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SUMMARY:Home Queer Home | Queer Theory’s Lost Horn\, or Why Is Everybody So
	 Afraid of Being Turned On?
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DTSTART:20260409T133000Z
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two decades\, queer theory has both displaced sex
	 from its\nprivileged center and expanded queerness to encompass everythin
	g from\nenvironmental collapse to war\, domesticity to prison abolition. W
	hile its early\nframeworks enabled such expansion\, this shift has often s
	idelined desire and\npleasure as key objects and methods of inquiry. This 
	lecture asks: why is\neverybody so afraid of being turned on? Tracing quee
	r theory’s material and\npolitical histories in US academia and its global
	 circulation\, I contrast\nAnglo-American dominance with other\, “hornier”
	 geographies of queer thought. I\nargue that thinking through desire and p
	leasure is essential not only to sex and\nsexuality\, but to understanding
	 the wider world in the twenty-first century.\n\nJoão Florêncio is Profess
	or of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at\nLinköping University\,
	 Sweden. His work draws from queer studies\, media studies\,\nvisual cultu
	re and cultural studies to investigate the ways in which the queer\nbody h
	as been produced\, policed\, and contested as a political site of creative
	\nand affective sexual world-making in modern and contemporary cultures. H
	e is the\nauthor of Bareback Porn\, Porous Masculinities\, Queer Futures: 
	The Ethics of\nBecoming-Pig (Routledge\, 2020)\, and\, with Liz Rosenfeld\
	, of Crossings: Creative\nEcologies of Cruising (Rutgers University Press\
	, 2025)\, among several\npeer-reviewed journal articles\, book chapters\, 
	op-eds\, and catalogue essays.\n\nSaluti istituzionali: Raul Calzoni (Dire
	ttore DLLCS) ed Elisabetta\nConsonni (Immaginare Orlando) | moderano: Stef
	ano Mudu e Alessandra Goggio\n(Università di Bergamo)\n\nConferenza in lin
	gua inglese\n\nComitato organizzatore: Martina Censi\, Cristian Pallone\, 
	Giuseppe Previtali\n\nInfo–giuseppe.previtali@unibg.it(link sends e-mail)\
	n[giuseppe.previtali@unibg.it] - cristian.pallone@unibg.it(link sends e-ma
	il)\n[cristian.pallone@unibg.it]\n\nLa prenotazione per l’evento non è nec
	essaria\n\nIn collaborazione con: Immaginare Orlando\n[https://www.orlando
	festival.it/it/chi-siamo]
URL:https://botep.org/event/home-queer-home-or-queer-theorys-lost-horn-or-w
	hy-is-everybody-so-afraid-of-being-turned-on
GEO:45.7025;9.66239
LOCATION:Università degli Studi di Bergamo\, Aula 2 \\ piazza Rosate 2\, Be
	rgamo - 2\, Piazza Rosate\, Città Alta\, Bergamo\, Lombardia\, 24129\, Ita
	lia
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:conferenza,queer
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Over the past two decades, <strong>queer th
	eory</strong> has both displaced sex from its privileged center and expand
	ed queerness to encompass everything from environmental collapse to war, d
	omesticity to prison abolition. While its early frameworks enabled such ex
	pansion, this shift has often sidelined desire and pleasure as key objects
	 and methods of inquiry. This lecture asks: <strong>why is everybody so af
	raid of being turned on?</strong> Tracing queer theory’s material and poli
	tical histories in US academia and its global circulation, I contrast Angl
	o-American dominance with other,<strong> “hornier” geographies of queer th
	ought</strong>. I argue that thinking through desire and pleasure is essen
	tial not only to sex and sexuality, but to understanding the wider world i
	n the twenty-first century.</p><p><strong>João Florêncio</strong> is Profe
	ssor of Gender Studies (Sex Media &amp; Sex Cultures) at Linköping Univers
	ity, Sweden. His work draws from queer studies, media studies, visual cult
	ure and cultural studies to investigate the ways in which the queer body h
	as been produced, policed, and contested as a political site of creative a
	nd affective&nbsp;sexual world-making in modern and contemporary cultures.
	 He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: T
	he Ethics of Becoming-Pig (Routledge, 2020), and, with Liz Rosenfeld, of C
	rossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising (Rutgers University Press, 2025),
	 among several peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, op-eds, and 
	catalogue essays.</p><p>Saluti istituzionali: <strong>Raul Calzoni</strong
	> (Direttore DLLCS) ed <strong>Elisabetta Consonni&nbsp;</strong>(Immagina
	re Orlando) | moderano: <strong>Stefano Mudu&nbsp;</strong>e<strong> Aless
	andra Goggio</strong> (Università di Bergamo)</p><p>Conferenza in lingua i
	nglese</p><p>Comitato organizzatore: <strong>Martina Censi</strong>, <stro
	ng>Cristian Pallone</strong>, <strong>Giuseppe Previtali</strong></p><p>In
	fo–<a target="_blank" href="mailto:giuseppe.previtali@unibg.it">giuseppe.p
	revitali@unibg.it(link sends e-mail)</a> - <a target="_blank" href="mailto
	:cristian.pallone@unibg.it">cristian.pallone@unibg.it(link sends e-mail)</
	a></p><p>La prenotazione per l’evento non è necessaria</p><p>In collaboraz
	ione con: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.orlandofestival.it/it/chi-s
	iamo">Immaginare Orlando</a></p>
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