Noémi Katona (MTA TK SZI) Academic Title: PhD Email: katona.noemi@tk.mta.hu Phone: 06 1 2246700 / 5432 Building: B (Floor, room: 1.12.) Research Interests Migration, gender, ethnicity, prostitution, human trafficking, the sociology of emotions Selected Publications Pimps or boyfriends? The negotiation of intimacy and economic transfer by Hungarian sex workers in the Kurfürstenstraße. In: Sex Work(s). Ed: Marta Dubel und Susanne Kimm. HammockTreeRecords Kollektiv, Wien: 2015. Child Trafficking in Hungary: Sexual Exploitation, Forced Begging and Pickpocketing / Gyermekkereskedelem Magyarországon: Szexuális kizsákmányolás, koldultatás és zsebtolvajlásra kényszerítés. Vidra, Zsuzsanna; Baracsi, Kitti; Katona, Noemi and Sebhelyi, Viktoria. In: CPS Books. Budapest: Central European University, 2015. Sex work and prostitution in the neoliberal global economy: Potentials of Feminist Critique in East- Central Europe. In: Neoliberalism and Feminism in East-Central Europe. Publisher: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Budapest. 2016. Loved or seduced? Intimate Relationships between Hungarian Sex Workers and Pimps in Berlin s Kurfürstenstraße. In: Third party sex work and pimps in the age of anti-trafficking. Ed: Amber Horning and Anthony Marcus. Publisher: Springer. 2017. State policies and institutional procedures and practices addressing prostitution and sex trafficking of children in Hungary. (Zs. Vidra, V. Sebhelyi and N. Katona). Forthcoming, Critical Social Policy. SAGE Journals. Research Projects 2016 2017 Research on the investigation of transnational organized crime. National University of Public Service, Budapest. Research assistant 2015 Spring CONFRONT research project, Countering new forms of Roma children trafficking: Participatory approach. Central European University, Center for Policy Studies.
Research assistant 2011 Spring- Summer Project BORDERNETwork 2010-2012. SPI, Berlin. Conducting interviews Education 2013 Spring Humboldt Universität, Berlin PhD student at the Institute for Social Sciences, Department of Diversity and Social Conflict 2014 2016: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin Scholarship holder, PhD student 2015 Winter - 2016 Spring Central European University, Budapest. Doctoral Support Program Guest student at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, PhD 2013 Fall - 2015 Winter GST - Gesellschaft für systhemische Therapie und Beratung (Association for systematic therapy and counseling) Ausbildung in systhemischer Beratung (Training in systematic counseling) 2014 Summer Central European University, Budapest. Summer University Attending a Summer University in Social Theory and Romani Studies 2011-2012 Central European University, Budapest Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, MA 2004-2011 Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest Faculty of Humanities: History and Aesthetics, MA 2009-2010 Humboldt Universität, Berlin Erasmus scholar studying at the Institute of European Ethnology (MA) Institute of Modern South- and South-East Asian Studies (MA) Attending courses at the 2006-2007 Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia Darmasiswa scholar studying Indonesian language and culture Selected conferences and workshops 2017 Fall
3. interdisziplinäre Workshop Kritische Sexarbeitsforschung. Aktuelle Ansätze zur Sexarbeitsforschung. Migrationsfragen, Räpresentationsfragen und Diskurse sowie deren Auswirkungen in und durch Wissenschaft". Salzburg, 24-26.12.2017. - Presentation: Menschenhandel und/oder Arbeitsmigration: die umstrittene Rolle von Dritten in der Prostitution 2017 Spring Displacing sex for sale. Copenhagen, March 29th, 30th and 31st 2017. - organized by ProsPol project. Comparing Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance. - Holding presentation on the investigation of Human Trafficking and international police cooperation. Title of the presentation: Between human trafficking and migration for sex work: addressing the boundaries of legality regarding third parties in prostitution 2017 Winter Symposium "State of the abject". Leipzig, January 12-13, 2017 - Participation on the Symposium, giving feedback on the research project and unpublished work of the organizers. - Title of the presentation held on the symposium: Narratives of intimacy: Pimps and Sex Workers vs. Victims of Human Trafficking. Mädchenhandel und Völkerrecht. Internationale Verrechtlichungsprozesse vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas e. V. (GWZO) 04.- 05.11.2016 - Participation and presentation at the workshop - Title of the presentation: Investigating Human Trafficking: Troubles and Development of Law Enforcement in Hungary Annual Conference of the Hungarian Association of Sociology, Pecs, October 2016 - Presentation in the Panel: Invisible hopelessness - Title of the presentation: The hidden network operating prostitution ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague, 7-10 September, 2016 - Presentation in Panel P332 Positionality in Prostitution Research. - Title of the presentation: Dilemmas of double roles: doing social work and ethnographic research in a street based prostitution area. 2015 Summer Still Telling Sexual Stories. The Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities Summer School 2015. Lindisfarne Centre, Durham University, UK. 2nd 3rd July 2015 - Participation and presentation: Talking about Central-Eastern European Sex Workers in Germany 2015 Spring Troubling prostitution. Exploring intersections of sex, intimacy and labour. 17-18. April 2015. Vienna, Austria
- Participation and presentation: Between love and work: Negotiations of economic and intimate ties among sex workers and pimps 2014 Summer Hierarchisierungsprozesse: Intersektionalität aus ethnographischer Perspektive. Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin. 26-27. Juni 2014. (Hierarchization processes: Intersectionality from ethnographic perspective) - Participation and presentation: Soziale Arbeit und ethnografische Forschung im Straßenstrich: Dilemmas einer Doppelrolle (Social work and ethnographic research in a street-based prostitution area: Dilemmas of double-roles) 2013 Summer Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, Mobilities: Globalism and its Concepts after the Crash of 2008. GLOREA closing conference. June 6-8, 2013. Aarhus University, Denmark - Participation and presentation of PhD dissertation project. 2013 Spring Migration, Citizenship and Transnational Politics: Comparative Perspectives of Western Europe and North America - Trilateral Cooperation between Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / WZB, Sciences Po, Paris and University of California Los Angeles - Presentation of my PhD dissertation project 2013 Spring Symposium: Verletzte Leben, verwehrte Rechte: Menschenhandel im 21. Jahrhundert. Humboldt Universität, Berlin (Violated lives, denied rights: Human trafficking in the 21st century) - Presentation: Zwang, Geld und Intimität: Ungarische Sexarbeiterinnen und ihre Zuhälter/Freunde in der Kurfürstenstraße (Coercion, Money and Intimacy: Hungarian Sex Workers and their Pimps/Boyfriends in Kurfürstenstraße) 2012 Spring 7 Tage der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie 2012, Vienna - Presentation in Workshop 3: Sex Work(s). Title: Pimp/boyfriend: The Role of Male Third Parties in the Migration Process of Hungarian Sex Workers in the Kurfürstenstraße Further Affiliations 2016 Summer - Menedek Hungarian Association for Migrants - Social worker, individual counseling in Budapest and community social work - Social work and counseling in refugee camps Languages
English (Proficient) German (Proficient) Italian (Intermediate) Indonesian (Intermediate)