June 24 (Monday) 20:00 “Flesh trade and unnatural vice”: how sex crimes were prosecuted in Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century”

Attempts to control the bodies and sexuality of people were an important method of imperial control on the margins of the Russian Empire. “Correct” sexual behavior, coinciding with bourgeois sexual morality, indicated that Russia was successfully fulfilling its civilizational mission here. Especially in the Caucasus, where, in the opinion of officials and experts from the empire, the problem with sexual immorality was most acute