Seminars and conferences

Esther Newton, Holly Hughes and Jean Carlomusto are influential scholars and LGBTQ activists from the US. On the occasion of their…

The ERASMUS+ Geo-philosophy of the Balkans (GEOBALKANS) project is coordinated by the American University of Europe in Skopje, and has as…

Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Research Center PoliTeSse – Politics and Theories of sexuality. 13-17 May 2022 Screenings,…

This seminar is positioned within a series of initiatives on LGBTQIA+ history promoted at the University of Verona starting from…

Meeting with Vera Gheno, socio-linguist and author. Activity included in the programme of the Workshop in Political Philosophy and Sexuality.…

Series of seminars 3.02 > 31.03.202 After the success of the first two editions of the series of seminars “Including…

Zoom // Panel for the Fourth International Conference of SIP-Society for Italian Philosophy // No survey of Italian political philosophy…

Online workshop University of Verona, Centre for Politics and Theories of Sexuality (PoliTeSse); organized as part of PhanomAiD (Marie­Skłodowska­Curie­project n°…

Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfaù, Marie Moïse and Lorenzo Bernini A common thread connects coloniality, slavery and racism in a suspended time…

Taking inspiration from two recent ethnographic works, by Corinna Sabrina Guerzoni (University of Bologna) and Alice Sophie Sarcinelli (Université de…

The event is based on the presentation of research data regarding the training needs of socio-educational and health professionals for…

In occasion of the publication of Corpo a corpo con il linguaggio. Il pensiero e l’opera letteraria di Monique Wittig by Eva Feole…

This cycle of seminars aims to investigate the relationships between sexual transgressions and religious radical dissent in the early modern…

As part of the cycle of seminars organized by the Standing Group “Gender and Politics” of the Italian Society of…

The  research center PoliTeSse is pleased to invite you to a series of online meetings to be held in the second…

Mariano Croce Postcritique is often portrayed as a rupture with critical methods studying power relations and domination mechanisms, as well…

After the success of the first edition of the series of seminars “Including Diversity in Research”, the PhD Course in…

The event Diffusioni of the University of Verona welcome two events promoted by the CUG (University of Verona), in partenrship with Political…

Lia Arrigoni, Mauro Muscio, Laura ‘Saura’ Fontanella, Marta ‘Martu’ Palvarini, Marta Cotta Irene Villa, Elisa Virgili An online discussion about…

Umberto Grassi Discussants: Lucio Biasiori, University of Padua & Philip Soergel, UMD The seminar is organised by Nathan & Jeanette Miller…

Presentation of the book: Intersex. Antologia Multidisciplinare (Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2019). With the editor Michela Balocchi (PoliTeSse), and Stefano Osella (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology…

The lesson will present the research process and main results of Family Lives, a multiple method research in collaboration with…

The relation between bodies and new technologies opens up unforeseen political horizons. PoliTeSse presents a seminar to explore how feminist…

How do LGBT+ families challenge routine professional practice with couples and families? How to build LGBT-inclusive environments for children and…

PoliTeSse will welcome Professor Sabrina Marchetti for the seminar “The Question of Intersectionality”. In this seminar the debate around the notion…

PoliTeSse will welcome Professor Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University) for the seminar “Introduction to Postcolonial Studies”. In this seminar we will make an…

The PolitTeSse Research Centre presents Port* Apert* (“Open Doors”), a series of seminars, talks and conferences spread over the course of…

Lesbians do not exist in history, each one must impose its own existence, overcome the frontier of compulsory heterosexuality, overcome…

Taking into consideration the canonical theses of political thought regarding passions, relationships, activities and their forms, Federica Giardini‘s book – I nomi…

Sexual orientation and gender identity are underexplored dimensions in the field of social work. Therefore, professionals  are still lacking effective…

Spanning over a period of approximately forty years and underscoring the profound changes happening throughout it, Porpora Marcasciano traces her own genealogy…

The Research Center PoliTeSse introduces its members’ researches on some critical issues of the contemporary political debate, such as the…

Smagliature Digitali (Digital Stretch Marks) is a book curated by Carlotta Cossutta, Valentina Greco, Arianna Mainardi and Stefania Voli, which has been…

The PolitTeSse Research Centre presents Port* Apert*, a series of seminars spread over the course of the 2018-2019 academic session…

This seminar originates from the work of the interdisciplinary research centre Politesse. Starting from the studies on the notion of…

Mariano Croce (University La Sapienza, Roma) Giulia Selmi (University of Verona) Massimo Prearo (University of Verona) What happens when sexual…

Sandro Luce (University of Salerno) Discussants: Daniele Bassi (University of Ferrara) Lorenzo Bernini (University of Verona) Fanon’s reflections concerning identity…

Mariano Croce (Sapienza University, Rome) Natascia Tosel (University of Padova) Adriano Habed (University of Verona) The event will centre on…

Tommaso Scaramella (University of Verona) Federico Barbierato (University of Verona) Defining sexual habits has always involved a wide range of…

Anna Lorenzetti (University of Bergamo) Luca Pes (University of Piemonte Orientale) Presentation of the book ‘Più cuori e una capanna.…

The PolitTeSse Research Centre presents Porte Aperte (“Open Doors”), a series of seminars spread over the course of the 2018-2019…

The conference will investigate the condition of LGBTI asylum seekers in Italy with the participation of researchers and activists. Participation…

Studies on gender and sexuality have always been carried out not only inside, but also outside the university. Moreover, today’s…

Panel at the annual conference of the Association for Social and Political Philosophy Following the Orlando shooting in June 2016,…

In collaboration with: Dipartimenti di Scienze Politiche e di Giurisprudenza – Università di Perugia Dipartimento di Storia, Culture e Civiltà…

Alberica Bazzoni (University of Warwick) Carlotta Cossutta (Università del Piemonte orientale) From a position of marginality and eccentricity, Sapienza gives…

Egon Botteghi (PoliTeSse) Massimo Prearo (PoliTeSse, Università di Verona) Internal workshop reserved to the PoliTeSse research Team with the participation…

Chiara Bottici (New School for Social Research) In the last few years, it has become a commonplace to state that…

Narrare il genere nel contesto della salute: la costruzione delle maschilità nelle esperienze di diabete, Valeria Quaglia, University of Milano…

What are queer theories? How do they conceive of sexuality? How many sexes do they theorize? What is their relation…

Speakers: Michela Balocchi, Markus Bauer, Massimo Di Grazia, Stefano Osella, Daniela Truffer Chairs: Lorenzo Bernini, Michela Balocchi Intersex variations continue…

“When my dad told me the first time, he gave me a leaflet on transgender people. I never read it,…

This is the first of five workshops sponsored by the Queer Italia Network, led by Dr Charlotte Ross (University of…

with Vulca Fidolini, sociologist, University of Strasbourg This presentation will analyse hegemonic models of masculinity among a group of young…

Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, anthropologist, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Ethnography of a dominant subject. Massimo Modesti, intercultural pedagogist and…

Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau’ The black body, especially the black female body, has been historically subject to a paradoxical process of…

Massimo Prearo “I note that some homosexual subjects are complicit with heterosexual nationalist formations rather than inherently or automatically excluded…

Elisa A.G. Arfini, Carlotta Cossutta In times of neoliberalism and neofundamentalist crusades against “gender”, what does it mean to assert…

Valeria Venditti, Carlotta Cossutta The laboratories Gynepunk are spaces of “open source” gynecology implemented by groups of women that make…

Mariano Croce, Valeria Venditti Everyday utopias by Davina Cooper, Professor of Law & Political Theory at the University of Kent, is…

Vinzia Fiorino, Silvia Chiletti, Lorenzo Bernini Presentation of the Italian translation of the book ‘Black Skin, White Masques’ by Frantz…

The seminar will interrogate the good practices in the fight against homo-bi-transphobia within Italian military and police institutions, such as…

The tension between psychoanalysis and philosophy centers on philosophy’s will to establish the realm of thought as distinct from, and…

International conference organized by: Mélanie Gourarier (Post-doc fellow, LISST-Cas) Massimo Prearo (PoliTeSse / Politics and Theories of Sexuality – University of…

Carlotta Cossutta, Barbara Verzini, Valeria Mercandino, Arianna Mainardi After the first meeting of the PhD seminar “Theories and Politics of…

«In considering the act of storytelling as an instrument for galvanizing community empowerment, I would like to publicly share my…

In Italy, sex reassignment surgery is no longer compulsory in order for transgender people to change their name on their…

Which bodies can be “sexual”? How much does sexuality matter to being “real men” and “real women”? The sexuality of…

The seminar will be divided into two parts. In the first part, Mara Rescio will focus on the negative attitudes…

The debate on same-sex parenting, that the discussion about DDL Cirinnà has strongly intensified in the last year, highlighted the…

Surrogacy is a practice of medically assisted procreation that allows one or two people to become parents thanks to the…

This seminar proposes a focus on eroticism and the sexual act in the work and biography of Sartre, and in…

Maria Livia Alga, Giulia Angonese, Dany Carnassale, Gianmaria Colpani, Tim Huzar The PhD seminar “Theories and Politics of Sexuality and…

Egon Botteghi and Laurella Arietti Trans* parents are subject to a heavy social stigma that relegates them to invisibility. Yet,…

Anna Lorenzetti The seminar aims at offering an overview of some key legal issues surrounding LGBT parenthood in Italy, which…

In the last decades, historical studies in Italy have been paying to sexual minorities an attention beyond comparison in Humanities,…

One-day Conference presenting the collective book edited by Massimo Prearo, Politiche dell’orgoglio. Sessualità, soggettività e movimenti sociali  (ETS, series àltera /…

Jacqui Gabb (The Open University) and Ana Cristina Santos (University of Coimbra) Critical reflections on sexuality and family lives over…

Morgan Carpenter (Organisation Intersex International – Australia) introduced by Michela Balocchi Dominated by North American activists, the first wave intersex…

Beatrice Gusmano and Anna Maria Piussi, introduced by Massimo Prearo In March 2014, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and…

Mariano Croce Anna Lorenzetti, Matteo Nicolini In the sphere of affective and kinship relations, Western states’ regulatory and policy frameworks have…

Tommaso Scaramella, Umberto Grassi, Vincenzo Lagioia Fernanda Alfieri, Lorenzo Bernini John Boswell (1947-1994), Professor at Yale University and author of…

Chiara Sità, Massimo Modesti Within a phase of deep social change and increase of differences, the relationship between families and…

Lorenzo Bernini In its most common understanding, the term “gender” primarily refers today to the complementarity of femininity and masculinity,…

Daniel Borrillo Introduced by Massimo Prearo The meeting will highlight the crucial stages of the mobilization that led to the…

Tristana Dini, Cristina Gramolini, Valeria Mercandino, Annalisa Marino, Serena Sapegno, Chiara Zamboni Orsetta Giolo, Lucia Re, Olivia Guaraldo A round…

Marzio Barbagli, Anna Lorenzetti Laurella Arietti, Alessandra Cordiano On 23 September 2014 the Academic Senate of the University of Verona…

Massimo Prearo, Elisa A.G. Arfini How to do the political history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movements? Within…

The research situations conceived to observe and analyze the reality involve some epistemological and methodological problems that call into question…

Sara Creta, Idriss Amid Lorenzo Bernini Chris Belloni’s documentary film ‘I am Gay and Muslim’ focuses on the subject of…

Lee Edelman is Professor in the English Department at Tufts University, and one of the most influential voices in American queer…

There is much debate today around a crisis in Queer Theory. It is a crisis defined by a perceived imbalance…

Elisa A.G. Arfini, Alessandro Comeni The first part of the seminar was focused on a critique of the abuse of…

Anna Lorenzetti, Matteo Nicolini, Alessandra Cordiano The aim of this seminar was to analyse the norms that regulate the legal…

Beatrice Busi, Michela Balocchi The seminar’s core point was a historical and sociological analysis of people with DSD/intersex conditions. The…

Beatrice Busi, Chiara Caravà, Federica De Cordova The first part of the seminar analyzed the new forms of parenthood, bearing…

Lorenzo Bernini, Olivia Guaraldo The seminar started from the need to identify in feminist theory, not only a political and…

Rosanna Cima, Maria Livia Alga, Sandra Faith Erabor Porpora Marcasciano, Pia Covre, Beatrice Busi This seminar concerning sex work rounded…

Lorenzo Bernini Are we really ready to consider prostitution as ordinary work, even as a tool for women’s emancipation? When…