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Webinar "Memory Politics and Illiberal Turns in Central and Eastern Europe" with the participation of Prof. Andrea Pető

February 17, 2023
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Over the past few decades, Central and Eastern Europe has become a battleground for different and frequently conflicting interpretations of the past. Historical events of the 20th century, including WWII, the Holocaust, and the Nazi and Communist regimes, are remembered very differently across the region, sometimes resulting in memory wars within and between states. What is more, memory politics has been often used for justifying illiberal turns.

New publication: Prof. em. Francisca de Haan just published a Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World (Palgrave MacMillan)

January 27, 2023
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This 700-page Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation.

CEU Professor Andrea Peto recognized by University of Oslo for her work on scientific freedom

December 2, 2022
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Hungarian historian, CEU professor at the Department of Gender Studies, and research fellow at CEU's Democracy Institute, Andrea Peto has been awarded the University of Oslo’s Human Rights Award for her work on academic freedom. She is receiving the prize in Oslo on December 5, 2022. The University of Oslo’s Human Rights Award is awarded annually for personal efforts and active involvement in one or more areas related to human rights issues in a broad sense. See here Andrea Peto's statement. 

Special issue of EJWS: Transformative Activism co-edited by Ayse Gul Altinay and Andrea Peto is out

November 21, 2022
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How do feminist and queer activist imaginaries respond to, initiate, mitigate, enable and complicate the ongoing process of radical transformation in the world? This special issue brings together insightful analyses of how the famous feminist dictum, ‘the personal is political’ is finding new expression in this era of climatic, pandemic, economic and political crises, particularly in the European context. Check below the Table of Contents: 

Call for Applications for 11 Doctoral Candidates

November 16, 2022
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APPLY NOW: The EUTERPE Consortium is looking for eleven researchers to work on the Doctoral Training Network “EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective”.  11 researchers will be posted with 8 consortium member universities, 2 researchers with the Department of Gender Studies at CEU. For more information about the project check here.