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Socialist Sex Education

A talk by Professor Agnieszka Koscianska

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 10:30am to 11:45am

Williams Hall 320

Agnieszka Ko艣cia艅ska received her PhD (2007) and habilitation (2015) in ethnology/cultural anthropology from the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, sexual violence, religion, and anthropology of science. Now she also is a senior researcher in a HERA grant (Cruising the 1970s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures) and a research partner in a POLONEZ 2 grant (European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie/National Science Center Poland; Birth control cultures in Poland 1945鈥�1989). She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2010-2011, Marie Curie fellowship), the New School for Social Research (2006, Kosciuszko Foundation grant), the University of Copenhagen (2005, Danish Governmental scholarship), Edinburgh College of Art (2017, European Visiting Research Fellowship by the Caledonian Research Foundation and the Royal Society of Edinburgh) and a fellow at the Imre Kert茅sz Kolleg Jena (2016, 2017-2018).


She is the author of Zobaczy膰 艂osia (To See a Moose. The History of Polish Sex Education from the First Lesson to the Internet, 2017), P艂e膰 przyjemno艣膰 i przemoc (Gender, Pleasure and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland 2014), Pot臋ga ciszy (The Power of silence: Gender and Religious Conversion. The Case of a New Religious Movement, the Brahma Kumaris, 2009) and (co-)editor of several volumes and journal special issues on gender and sexuality 鈥� the most recent being 鈥楾he science of sex in a space of uncertainty: Naturalizing and modernizing Europe鈥檚 East, past and present鈥� Sexualities, no. 1-2 2016 (with Hadley Renkin).