Zsófia Veszely
@zsofia-v.bsky.social
Researcher / History of Sexuality / State-Socialism / Eastern Europe / @eui-eu.bsky.social and @cuny.edu
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November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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You can read my review here:
The editors of The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe, Agnieszka Kościańska, Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, & Hadley Z. Renkin, offer a cornerstone in the canon of academic scholarship on sexuality.
Read @zsofia-v.bsky.social's review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/build...
Read @zsofia-v.bsky.social's review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/build...
Building the canon: The past and present of sexuality in East Central Europe - CEU Review of Books
The editors of The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe (2025), Agnieszka Kościańska, Anita Kurimay, Kateřina Lišková, and Hadley Z. Renkin, offer a rich and extensive volume that co...
ceureviewofbooks.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
You can read my review here:
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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-...
uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...
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...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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-...
uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...
Thank you so much to LUCK (Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge) for including me in this fantastic summer school 🎓
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…
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August 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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)
@univlille.bsky.social
(Photo: Fortepan/Urbán Tamás)
July 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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)
@univlille.bsky.social
(Photo: Fortepan/Urbán Tamás)
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Hungary Pride ban prompts largest ever parade in Budapest: ‘There have never been so many people’
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.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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 🏛️
today in Paris, Condorcet Campus 🏛️
June 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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 🏛️
today in Paris, Condorcet Campus 🏛️
This was such a lovely trip 🤍 thank you @ricbul.bsky.social for organizing it
As an end-of-year activity, the Working Group visited the Centro di Documentazione Aldo Mieli in Carrara 🏛️ This public LGBTQIA+ archive is run by and grew out of the personal collection of Luca Locati Luciani and welcomes curious researchers and activists.
cdocaldomieli.com
cdocaldomieli.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
June 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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 💫
Sensitive matters
On 3 June at 9.00 CEST, join a workshop on vulnerability in oral history and interviewing 👉 buff.ly/EfcD0t0
Organised by our Interviewing and Oral History Working Group 👉 buff.ly/ZeDsnIk
📣 #OralHistory #GenderHistory #skystorians
On 3 June at 9.00 CEST, join a workshop on vulnerability in oral history and interviewing 👉 buff.ly/EfcD0t0
Organised by our Interviewing and Oral History Working Group 👉 buff.ly/ZeDsnIk
📣 #OralHistory #GenderHistory #skystorians
Sensitive matters: vulnerability in oral history and interviewing
This workshop, organised by the Oral History and Interviewing Working Group, explores how interviewing those belonging to marginalised communities enhances already-existing tensions around emotions,…
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June 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This is happening today! You can still join the workshop we organized with @georgiakat.bsky.social 💫
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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.
April 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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.
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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 💙
April 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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 💙
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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...
#libraries
#feminism
#womenshistorymonth
blogs.eui.eu/library/femi...
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...
blogs.eui.eu
April 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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...
#libraries
#feminism
#womenshistorymonth
blogs.eui.eu/library/femi...
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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
#transdayofvisibility
April 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
#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" 🌏
March 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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 💫
Co-organising this with the wonderful @gisellebernard.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social @ricbul.bsky.social
You can join some of the workshop via Zoom!
You can join some of the workshop via Zoom!
A queer history of modern France
On 7 April at 10.00 CEST, join a workshop with Tamara Chaplin on her recent book on female same-sex intimacy in modern French history 👉 loom.ly/D-u5XnA
Organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group
📣 #QueerHistory #FrenchHistory
On 7 April at 10.00 CEST, join a workshop with Tamara Chaplin on her recent book on female same-sex intimacy in modern French history 👉 loom.ly/D-u5XnA
Organised by our @eui-qfg.bsky.social working group
📣 #QueerHistory #FrenchHistory
March 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Come and join us in discussing Tamara Chaplin's book Becoming Lesbian 💫
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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...
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...
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
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March 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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...
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...
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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!
Itt(hon) vagyunk!
March 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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!
Itt(hon) vagyunk!