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Congratulations to the GENS recipients of the 2024 PhD awards

January 22, 2024
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It is our great pleasure to announce this year’s PhD award recipients at the Department of Gender Studies. 

Advanced PhD Award Recipients 2024: Anita Prsa and Jessica Varela

First-Year PhD Award Recipient 2024: Ali Hashemian

Doctoral awards recognize outstanding performance in research in the case of advanced students, and in coursework and comprehensive exams in the case of first-year students. The awardees have been selected by the University Doctoral Committee.  

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Public lecture "It’s not that grey: recognizing patterns of sexual harassment with the Red Flag System" by Sara Hassan

January 12, 2024
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The Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equality invites you to the public lecture "It’s not that grey: recognizing patterns of sexual harassment with the Red Flag System" by Sara Hassan.

Public lectures are mandatory for all GENS 1st year students of all programs, MA and PhD. 

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Prof. Andrea Peto was interviewed for TAZ about illiberal foreign policy as Erdogan recently visited Budapest

December 23, 2023
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Prof. Andrea Peto

Less than four months after his last visit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan came back to Budapest on December 18. He and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán chair the sixth Turkish-Hungarian Council for High-Level Strategic Cooperation. There are 100 years of relations to be celebrated between the two countries, as they signed the first friendship treaty on December 15, 1923.

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OPEN COST Action on the rise of new nationalisms and higher education: Prof. Peto is co-leading a working group

December 21, 2023
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Prof. Andrea Peto is co-leading the working group on "Outreach" of the OPEN COST Action. The working group will coordinate the dissemination of Action results to both academic and policy arenas, through outreach and events. The OPEN COST Action explores how the rise of new nationalisms and geopolitical tensions exert growing pressure on the openness of European higher education and research and examines its implications for the future of Europe.

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“Babyn Yar” Holocaust Memorial Center receives the prestigious Thomas J. Dodd Prize with the participation of Prof. Peto

December 5, 2023
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Andrea Peto, a professor at Central European University in Vienna, member of the Academic Council of “Babyn Yar” Holocaust Memorial Center, and the editor-in-chief of the Eastern European Holocaust Studies journal, initiated by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in collaboration with De Gruyter was present when The “Babyn Yar” Holocaust Memorial Center was awarded the prestigious Thomas J.

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