Faculty News

Andrea Peto received OPUS MIRABILE PRIZE for the Project „Silenced“, the memorial for women as victims of wartime sexual violence 

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The Scientific Committee on Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has awarded the first prize in the category of exhibitions the 2022 OPUS MIRABILE PRIZE to the exhibition ‘Silenced’, coordinated by the Budapest City Archives in the framework of the Municipal of Budapest „Silenced” project, and the edited book Silenced’ edited by Edit András, József Mélyi and Andrea Pető (BFL 2022), the catalogue of the exhibition. The award ceremony will take place on 23 May 2025 in Budapest. 

Gender Studies Professor em. Francisca de Haan receives prestigious Suffrage Science Award 2025

Suffrage Science Award 2025

On March 7, the eve of International Women’s Day, Prof. Francisca de Haan received a Suffrage Science Award 2025. The awards were presented during a celebratory event in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building in Oxford. Each award season, there are around twelve laureates from disciplines such as physics, chemistry and more.

Read Prof. Pető on the anti-liberal appropriation of the 1956 Hungarian revolution

February 10, 2025
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Prof. Pető has recently published on Verfassungsblog | On Matters Constitutional, a journalistic and academic forum of debate on topical events and developments in constitutional law and politics in Germany. 

Visiting Professor Adriana Qubaiova delivers keynote at the Historical Materialism Cluj-Napoca 2024

December 1, 2024
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In conversation with Volodymyr Ishchenko, Adriana Qubaiova delivered a keynote on “Bursting Polycrisis: Palestine and Ukraine in Perspective”. The discussion addressed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s occupation of Palestine, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Both speakers reflected on the problematic comparisons between the two wars and how they impact Eastern and Central Europe.

Professor Emerita Francisca de Haan gives a keynote speech on the World Women’s Committee Against War and Fascism

November 21, 2024
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Francisca de Haan presents "Expanding Our Research Agenda: Women From the Region in the World Women’s Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF, est. 1934)" as one of the keynote speakers at an international conference on "Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe". The GENS Professor Emerita will present on November 28 at the University of Crete (Greece).