I really enjoyed being interviewed about my PhD research by @jelenadj.bsky.social for the @recetvienna.bsky.social Transformative Podcast! Have a listen!☀️ www.recet.at/podcast/deta...

Research Center for the History of Transformations@recetvienna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New Transformative Podcast out! Our researcher @jelenadj.bsky.social talks to Priska Komaromi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) about her research on Sex Tourism in Socialist Hungary

Thank you so much for inviting me on the podcast to talk about my research and for all the great questions!! 🤩

Jelena Đureinović@jelenadj.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It was a pleasure to talk to @priskakomaromi.bsky.social and learn about tourism aimed at Westerners that developed in socialist Hungary from the 1960s onwards, often marketed in a sexualized way

Ahhh I love getting book post. This is special: volume 3 of Transnational Queer Histories has landed! In this instance: @annalisamartin.bsky.social and Sonja Dolinsek’s “Beruf Sexarbeit”, a collection of sources and documents from the German sex worker and rights activist Marc-of-Frankfurt!

Next week at the Free University of Berlin, I'll be presenting: "The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany, 1880 to the Present" as part of the Global History Colloquium www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereic...

Global History Colloquium: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) on

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I interviewed Adelina Stefan for @peripheralhist.bsky.social about her book on international tourism in communist Romania and Franco's Spain. Take a look here! www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/vacatio...

Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain.

Adelina Stefan talks to Peripheral Histories about researching and writing a transnational history of tourism in two peripheral postwar European dictatorships (Romania and Spain).

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Really enjoyed writing this review! Would recommend this book! Adelina Stefan aptly uses the lens of tourism to demonstrate the room for manoeuvre and agency that “ordinary citizens” had in their everyday lives under dictatorial regimes.

My first peer reviewed article on has appeared alongside some very excellent articles in a special issue of Rethinking History. Many thanks to @npapadogian.bsky.social and Ulrike Schaper for their insights and support in the process! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Buying sex across the Iron Curtain: Western Men and transactional intimacy in State-Socialist Hungary during the long 1960s

By the late 1960s, Budapest had an international reputation as Eastern Europe’s most swinging city, where the Western tourist could find luxury hotels, striptease and charming girls in short skirts...

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Can't wait to read this!!

Christopher Ewing@christopherewing.bsky.social · last yr.

“Sexual Frustrations and Dream Vacations” now available open access in @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social! So excited to see the first result of a six-year collaboration with Ulrike Schaper in print. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article on sex tourism, Spartacus International Gay Guide, and why we have to deal with the confusing, uglier sides of queer history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thank you to @npapadogian.bsky.social, Benno Gammerl, Christiane Reinecke, and Ulrike Schaper for their invaluable guidance!

The trials of John Stamford: gay travel, sexual harm, and Spartacus International Gay Guide

This article argues that, in order to understand the expanding gay travel worlds of the 1970s and 1980s, it is necessary to follow both gay liberation politics and harmful practices. Just as expand...

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Very excited that the The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe has been just published! You'll find my chapter on Italian men, Western goods and transactional sex in 1960s Hungary chilling alongside some other excellent pieces in Section 6 🤩 www.routledge.com/9781032069647

The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe

This handbook provides an overview of scholarly research on sexuality in East Central Europe for both students and academics, focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, from the la...

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"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Here is a thread on what we have put together:

Niche question for historians: does anyone have literature suggestions/ recommendations on the love letter from a historical perspective (ideally in the post war period but any period is fine!) 💌

Can't believe I'm only seeing this book now, so many really insightful contributions in here! 🤩

Ben Mechen@benmechen.bsky.social · 2y ago

V cool to see @manchesterup.bsky.social choose our volume Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain as their History OA highlight of 2024 The book came out in Jan and we've since had 21,500 downloads - way more than we hoped for @tricksterprince.bsky.social manchester.benchurl.com/c/v?e=192271...

Extremely happy to have contributed to the second handbook of our DFG Network "Queere Zeitgeschichten im deutschsprachigen Europa!" Open access! A wonderful tool to teach queer history with topic-specific chapters and examples of source analysis! www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Handbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten II

Differenzen, Ausgrenzungen und Konflikte in der queeren Zeitgeschichte – ein Überblick seit 1945.

transcript-verlag.de

Very excited to read Adelina Stefan's new book on international tourism during the Cold War ☀️

Cornell University Press@cornellupress.bsky.social · 2y ago

What role did tourism play in #ColdWar #geopolitics? In VACATIONING IN DICTATORSHIPS, Adelina Stefan uncovers how socialist Romania and Francoist Spain used international #tourism to shape their images abroad. Discover this fresh take on #history: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Ich stimme zu, unbedingt schauen!

Prostitutions- und Sexarbeitspolitik@sexworkpol.bsky.social · 2y ago

Das ist eine sehr gute, historisch fundierte Doku über #sexarbeit in Deutschland geworden. Unbedingt gucken. Gut investierte 30 Minuten. "Past Forward: Sex gegen Geld – eine Frage der Moral?" www.ardmediathek.de/video/past-f...

Do you use AI translation to let students read materials that would otherwise be inaccessible (or too difficult)—if so, do you discuss the ethics of doing this (labor, inadequacy of translation, env costs, etc.) and how?

This workshop is happening today at 14:00 UK time and there is still time to register using the link below.

Peripheral Histories?@peripheralhist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...

i am super biased here because i am an academic and would like to continue to be one *but* i do feel there comes a point where you have to ask yourself what the point of ‘the economy’ is if it doesn’t support education or healthcare or the arts or housing or food or water and utilities

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@ninamarkl.bsky.social · 2y ago

not an original observation but i was just explaining that the UK higher ed sector is in a bad financial position to my mum (who’s lived in austria all her life) and it is actually a very strange thing to explain that the ‘education sector’ is struggling

Join us for this workshop/ exchange on the 6th of December, I'll be one of the 'experts' 🧐 talking about archives in Hungary

Peripheral Histories?@peripheralhist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...

I rarely suffer from FOMO, but I so wish I was now at the #ASEEES24!

So happy about this one! ☝️

BlueSky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1) “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000” 2) Britney Spear’s “work b*tch” is the lost 4th volume of Marx’s Das Kapital.

Laurie!@eugeniedanglars.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) my Stupid Dissertation, Prestige TV rhetorically trained viewers to be empathetic 2) what're TV's narratology tropes?

So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd

Historians of Eastern Europe, let's do a thread below to find each other easier! Share your main country/ies of expertise and your dominant approaches! 🗃 My main contexts are state socialist Hungary and Yugoslavia (from outside the region, Vietnam and Cuba), and I do women's history. #skystorians

I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded. You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout. go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj

NEW CANARY ALBUM Dr. Eva Davidovà’s work on Slovak Roma music, language, & life includes this album of her field recordings — the first anthology of Romani songs in Czechoslovakia, made during a brief window of liberalization by the totalitarian regime. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/romane...

Romane Gil'a: 1958-71 Field Recordings of Roma Songs from Slovakia, Eastern Czechia & Northern Hungary, by Dr. Eva Davidovà, recordist

27 track album

canary-records.bandcamp.com

Very excited to read this!

Ned Richardson-Little@historyned.bsky.social · 2y ago

Moving beyond just the GDR, this year with Oxford UP, Raluca Grosescu and I have co-edited: "Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies." It should be available before Christmas (at least electronically).

Really worth a read and great for teaching!

James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new co-edited collection Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024) is open access, free to download here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Room for one more starter pack? Here's the (very) beginning of a list of people, journals, institutions etc, working in or adjacent to contemporary European History. Comment if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/SU3jCJb