Met behulp van de door het C. Halkesfonds toegekende subsidie in oktober 2024, organiseerde de hoofdaanvrager, prof. dr. J. Hoegaerts in samenwerking met het Lelikoor (o.l.v. J.J. van Elburg) twee concerten in respectievelijk Amsterdam en Abcoude. Het programma van...

Thanks to financial support from the Catharina Halkes Fonds, last year I was able to conduct two vital research trips to Dresden and Hannover, to collect the final data for my dissertation. In each city I conducted interviews, visited churches, attended worship services, did city walks, and made important ethnographic observations. In Hannover I was also able to visit Christopher Street Day (Pride).

I presented on the “I” in embodied research, arguing from a feminist point of view that we need to include ourselves – our bodies – into our (theological) research more: “We need the ‘I’ in embodied theological research, because bodies – especially female bodies – have been ignored for too long. We need the ‘I’ in embodied theological research, because we do research with and from our bodies. And our bodies are not clean slates: they have stories to tell.”