Ferenc Laczó

1 month ago | tol.org | Ferenc Laczó

Two opposing interpretations of 1945 form the ideological core of today’s confrontation between Russia and the states of Central and Eastern Europe. From Eurozine. The remembrance of the Second World War has shifted significantly in recent decades – and even more dramatic reinterpretations appear to be underway in our current moment of drastic uncertainty.

1 month ago | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó

The remembrance of the Second World War has shifted significantly in recent decades – and even more dramatic reinterpretations appear to be underway in our current moment of drastic uncertainty. More than three years since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, with the far right achieving several notable successes within the EU and beyond, the historical and ideological core of the confrontation in the post-Soviet parts of the continent deserves urgent attention.

Oct 7, 2024 | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó |Shahd Abusalama

The mass murder committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians one year ago – in which over 1200 people were killed and over 250 people taken hostage, more than half of whom have since been killed or remain unaccounted for – has traumatized Israeli society. Not since the Holocaust have such heinous crimes been committed against Jewish people. The victims of Hamas’s act of mass terror were civilians.

Sep 23, 2024 | eurozine.com | Judith Butler |Ferenc Laczó |Claire Potter

Ferenc Laczó, editor at the Review of Democracy (CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest), in conversation with  Judith Butler. Ferenc Laczó: Your new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, critiques what you call the ‘anti-gender ideology movement’. You argue that this movement has made gender into a site where intimate fears and anxieties gather and become socially organized. There is a phantasm at the very heart of this movement, you underline.

May 23, 2024 | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó |Réka Kinga Papp |Péter Krekó

Since the war in Ukraine, the Visegrád Four no longer articulates a common voice in the EU. Even the illiberal marriage of inconvenience between Hungary and Poland has broken up. Yet in various ways, the region still demonstrates to Europe the consequences of the loss of the political centre.