Centro per l’Eccellenza e gli Studi Transdisciplinari

Casa Arcobaleno | Via Bernardino Lanino 3/A, Torino

EVENT

Thursday 3rd of December 2015

Abnormal lives and homophobia

A queer agenda

Casa Arcobaleno | Via Bernardino Lanino 3/A, Torino


Thursday 3 December at 7.00 pm at CasArcobaleno a discussion will take place based on David Halperin’s book San Foucault. Verso un’agiografia gay (ETS, 2013), with the participation of Cristian Lo Iacono, Flavia Monceri, Francesca Puopolo and Marco Pustianaz. The initiative is under the direction of CasArcobaleno & CEST – Centro per l’Eccellenza e gli Studi Transdisciplinari.

THE BOOK – Homophobia is the central theme of this book, first published in 1995 and presented here in its first Italian translation. Far from being yet another book ‘by experts’ on the work of Michel Foucault, it shows how his thought is inextricably linked to his life experience, and therefore to homosexuality, and clarifies what this implies for judging its effect on contemporaries. In the essays collected in it, Halperin confronts two questions that are central for the present: the sense in which one can speak of a queer politics and try to build a foundation for it beyond traditional concepts of ‘liberation’ and ‘emancipation’, which Foucault didn’t like anyway, and the theme of the describability of individual ‘abnormal’ or ‘marked’ lives, which are the object rather than the subject of the dominant discourse on knowing and understanding, and are therefore obliged to develop alternative forms of ‘authorisation’ and ‘legitimisation’.

THE AUTHOR – David Halperin is Lecturer in Queer Theory at the University of New South Wales. He is among the founders of the journal ‘GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies’. Translated all over the world, he has published, among other things, What Do Gay Men Want?: An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity (Routledge, 1989) and One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (Routledge, 1990). For Oxford University Press he is the director of the series ‘Ideologies of Desire’.


In partnership with CasArcobaleno

Guests

Flavia Monceri

Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Molise, she also teaches Philosophy of Social Sciences and Communication. Among other things, she investigates queer and transgender theories, studies on ‘disability’, intercultural communication, philosophy of film, complexity theory, and post-anarchy


Speakers

Cristian Lo Iacono

PhD in Philosophy and Philosophical Hermeneutics, is an activist and manager of the Documentation Centre of the Maurice GLBTQ

Francesca Puopolo

She is an actress, director, dramatist, theatrical trainer, head of culture for CasArcobaleno and volunteer for Arcigay Torino.

Marco Pustianaz

He is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of East Piedmont, where he teaches English Literature, History of English Theatre and Critical Theory Applied to Gender and Queer Studies. At ETS he directs the series ‘Altera. Intercultura di genere’.


Chair

Francesca Puopolo

She is an actress, director, dramatist, theatrical trainer, head of culture for CasArcobaleno and volunteer for Arcigay Torino.


Casa Arcobaleno | Via Bernardino Lanino 3/A, Torino