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ZARAH Post-doctoral researcher Eszter Varsa wins the Emma Goldman Award 2023

October 24, 2023

Eszter Varsa, post-doctoral researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant project ZARAH, has won the Emma Goldman Award 2023 for her work in the field of gender history, material inequality, and the history of Roma.

GENS faculty, students, and alums participate in AtGender 2023

October 4, 2023

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Visiting Professor Adriana Qubaiova presenting at AtGender Conference

Several members of the GENS department attended the annual AtGender Conference, which was hosted by the Kadir Has University in Istanbul this year under the theme “Feminist Pedagogy of/Under Borders”.

Julia Sachseder and Saskia Stachowitsch publish a new article on gender and EU security strategies

August 27, 2023

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Julia Sachseder and Saskia Stachowitsch (affiliated with the CEU’s Department of Gender Studies and Department of IR) have published Gendering EU security strategies: a feminist postcolonial approach to the EU as a (global) security actor. The publication is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project “Risky Borders. Gender and Race in EU Border Security”.

Prof. Pető will hold the Annual Lecture Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam

August 26, 2023

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Hannah Szenes Memorial in Budapest (Photo: Prof. Andrea Pető)

In recent years, Hungary has been portrayed as a negative example of memory politics, exercising political influence over the study, interpretation, and emphasis or concealment of past events. Hungary is seen as a starting point for the paradigm shift in the memory politics of World War II.