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Academic Success in Gender Studies during War, Anti-Gender Attacks, and Pandemic

September 20, 2022
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Is it even worth investing years in writing scientific papers when the world is falling apart around us? The book launch on 14th September 2022 invited graduates of CEU Department of Gender Studies and gender researchers from Austria to share their personal stories and present their recent publications. Andrea Pető opened the event by emphasizing that it is important to tell “better stories” during the time of “grim stories”.

First publication by Saskia Stachowitsch and Julia Sachseder in FWF project “Risky Borders. Gender and Race in EU Border Security”

July 16, 2022
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Saskia Stachowitsch and Julia Sachseder (affiliated with the CEU’s Department of Gender Studies and Department of IR), together with Clemens Binder, have published “Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth: discourses of ‘migration crisis’ and the expansion of Frontex”. Their article, which has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, explores how migration movements at the EU’s external borders are increasingly understood and governed through a logic of crisis that draws on g

June 29, 2022, 5:00 PM: Lecture “Shifting the Scene: State-socialist Europe and the International Politics of Women’s Work” by Susan Zimmermann

June 28, 2022
Three Women Figures, by Oleksandra Ekster

This lecture discusses the role of state-socialist Europe in the making of the international politics of women’s work. In Cold War Europe the Eastern European countries spearheaded the large-scale expansion of women’s full-time employment. By the 1960s they came to advocate, domestically and in their interaction with the International Labour Organization, a new policy instrument, extended paid childcare leave for working mothers.

Dubrovnik International Postgraduate Course "Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective: Art, Artivism and Other Transformative Practices"

June 3, 2022
Course participants, May 26, 2022, Dubrovnik

Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, May 23-27, 2022

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Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective is the general title of an annual international postgraduate course that takes place in the last week of May at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik. Every year a new topic is addressed under this general title. The course brings together young and more established feminist researchers to discuss a range of topics related to the general title, who all participate in the entire course, thus sharing knowledge and experience.

June 3, 2022: Book presentation in Vienna by Andrea Pető

May 20, 2022
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Prof. Andrea Pető presents her book Das Unsagbare erzählen. Sexuelle Gewalt in Ungarn im Zweiten Weltkrieg. (Telling the Unspeakable. Sexual Violence in Hungary during the Second World War). Translated by Krisztina Kovacs, the book takes up the challenge of telling the story of the mass rapes of women during World War II by German, Soviet, and Hungarian soldiers in Hungary.