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Zsófia Veszely

@zsofia-v.bsky.social
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Researcher / History of Sexuality and Intimacy / State-Socialism / East Central Europe / @eui-eu.bsky.social and @cuny.edu

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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wrote a short piece with Benno Gammerl and @ricbul.bsky.social about the Berlin Pride attack, homonationalism and the importance of intersectionality for @theconversation.com👇
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Did the Berlin Pride attack target the LGBTIQIA+ community or European values?
A team of researchers explains why support for LGBTIQIA+ rights in Europe that is not based on homonationalist agendas, but intersectional fights against discrimination matters now more than ever.
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Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘In the eyes of the law I might be a man but what do I look like?’: trans women and sex work in 1980s and 1990s England
This article considers the precarious position of trans sex workers in 1980 s and early 1990 s England by examining the ambiguities of medico-legal interpretations of their identities and labour. D...
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
And continued with a two-day workshop “Intimate States” ⚡️ I presented about Hungarian sexologist Elvira Lux (1929-2016) 👋 Bye Prague!
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Presented at one of the coolest conferences of the year in Prague 🌈 My paper was titled “Queer Comrades: Teenage Friendship and Same-Sex Desire in Hungarian Sex Education During the Cold War” 👩‍❤️‍👩
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
💥🦄Good morning queers 🦄💥 Yesterday, 17 May, was IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We chose to commemorate it with a photograph of Porpora Marcasciano, Italian writer and trans activist, by artist Lina Pallotta (details below) 📷📷 Our struggle continues!
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
👏 Thank you to all the participants of the “Sexuality, activism, and the state in modern Europe” workshop 👏 We had a great day of inspiring presentations, illuminating discussions and thought-provoking questions ✨🦄💥 👀🎤Find a sum-up of the keynote and panels in the thread! 🎤👀
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Gábor Egry @gegry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Next year, again! Please, distribute, apply, consider coming as mentor, discussant, chair! @dacretu.bsky.social @giannako.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social @zorapiskacova.bsky.social @rkpejsova.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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Central European History Convention
In July 2027 the University of Vienna, the Institute of Austrian Historical Research, and the Wirth Institute of Austrian and Central European Studies will host a second Central European History Conve...
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
So excited for our workshop tomorrow with @georgiakat.bsky.social and @loladickinson.bsky.social! You can follow the keynote lecture by @npapadogian.bsky.social chaired by @elisaheinrich.bsky.social and all the following panels in person or online 💫
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Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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...
Poster for the Workshop ‘Sexuality, Activism and the State in Modern Europe’ describing the workshop aims.
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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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...
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
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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 🌟🦾📚
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Book recommendation and review by me! You can read it here: www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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!
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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.
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Applications are open until 24 February: Short (one-week) mobility stays at the EUI in Florence for doctoral researchers from the targeted Widening countries ✈️
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EUI Widening Europe Programme 2026: New call for short-term mobility
The EUI Widening Europe Programmes shortterm mobility initiative enters its second year, once again inviting researchers from the targeted Widening countries
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Historical Archives of the European Union @eui-euarchives.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
📢 Call for applications IVF Research Grants 2026 at the Historical Archives of the EU are now open. 🗓 Deadline: 27 April 2026 🔗 loom.ly/egHlbls 👉 Spread the word! #ResearchFunding #ArchivalResearch #EuropeanIntegration #Visegrad4 #CzechRepublic #Hungary #Poland #Slovakia
Photo of a previous IVF fellow in the HAEU reading room.
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
💥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! 💅🏽✨
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Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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
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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
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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
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PhD Prep Talk for applicants from EUI Widening Europe countries
Join a peer-to-peer conversation with EUI researchers about their PhD journeys!
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
You can read my review here:
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Veronika Helfert @veenomen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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-...
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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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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Thank you so much to LUCK (Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge) for including me in this fantastic summer school 🎓
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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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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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)
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Hungary Pride ban prompts largest ever parade in Budapest: ‘There have never been so many people’
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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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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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 🏛️
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This was such a lovely trip 🤍 thank you @ricbul.bsky.social for organizing it
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is happening today! You can still join the workshop we organized with @georgiakat.bsky.social 💫
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · 01/04/2025
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 💙
Pink text graphic which reads, 'Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Awareness Month.'
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Federica Signoriello @0fed0.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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...
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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...
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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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 ‍
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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" 🌏
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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Come and join us in discussing Tamara Chaplin's book Becoming Lesbian 💫
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Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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...
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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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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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!
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