Priska Komaromi
@priskakomaromi.bsky.social
On parental leave. Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Can't wait to read this!!
“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...
So excited to see the first result of a six-year collaboration with Ulrike Schaper in print.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org
May 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Can't wait to read this!!
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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!
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...
www.tandfonline.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you to @npapadogian.bsky.social, Benno Gammerl, Christiane Reinecke, and Ulrike Schaper for their invaluable guidance!
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
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...
www.routledge.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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
www.routledge.com/9781032069647
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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:
Here is a thread on what we have put together:
November 28, 2024 at 12:38 PM
"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:
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!) 💌
December 19, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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! 🤩
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...
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...
December 19, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Can't believe I'm only seeing this book now, so many really insightful contributions in here! 🤩
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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...
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.
www.transcript-verlag.de
December 11, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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...
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...
Very excited to read Adelina Stefan's new book on international tourism during the Cold War ☀️
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...
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...
Vacationing in Dictatorships by Adelina Stefan | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Vacationing in Dictatorships examines the political effects of international tourism in socialist Romania and Francoist Spain in the postwar era. Despite sharp economic and political differences betwe...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
December 6, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Very excited to read Adelina Stefan's new book on international tourism during the Cold War ☀️
Ich stimme zu, unbedingt schauen!
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...
"Past Forward: Sex gegen Geld – eine Frage der Moral?"
www.ardmediathek.de/video/past-f...
Past Forward: Sex gegen Geld – eine Frage der Moral? - hier anschauen
'Past Forward'-Reporterin Sophie taucht ein in die Geschichte der ältesten Bordellstraße Deutschlands, findet heraus, was das Sexarbeitsverbot ab 1968 in der DDR bewirkt hat und stößt auf die 'Hurenbe...
www.ardmediathek.de
December 6, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Ich stimme zu, unbedingt schauen!
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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?
December 6, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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?
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This workshop is happening today at 14:00 UK time and there is still time to register using the link below.
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...
December 6, 2024 at 8:57 AM
This workshop is happening today at 14:00 UK time and there is still time to register using the link below.
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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
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
December 2, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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
Join us for this workshop/ exchange on the 6th of December, I'll be one of the 'experts' 🧐 talking about archives in Hungary
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...
November 26, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Join us for this workshop/ exchange on the 6th of December, I'll be one of the 'experts' 🧐 talking about archives in Hungary
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Here is the Bluesky starter pack directory. You can search by keyword. Please share with everyone. 🤗
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Here is the Bluesky starter pack directory. You can search by keyword. Please share with everyone. 🤗
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
So happy about this one! ☝️
November 16, 2024 at 8:29 PM
So happy about this one! ☝️
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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.
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.
November 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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.
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.
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So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd
November 14, 2024 at 10:47 AM
So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd
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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
My main contexts are state socialist Hungary and Yugoslavia (from outside the region, Vietnam and Cuba), and I do women's history.
#skystorians
October 10, 2023 at 11:35 AM
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
My main contexts are state socialist Hungary and Yugoslavia (from outside the region, Vietnam and Cuba), and I do women's history.
#skystorians
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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
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
November 10, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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
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
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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...
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
November 13, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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...
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...
Very excited to read this!
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).
November 13, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Very excited to read this!
Really worth a read and great for teaching!
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...
November 13, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Really worth a read and great for teaching!