The Department of British and American Studies invites everyone to a lecture given by Professor Andrea Pető (DSc, CEU, Hungary). Title of the presentation is “Gendering Illiberal States”.Date: Wednesday (15th of November) 12:00 – 1:40 pm
Venue: Studio 111, main building of the university (1. Egyetem square)
Program: Andrea Pető is a professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University (CEU), in Budapest, Hungary. She has edited thirty volumes in English, Hungarian, and Russian, and her works on gender, politics, and war have been translated into seventeen languages. She has a great list of publications in internationally renowned e-journals such as OpenDemocracy, Querries, Social Europe, Political Critique, Conversations, The Huffington Post and on popular blogs in Hungarian as Galamus, Dinamo, Kettős Mérce, Mandiner contributing to the discussion on progressive politics.
She served as a coordinator of training as a Core Group Member of GenderSte, COST Network of Women in Science, Technology and Environment and member of Horizon2020 Societal Challenge Advisory Group (2014-2016, 2016-2018) and as a member and Vice Chair of Advisory Group on Gender (2014-2016, 2016-2018). She also served board member (2009-2014), co-president (2011-2014) of Atgender, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation.
In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the President of the Hungarian Republic. She is the co-author and consultant of the book Gender as Symbolic Glue. The position and role of conservative and far right parties in the anti-gender-mobilization ed. E. Kovats, M. Poim, FEPS, Brussels, 2015 and “Gender as symbolic glue: how ‘gender’ became an umbrella term for the rejection of the (neo)liberal order”, together with Weronika Grzebalska, Eszter Kovats in Political Critique, 13.01.2017 available also in Spanish.
