Poster for the Workshop ‘Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe’ describing the workshop aims.

So excited for the upcoming workshop ‘Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe’ which I have organised with the brilliant @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social. Promises to be a fantastic day of talks and beautiful Italian sunshine!

www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Picture from the EUI website, where under the title "Endgame or entrenchment? Hungary's parliamentary election in comparative perspective" someone is seen waving a Hungarian flag

join @filipkostelka.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social Imogen Bayley & me in Florence @eui-eu.bsky.social or via Zoom on 16 April, as we discuss the implications of the #HungarianElection 🇭🇺🗳️ Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Thanks to all who joined our fantastic and inspiring talk with Angéla Kóczé! In case you missed it, don't worry: the book "Romani Women at the Edge of Neoliberal Europe: Discursive Emancipation and Structural Violence" (MUP) is coming out this summer and will be available at the EUI library 🌟🦾📚

Book recommendation and review by me! You can read it here:

www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...

Kick-off Workshop of "Mixed Families: Searching for Identity and Belonging in Post-Conflict Societies" Members of the Research Group "MIXED" invite scholars to join them in addressing the key questions that the project will tackle.

Presenting my paper today at ELTE Budapest: ‘They Consider Prevention a Sin’: Attitudes Towards the Reproductive Choices and Knowledge of the Roma in State-Socialist Hungary. Thank you for inviting me to the kick-off workshop of this fantastic project on mixedness and mixed families!

Applications are open until 24 February:

Short (one-week) mobility stays at the EUI in Florence for doctoral researchers from the targeted Widening countries ✈️

Photo of a previous IVF fellow in the HAEU reading room.

📢 Call for applications

IVF Research Grants 2026 at the Historical Archives of the EU are now open.
🗓 Deadline: 27 April 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/egHlbls
👉 Spread the word!

#ResearchFunding #ArchivalResearch #EuropeanIntegration
#Visegrad4 #CzechRepublic #Hungary #Poland #Slovakia

💥Extension announcement!💥
New deadline for proposals: 30 January (thanks so much to everyone who submitted amazing abstracts already!).
New notification of acceptance: 27 February.

In the meantime, we are happy to announce our confirmed keynotes: Mahdi Baraghithi and Anna Borgos! 💅🏽✨

The ‘Prostitute’ and the ‘Client’ in the Making of England’s AIDS Policy Abstract. This paper explores the state’s evolving discourse on prostitution and sexual health during the ‘crisis years’ of England’s HIV epidemic. Analysi

New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s.

Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!):

#histmed #histsex #AIDShistory

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

For people who are from Eastern Europe and consider applying to the EUI: we are giving a prep talk about our own application experiences - Don’t forget to sign up! @eui-eu.bsky.social #WideningEurope

You can read my review here:

Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twen...

I am so excited to share the news that after many years of research & writing the collaborative monograph of the project #ZARAH #Women'sLabourActivism is out today with @uclpress.bsky.social ! It is available in print and online (open access).
uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

Highlights from this year’s summer school Last week, the sixth annual Summer School in the History of Knowledge brought together an international group of 20 Ph.D. candidates and early career researchers for four days of lectures, seminars…

Thank you so much to LUCK (Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge) for including me in this fantastic summer school 🎓

Presenting my paper today at @ische-news.bsky.social in Lille, titled “They Are Used To Latin Expressions” about expert knowledges and teacher training in Hungarian school-based sex education during the Cold War

@univlille.bsky.social

(Photo: Fortepan/Urbán Tamás)

Anti-LGBTQ+ Hungarian PM named 'king of Budapest pride' Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been named 'king of Pride' after Budapest Pride's largest ever event in response to his ban.

Hungary Pride ban prompts largest ever parade in Budapest: ‘There have never been so many people’

Excited to present my paper (“We demand more contraceptives”: Family planning and the transnational activism of the National Council of Hungarian Women)
today in Paris, Condorcet Campus 🏛️

This was such a lovely trip 🤍 thank you @ricbul.bsky.social for organizing it

THANK YOU to the participants of our Sensitive Matters oral history workshop @georgiakat.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social ✨ keynotes Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince and Dr Ráhel Turai ✨ chairs @mboluferp.bsky.social @elisaheinrich.bsky.social Monika Baár, Benno Gammerl ✨ poster emeseveszely.com

This is happening today! You can still join the workshop we organized with @georgiakat.bsky.social 💫

As part of the LGBT+ History Month Italia, the Queer and Feminist Studies and the Interviewing and Oral History Working Groups jointly organised a wonderful one-day workshop with Professor Tamara Chaplin.

Pink text graphic which reads, 'Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month.'

April is Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month – an opportunity for charities and the young people we support to come together and raise awareness of the unique challenges facing teenagers and young adults with cancer 💙

Feminism(s) and conservatism - History item of the month - The EUI Library Blog Ripa, Yannick, and Françoise Thébaud. Les féminismes: une histoire mondiale 19e-20e siècles. Paris: Textuel, 2024. and Virgili, Fabrice, and Camille Noûs. Femmes contre le changement: conservatisme, r...

A belated blogpost - not at all in time for Women's History Month - about a couple of books that were on display
#libraries
#feminism
#womenshistorymonth

blogs.eui.eu/library/femi...

A reminder to celebrate trans people and remember that they face discrimination worldwide, increasingly in countries like Hungary, which has just banned Pride! If you want to help, you can support and follow the Hungarian organisation transvanilla! (Links below)

#transdayofvisibility ‍

The 15th Annual Graduate Student History Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center was last Friday, and the theme was "Beyond Boundaries: Challenging Limits and Narratives in an Expanding World" 🌏

Come and join us in discussing Tamara Chaplin's book Becoming Lesbian 💫

🥳🥳🥳

Vice versa: sex work and drug use during the HIV epidemic in Thatcher’s Britain Abstract. This article traces the origins of the present-day association of prostitution and drug addiction in Britain. Through an examination of a variety

Adding some joy to the timeline!

I’m pleased to announce my first publication, exploring how associations between sex work and drug use deepened in 1980s Britain in the context of the AIDS epidemic.

Read it here in Modern British History’s latest issue:
academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

The Queer and Feminist Working Group strongly opposes the recent Hungarian ban on Pride ❌ We stand in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities 🏳️‍🌈 Please support Budapest Pride!

Itt(hon) vagyunk!