ExpertTurn | FSS MU

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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20 Oct

Upcomming conference - Authority and medical expertise: health as a social good and political argument in Eastern Europe, Russia and beyond

Natalia Jarska, Andrea Bělehradová, Markus Wahl and Kateřina Lišková will present papers at the conference Authority and medical expertise: health as a social good and political argument in Eastern Europe, Russia and beyond organized by Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung-Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (20-21 October 2021 Marburg, Germany)

9 Sep

Against the obscurantist views from the past. Introducing legal abortion to Czechoslovakia as a means of improving women’s health and their right to decide

Kateřina Lišková will present a paper Against the obscurantist views from the past. Introducing legal abortion to Czechoslovakia as a means of improving women’s health and their right to decide and chair a session Catholic Discourses on Reproductive Health in State-Socialist Poland, 1960s-1990s at the Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (7-10 September 2021, Leuven, Belgium - online)

26 Aug

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 will present 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 at the ERC-funded project conference of Forensic Cultures in Europe (FORCE), (26-28 August, 2021 Utrecht, Netherlands - online)

3 Aug

Divorce, Motherhood and Women's Emancipation in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia

Kateřina Lišková presented a paper Divorce, Motherhood and Women's Emancipation in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia at the International Council for Central and East European Studies'World Congres (3-8 August, 2021, Montreal.Canada - online)

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