PhD Defense Nika Looman

On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Nika Looman’s public defense will take place. We would like to cordially invite you to attend in person or via live stream.

Nika has been working on their research ‘Queer late/r life sex. Women and non-binary people’s unruly stories’ for four years. To conclude this trajectory, Nika will defend their research and receive their doctorate. They completed their doctoral research within the ERC-project LiLI ‘Later-in-Life Intimacy: Women’s Unruly Practices, Places and Representations’at Ghent University’s Centre for Research on Culture and Gender.

This dissertation centralizes the unruly sexual stories of queer women and non-binary people between the ages of forty-four and eighty-six. Their stories disrupt the limiting and contradicting narratives of ageing as decline or that promise success when sexual attractiveness and sexual availability are maintained late/r in life.

By paying careful attention to the entangledness of materiality, discourse, and un/expected relations to sex late/r in life, this dissertation examines how stories of old/er queer women and non-binary people can (re)configure prevailing narratives of ageing, sex, and intimacy.

Date and time
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 - 16h00 (GMT+1)
After 16h15 it will not be possible to enter the ceremony hall anymore.

Join in person
Chapel of the Convent of Saint Agnes
Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231
1012 EZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Join the live stream by simply clicking the link below, no registration required