Women experts and feminist knowledge production
in post-war East Central Europe (1945–1989)

Historical Perspectives on Infant Care and Child Education

CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, Hungary

10–11 October 2025

Our Principal Investigator, Annina Gagyiova, presented a paper on “Promoting women’s emancipation in socialist Hungary. Pediatrician Emmi Pikler, early childhood care and transnational knowledge circulation, 1950s–1960s.”