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Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary,  Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has edited fifteen volumes in English, seven volumes in Hungarian and two in Russian. Her works have appeared in 15 different languages. She has also been a guest professor at the universities of Toronto, Buenos Aires, Novi Sad, Stockholm and Frankfurt. Her books include a.o.: Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 (Columbia University Press/East European Monographs New York, 2003) and  Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. (Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2007). In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the  President of the Hungarian Republic and the Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. Presently, Prof. Petö is working on gendered memory of WWII and political extremism. Her recent book is co-edited with Ayse Gül Altinay: Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories. Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence,(Ashgate, 2016).

Heritage trainer, social anthropologist and cultural project manager. As a researcher, affiliated at the Jagiellonian University, she is mainly interested in relations between social memory, heritage and identity. She publishes articles about: museums, tourism, public space and subcultures. Her current research project deals with europeanisation of heritage. She is appointed professor assistant at the UNESCO chair for the Holocaust research. As a museum trainer, she promotes interpretive and democratic museology, specializing in storytelling for museums and support of brand management. She has co-authored a manual for interpretive museology as well as a number of museum exhibitions and projects, including 'art of the allotment' (Cracow Ethnographic Museum), Wadowice of Karol Wojtyla Malopolska and Malopolska Virtual Museums. For a decade she was a member of Exhibition Dynamics, a museum support team established by Malopolska Cultural Institute.

Ambassador of Republic of Poland to Ukraine and former director of the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation Foundation (PAUCI) which manages the trans-border projects with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia. Previously program director for ZNAK Foundation in Krakow and the editor of “Tygodnik Powszechny”. As a journalist, he covered the Romanian Revolution and war in the former Yugoslavia. Author of two documentary books on the Balkans and a novel Scent of the Angel which is based on his work experience in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. He has been working for the Polish and international media. As a conflict resolution journalism trainer and media consultant he co-operated with the Rutgers University of New Jersey, MU Columbia School of Journalism, Jagiellonian University of Krakow, IREX Pro Media, Groeningen University and other institutions. He was involved in journalism and civil society trainings in Bosnia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania and Poland.

Professor of Philology and Management & Administration. Main interests: theory of literature, science of theatrical matters, cultural management. 1994-2000 Director of Cricoteka Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow. Visiting Professor at Cleveland State University (1992) and at the University of Rochester (2000). Author of numerous books, e.g. The Dead Memory Machine(1994). Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre of Death (2000).