Davide Tomaselli

🌟EVENT ALERT🌟

On 12 Februray we're hosting @albertonicotina.bsky.social to present his book "Lidia Poet e le prime avvocate".
We will discuss it with @martinicogi.bsky.social and Sara Molinari (@eui-law.bsky.social), both in Villa Salviati and online.

Registere here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

🧚🏽🧚🏽 EVENT ALERT 🧚🏽🧚🏽

Tomorrow, we will host @frammaturo.bsky.social in Palazzo Buontalenti to discuss her latest book, "The Politics of Pride Events"!

Join us on premise or online, registration is available here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Looking forward to the juicy discussions!!

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‼️Deadline approaching‼️

One week left to apply for the Queer Fragments Conference! 💥🌟
The great proposals we received made us even more eager to collect more to make this conference, as we promised, joyfully and enragedly queer.

Find more detailed info on the application process in the CfP!
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💥Extension announcement!💥
New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!).
New notification of acceptance: 27 February.

In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨

Still a couple weeks to apply for this amazing conference that can take you to Florence next June! 💥

"Fatti più in là. Storie e lotte queer in Toscana dal 1969 a oggi" opens this Saturday, 29 November 2025 (6 p.m.), in Carrara 📍🏳️‍🌈

All the details are available here: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

TDoR is a day to remember, mourn, and honour all the trans* lives lost to violence, hatred, and discrimination.

Today, it is also a day to turn anger into fighting, and remembrance into love and care.

Trans* lives matter: there can be no queer liberation if trans* people are left behind

In these daunting times, we invite participants to question implied wholes; to disrupt narratives while celebrating addenda, palimpsests; to ask, once again, why are queer lives made dispensable, unlivable.
See you in Villa Salviati to turn our fragmented selves into sources of transformation 🦾💥

We'll host scholars, activists, artists, and practitioners in Florence to come together, think, and act starting from fragments as sources and inspirations; fragmenting as an instance of deconstruction and radical imagination; fragmentation as a posture to think through reality and practice change.

🦄QUEER ALERT💅
So happy to see this CfP out! Witnessing this conference come to light has been amazing. There is still so much to do, but I can't wait to meet the great people and ideas that will come around!
There's time until 9 January to submit for QUEER FRAGMENTS: BREAKING, REPARING, TRANSFORMING

The EUI PalestineWG successfully raised €30,000 to get Dr Wail Badah and his family out of Gaza.
The fundraiser now aims for a new target of €55,000 to support 10 Gaza-based scholars too.
We have five days left! Please donate and circulate if you can: chuffed.org/project/supp...
#Gaza#Education

Excited to present Digital Patrolling this Monday 27 Oct, 12:00 at UniFi! Many thanks to Prof. Veronica Federico for the invitation. Honoured to have Prof. Francesca Biondi Dal Monte and Davide Tomaselli as discussants.
If you would like to join, let me know! ✨

🦄Queer Alert🦄
The EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group, together with Storie di sessualità e genere from Università di Padova, is organising a two-day "InterQueer" workshop in Padova, on 29-30 January 2026.
👉Find the call for papers here: gender.eui.eu/wp-content/u...

This is why I cannot see my scholarly role complete without political engagement: be it within my institution, fighting for
#grantequality, or outside, engaging, in recent times in particular, with movements supporting the liberation of #Palestine.

I am curious to hear your thoughts on this!

I also reflected on the responsibilities that this privilege bears too. I do not believe that academia should aim for axiological neutrality: the knowledge we produce is irreducibly political, and so are the infrastructures, resources, and processes we build on to produce it.

I also had the opportunity to reflect on my experience at the @eui-law.bsky.social. I am very aware of the great privilege I benefit from by spending my time here as a researcher and by witnessing, daily, how knowledge is (or should at least) materially produced: in collaboration and in solidarity.

An example? When it comes to migration and asylum law, a (critical) queer legal scholar would rather fight for the abolition of borders than advocate for a multiplication of the existing categories populating a fundamentally unjust, violent, and racist border management system.

I argue that it is not enough to do research "about" LGBT people in order to be a queer scholar. Queer legal scholarship is about reflecting on our positioning, reassessing our epistemology and methodology, embracing the radical implications of critique, and taking a bold political stance.

During the conversation Marilea and I had, I shared my thoughts on what it means to take a queer and critical approach to migration and asylum law, and, more broadly, what it means to be queer and critical while doing (legal) research.

Deconstructing EU law through a queer lens: a conversation with Davide Tomaselli In this interview, EUI Law researcher Davide Tomaselli explores European asylum law through a queer perspective Drawing on legal practice and political theory

I am grateful to the @eui-eu.bsky.social, the Research Communications team, and especially Marilea Poppa for granting me the opportunity to speak about my ongoing PhD research!
www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

Starting the new academic year as a co-coordinator of the @eui-qfg.bsky.social!
Exciting times and events ahead, stay tuned 🦄

I am curious and excited to hear what you think about this!
In the meantime, a heartfelt thank you to all the people I encountered in these two years who were patient and kind enough to dedicate some of their time to discussing these topics with me: I owe you inspiration and motivation!

This grim conclusion, and the cogent call it extends to scholars inviting their critical engagement with questions of power within the law, still inspires my research, continuing now with my PhD project developing a #queer critique of EU law.

It is in this framework, then, that SOGIESC asylum can be understood as a new weapon in the arsenal of racist border politics: LGBTIQ+ rights discourses turn #homonationalist to justify, yet again, why certain people can be recklessly excluded.

Reading classic themes of refugee law such as #discretion and #credibility through this lens, I show that the law of international protection cannot do without politics: its very functioning depends on othering processes.

By reviewing case law and scholarship in international refugee law, and particularly focusing on European asylum and migration law, I claim that the case of #SOGIESC asylum actually provides a tool to deconstruct the very foundation of refugehood: the binary between forced and voluntary movements.

At the same time, a new minority has obtained recognition in the international refugee law forum: asylum seekers claiming protection from persecution on the ground of their sexual orientation and gender identity. I basically ask: is someone paying the price of this evolution?

In this article, I ask the unsettling question of the politics of #asylum for #LGBTIQ+ people. Recent decades have witnessed an increasing tightening and violent governance of #borders supported by uncensored and often unrecognised racist, dehumanising discourses.

I started working on it as an LLM student at @uvalawschool.bsky.social and I submitted it as a PhD Researcher at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. It is for me a great satisfaction to see how dedication and patience, nurtured by passionate academic discussions, can really turn into public paper.

‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum Abstract. This article addresses the consequences that SOGIESC claims of asylum have on international refugee law and its fundamental distinction between ‘

I am genuinely happy to share that my first big publication is now available online!
"'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants" is the result of two years of research, writing, reflection, discussion, rethinking.
Now I can't wait to debate it!