Conferences
Organizing a panel "Socialismus, gender a expertíza" + presenting a paper Jak se dělá orgasmus. Sexuologie a sexuální spokojenost žen v socialistickém Československu at the Annual conference of Czech Sociological Society (Brno, CZ; June 23-25, 2021)
How to bring up healthy kids. Changing the understanding of childcare in state-socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the conference Mother, father, child, health – The history of reproduction (organized by the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine, co-organized with the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin and the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine of the Charité Medical University; June 3-4, 2021)
chairing a panel "Family Planning as a National Affair? The Importance of Family Planning in Conflicting Ethno-Spaces in Eastern Europe" at the ASN conference (Columbia University; May 5-8, 2021)
Organizing a panel "Therapies for Deviance and Dysfunctions in State Socialism" + presenting a paper Socialism and women’s orgasm. Expert knowledge and sexual therapies for dysfunctional couples in Czechoslovakia - presented at the European Social Science History Conference (Leiden, NL; March 24-27, 2021)
Sustaining marriage to strengthen socialism. The rise and decline of marital counseling in late socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the workshop Mental Health East and West: Europe since 1970 (organized by Universität Tübingen; March 18-19, 2021)
Sexual training in the psychiatric hospital in 1970s socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the Contemporary History of Psychiatric Practices in Europe Workshop (Charité Berlin; November 11-13, 2020)
Sexual deviants and delinquents: from a non-issue to a large-scale problem – paper presented at the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives History Conference, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia; Nov. 15-16, 2019)
How the woman question changed into the child question. Developmental psychology and shifting discourses around early childcare in 1960s Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the 38thAnnual Conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (Budapest, HU; July 4-6, 2019)
Organizing an international conference Sexual Knowledge and Expertise in Europe’s East, before and after 1945 with presenters from 11 countries on 4 continents (Brno, CZ; June 3-5, 2019)
Novátorství v československé sexuologii za socialismu. Příklady ženského orgasmu a mužské sexuální deviace [Innovation in Czechoslovak sexology during communism. Examples of the female orgasm and male sexual deviance] – paper presented at the Czech Society for Sexual Medicine conference (Český Krumlov, CZ; May 24-25, 2019)
Love disappeared, equality unachieved, sex missing. Divorces during the first decade of state socialism in Czechoslovakia – paper presented as part of a roundtable „Assessing Behavior: State Responses to Sex and Violence in Russia and Eastern Europe” at the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) (Boston, USA; Dec. 6-9, 2018)
Organizing a panel "Between Progressiveness and Conservatism. Sexuality and Gender in State-Socialist East-Central Europe, 1950s-1980s" + presenting a paper Teaching sex, preaching gender. Expert advice to married couples in late-socialist Czechoslovakia – presented at the Social Science History Association annual conference (Phoenix, USA; Nov. 8-11, 2018)
Organizing a panel "Battling Deviance in State-Socialist East Central Europe" + presenting a paper Curing sex, strengthening the family. Psychiatric hospitals as sites for treating sexual deviance and dysfunctions in Normalization Czechoslovakia – presented at the Society for the Social History of Medicine conference (Liverpool, UK; July 11-13, 2018)
Sexology as social science. The intersections of expertise and the state changing the understanding of sexual deviance in state-socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the History of Recent Social Science workshop at the University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland; June 8-9, 2018)
Intimacy in state socialist Czechoslovakia. Changes in expert understanding of sexuality and gender – paper presented at the Canadian Association of Slavists Conference (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; May 26-28, 2018)
Fixing sex in a psychiatric ward. Learning heteronormativity and improving married life in late state-socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Conference (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; May 26-28, 2018)
Sexual deviance and medical expertise. Shifting discourses at the time of Prague Spring, 1968 – paper presented at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference (Cambridge, UK; Apr. 13-15, 2018)
Organizing a panel "Sexuality and Expertise under State Socialism" + presenting a paper Until divorce do us part. Marriage troubles and the rise and fall of marital counseling in late socialist Czechoslovakia – presented at the European Social Science History Conference (Belfast, UK; Apr. 4-7, 2018)
The cornerstone of the state: Family in socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the "Disciplining the Modern Family: Gender, State, and Society" at the Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel; Dec. 26-29, 2017)
Changing the status of women. Wives and mothers immediately before and after a communist takeover – paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (Montreal, Canada; Nov. 2-5, 2017)
Sexology shaping people's desires and selves in state socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the workshop "Sexologies et théories de la sexualité: traduction, appropriation, problématisation, médicalisation" organized by Réseau Sexologies européennes/European sexologies network (Paris, France; Oct. 30-31, 2017)
"Ženská otázka se změnila na dětskou otázku." Emancipace žen, institucionální výchova dětí a expertní diskurzy v Československu na přelomu 50. a 60. let 20. století ["The woman's question changed into a child's question." Women's emancipation, institutional childcare and expert discourses in Czecholsovakia at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s] – paper presented at the Historians' Association Conference at Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic; Sept. 13-15, 2017)
"Difficult situation of an unmarried woman." Introducing abortion in state-socialist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the biennial conference organized by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference (Bucuresti, Romania; Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2017)
How late socialism conditioned people for neoliberal social order. A case of Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the "On the other side and beyond" conference organized by the Centre for Independent Social Research (St. Petersburg, Russia; May 24-26, 2017)
Sex at a different time and place. Sexual therapies in 1970s Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the "Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures" (University of Glasgow, UK; Apr. 3-4, 2017)
Love as Discipline. Sexologists advising married couples in Czechoslovakia during Normalization (1969-1989) – paper presented at the "Failing at Feelings. Historical Perspectives (1800-2000)" conference organized by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin, Germany; Dec. 15-16, 2016)
“We won’t ban castrating pervs despite what Europe might think!” Czech medical sexology and the practice of therapeutics castration – paper presented together with Andrea Bělehradová at the Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference (University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; July 7-10, 2016)
Sex between health and pleasure. Sexology and the quest for the female orgasm in communist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the Eighth British-North American Joint Meeting of the British Society for the History of Science & the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science & the History of Science Society (University of Alberta, Canada; June 22-25, 2016)
Organizing a panel “Sexualities in 1950s East Central Europe” + presenting a paper How to build a society of equal sexes and how to shy away from it. Shifting expert discourses and policy measures in 1950s Czechoslovakia – presented at the European Social Science History Conference (Valencia, Spain; Mar. 30-Apr. 2, 2016)
Co-organizer of the Sex and Sexuality in East-Central Europe, Past and Present. An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Central European University (Budapest, HU; Oct 16-17, 2015)
Sex backwards. Sexology and intimate life in communist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the European Sociological Association annual conference, RN23 Sexualities (Prague, CZ; Aug. 25-28, 2015)
Sexual deviance between biological and social causation. International approaches and Czechoslovak sexology in the 1960s and 1970s – paper presented at the American Historical Association annual conference (New York, USA; Jan 2-5, 2015)
Sex, práce a rodina. Československá sexuologie v 50. a 70. letech [Sex, work, and the family. Czechoslovak sexology in the 1950s and 1970s] – paper presented at the conference Sexuality (Palacký University, Czech Republic; Oct. 9-11, 2014)
Expert networks and social reproduction in Czechoslovakia before and after 1989 – an intervention presented at the "1989: Thinking Revolution in East-Central Europe" conference organized by the Institute of Contemporary History at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Prague, CZ; Oct. 2-3, 2014)
Sexological Spring? The international gathering of sexologists in Prague in 1968 – paper presented at the Life Sciences conference (University of Pittsburgh, USA; May 15-17, 2014)
Now you see them, now you don't. Sexual deviants and sexological expertise in communist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the American Association for the History of Medicine conference (Chicago, USA; May 8-11, 2014)
Sex between the Public and Private. Expert discourses on sexuality in communist Czechoslovakia + organizer of the panel "Sexology and Sexual Science in Europe's East" at the European Social Science History Conference (Vienna, Austria; Apr. 22-26 2014)
Nejen sociologie. Sexuologie zkoumá a ovlivňuje sociální interakce za normalizace [Not only sociology. Sexology investigates and influences social interactions during the "normalization" period] – paper presented at the "Sociológia v ére normalizácie – program, funkcie, perspektívy" [Sociology in the normalization era – program, functions, perspectives] (Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; Nov. 14-15, 2013)
Everything for the Couple. Sex therapy in Czechoslovakia during normalization – paper presented at the conference "From Moral Treatment to Psychological Therapies: Psychotherapeutics from the York Retreat to the Present Day" (University College London, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, UK; Oct. 11-13, 2013)
From the emancipated woman to normalized family. Sexuality and political economy in a state socialist country – paper presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (New York, NY; Aug. 10-13, 2013)
Socialist person normalized. Sexological discourses in Czechoslovakia between the 1950s and 1980s – paper presented at the conference "From the New Socialist Person to Global Mental Health: the Psy-ences and Mental Health in East Central Europe and Eurasia" (University of Chicago, IL; Apr. 29-30, 2013)
Speaking of sex. Sexology and its influence on the politics of sexuality in communist Czechoslovakia – paper presented at the 14th Czech Studies Workshop (Columbia University, NY; Apr. 26-27, 2013)
seX is political. Politicizing discourses of sex education– paper presented at the 17th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) "X is Political" (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mar. 28-29, 2013)
Sex ed under threat. Changing discourses on sexual education in Czech schools – paper presented at the midterm conference of the European Sociological Association, Research Network 23 "Sexualities" (Kingston University, UK; Jan. 14-15, 2013)
From information to emotion. (Dis)continuities in Czech sex education – paper presented at the Women & Society Conference (Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA; Oct. 19-20, 2012)