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May 2022: Online Workshop series on anti-gender politics and pedagogies of populism in Central and Eastern Europe

April 20, 2022
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In recent years, social movements and political campaigns challenging women’s rights and LGBTQ+ equality have mobilized publics across the globe, from West Africa to Central and Eastern Europe, South Asia to North America. Even as some countries have witnessed an expansion of reproductive rights, marriage equality, and the legal recognition of transgender people, in many others these rights have been substantially weakened, diminished, or outright withdrawn.

April 25: Debate on implications of the war in Ukraine for scholars and scholarship

April 14, 2022
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Join the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in partnership with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Claremont McKenna College, and Brown University as they look at “What happened to the "Never Again!" Ethics? Lesson learned from the war in Ukraine for scholars and for the scholarship”. The event, which takes place online on April 25, is moderated by Prof. Andrea Pető with the participation of Omer Bartov, Marta Havryshko, Wendy Lower, and Tali Nates. Also, Ruslan Kavatsiuk leads the opening of the debate.

Online event assesses the latest Hungarian elections

April 11, 2022
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The panel “Assessing the Hungarian Elections: Domestic and Regional Implications” will offer perspectives from Hungarian scholars on how to understand the results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections that took place on April 3, 2022. Prof. Andrea Pető from the Department of Gender Studies will participate in the discussion, together with CEU’s professors Zsolt Enyedi and Szabolcs Pogonyi. The moderator is Myra Waterbury, from Ohio University (USA).

Sad News – Feminist Philosopher Linda Fisher passed away

March 28, 2022
Linda Fisher, likely in 1997 in Szentendre (Hungary)

Our colleague, the feminist philosopher Linda Fisher, passed away on March 21, 2022. Linda earned her PhD in Philosophy from The Pennsylvania State University and taught at McGill University and the University of Windsor before she came to the CEU in 2001. Linda helped build up the Department of Gender Studies, of which she was Acting Head in 2002-03.