The fourth edition of the Primavera Queer series, promoted as part of the Religions and Gender course and the activities of the Religions and Social Change Laboratory of the Saras Department, coordinated by Marianna Ferrara, begins on May 7th.
Through case studies spanning diverse cultural and religious contexts, the series aims to offer methodological tools for analyzing the configurations of gender, body, and identity in symbolic systems, highlighting the plurality of their historical expressions.
The first meeting, Thursday, May 7th at 12:00 p.m., in the Venturi Hall of the Humanities and Philosophy building, will be led by Małgorzata Sacha (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) on the topic "Imaginary and Real Men: Hindu Masculinity After the Maternal Spell" by Sudhir Kakar.
Following:
Silvia Romani (May 13th, Romeo Hall), Queer Heroism. The Construction of the Heroic Paradigm in Greco-Roman Mythology
Igor Spanò (May 14, Aula Venturi), Queer Bodies between Rite and Medicine in Ancient India
Luca Arcari (May 20, Aula Romeo), "Urbanity" and Non-Normative Sexuality in Philo of Alexandria and Paul of Tarsus
Renata Pepicelli (May 21, Aula Venturi), Bodies and Representations in the East/West Dichotomy
Diana Segarra Crespo (May 27, Aula Romeo), "Fluidity" and "Monstrum": Ancient and Modern Categories in Gender Discourses
Cinzia Pieruccini (June 8), Aula Frugoni Petrucci, Vātsyāyana, Women and the "Third Nature": Reflections on the Text of the Kamasūtra
The seminars will also be accessible online at the following link: MEET.GOOGLE.COM/QTW-CZAO-EXV. This link allows the acquisition of 2 AAF credits, subject to the Rector's approval. of your degree program. The procedures for obtaining 2 AAF credits are indicated at the following link (or in the QR code on the poster):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CsKy2lmT5y5dPE__lE9HtYKB8f4t_W3VVm9Y...