Organisation of scientific events

Organization of Panel "THE 1956 HUNGARIAN UPRISING SEVENTY YEARS ON: NARRATIVES, INSTRUMENTALIZATION, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT" - 10th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association "Memory and Democracy", Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 28 July to 01 August 2026.

Organization of dMSA Section (Digital Memory Studies Association Section): "CONTESTATION, INSTRUMENTALIZATION AND AESTHETICIZATION IN THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 1956 HUNGARIAN UPRISING ACROSS TIME AND SPACE" , Online, 07 to 07 May by 2026.

Presentations in scientific events

Ares, Graziela (2026), "THINKING HISTORY AND MEMORY THROUGH DYSTOPIAN NARRATIVES: BLACK MIRROR AND SEVERANCE AS CRITICAL STREAMING DEVICES", paper presented at 26th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe: The Pasts and Futures of Utopia. Organizers: USS/Europe, University of Bucharest (Faculty of Sociology and Social Work), Academia Europaea Bucharest Hub, Writers' Union of Romania, Bucharest City Mu, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Bucharest, Romania, 01 to 04 July.

Ares, Graziela (2026), "SIMULATING THE NATION: KOSSUTH SQUARE AND THE ILLIBERAL PRODUCTION OF HUNGARY'S "BEST PAST" AFTER 2010", paper presented at Interdisciplinary Student Conference "Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere", Charles University, Prague - Czechia , 10 to 12 June.

Ares, Graziela (2026), "KOSSUTH SQUARE AS A SIMULATION: THE SPATIAL, HISTORICAL, AND SYMBOLIC PRODUCTION OF POST-2010 HUNGARY", paper presented at Sixth Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP6), University of Helsinki, Finland , 18 to 20 May.

Ares, Graziela (2026), "THE RISE AND FALL OF 1956 COMMEMORATIONS IN THE THIRD REPUBLIC: THE CASE OF KOSSUTH SQUARE", paper presented at dMSA Section (Digital Memory Studies Association Section) "CONTESTATION, INSTRUMENTALIZATION AND AESTHETICIZATION IN THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 1956 HUNGARIAN UPRISING ACROSS TIME AND SPACE". , Online, 07 to 07 May.

Ares, Graziela (2025), "RESURRECTING A GRANDIOSE NATION: AESTHETIC POLITICS AND THE REIMAGINING OF HUNGARIAN HISTORY THROUGH THE MONUMENTS OF KOSSUTH SQUARE", paper presented at 26th International Conference of the History of Concepts Group "Images of Historical Times. Concepts, Metaphors, and Arts". Organizer: History of Concepts Group (HCG), Department of the Arts, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy, 27 to 29 October.

Ares, Graziela (2025), "A PRAÇA KOSSUTH COMO SIMULAÇÃO: PRODUÇÃO ESPACIAL, HISTÓRICA E SIMBÓLICA NA HUNGRIA PÓS-2010", paper presented at Colóquio de Doutorandas/os em Sociologia da FEUC: "Sociologias para o Futuro!", Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra - FEUC, Coimbra, Portugal, 02 to 03 October.

Ares, Graziela (2025), "NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON", paper presented at Ninth Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) "Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability". Organizer: Memory Studies Association (MSA), Charles University (Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy) in Prague, Czech Republic,, 14 to 18 July.

Ares, Graziela (2025), "BORDER AND TERRITORY: THE MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC IRREDENTISM AT BUDAPEST'S KOSSUTH SQUARE AFTER 2011", paper presented at Thirty-fourth Annual ASEN Conference Nationalism and Borders. Organizer: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 23 to 25 April.

Ares, Graziela (2025), "THE MUSEUM AS ANINSTRUMENT TO FORGETTING: THE CASE OF 'IN MEMORIAM 1956.OKTÓBER 25' IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY", paper presented at Museums, Memory, Politics: Inaugural conference of the Museums and Memory Working Group of the Memory Studies Association, Online, 24 to 25 January.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "REMOVING SEDIMENTS OF TIME AND RESHAPING COLLECTIVE MEMORIES: THE CASE OF KOSSUTH LAJOS SQUARE IN BUDAPEST SINCE 2011", paper presented at Conference on Memory and Populism from the Margins (MEMPOP), Dept. of Mobility and Migration, Institute of Ethnology, Prague, Czech Republic , 01 to 04 December.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "A VERDICT ON THE PAST: THE CASE OF KOSSUTH SQUARE IN BUDAPEST", paper presented at Cycle of debates "Connected by memory" organized by the Brazilian Network of Researchers of Sites of Memory and Conscience (REBRAPESC) , online, 08 to 08 October.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "THE REPUBLICAN DEVOTION TO MONARCHICAL SYMBOLS: THE CASE OF KOSSUTH SQUARE IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY", paper presented at International Congress "Memory, legacy and presence in the public and media space: historical fascism and the radical right in the 20th and 21st centuries", Centre for Transdisciplinary Research on Culture, Space and Memory (CITCEM), Porto, Portugal , 26 to 27 September.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "SPREADING THE IMAGINED NATION FROM LEGISLATURE TO COLLECTIVE MEMORY: THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE HUNGARIAN FUNDAMENTAL LAW AND KOSSUTH SQUARE", paper presented at 16th European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference "Tension, Trust, and Transformation", University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 27 to 30 August.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "UTOPIA AND MELANCHOLIA: AN INTERFACE BETWEEN THE WORKS OF ITALIANS NANNI MORETTI AND ENZO TRAVERSO ", paper presented at 24th Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe "Utopia and Democracy", Democracy Institute of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 03 to 05 July.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "PRIMO LEVI AND KOSSUTH SQUARE: THE USE OF MEMORY TO TELL HISTORY", paper presented at 10th Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice & Memory Network Final Conference of the ERC project "Globalized Memorial Museums" Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History "Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization a, Austrian Academy of Sciences & Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna, Austria, 25 to 28 June.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "THE DEMOCRATIC CONFISCATION OF THE PAST: THE CASE OF KOSSUTH SQUARE IN BUDAPEST", paper presented at 5th network conference of the International Network for Theory of History: "History & Responsibility: Doing History in Times of Conflicting Political Demands", Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal, 21 to 24 May.

Ares, Graziela (2024), "CARVING THE COLLECTIVE TRAUMA AND NATIONALISM IN PUBLIC SPACES: THE NATIONAL COHESION MONUMENT IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY ", paper presented at 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism: "Nationalism and Memory", University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 09 to 11 April.

Ares, Graziela; Grinspum, Denise (2023), ""IN MEMORIAM 1956. OKTÓBER 25.": THE MUSEUM AS AN INSTRUMENT TO FORGET IN BUDAPEST", paper presented at 47th Annual ANPOCS Meeting, online, 18 to 20 October.

Ares, Graziela (2023), "Freedom's Fury: violence, politics and sport", paper presented at XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 04 to 06 April.

Ares, Graziela (2023), "Acting Democracy: the Hungarian illiberal democracy since 2010", paper presented at XII Portuguese Congress of Sociology, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 04 to 06 April.

Ares, Graziela (2022), "Is the "Letter and Spirit" of Law the Right Battle to Fight in Corporate Taxation?", paper presented at 2022 Global Meeting on Law & Society, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, 13 to 16 July.

Ares, Graziela; Eröss, Agnes; Oksman, Silvio; Serem, Ruben; Vecchioli, Virginia (2022), "Roundtable: The Challenge of Collective Memory in Twenty-first Century Europe and Latin America: The Legal and Social Battle for the Past", paper presented at 2022 Global Meeting on Law & Society, ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, 13 to 16 July.

Ares, Graziela (2022), "Monuments, Spreadsheets and Origami", paper presented at 11th Ibero-American Congress on Qualitative Research, La Coruña, Spain, 12 to 15 July.

Ares, Graziela; Villen, Gabriela; Gitahy, Leda (2021), "Memória e Desinformação: os ataques da extrema direita às universidades públicas brasileira", paper presented at Neofascismos e direitas radicais do pós-Guerra ao século XX, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 22 to 23 October.

Ares, Graziela (2021), "Lipótváros: um campo de batalha pela Memória e História no coração de Budapeste", paper presented at Neofascismos e direitas radicais do pós-Guerra ao século XXI, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, 22 to 23 October.

Ares, Graziela (2021), "Eclipse de memórias e extrema-direita: as intervenções no bairro Lipótváros em Budapeste, Hungria", paper presented at 45º Encontro Anual da ANPOCS - Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais, Brasil - plataforma virtual, 19 to 27 October.

Ares, Graziela (2021), "The violences of language and the rights of language minorities in India", paper presented at 6th Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights: a transdisciplinary approach, Coimbra, 12 to 14 October.

Ares, Graziela (2021), "The Internationalisation of the Firm: An Analysis of a Brazilian Eucalyptus Pulp Exporter in 2018 Based on Uppsala and Bartlett & Ghoshal Models", paper presented at Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, 20 to 23 July.

Ares, Graziela (2021), "The Violence of Languages in India: Is an Indian Minor Literature in English Possible?", paper presented at Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 29 June 02 July.

Ares, Graziela (2021), "Theatre and Cities : Different Perspectives and Subjectivism", paper presented at Sixteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, The University of Western Australia, School of Design Perth, Australia, 15 to 18 June.

Gitahy, Leda; Villen, Gabriela; Ares, Graziela (2020), "Science, Politics, and the Pandemic", paper presented at VI Congresso da Associação Latino-americana de Antropologia Social (ALA), Montevideo, Uruguay (on-line), 23 to 28 November.