This event is part of the RECET Festival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation".

Event venue: Campus of the University of Vienna („Altes AKH“), festival tent in Hof 1
Position of the tent: https://goo.gl/maps/8FjYQNtdnaUiKCcs6

Migrant literature and transnational literature are seemingly interchangeable concepts, with highly different political connotations. Migrant experience is heavily gendered and is shaped by other elements of one’s identity. In this panel, two writers, who approach migration and a transnationalism in their writing, and two scholars of migration and transnational literature discuss the issue of genres and gender, lived experience and fiction, labels and what they do to creativity, and much more.

Petra Bakos is an interdisciplinary literary scholar, arts writer, and embodied writing facilitator. Her academic research focuses on the Southeast European borderlands, and the floating debris of empires and other state formations in the tsunami of market-driven populism. Currently she is the scientific coordinator of the EUTERPE — European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective MSCA project as well as an affiliate of CEU's Romani Studies Program.

Éva Cserháti (born in 1975 in Budapest) is a British-Hungarian writer and literary translator.  She has three MA degrees in Hungarian Language and Literature, Spanish Language and Literature, and Critical Gender Studies. She writes upmarket crime fiction. In her writing her aim is to give voice to the silenced ‘herstory’ of women during state socialism and to explore how they have been affected by the transition.

Tamara Cvetkovic is a PhD candidate at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna and a researcher engaged within the project EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. Her areas of interest are transnational and women's literatures, feminist literary theory, migration, language, post-Yugoslav region and the Balkans.

Zsófia Lóránd is Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary History and RECET at the University of Vienna. Earlier, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of History and Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, and held positions at the European University Institute in Florence and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Göttingen. Her book, The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia focusing on the intellectual history of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s was published in 2018 and got translated into Croatian in 2020. Currently, she is working as PI on her ERC-funded project HERESSEE “The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929 – 2001”