{"id":86194,"date":"2026-07-14T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=86194"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:02:21","slug":"cfp-sexuality-and-regimes-of-expertise-bodies-gender-and-sexual-health-in-southern-and-eastern-europe-1940s-1990s-01-2027-madrid-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=86194","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Sexuality and Regimes of Expertise: Bodies, Gender and Sexual Health in Southern and Eastern Europe (1940s-1990s) (01\/2027, Madrid); by: 31.07.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Univ. Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid; COST Action CA22159 „National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist)“<\/strong> (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n

Time: 21.-22.01.2027
\nVenue: Madrid
\nProposals by: 31.07.2026<\/p>\n

This workshop aims to examine regimes of sexual expertise and their impact on intimate life in Eastern and Southern European countries from the end of the Second World War to the late 1990s. During this period, these regions underwent diverse and profound political transformations, ranging from the consolidation of socialist systems and the establishment of military dictatorships to transitions toward democratic societies. These changes gave rise to different forms of expertise and institutions that were shaped by dialogues between medicine, the Church, the state, and society.
\nSouthern and Eastern European have traditionally been considered separately, but inhabit a similar position as European \u201csemi-peripheries\u201d, where, according to dominant narratives, backwardness or isolation from major scientific developments often prevailed due to the history of their political regimes. For that reason, and despite having dynamic and expanding historiographies that are bringing new perspectives on sexuality and health, Southern and Eastern Europe continue to occupy a marginal place in narratives about historical changes in sexual health conceptualization and practices. The workshop aims to challenge Western-centric perspectives and situate both regions within a transnational and comparative framework to shed light on the connections, contrasts, and circulations of knowledge between different political, religious, and scientific traditions.
\nWe aim to understand how each society negotiated the tensions between scientific authority, moral prescriptions, and lived experiences and how these negotiations translated into public health policies that ruled intimate life. We will adopt a comparative perspective that examines Eastern and Southern Europe not against the benchmark of Western countries as the supposed \u201cnormal\u201d model, but in relation to each other, with the aim of identifying common patterns and differences that can ultimately be situated within a broader European history of sexuality.
\nWe invite contributions that examine how these regimes of expertise were formed, who, and how they shaped definitions of sexual health, the body, and intimate life in Southern and Eastern Europe. We welcome analyses of how different political ideologies \u2014such as national Catholicism, socialism, feminism and liberalism\u2014 shaped transformations in regimes of sexual expertise. We are interested in the languages used to legitimize these forms of authority, the institutions that sustained them, and the dynamics of reception, negotiation, and resistance that they generated.<\/p>\n

Paper submissions could address, but are not limited to, themes such as:
\n– Regimes of authority and expert languages. The role of health professionals (sexologists, psychiatrists and gynaecologists), churches or religious authorities, among others, in defining practices and discourses on marriage, reproduction and sexual normality.
\n– Public health policies and the governance of intimate life: Family policies, birth control and sex education; the role of health institutions in defining sexual and reproductive well-being.
\n– Circulation of knowledge and transnational transfers.
\n– Popular culture as space for performing and creating norms and resistances
\n– Grassroots movements, authority and expertise.
\n– Experiences, subjectivities and first-person accounts. How individuals negotiate or relate to expert discourses.<\/p>\n

Send your 150-word bio and 250-word abstract to jaguil04@ucm.es and\/or monica.garciaf@uam.es by July 31st 2026.<\/p>\n

Source: HSozKult (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Univ. Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid; COST Action CA22159 „National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist)“ (Web) Time: 21.-22.01.2027 Venue: Madrid Proposals by: 31.07.2026 This workshop aims to examine regimes of sexual expertise and their impact on intimate life in Eastern and Southern European countries from the end of the Second World War to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,7,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers","category-topic_1968","category-history-of-european-womens-movements","category-topic_lgbtiq-flit","category-topic_pflegecare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86200,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86194\/revisions\/86200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}