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Workshop “Moving Away from ‘Post-socialism’: Reconceptualizing Scholarly Approaches to Contemporary Eastern Europe and Eurasia through Feminist and Queer Theory Lenses”

October 21, 2022
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Budapest, 23-25 September 2022

The workshop took place at CEU’s Budapest campus, whose currently empty spaces only emphasized the importance of re-examining the political and theoretical implications of “post-socialism.” The goal of the workshop was to critically account for the strong grip this concept has on the scholarly work engaging with contemporary Eastern Europe and Eurasia, as well as to offer potential alternatives.

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Prof. Susan Zimmermann co-edits a book on women’s activism with a focus on work

October 14, 2022
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Prof. Susan Zimmermann (affiliated with the CEU’s Department of Gender Studies and Department of History), together with Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, and Marica Tolomelli, has edited the book Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century.

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Prof. Andrea Peto joins the research project "Contested Legacies" supported by a grant from the Priority Research Area (Heritage)

October 13, 2022
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Prof. Andrea Peto joined the research project "Contested Legacies. Central and Eastern European and Southern European competing narratives on authoritarian lieux de memoir", supported by a grant from the Priority Research Area (Heritage) under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at the Jagiellonian University. This research project aims at establishing an international research platform consisting of researchers from several European universities.

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One-day Conference “Women's transnational activism in the Twentieth Century: framing the Chinese case in a global perspective”

October 13, 2022
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Session 1
10.45 – 11.30 Francisca de Haan, Central European University/IISG
Global Socialist Feminists and the “Century of Women”: Recent Publications and New Findings
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11.45 – 12.30 Eloisa Betti, Bologna University
Italian Left-wing Women's Agency and International Exchanges across the Iron Curtain
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12.45 -14.15 Lunch Break

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Prof. Andrea Peto co-coordinates a new research project on Holocaust Museums

October 4, 2022
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Andrea Peto is co-coordinating a research project at the University College Dublin’s Centre for War Studies funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation: “When Nationalism Fails. A Comparative Study of Holocaust Museums in ex-collaborationist countries”. This interdisciplinary, collaborative research project looks at Holocaust Museums in Hungary, Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, and Poland.

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