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Veronika Helfert @veenomen.bsky.social · Aug 26

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-...

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...

uclpress.co.uk

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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Aug 27

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…

newhistoryofknowledge.com

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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Jul 11

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 · Jul 1

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.

www.thepinknews.com

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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Jun 19

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 · Jun 12

This was such a lovely trip 🤍 thank you @ricbul.bsky.social for organizing it

EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Jun 10

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 · Jun 3

This is happening today! You can still join the workshop we organized with @georgiakat.bsky.social 💫

EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · May 27

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

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,…

www.eui.eu

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · Apr 15

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 · Apr 1

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 · Apr 2

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...

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

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · Apr 1

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 · Mar 31

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 · Mar 31

Come and join us in discussing Tamara Chaplin's book Becoming Lesbian 💫

Georgia-Taygeti @georgiakat.bsky.social · Mar 31

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!

EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

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Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Mar 28

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Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social · Mar 22

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...

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

https://academic.oup.com/tcbh/article/36/1/hwaf003/8090288?login=true#no-access-message#no-access-message

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EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social · Mar 21

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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