Carolina Seminar • Michaela Appeletova (Wake Forest University)

Michaela Appeltová is an assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University. Her research and teaching interests include modern European history, East Central Europe, nationalism and imperialism, gender and sexuality, and disability history. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Embodied Socialism: Gendered Bodies and Medical Expertise in Czechoslovakia 1965-1989, which investigates the ways in which the political and social upheaval of the 1960s, common to both East and West of the Cold War divide, transformed notions of gender, body, and subjectivity in the country.

The seminar series is a joint session of Carolina Seminar on Transnational and Modern Global History and Carolina Seminar in Eastern European and Russian/Soviet Studies. It is co-sponsored by the Carolina Seminar Program and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies and the Carolina Seminar on Transnational and Modern Global History. Please note that the participants will give an overview of their projects but will not read a formal paper. Instead, papers or book chapters will be circulated ahead of time to those who are interested in attending and participating in the discussion. Please contact Dr. Eren Tasar for more information (etasar@email.unc.edu).