Workshop Narratives of Violence, 17-18 September 2024 in Neubiberg

Keynote Lecture and Panel Discussion by Andrea Pető*, 17 September 2024, 6 p.m. CET (hybrid)

Room: Stauffenberg Saal, Building 35 on the Campus of Universität der Bundeswehr

The talk discusses the definitions of illiberal memory politics and how illiberal memory politics utilize discourses of the Holocaust (memorial of Szenes) and sexual violence during wartime to construct a new narrative of violence.

*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.