December 16, 2014
A project on teaching the Holocaust, developed by Andrea Peto, associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies, Helga Dorner, lecturer at the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Edit Kovacs, PhD student in the Department of Gender Studies, has been selected as an exemplary and innovative educational project to be presented at the 5th International Conference on Holocaust Research “Afterwards.
December 10, 2014
Associate Professor of Gender Studies Andrea Peto is quoted in this AFP (Agence France-Presse) article about recent protests against a Hungarian police safety video that seemingly places the blame for rape on the victims.
http://www.afp.com/en/news/women-struggle-be-heard-macho-hungary
Call for Applications for an Assistant Professor Position in Gender, Policy, and Global Inequalities
December 2, 2014
Start date: August, 2015
Application deadline: Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2015
December 2, 2014
Start date: August 2015
Application deadline: Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2015
November 23, 2014
http://mno.hu/grund/a-nagyasszonyok-a-hatterbol-mozgattak-a-szalakat-1259549 - Hungarian news portal mno.hu reports: Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at CEU Andrea Peto moderated the discussion at the book launch event of Hungarian writer Zsolna Ugron.
November 4, 2014
Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women's and Gender Studies - GEMMA, is a two-year Postgraduate interdisciplinary study programme that provides high quality education and professional competencies for personnel working or intending to work in the areas of Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities across Europe and beyond. Students benefit from international mobility as they study at two different European universities and obtain a double diploma from the Home and Mobility institutions.
October 21, 2014
CEU hosted the “In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe” (ISTME) conference in early October, bringing together Europe's major scholars in the field as well as PhD students for a training school on “Mobilising Memory for Change.” ISTME, part of the COST network*, focuses on the tension between attempts to create a common European memory on the one hand, and numerous memory conflicts stemming from Europe’s fragmentation into countless memory communities on the other.
October 14, 2014
October 11, 2014
http://nepszava.hu/cikk/1036050-nok-a-szelsojobboldalon-nem-babok-onallo-politikai-aktorok/ - Hungarian news portal nepszava.hu carries a full-page interview with Andrea Peto, associate professor at CEU’s Department of Gender Studies. According to Peto, the attitude of the new extreme-right parties is much more open toward women’s political participation then that of the left-of-center parties.
October 5, 2014
http://magyarnarancs.hu/belpol/nyavalygas-helyett-batorsag-konferencia-a-nok-politikai-reszvetelerol-92029 - Hungarian news portal magyarnarancs.hu reports: A recent conference tried to answer the following questions: Whose responsibility is it that there are few women in politics? Why hasn’t Hungary made progress over the past 25 years regarding women, and what did the parties do wrong?
