The Gender Studies Seminar Series invite researchers to share their insight on key issues for gendered and sexualized lives and knowledges, and to engage in critical discussions about the development of gender studies as an interdisciplinary and intersectional research field. Bringing together scholars from various research fields and theoretical traditions, this seminar series offers a platform for critical reflexions and new insights. Seeking to provide a space for intellectual exchanges around the role of knowledge production in turbulent times, the spring 2024 Gender Studies seminar series at the Department of Gender Studies put the focus on critical contributions and interventions into conditions for knowledge production – in gender studies, in higher education, in modes of situated knowledge, and under forms of enduring coloniality.

Nora Alkhalili’s research focuses on questions of renewable energy, energy transitions, green extractivism, occupied territories and energy justice. Her research is situated at the intersection of critical and political geography, urban studies, and settler-colonial studies with focus on Palestine. She draws upon postcolonial, decolonial and anti-colonial theories in relation to debates on the decolonization of knowledge production and the university.

Yahia Mahmoud’s research focuses on foreign aid, international relations, and political ecology. He has a background in international relations and political science, development studies and socio-economic transformation from Latin America, China and Sweden. He is interested in issues of foreign aid, international relations, particularly China’s role as a global actor, and political ecology. 

Alkhalili and Mahmoud have co-authored the article ”Claiming space for decolonial scholarship: Confronting epistemic exclusion in green energy colonialism” Political Geography, 107 (2023), which they will use as a point of departure for their seminar presentation. 

Learn more about Nora Alkhalili’s and Yahia Mahmoud´s research on the Radboud University website and Lund University research portal.