Revolutionary Anthropologies in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and Beyond

Type: 
Workshop
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 11
Room: 
210
Friday, May 8, 2015 - 10:00am
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Date: 
Friday, May 8, 2015 - 10:00am to 3:00pm

PROGRAM

10.00 – 12.00 SESSION 1

Chair: Constantin Iordachi (CEU)

  • Tyrus Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz) 
    The 'New Man' According to the Hungarian Avant-Garde: Lajos Kassák, Sándor Barta, Erzsi Újvári
  • Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič (CEU)
    Person, Nation and Revolution: The Christian Left and National Characterology in Interwar Slovenia (1927-1941)
  • Tamás Scheibner (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest)
    Competing Anthropologies in Hungary after the Second World War: Christian Socialism and Communist Pedagogy
  • Discussion

Lunch

13.00 – 15.00 SESSION 2

Chair: Emese Lafferton (CEU)

  • Sarah Marks (University of Cambridge) 
    Women as the Guardians of Mental Health: Neurosis, the Home and the Workplace in Communist Czechoslovakia
  • Dobrochna Kalwa (University of Warsaw)
    Prewar Feminist Traditions of Postwar Emancipation in Poland. Some remarks
  • Eszter Zsófia Tóth (Veritas Institute, Budapest)
    Daughters of Rákosi and Kádár: New Woman in Hungary During the Socialist Period
  • Discussion led by Angelina Lucento (CEU Institute for Advanced Study)