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Two recent publications of Prof. Susan Zimmermann

January 4, 2018

Please see the following new titles : 

Equality of Women's Economic Status? A Major Bone of Contention in the International Gender Politics Emerging During the Interwar Period (Open access: The International History Review, 2017, Author: Susan Zimmermann) 

Women’s and Gender History (in Irina Livezeanu, Arpad von Klimo, eds, The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700, Routledge: Milton Park, New York 2017, Authors: Krassimira Daskalova and Susan Zimmermann)

Conference Invitation: The Holocaust in Hungary: Victimhood and Memory

December 7, 2017

*** The conference is in Hungarian language ***

“The Holocaust in Hungary: Victimhood and Memory” conference is organised in collaboration between CEU and Research Centre for the Humanities of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It aims at bringing together the younger generation of Hungarian scholars on 18th December 2017 at 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4. The language of the conference is Hungarian.

See the program in attachment below

Read Elissa Helms (CEU Dept. of Gender Studies) and Andrea Krizsán (CEU CPS) on the Hungarian Government's Attack against CEU

November 24, 2017

Hungarian Government’s Attack on Central European University and its Implications for Gender Studies in Central and Eastern Europe

Helms, Elissa/Krizsan, Andrea: Hungarian Government’s Attack on Central European University and its Implications for Gender Studies in Central and Eastern Europe, Femina Politica, 2-2017, S. 169-173.

Romania ‘turns illiberal’ with moves against gay marriage

October 6, 2017

Romania is gearing up to hold a referendum to amend the constitution to prohibit gay marriage, a move that civil rights groups warn could put the country on an “illiberal” path alongside the likes of Hungary and Poland.

Read the comment of Prof. Andrea Pető in Politico's article

“Resistance Alone Is Not Enough” – Women’s Rights and Illiberal Democracies

August 31, 2017

Andrea Peto discusses some of the feminist theoretical interventions from recent years, e.g. neoliberal neopatriarchy, gender as symbolic glue, the illiberal polypore state, familialism and securitization of human rights.

READ the article of the The Green European Journal!