Friday, 22 March at 3:00 PM – Sala degli Stemmi, Villa Salviati Speaker: Kirsten Kamphuis (PhD researcher, EUI, HEC) Abstract: While same-sex desire often functions as a trope in writings about girls’ education, especially in boarding schools, source material produced by adults tends to be silent about this topic. In my own research  project, which focuses […]

Wednesday, 27 February at 3:00 PM – Sala del Capitolo, Badia Fiesolana Speaker: Ezgi Guler (PhD researcher, EUI, SPS) Abstract: Violence, discrimination, and financial insecurity are the problems sex workers struggle with globally. Particularly, the least protected members of our societies, such as transgender sex workers, are targeted with these threats disproportionately. Research has consistently […]

Friday 25 January 2019, 3:00 PM – Seminar Room 1, Badia Fiesolana Speaker: Kamil Karczewski (EUI Researcher, HEC) Abstract: The new Polish penal code of 1932 decriminalized same-sex relations, opening new possibilities for homosexuals, especially in the upper echelons of society. At the same time, however, the criminalization of same-sex prostitution (both male and female) […]

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 […]

Wednesday 20 June 2018 at 5:00 PM – Seminar Room 2, Badia Fiesolana ‘ Presentation organised by the LGBTIQ Interdisciplinary Working Group Speaker: Julia Maclachlan (University of Manchester) Abstract: Julia’s PhD project investigates the transnational flows of scientific and social knowledge, which shaped the understanding and experience of sexually dissident masculinities in Britain in a period […]