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Kateřina Lišková, Theo Finsterschott and Vjačeslav Glazov will present at the 56th ASEEES Annual Convention in Boston in a panel Falling by the wayside. Expertise on unwanted children, youth criminals and sadistic women in socialist Czechoslovakia and Poland. 

Kateřina Lišková gave a lecture "Comparing Historical Developments. Sequences of Problem Solving and Sociology of Expertise as Methodological Tools" 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.

Theo Finsterschott presented a paper "School maturity testing in state-socialist Czechoslovakia" at the workshop “History of Knowledge in History of Education” taking place at the University of Zürich.

Kateřina Lišková gave a lecture "Reproductive health from a gender perspective"​ as part of "Gender & Health" at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Kateřina Lišková, Annina Gagyiova and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the Biennial Conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine a panel “How to bring up a normal kid. Human science expertise on healthy child development in socialist East Central Europe”.

Natalia Jarska and Annina Gagyiova presented at the Feminist Labour History Network at the 5th conference of the ELHN in a panel on “Expert discourses and struggles around the regulation of women’s labour”.

José L.A. López Barajas presented a paper: Socialist Bowlby. “Maternal deprivation and childcare institutions in socialist Poland and East Germany from a comparative and transnational perspective”. Vjačeslav Glazov presented a paper “The problem of youth criminality between psychiatry and criminology in socialist Czechoslovakia“.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, José L.A. López, Vjačeslav Glazov and Theo Finsterschott presented at Colloquium at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS).

Kateřina Lišková presented a paper "Population and reproduction: research vistas from Europe's peripheries," co-authored with Agata Ignaciuk, at the workshop New Directions in Cultural History organized by Utrecht University. 

Kateřina Lišková gave a lecture "Women as sexual beings under communism" at the Russian and East European Studies department of University of Pennsylvania​.

Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the 55th ASEEES Annual Convention in Philadelphia.

Kateřina Lišková presented at the workshop Knowledge Practices at the Utrecht University.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska presented at the "Socialist Governmentality? Healthcare, technologies of the self, and subjectification in European state socialism, 1945-1990" workshop organised at Charité Berlin.

As a part of the panel on "New studies on East-Central Europe", in his presentation "The experts and the Party, expert knowledge and governmentality in state socialist East Central Europe", José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas introduced the project for the first time to a Spanish-speaking audience at the XVI conference of the Asociación de Historia Contemporánea taking place in Logroño (Spain) 6th, 7th and 8th September 2023.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the EAHMH conference which will take place from 30 August to 2 September 2023 in Oslo.

Kateřina Lišková gave a lecture "Reproductive health from a gender perspective"​ as part of "Gender & Health" at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, and Markus Wahl presented at the Big Berks Conference.

Kateřina Lišková presented a keynote lecture at the Baltic Connections conference.

Natalia Jarska and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the University of Granada about gender, women’s emancipation and socialism in the lives of two pediatricians - a comparative look on East Germany and Poland.

Annina Gagyiova participated in the workshop "Health Sciences and the Social Health and Social Mobilization, 1950-2020s" in Paris on 19 May 2023.

Natalia Jarska presented a paper on Poland in a panel on the "Feminization of the Working Class" at the conference in Bochum at ISB.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the ESSHC Conference.

Annina Gagyiova and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the Heidelberg conference.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the conference SSHA Annual Conference which took place from 17th to 20th November 2022 in Chicago.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, and José L.A. López Barajas presented at the conference 54th ASEEES Annual Convention which took place from 10th to 13th November 2022 in Chicago.

Kateřina Lišková gave a talk titled “Women and sexual health. The intersections of medical science and politics during state socialism in East-Central Europe” organized by the City University of New York.

Annina Gagyiova and José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas participated in the workshop "Kleinkinder und frühe Kindheit in Europa nach 1945"

Kateřina Lišková chaired and discussed the panel "Religion, Intimacy and Precarity: Polish Catholic Narratives of (Non)reproduction (1980s-Present)" at ASEEES virtual conference.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, and Annina Gagyiova presented at the 10th ESHS Conference which took place on 7-10th September 2022 in Brussel, Belgium.

Kateřina Lišková, Natalia Jarska, Annina Gagyiova, and José L.A. López Barajas presented papers as a panel at the conference The Baltic Connections 2022 which took place at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, from June 16 to 17.

Kateřina and Annina presented at the workshop titled “The Varieties of Psychologization under State-Socialism, post WWII Europe” organized by Erfurt University.

Kateřina Lišková presented a keynote lecture titled "Woman as sexual beings in state socialism. How the state interest in reproduction translated into research on the female orgasm and how the pro-family policies fueled divorce"

Kateřina Lišková gave a talk as part of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health online webinar series

Natalia Jarska, Andrea Bělehradová, Markus Wahl and Kateřina Lišková presented papers at the conference Authority and medical expertise: health as a social good and political argument in Eastern Europe, Russia and beyond.

Kateřina Lišková presented a paper Against the obscurantist views from the past.

Kateřina Lišková presented a paper Sexology as forensic science in state-socialist Czechoslovakia. On the intersections of expertise with the state and changes in the understanding of sexual deviance.

Kateřina Lišková presented a paper Divorce, Motherhood and Women's Emancipation in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia.

Kateřina Lišková chaired the panel at the ASN World Convention, hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University

Uncovering medical histories from the socialist East. The case of medical sexology in Czechoslovakia.

Socialist Sexualities: Expert Knowledge and Intimate Revolutions in Poland and Czechoslovakia.

Love and Sex Behind the Iron Curtain: What Can We Learn from the Experiences of 20th Century State Socialism in Eastern Europe?

Love and Sex Behind the Iron Curtain: 20th Century State Socialism in Eastern Europe. Kateřina Lišková participated in a discussion organized by the Democratic Socialists of America