Student Bulletin

Academic Freedom Under Attack: A Transatlantic Conversation

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A Transatlantic Conversation took place on November 5, 2025, as the third installment in the Race, Migration, and Coloniality in Europe Working Group at Yale University’s series on the rise of the Far Right in Europe, this time in partnership with the CEU’s Gender Studies Department.

Global Blackness and Decolonial Black Feminisms – Round Table Co-Organized by the Department of Gender Studies

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Contesting Colonial Legacies in Academia and Beyond took place on October 3, 2025, co-organized by the CEU Department of Gender Studies, as part of the 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) Conference, the University of Vienna, and the AAAS. The roundtable, organized and moderated by Prof. Dr. Nadia Jones-Gailani (CEU), featured Professor Dr.

Our Applied Track Students Complete Summer Internships

September 30, 2025
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Five students on the Applied Track have successfully completed their internships as part of the requirements for their MA in Critical Gender Studies degrees and are due to graduate in June 2026.

Míra Balkay interned at the Budapest Institute in Hungary where she engaged in a wide range of research and operational activities, including assisting in designing field experiments on labour market discrimination against Roma applicants and people with autism spectrum disorder.

MA Student Isabella Costa Co-Authors a Critical Policy Paper

September 24, 2025
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Our student Isabella Costa, who is on the Applied Track in the 2-year MA in Critical Gender Studies, has co-authored a critical policy paper with Dr. Miriam Mona Mukalazi, published by the Internation Institute for Peace. Isabella has worked under Dr. Mukalazi’s direct supervision during her summer internship at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue (VIDC). Together they also published the following interview.

Congratulations to the GENS recipients of the 2025 PhD awards

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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 2025: Ana Abril and Sarah Ahmed

First-Year PhD Award Recipient 2025: Liridona Sijarina