On April 21st, Andrea Pető (Central European University, Vienna) will be giving a talk titled The Future of Gender Studies, at the Center for Inter-American Studies (Elisabethstraße 59) at 10.00 am.
The talk will discuss the institutionalization of gender studies in post-communist Europe from the beginning till the ban of gender studies in Hungary. It will highlight the main actors and the main trends discussing also the future of gender research and education in Europe and beyond.
Andrea Pető is a historian and a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, a Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works on gender, politics, Holocaust, and war have been translated into 23 languages. In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values and the 2022 University of Oslo Human Rights Award. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Recent publications include: The Women of the Arrow Cross Party. Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2020, and Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944. DeGruyter, 2021. She writes op-ed pieces for many international and national media about academic freedom and illiberal higher education.
Please RSVP to nicole.haring(at)uni-graz.at