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In this episode of the podcast series Travelling Concepts on Air, UYA alumni Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh invite Dr. Marjolein van den Brink and Astrid Kerchman to discuss the concept of ‘queer’.

In this podcast series, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Tessa Diphoorn explore the promise and ideal of interdisciplinarity by looking at travelling concepts: concepts that travel within and across disciplines. This month, Marjolein van den Brink and Astrid Kerchman discuss how the concept of ‘queer’ is used in different contexts and disciplines.

Marjolein van den Brink works as a lecturer and researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). She is a member of the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF) and of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR). She teaches various human rights related courses. Her research has always been concerned with issues of equality, marginalisation and exclusion. Currently she focuses on issues broadly related to human rights and gender (e.g. legal gender identity, migration, intimate and family relationships). The interaction between law in theory and in practice is important to her work.

Astrid Kerchman works as a research assistant and junior teacher at the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP). As a research assistant, she is involved in the Erasmus+ funded project "REGENERART: Rethinking Gender Equality Through Art". She is the project coordinator of MOED Museum of Equality and Difference and is also part of the management team of the IOS Gender and Diversity Hub. As a junior teacher, she is involved in the BA course “Gender, Ethnicity and Cultural Critique”.

Listen to the episode to hear more about the discussion about ‘queer’: .