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Priska Komaromi

@priskakomaromi.bsky.social
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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.

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤩😍 Such a good campaign, such a good result
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Johanna Siebert @johannasiebert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fetter Mittelfinger…
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Super interesting discussion forum on the importance of gender history for understanding central Europe featuring some excellent gender historians on the region! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Gender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe | Central European History | Cambridge Core
Gender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Very happy to announce that my article on sexual practices in 1980s Hungary is now out and Open Access in Sexualities journal! It will be part of a Special Issue on investigating sexual practices through the history of sex work, coming soon! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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‘Have you ever climaxed… during business?’ Investigating Sexual Practices in Late State-Socialist Hungary through Histories of Commercial Sex - Priska Komaromi, 2026
Beginning in the late 1950s, state socialist discourses on sexuality emphasized centrality of emotional attachment for fulfilling sexual relationships and the i...
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Annalisa Martin @annalisamartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Finally made it to the SEX WORK exhibition in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn yesterday - huge recommendation to catch it before it ends in October!
Mannequins wearing historic corsets and lingerieBlack and white photos of Cologne’s Brinkgasse (a historic brothel street) and the Brauweiler workhouse“SEX WORK IS HONEST WORK” sign
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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...
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Episode 80: Sex Tourism in Socialist Hungary
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thank you so much for inviting me on the podcast to talk about my research and for all the great questions!! 🤩
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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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!
On a wooden table, a hardcover book with a rainbow spine and the title “Beruf Sexarbeit: Quellen und Dokumente aus dem Nachlass von Marc-of-Frankfurt (2000-2015).”
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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...
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Global History Colloquium: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) on
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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...
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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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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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.
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Rezension zu: A. Stefan: Vacationing in Dictatorships
Rezension zu / Review of: Stefan, Adelina: : Vacationing in Dictatorships. International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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....
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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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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Can't wait to read this!!
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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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!
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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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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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
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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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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"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:
Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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!) 💌
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Can't believe I'm only seeing this book now, so many really insightful contributions in here! 🤩
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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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...
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Handbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten II
Differenzen, Ausgrenzungen und Konflikte in der queeren Zeitgeschichte – ein Überblick seit 1945.
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Very excited to read Adelina Stefan's new book on international tourism during the Cold War ☀️
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Ich stimme zu, unbedingt schauen!
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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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Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I rarely suffer from FOMO, but I so wish I was now at the #ASEEES24!
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
So happy about this one! ☝️
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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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.
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Gateway to Research (GtR) - Explore publicly funded research
The Gateway to Research: UKRI portal onto publically funded research
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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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Reka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
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
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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
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
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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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...
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Romane Gil'a: 1958-71 Field Recordings of Roma Songs from Slovakia, Eastern Czechia & Northern Hungary, by Dr. Eva Davidovà, recordist
27 track album
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Very excited to read this!
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Really worth a read and great for teaching!
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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
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
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I spoke to two wonderful archivists at the Open Society Archives about their vast and varied (and to a large extent digitized) sources for @peripheralhist.bsky.social - take a look! I really recommend the archive for anyone working on post war Central/ Eastern/ Sotheastern Europe :)
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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
New Transformative Podcast out! Our @jelenadj.bsky.social in conversation with Dr. Peter Wright on what the life trajectories of Yugoslav experts abroad and students from the Global South in Yugoslavia tell us about its connections with the postcolonial world? recet.at/podcast
Episode 42: Actors of Yugoslav Socialist Internationalism with Dr Peter Wright and Dr Jelena Đureinović
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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
After years of basically no social media use I thought I'd give this a go, hello everyone!
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