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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · May 4

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!
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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 · May 4

Can't wait to read this!!

Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · Apr 8

“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.

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Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social · May 2

New article on sex tourism, Spartacus International Gay Guide, and why we have to deal with the confusing, uglier sides of queer history.

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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...

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

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 · Nov 28

"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 · Dec 19

Apart from Wyss, I'm drowning in Wyss at the moment

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Dec 19

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 · Dec 19

thanks for reminding me of this, need to take another look at it! I felt there was a distinct lack of sexuality related to masculinity content, maybe that's why I didn't engage enough with it 😅

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Dec 19

thank you, I will definitely take a look at that!

Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Dec 19

Does anyone know of this kind of book for the German and/or Central Eastern European and/or socialist context?

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Dec 19

Can't believe I'm only seeing this book now, so many really insightful contributions in here! 🤩

Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · Dec 17

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...

Cover of the book Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain, published by Manchester University Press in 2024

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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · Dec 11

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...

Handbuch Queere Zeitgeschichten II

Differenzen, Ausgrenzungen und Konflikte in der queeren Zeitgeschichte – ein Überblick seit 1945.

www.transcript-verlag.de

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Dec 6

Very excited to read Adelina Stefan's new book on international tourism during the Cold War ☀️

Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · Dec 5

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...

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...

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Dec 6

Ich stimme zu, unbedingt schauen!

Prostitutions- und Sexarbeitspolitik @sexworkpol.bsky.social · Nov 28

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? - 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...

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · Dec 6

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 · Dec 6

This workshop is happening today at 14:00 UK time and there is still time to register using the link below.

Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · Nov 20

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...

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Nov 26

Join us for this workshop/ exchange on the 6th of December, I'll be one of the 'experts' 🧐 talking about archives in Hungary

Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · Nov 20

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...

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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · Nov 23

I rarely suffer from FOMO, but I so wish I was now at the #ASEEES24!

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Phoenix🔥 @fivetimessix.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here is the Bluesky starter pack directory. You can search by keyword. Please share with everyone. 🤗
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

blueskydirectory.com

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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Nov 16

So happy about this one! ☝️

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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · Nov 15

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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Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social · Nov 16

Could you add me please? Thanks! 🙏

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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social · Nov 14

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 · Oct 10

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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