June 24, 2019
The Visual Studies Platform has awarded the first-ever Advanced Certificate to its students as part of the graduation ceremony held last Friday. The class of 2019 was recruited from five university departments including Nationalism Studies (2), Gender Studies (2), School of Public Policy (3), Department of History (3) and Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Please see below the list of graduated students together with their research topics:
- Mackenzie Nelson (School of Public Policy) – Thesis on "Women in Public Spaces for APP client Women Living under Muslim Laws)"
- Alexandra Czeglédi (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology)
- Lucia Szemetova (Department of Nationalism Studies) – Thesis on "We laugh with tears it’s so Hungarian – The narratives of Hungarianness in Gábor Reisz’ films and their reception"
- John Atmore (Department of Nationalism Studies) – Thesis on "Mapuche in Neuquen: Life and struggle in Argentine Patagonia"
- David Baquais (Department of Gender Studies) – Thesis on "The affective potential of queer shame on screen"
- Orsolya Udvari (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology) – Thesis on "Ways of Seeing the Other. Understanding the Visual Representation of Migration in Hungary after 2015 through the Lenses of Three Movies"
- Jakub Gawkowski (Department of History) – Thesis on "Remembrance, Reconstruction, Restitution: Exhibiting Rescued Works of Polish and Polish-Jewish Artists (1945-1949)"
- Shushan Abrahamyan (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology) – Thesis on "The city and its walls: street art, graffiti and the re-invention of public space in Yerevan”
- Ivana Pruchova (Department of History) – Thesis on "Farce after Velvet: Satirical Programs in the First Years of Czech Public Television"
- Galiya Khassenkhanova (Department of History) – Thesis on "Resident perspective: The evacuation of Soviet film studios in Kazakhstan, 1941-44"
- Vanbasten Noronha de Araújo (Department of Gender Studies) – Thesis on "Shimmery waste: a queer critique of the narratives on glitter pollution"
- Ifra Asad (School of Public Policy) – Thesis on "Women in Public Spaces for APP client Women Living Under Muslim Laws"
- Dana Abu Lail (School of Public Policy) - Thesis on "Advocacy documentary about human trafficking in Jordan APP client"
- Marta Chmielewska (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology) – Thesis on "The ‘Sign of the Cross’ Exhibition as a polyphonic political statement in the 1980s Polish art field"
Photography: Lenke Szilágyi