Andrea Peto
Andrea PETŐ is a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, a Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values and 2022 University of Oslo Human Rights Award. In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the President of the Hungarian Republic and the Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Her works have appeared in 24 different languages. She has also been a guest professor at the universities of Toronto, Buenos Aires, Lviv, Novi Sad, Stockholm and Frankfurt. Her books include: Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 (Columbia University Press/East European Monographs New York, 2003), Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. (Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2007) and together with Ildikó Barna, Political Justice in Budapest after WWII (Politikai igazságszolgáltatás a II. világháború utáni Budapesten. Gondolat, Budapest, 2012 and 2015 by CEU Press), Women of the Arrow Cross Party (Palgrave, 2020). She co-edited with Ayse Gül Altinay: Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories. Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence, Routledge, 2016. She serves as an associate editor for the European Journal of Women’s Studies and editor-in-chief of East European Holocaust Studies.
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Her works have appeared in 24 different languages. She has also been a guest professor at the universities of Toronto, Buenos Aires, Lviv, Novi Sad, Stockholm and Frankfurt. Her books include: Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 (Columbia University Press/East European Monographs New York, 2003), Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. (Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2007) and together with Ildikó Barna, Political Justice in Budapest after WWII (Politikai igazságszolgáltatás a II. világháború utáni Budapesten. Gondolat, Budapest, 2012 and 2015 by CEU Press), Women of the Arrow Cross Party (Palgrave, 2020). She co-edited with Ayse Gül Altinay: Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories. Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence, Routledge, 2016. She serves as an associate editor for the European Journal of Women’s Studies and editor-in-chief of East European Holocaust Studies.
Phone: 36 1 3273000
Address: 1100 Wien Quellenstrasse 51-55, A203.
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Apart from that, Holocaust educators witnessed the weaponization of the history of WWII and the Holocaust by Putin’s regime to justify its brutal aggression against Ukraine. Kremlin top politicians and propagandists make inadequate parallels between the stance of Jews during the Holocaust and Russian people during Russia’s war in Ukraine, trying to create the narrative of victimhood. At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities are using the history and memory of WWII for national mobilization in times of existential threat.
misunderstood, or intentionally distorted. Jewish women and those of all faiths
fought with dignity, compassion and courage to save others from the murderous
Nazi regime in over 30 nations. Often overlooked, women as well as men played
critical roles in uprisings against the Nazis in over 50 ghettos, 18 forced labor
camps and 5 concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Women were critical to the
Jewish underground and other resistance networks both as armed fighters and as
strategists and couriers of intelligence and false papers. Women played essential
roles operating educational, cultural and humanitarian initiatives. In other
genocides, women also faced horrendous atrocities, yet distinguished themselves
with resilience and acts of moral courage. This symposium hopes to create a new
narrative around agency in the Shoah and other genocides, which may inspire
transformative activism.
The Seminar will provide an overview on current approaches and topics in Holocaust Studies, with a focus on Central Europe, especially Hungary and Poland. Issues we want to discuss during the seminar include ways of combining local and transnational history, methodological approaches to sources left behind by the persecuted as well as documents drawn up by the perpetrators and the impact of digital tools in conducting research on the Holocaust. Participants will receive an introduction to the EHRI Portal, which offers access to information on Holocaust-related archival material held by almost two thousand archival institutions in Europe and beyond. We especially want to encourage an exchange between young scholars conducting research in and outside Central Europe. It is also an opportunity to present and discuss projects with senior scholars active in the field.
Cultures of Remembrance
Furthermore, the Seminar will offer the participants a unique insight into the state of Holocaust remembrance. Excursions to Museums and memorial sites around the city of Budapest as well as meetings with local commemorating initiatives from Hungary and Poland will form the basis for discussing and assessing the social and political meaning(s) of Holocaust remembrance today.
October 17-18, 2014 Karaköy Minerva Palace, Istanbul