Wednesday 5 December at 3:00 PM – Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati Speaker: Giovanna Gilleri (EUI Researcher, Department of Law) Chair: Martin Christensen (EUI Researcher, Department of Law, Coordinator of the International Law Working Group) Abstract   Over the last few years, many international institutions have called upon states to stop medical sexing interventions upon intersex children, also […]

Wednesday 21 November at 5:00 PM – Sala del Camino, Villa Salviati Speaker: Gabriella Romano (PhD researcher, Birkbeck College, the University of London) The presentation focuses on The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy: The Case of ‘G’, to be published in open access in January 2019. November 1928. A man is interned in the Collegno […]

12 November 2018 – from 4 to 6 pm, Sala del Capitolo (Badia Fiesolana) Speaker: Lucy Nicholas (University of Swinburne) Recent years have seen huge shifts in the way academics apply gender and queer theory, as well as the way people speak about femininity and masculinity in everyday life. Where exactly are we in the […]

22 November 2018 – Ursula Hirschmann Lecture Series, from 4 to 6 pm, in sala del Consiglio (Villa Salviati), with Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic (Scences-Po, Paris) The twentieth century can arguably be dubbed the century of management. As management ideas spread and project efficiency, neutrality and universality, they turn into a powerful and (nearly) taken-for-granted “regime of truth”. But management […]

Next workshops of 2018:   18 October  (Villa la Fonte, Seminar room B) Emilio J. Castilla (MIT) “Language and Gender in the Online Recruitment Process” Mariska Kret (Leiden University) “Emotion Processing in Homo and Pan”   22 November (Badia Fiesolana, Seminar room 2) Béatrice Boulu-Reshef (Univ Paris1) “tbc” Javier G. Polavieja (IC3JM) “Racial Discrimination in Europe: Results […]

24 September 2018 The coverage of women and sexual harassment in the workplace has changed since the #MeToo hashtag went viral in October 2017, after Alyssa Milano (actress) used Tarana Burke’s (social activist) expression “Me Too” on Twitter, encouraging victims of sexual harassment to voice their experiences. As a result, an avalanche of sexual harassment […]