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Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe
Expertise shapes modern forms of governance. Yet, we know significantly more about the postwar Western expertise than we know about the other side of the Iron Curtain. ExpertTurn will put expertise center stage and analyze socialist countries.
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2. 6. 2026 - 5. 6. 2026
London, England

The Transnational History of Attachment Theory in post-war Europe

Kateřina Lišková presented about experts' involvement in documentary films about childhood in socialist Czechoslovakia and discussed these in a comparative perspective at the workshop “The Transnational History of Attachment Theory in Post War Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study of Agents, Discourses, and Practices” organized by Deutsches Jugendinstitut.

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28. 5. 2026 - 29. 5. 2026
Prague, Czech Republic

Intimate States: New Histories of Medicine, Welfare, and Care under Socialism

ExpertTurn organized a conference focused on socialist institutional care and intimacy, which took place at the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague at Národní třída. 
 

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14. 5. 2026
Prague, Czech Republic

Between Optimism and Warning: Czechoslovak Expertise on Collective Childcare in the Transnational Context of the Cold War

Kateřina Lišková presented at the seminar of the Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. 

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