Histories of Intimacy (HEC-RS-HISINT-25)
HEC-RS-HISINT-25
| Department |
HEC |
| Course category |
HEC Research Seminar |
| Course type |
Seminar |
| Academic year |
2025-2026 |
| Term |
2ND TERM |
| Credits |
1 (EUI History seminars) |
| Professors |
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| Contact |
Parrini, Alba
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| Course materials |
| Sessions |
15/01/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
22/01/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
29/01/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
05/02/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
12/02/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
19/02/2026 14:00-19:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
26/02/2026 14:00-16:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
12/03/2026 14:00-19:00 @ Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
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| Reading list |
Link
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| Enrolment info |
01/12/2025 - 16/12/2025 |
Description
The seminar looks at how intimacy has been studied across diverse fields of historical and transdisciplinary research. The intimate colloquially resonates with coziness. But a second glance quickly reveals that it is everything but free from political interventions, violent transgressions and economic interests. At times the familiar can be a stranger thing. The notion of intimacy allows for a productive vagueness that helped historians of sexuality, of colonialism, of care work, of mobility and of activism, among other areas, to complexify their narratives and to broaden their perspectives. In this vein, the seminar asks what conceptual frameworks, which methods and which primary sources intimacy are best suited for writing histories of intimacy.
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