{"id":6759,"date":"2026-04-27T16:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/in-honour-of-teresa-de-lauretis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:34:43","slug":"in-honour-of-teresa-de-lauretis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/in-honour-of-teresa-de-lauretis\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer and Feminist Theory. In Honour of Teresa de Lauretis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Workshop Monday <\/span>11 May 2026, 16:00 \u2013 19:30, ICI-Berlin<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

In honour of Teresa de Lauretis (29 November 1938 – 2 February 2026)<\/strong> the ICI-Berlin in collaboration with the iQt is organizing a collective reading of early texts of one of the most important voices of feminist film- and media studies, psychoanalysis and Queer Theory.<\/p>\n

The workshop takes place in English; registration required<\/a>; no online participation possible.
\nICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, house 8, 10119 Berlin (U-Senefelder Platz) accessibility<\/a><\/p>\n

Teresa de Lauretis coined the term \u2018queer theory\u2019; for her, it was a means of denaturalizing sexuality and developing a theory of lesbian desire, which she provocatively, yet affirmatively, called \u2018fetishistic\u2019 and \u2018perverse\u2019. Drawing on semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the analysis of power, Teresa de Lauretis formulated a process of sexual structuring that informed her understanding of queer theory. In 1990, she titled the conference on lesbian and gay sexualities held at UCI Santa Cruz \u2018Queer Theory\u2019. She hoped that queer theory would bring about \u2018new forms of community\u2019 and \u2018resistance to cultural homogenization\u2019. Yet, she was also among the first to criticize the danger of normalization that accompanied the institutionalization and rapid spread of the term queer. As early as 1994, she described queer theory as vacuous and overhyped in an essay entitled \u2018Habit Changes\u2019. She criticized the shift in focus from sexuality to gender inclusivity, democratic representation, and multiculturalism. Lauretis was also a decisive critic of Freud, Laplanche, and psychoanalysis; nevertheless they remained the focal point of her thinking. Through her writings on psychoanalytic film theory and the structuring of the subject, as in her 1994 books\u00a0Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>as well as Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction<\/em> (1987)<\/em>, Teresa de Lauretis became a pioneer and co-founder of feminist film theory and media-gender studies.\u00a0She always resisted reaching a hasty consensus and insisted on critical thinking regarding the current state of affairs. It was precisely because of this uncompromising, passionate approach, unafraid of contradiction that de Lauretis had such a formative influence on many of us.<\/p>\n

\"Portrait

Teresa de Lauretis am ICI-Berlin 2015, copyright: ICI-Berlin<\/p><\/div>\n

Teresa de Lauretis was born in Italy in 1938 and taught in the interdisciplinary History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz from 1985 until her retirement in 2008. She died in San Francisco on 3 February 2026. The workshop will explore and discuss selected texts by de Lauretis. The texts will be distributed prior to the workshop to registered participants.<\/p>\n

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
\nChristoph Holzhey
\nAntke Antek Engel<\/p>\n

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