Invited talks

Invited talks


Sex revolution in Central-Eastern Europe? On the specificity and role of expert knowledge – a presentation at the course "Sexuality Under and After State Socialism: Central-Eastern Europe and Beyond" (taught by dr. Agnieszka Kościańska) at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford (Jan 26, 2021)

Scarce pictures. Sexual imagery presented by sexologists and invented by people in late-socialist Czechoslovakia – a talk delivered at the "Sex, science, and censorship in the 19th and 20th centuries" conference organized by University of Exeter and University of Granada (Granada, Spain; Feb. 17-18, 2020), in collaboration with Lenka Klodová

Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style. Intimate Life and Expertise in Communist Czechoslovakia 

– a talk delivered at Yale-NUS College (Singapore; Nov. 18, 2019)

– a talk delivered at the University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia; Nov. 11, 2019)

– a talk delivered at the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia; Nov. 7, 2019) + HDR Workshop: Working with Historical Sources on Gender and Sexuality + Gender and history node discussion group-14th session

Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style. A case of Progressiveness from the Cold War’s East – a talk delivered as part of the BauhausWoche (Berlin, DE; Sept. 6, 2019)

Sexual misfits and state socialism. Dealing with male homosexuality and male sexual deviance in Czechoslovakia – a talk delivered as part of the Leiden Queer History Network at the Institute for History, Leiden University (Leiden, the Netherlands; May 17, 2019)

Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style. Science and Politics in Communist Czechoslovakia – a talk delivered at the Department of Anthropology at the European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia; Apr. 30, 2019)

Was there sex in socialism? – a talk delivered as part of the series Cultures of Critique organized by the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia; Apr. 29, 2019)

Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style – a book session held at the Social Science History Association annual conference (Phoenix, USA; Nov. 8-11, 2018)

Conceptualizing socialist sexual citizenship. The case of male homosexuality and male sexual deviance in Czechoslovakia – a talk delivered at the conference "Sexual Citizenship, Oral History, and the Archive in 1970s Central and Eastern Europe" organized by University of Warsaw (Warsaw, PL; Sept. 20-22, 2018)

Marching towards modernity. Science and sexual liberation in state socialist Czechoslovakia – a talk delivered at the Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, DE; Feb. 7, 2018)

Making sexuality visible. Explicit imagery provided by experts and bricolaged by people in late-socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the "Visual Archives of Sexology" symposium organized by Birkbeck College, University of London (London, UK; Dec. 2, 2017), in collaboration with Lenka Klodová

Divorcing during communism in Czechoslovakia. Expert discourses on gender and sexuality and their uses in front of divorce courts from the 1950s until the 1980s - a paper presented at the "Gender, Generations, Communism in Central and South-Eastern Europe: Concepts, Discourses, Practices" workshop organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences  (Warsaw, PL; Nov. 16-18, 2017)

Sex in the time of communism. From women's equality to gender hierarchy in Czechoslovakia – a lecture delivered at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Nov. 10, 2017)

Teaching sex to the masses: Sexology in communist Czechoslovakia, pleasure & deviance – a lecture delivered at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine / École de médecine du Nord de l'Ontario (Thunder Bay, ON, Canada; Nov. 6, 2017)

(S)expertíza. O výzkumu sexuality a akademické kariéře [(S)expertise. On researching sexuality and academic career] – lecture delivered at the Annual Lecture Series of the NKC Gender and Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, CZ; Feb. 10, 2017) you can watch the talk here (in Czech)

Collectivized equality and sciences of desire. Sexuality, gender, and family in expert discourses of 1950s Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the Imre Kertész Kolleg colloquium (Jena, Germany; Jan. 25, 2016)

Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style. Gender, Sex, and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989 – a lecture delivered at Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, USA; Nov. 30, 2015)
Sexuality and sexual science under state socialism. A case of Czechoslovakia  – a presentation at the Presidential Invited Session at 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (Chicago, USA; Aug. 22-25, 2015)
Sexpertiza. Psy-vědy a jejich proměna v socialistickém Československu [Sexpertise. Psy-ences changing socialist Czechoslovakia] – a lecture delivered at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, CZ; Jun. 24, 2015)

 

Sex and gender during communism. From equality to hierarchy in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989  – a lecture delivered at the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK; June 11, 2015)

Sexology in Czechoslovakia. Expert knowledge forming intimate lives under communism – a lecture delivered at the History of Sexuality seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (London, UK; Feb. 17, 2015) listen to the talk here

Sexuality and gender regimes during state socialism and their postsocialist transformation – a lecture delivered at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (Warsaw, PL; Nov. 5, 2014)

Sex during Communism.  Intimate life and the power of expertise – a lecture  delivered at CECE annual conference, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences (Brno, CZ; Oct. 21, 2014)

The Normal and the Deviant. Changing emphases in Czechoslovak sexological discourses between the 1950s and 1970s – a lecture delivered at the international interdisciplinary conference "Zwischen notwendiger Enttabuisierung und problematischer Entgrenzung. Sexuelle Revolution, Kindererziehung und Sexualaufklärung im historischen Kontext" / "Between necessary removal of taboos and problematic dissolution of boundaries. Sexual revolution and childhood within the historical context of the 1970s/1980s", Stiftung Universität Hildesheim / Hildesheim University (Hildesheim, Germany; Sep. 29.-Oct. 1, 2014)

Normalcy and pathology in sex and gender. Medical discipline of sexology operates in communist Czechoslovakia (1948-1989) – a lecture at Yale University, Working group in the history of psychiatry (New Haven, CT; Jan. 29, 2014)

Sex talk. Understanding communism in Czechoslovakia through expert discourses of sexuality – a lecture at the Society for Arts and Culture, Bohemian National Hall (New York, NY, USA; May 8, 2013)