Julia
Szalai
Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence and
Social Policy, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
“Hungary’s EU-Accession from a Gender Perspective: Will Women’s Post-1990 Gains Wither Away?”
Wednesday, March 26
3:30 p.m.
8417 Social Science
An audio version of this talk is available!
See also a related paper by Julia Szalai.
Sponsored by the European Union Center
and the Havens Center
Link to more information about the
Havens Center Spring Speakers Series
Julia Szalai is Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social History at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at ELTE University, Budapest. She is the Editor of East Central Europe/l’Europe du Centre-Est: Eine Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (ECE/ECE), a trilingual journal of the social sciences and humanities. She is also Chair of the Max Weber Foundation of the Study of Social Initiative (Budapest-Glasgow), and advisor to the Hungarian Ministry of Welfare. Her main research interests are: the history of social policy in East Central Europe; "old" and "new" poverty in Central Europe; the changing situation of women in the labour market in post-1989 Hungary; "recognition struggles" of the Gypsy; symptoms of social disintegration in Central European societies, and the "Gypsy question". Currently, she is writing a book on the deficiencies of the post-communist embourgeoisement process and their consequences for new class and ethnic relations in Hungary.
Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence and
Social Policy, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
“Hungary’s EU-Accession from a Gender Perspective: Will Women’s Post-1990 Gains Wither Away?”
Wednesday, March 26
3:30 p.m.
8417 Social Science
An audio version of this talk is available!
See also a related paper by Julia Szalai.
Sponsored by the European Union Center
and the Havens Center
Link to more information about the
Havens Center Spring Speakers Series
Julia Szalai is Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social History at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at ELTE University, Budapest. She is the Editor of East Central Europe/l’Europe du Centre-Est: Eine Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (ECE/ECE), a trilingual journal of the social sciences and humanities. She is also Chair of the Max Weber Foundation of the Study of Social Initiative (Budapest-Glasgow), and advisor to the Hungarian Ministry of Welfare. Her main research interests are: the history of social policy in East Central Europe; "old" and "new" poverty in Central Europe; the changing situation of women in the labour market in post-1989 Hungary; "recognition struggles" of the Gypsy; symptoms of social disintegration in Central European societies, and the "Gypsy question". Currently, she is writing a book on the deficiencies of the post-communist embourgeoisement process and their consequences for new class and ethnic relations in Hungary.
more information: Havens Center Spring Speakers Series