Forensic Cultures in Europe Conference

Kateřina presented a paper titled „Sexology as forensic science in state-socialist Czechoslovakia. On the intersections of expertise with the state and changes in the understanding of sexual deviance,“ in which she analyzed the shifts Czechoslovak sexology experienced over the forty years of state socialism in treating sexual deviance. She focused on boundary work sexologists performed vis à vis psychiatrists and as forensic scientists and how expertise on sexual deviance informed and was structured by the state’s shifting political accents. As such, her paper spoke to the professionalization and institutionalization of sexual medicine as forensic science, illuminating the intersections of gender and sexuality in forensic expertise during state socialism and beyond.