The research seminar Queer Histories and Minor Sources aims to explore the relationship between queer history, marginal archives, and non-canonical sources (magazines, flyers, self-produced materials, etc.), reflecting on what these sources make visible in relation to dominant theories and narratives, both within feminism and within queer movements and studies. The seminar will move between the history of social movements, with particular attention to lesbian contexts, and political reflection, using sources to open up broader questions: who is remembered and who is not, which subjects become central, which forms of experience remain invisible, and how these sources may still speak to the present.

Speakers include Elena Biagini, high school teacher and author of L’emersione imprevista. Il movimento delle lesbiche in Italia negli anni ’70 e ’80 (Edizioni ETS, 2018), and Emrys Travis, a PhD candidate at the University of Brighton currently visiting student at the University of Verona.

The seminar will be introduced and moderated by Irene Villa, adjunct lecturer in History of Sexuality in the Contemporary Era at the University of Pisa and affiliated with the PoliTeSse Research Centre.

The discussion with the guest speakers will be led by Margherita Manfredini and Elisa Marinai, Philosophy students and trainees at the PoliTeSse Research Centre.

The event will also be streamed online. To receive the link, please contact: Irene.villa@univr.it.

Thursday, 30 April 2026
3:00 pm
Seminar Room 3, Cloister of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 41, University of Verona