EUI Events


The role of the Gay and Lesbian movement in combating AIDS in 1980s Ireland

‘If we are as successful in preventing AIDS as we have been in preventing unwanted pregnancies the outlook is bleak’: The role of the Gay and Lesbian movement in combating AIDS in 1980s Ireland 21 March 2018, 5:00 PM – Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana Lecture by Patrick McDonagh (EUI Researcher, Department of History and […]

Women in Academia: sharing our experiences

8 March 2018, 17:00-19:00, Refectory, Badia Fiesolana – Organized by Marta Fraile (SPS) Speakers: Deidre Curtin (Law), Giulia Dotti Sani (MWF-SPS), Laura Downs (HEC), Francesca Galli (RSCAS/Law), Vivian Gerrand (RSCAS/ Immigration Centre), Klarita Gërxhani (SPS), Marina Henke (MWF-SPS), Ellen Immergut (SPS), Brigid Laffan (RSCAS), Evi Pappa (ECO), Mishka Sinha (HEC), Jennifer Welsh (SPS) Although progress towards gender equality […]

“The Forgotten Victims? Survivors of Involuntary Castration in the Nordic Countries”

28 February 2018, 16:30, Sala del Capitolo (Badia) – organised by the LGBTIQ Interdisciplinary Working Group & the Fundamental Rights Working Group. Speaker: Daniela Alaattinoğlu (EUI Researcher, Department of Law) Chair: Raphaële Xenidis (EUI Researcher and Coordinator of the Fundamental Rights Working Group) Abstract: Norway, Finland and Sweden first established legislation on sterilization and castration in the 1930s and 1940s. While the legislation […]

How Italy Became Gay-friendly: The Role of Italian Academia in the Recognition and Enforcement of LGBT Rights

Prof. Matteo Winkler, HEC Paris Meeting of the LGBTQ caucus When: 24 January 2018, 14:00-15:00 Place: Badia Fiesolana, Seminar Room 3 In the last decade, whilst Western Europe was quickly moving towards the legal recognition of same-sex couples, Italy seemed to remain immovable in a sort of cultural isolationism. In the face of legal and social […]

Trans Jurisprudence: Fundamental Rights, Balancing of Principles, and the Gendered Subject at the Comparative Level

Presentation by Stefano Osella (LAW, 4th year researcher) Meeting of the LGBTIQ Interdisciplinary Working Group Time: 17 January 2018, 17:00-19:00 Place: Badia Fiesolana, Seminar Room 2 In his presentation Stefano Osella will discuss the right of trans persons to have their gender identity legally recognized through reclassification for all legal purposes (right to gender recognition) […]

Global Gay Governance

16 October 2017 – Lecture by Aeyal Gross (Fernand Braudel Fellow, EUI; The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University) More info