Practical
Thursday, 27 November, 2025
- 14:00 until 15:30
Kazerne Dossin, Auditorium Natan Ramet
Goswin De Stassartstraat 153
2800 Mechelen
Goswin De Stassartstraat 153
2800 Mechelen
Free of charge
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB's research Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) and Kazerne Dossin invite you for a lecture by professor Andrea Pető about new forms of Holocaust distortions and what to do about them.
Drawing on the examples of the Chana Szenes statues, the Budapest ghetto memorial, and the Shoah Bunker, this lecture introduces three types of Holocaust distortion: the antiliberal transformative distortion, the “profit-driven” distortion and the practice of “performative contradiction”.
About Andrea Pető
Andrea Pető is Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, and Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on gender, politics, and the Holocaust, highlighting underexplored topics such as sexual violence and women as perpetrators during wartime. She is the author of Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944 (2021) and The Women of the Arrow Cross Party (2020), co-editor of influential works on gender and Holocaust studies, and hosts a multilingual podcast on WWII history and memory.
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