Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🤩😍 Such a good campaign, such a good result 010
Reposted by Priska KomaromiJohanna Siebert @johannasiebert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fetter Mittelfinger… 281331303
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Super 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...cambridge.orgGender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe | Central European History | Cambridge CoreGender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe 000
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Very 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/...journals.sagepub.com‘Have you ever climaxed… during business?’ Investigating Sexual Practices in Late State-Socialist Hungary through Histories of Commercial Sex - Priska Komaromi, 2026Beginning in the late 1950s, state socialist discourses on sexuality emphasized centrality of emotional attachment for fulfilling sexual relationships and the i... 064
Reposted by Priska KomaromiAnnalisa Martin @annalisamartin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Finally made it to the SEX WORK exhibition in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn yesterday - huge recommendation to catch it before it ends in October! 292
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I 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...recet.atEpisode 80: Sex Tourism in Socialist Hungary 042
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Thank you so much for inviting me on the podcast to talk about my research and for all the great questions!! 🤩 010
Reposted by Priska KomaromiBodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Ahhh 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! 2237
Reposted by Priska KomaromiNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Next 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...geschkult.fu-berlin.deGlobal History Colloquium: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) on 0132
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026I 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...peripheralhistories.co.ukVacationing 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). 1165
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Really 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.hsozkult.deRezension zu: A. Stefan: Vacationing in DictatorshipsRezension zu / Review of: Stefan, Adelina: : Vacationing in Dictatorships. International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain 030
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025My 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....tandfonline.comBuying sex across the Iron Curtain: Western Men and transactional intimacy in State-Socialist Hungary during the long 1960sBy 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... 192
Reposted by Priska KomaromiChristopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025New 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!tandfonline.comThe trials of John Stamford: gay travel, sexual harm, and Spartacus International Gay GuideThis 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... 161
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Very 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/9781032069647routledge.comThe Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central EuropeThis 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... 3102
Reposted by Priska KomaromiNed 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: 815053
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Niche 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!) 💌 232
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Can't believe I'm only seeing this book now, so many really insightful contributions in here! 🤩 251
Reposted by Priska KomaromiSébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Extremely 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...transcript-verlag.deHandbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten IIDifferenzen, Ausgrenzungen und Konflikte in der queeren Zeitgeschichte – ein Überblick seit 1945. 0167
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Very excited to read Adelina Stefan's new book on international tourism during the Cold War ☀️ 030
Reposted by Priska KomaromiYuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Do 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? 173
Reposted by Priska KomaromiPeripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · 06/12/2024This workshop is happening today at 14:00 UK time and there is still time to register using the link below. 023
Reposted by Priska KomaromiNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024i 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 11912273
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Join us for this workshop/ exchange on the 6th of December, I'll be one of the 'experts' 🧐 talking about archives in Hungary 0129
Reposted by Priska KomaromiOlga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I rarely suffer from FOMO, but I so wish I was now at the #ASEEES24! 2121
Reposted by Priska KomaromiJoão Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 15/11/2024BlueSky 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.gtr.ukri.orgGateway to Research (GtR) - Explore publicly funded researchThe Gateway to Research: UKRI portal onto publically funded research 0132
Reposted by Priska KomaromiChristopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd 184824
Reposted by Priska KomaromiReka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social · 10/10/2023Historians 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 306134
Reposted by Priska KomaromiDr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I 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 111255131
Reposted by Priska KomaromiCanary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 13/11/2024NEW 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...canary-records.bandcamp.comRomane Gil'a: 1958-71 Field Recordings of Roma Songs from Slovakia, Eastern Czechia & Northern Hungary, by Dr. Eva Davidovà, recordist27 track album 184
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Really worth a read and great for teaching! 040
Reposted by Priska KomaromiContemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Room 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 11617280
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I 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 :) 035
Reposted by Priska KomaromiResearch Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15/11/2023New 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 043
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024After years of basically no social media use I thought I'd give this a go, hello everyone! 280