Lynne Haney
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
New York University

"Disintegration or Integration?
The Transnational and Local Politics of Welfare in Hungary"

Tuesday, 9 December 2003
3:30 p.m.
336 Ingraham

Cosponsored by The European Union Center 
The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and
the Department of Sociology

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As Hungary looks to join the EU, the practices of state socialism and the entitlements they created are getting closer scrutiny. Lynne Haney's talk will explore historical shifts in the redistributive and interpretive practices of welfare in Hungary. She traces these shifts to the global and local politics of welfare reform and disentangles how the experience of welfare was subsequently transformed. She also examines how welfare politics might change as Hungary enters the European Union.

Lynne Haney is Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She has conducted research on gender and the state in both Hungary and the United States. Her book, Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary, won the ASA Award for Distinguished Contribution in Sex and Gender. Her current research is a historical ethnography of the gendered practices of two penal institutions targeted at women and their children.