11:00 - 17:00 – REGISTRATION
14:00 - 14:15 – CONFERENCE OPENING
Tomáš Kostelecký (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Hana Maříková (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Session Chair: Zdeněk Sloboda (Department of Civil Society Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague)
14:15 - 15:15 – KEYNOTE SPEECH
Gabriel Bianchi (Institute for Social Communication Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Postmodern intimacy – Dionysian transmutation
15:15 - 16:15 – KEYNOTE SPEECH
Lucie Jarkovská (Institute for Research in Inclusive Education, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University in Brno)
Culture war in a secular country? The case of sex education
16:15 - 16:45 – COFFEE BREAK
16:45 - 18:30 – SESSION 1: POLICIES AND (NO) CITIZENS
Radka Dudová, Hana Hašková (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Selective pronatalism in childcare and reproductive health policies in Czechoslovakia
Hana Konečná, Roman Svatoš (Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice)
Parenthood as an individual right in the Czech and Slovak context
Alexandra Sipos (Doctoral School of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest)
Civil union or marriage? Recognition of same-sex couples in Hungary
Craig Carey (Manchester Metropolitan University)
The erosion of LGBTQ identities in times of austerity: the case of UK Conservative legislation
Kanchan Kumari (Department of Political Science, University of Delhi),
Ravi Shankar Raina (Department of Psychology University of Delhi)
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Discontent of Citizenship in India: A Study of Adoption Laws