodied methods such as dance help identify and process historical trauma. Apply now for this PhD position!

This PhD forms part of the NWA ORC project ‘Traumascapes: Valuing, Negotiating and Sharing Sites of Trauma, Pain, and Loss’ (2026–2032), in which transdisciplinary teams of researchers, together with societal partners, memory communities and citizens, are conducting research into landscapes associated with collective traumas from our past. The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under the NWA ORC programme ’Places of Value: Context-Aware Negotiation on the Future of Historically Charged Sites’. The consortium places a strong emphasis on exchange and joint reflection. In this context, you will participate in regular project-wide workshops and meetings.

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