A presentation by Prof. Andrea Pető and Prof. Matthijs Bogaards from the Central European University, Vienna. This event is part of the Fundamental Rights Research Colloquium hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights within the framework of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences.
Many observers have written with concern about a growing “opposition to gender equality,” “anti‐gender campaigns,” and even a “war on gender.” Often, these trends take place in countries that are witnessing a decline in democratic quality, a process captured by such labels as “democratic erosion,” “democratic backsliding,” or “autocratization.” This thematic issue brings together literature on gender equality and de‐democratization with an emphasis on the role of illiberalism and a regional focus on post‐communist Europe
Prof. 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. 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).
Prof. Matthijs Bogaards is associate professor of political science at the Central European University in Vienna, Austria. He obtained two MA degrees from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has published widely on political parties, electoral laws, democracy in divided societies, African politics, and political institutions. His most recent research interests are terrorism, feminist institutionalism, and challenges to democracy. He is the editor of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Politics (work-in-progress).
This event is hosted by the Centre for Fundamental Rights within the framework of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences.
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