• QUEERSHIP at the ESREA conference in Huelva

    The Gender and Adult Education Network of ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults) organised a conference on democracy, inclusion and citizenship, held on 14-16 October 2026 in Huelva, Spain. Our Czech team member, Zdeněk Sloboda, attended the conference and presented initial data from our observations of information and educational events on…

  • QUEERSHIP team meeting in Warsaw

    On 22–23 October 2026, the QUEERSHIP team met at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw (Karowa 18) for two days of joint work. The first day was devoted to the first drafts of our country reports, prepared within Work Package 1. The reports look at how LGBTIQ* families are presented in laws, public policies…

  • Prof. Joanna Mizielińska at the Queer Feminist Retreat in Sitges

    Prof. Joanna Mizielińska participated in a queer feminist academic retreat held in Sitges, Spain, from 21 to 24 September 2026. The retreat was co-organised by Ella Ben Hagai and Roisin Ryan-Flood as part of the CORE Feminist Retreats initiative. The retreat brought together feminist and queer scholars to work through scholarly, professional and writing dilemmas…

  • Dr Zdeněk Sloboda presents research on intersex lives in Central and Eastern Europe at the European University Institute

    Dr Zdeněk Sloboda took part in the workshop “Intersex in the East: Intersex people in the post-communist and post-socialist European countries,” held on Friday, 9 October 2026, at the European University Institute (EUI) in Fiesole, near Florence. The event was organised by Martin Grmać, Max Weber Fellow at the EUI. In his presentation, Dr Sloboda…

  • QUEERSHIP team presents at the 17th ESA Conference in Warsaw

    QUEERSHIP team presents at the 17th ESA Conference in Warsaw On August 27, 2026, Prof. Joanna Mizielińska and Dr. Agata Stasińska presented two papers at the 17th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), held in Warsaw from 25 to 28 August under the theme “Strengthening Democracies: Social Action, Solidarity, and Sustainable Futures.” More than…

  • Special issue “Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped” in the Qualitative Research Journal

    We are pleased to announce that the Qualitative Research Journal (vol. 26, no. 4) has published the special issue “Reviewer 2 Must Be Stopped: peer review, knowledge production and the politics of ‘catching up’ in global academia — toward a tender reviewer perspective,” edited by Joanna Mizielińska and Agata Stasińska of the Faculty of Sociology,…

  • From the Field: Split Pride 2026

    On June 27, Petar Odak took part in Split Pride. This was the 15th Pride march in Split, with around 300–400 people attending. This year, the political theme of the march was the kind of schools, pedagogies, and societies we have and the kind we are working toward. As the organizers said in their speech:…

  • From the Field: Budapest Pride 2026

    Balázs Szabó of the research team attended the 31st Budapest Pride march on June 27, 2026, conducting participant observation as part of the ongoing project. Following 16 years of political repression, this year’s event was perceived by many participants as significantly more open and liberating. Although attendance was lower than at the historic 2025 march…

  • QUEERSHIP at Queer: Present! — Poznań, June 2026

    We were delighted to take part in the international conference Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body, held at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań on 25–26 June 2026. The conference brought together scholars from across Europe and beyond to explore queer visibility, embodiment, and resistance — and it was a pleasure to contribute two presentations rooted…

  • Queer parenthood in Central Europe: interview

    We are thrilled to the share latest interview with Zdeněk Sloboda, who is leading the research in Czechia.