Antoine Idier

Antoine Idier is Associate Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye and researcher at the Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP, UMR 8386).

His research focuses on sexuality and politics; he specialized in history of social movements and LGBTQI+ movements, history of ideas, queer theory as well as contemporary visual art and literature. He notably published a biography of the French gay activist, writer and theoretician Guy Hocquenghem (Les Vies de Guy Hocquenghem, 2017), a book on LGBTQI+ archives (Archives des mouvements LGBT+, 2018) and a book on the visual artist Michel Journiac and AIDS (Pureté et impureté de l’art, 2019). He also edited a collection of press articles by Guy Hocquenghem (2017) and a collection of writings by yann beauvais on experimental cinema (2022). He is also the author of many book chapters and contributions to art catalogs. In 2022-2023, he was curator of the exhibition on LGBTQI+ archives “Dans les marges. Trente ans du fond Michel Chomarat" at the library of Lyon. In 2024, he was commissioner for the AWARE prize.