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Curriculum Vitae ENIKŐ DEMÉNY

Updated on 4 January 2013

CONTACT: [email protected] Office phone: +36-1-3273000/2128 Office address: 1051 Budapest, Nador u. 15, 4nd and ½ floor, Room 03 Home address: 1068 Budapest, Benczur str. 39/A, Hungary

EDUCATION:

 2006 Ph.D. in Philosophy at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. The topic of the dissertation: ‘Family, as a socio-ontological problem in the contemporary thought’  1998 M.A. in Gender and Culture, Central European University, Budapest  1997 M.A. in European Cultural Anthropology, at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj  1996 M.A. in Sociology, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj  1992 M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Technical University, Cluj  1987 Bolyai Farkas High-school, Târgu-Mures

EMPLOYMENTS :

 Since October 2005 Junior Researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, Central European University, Budapest  2003-2005 Research Assistant at the Central European University, Political Science Department, working on the FP5 EU project ‘Public Understanding of Genetics in Europe: A Cross-cultural and Ethnographic Study of the ‘New Genetics and Social Identity’  2001-2002 Research Assistant at the Educational Support Program, Open Society Institute, working on the comparative international policy research project

1 ‘Opportunities for Gender Equity in Education. A Report on Central and South Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.’

CONSULTANCY

 January 2012 - December 2013: individual expert, carrying out scientific evaluation in the field of Social Science and Humanities for applications submitted to EU Marie Currie Actions Fellowships program.  July 2007 – December 2013: individual expert, carrying out ethical reviews for the European Commission for research proposals submitted in the framework of FP7 calls for proposals in the field of Health and Social Science.  July 2002 – April 2003: consultant for the Public Health Program, Open Society Institute, offering assistance for International Harm Reduction Development Program’s Budapest office.  January 2002 - May 2002: local evaluator for Save the Children Organization on their report ’Denied a Future’ on the education of Roma children in the countries of CEE and South Eastern Europe region.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 Since 2007/2008 Visiting Lecturer at the Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, MA program on Gender and Equal Opportunities, teaching the courses: Foundations of Gender Studies, and Family, Gender and Identity in the Age of Genetics  Radboud University, Nijmegen in 25 June – 4 July, 2008 (in the framework of Erasmus Life-long Learning EU project) co-teaching the Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Course developed in the framework of Athena 2-3 program.  2004 – 2007 Visiting Lecturer at the Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies, MA program on Gender, Differences, Inequalities, teaching the courses: The Gender Regimes of Institutions; and Family, Gender and Identity in the Age of Genetics (the last course has been offered for the Anthropology MA program of the same Faculty too)  1998 – 2001 - Civic Education Project Eastern Scholar at the Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies and Faculty of Sociology, teaching courses and seminars on Methodology in Social Science; Anthropology of

2 Gender and Family, Anthropology of Institutions, Introduction to Gender Studies

Course development, teaching related activities, intensive courses

 2004-2008 as member of Athena3 Network, “Practicing interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies” I took part in the development of an interdisciplinary gender course that has been co-thought by the group members at Radboud University, Nijmegen in 25 June – 4 July, 2008 (in the framework of Erasmus Life-long Learning EU project);  2004-2008 HESP course development grant for developing two courses in Gender Studies: Foundation of Gender Studies (in cooperation with Prof. Veronica Vasterling, and Family, Gender and Identity in the Age of Genetics)  Coaching student teams at the Balkan Debate forum organized by Civic Education Project in 1999 and 2000, in Sofia, Bulgaria  Participating in ‘Development of Teaching Methods in Social Science’ workshops organized by Civic Education Project between 1998-2001  Course development fellowship at Oxford University, St. Hilda College, Oxford, 2000 (tutor: Prof. Kathe Wilkis)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

 Since 2005 carrying out research in the field of social, legal, policy and ethical aspects of biotechnologies and nanotechnologies, organ transplantation in Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, CEU (GeneBanC, UNESCO, Nanoplat, EULOD projects)  Since 2007 carrying out research in the framework of two ELPLAT (European Platform on Ethics in Organ Transplantation) working groups: organ donation and subpopulations.  Since 2004 developing a Research Database on biomedical ethics and law at Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine, CEU  2003 - 2005 carrying out research on the topic “Normative understanding of Genetics in Europe” in the framework of EU FP5 project ‘Public Understanding

3 of Genetics in Europe: A Cross-cultural and Ethnographic Study of the ‘New Genetics and Social Identity.’ I was member of the working group: Family, Kinship and Genetics in Europe.  2001-2002 carrying out policy research for the joint project of OSI Network Women Program and Education Support Program entitled ‘Gender Equity in Education’ (a comparative policy research on six countries: Albania, Azerbaijan, Romania, Poland, Tajikistan and Ukraine).  1999 - 2000 anthropological fieldwork on the topic ‘Family and Gender Role Related Values in Cluj, Romania’, I was conducting in-depth interviews in this topic with families from different social and ethnic backgrounds.  1998 anthropological fieldwork in the Council of Europe, Strasbourg in the framework of the project Anthropology of the Institutions: the Council of Europe after Enlargement, financed by the European Science Foundation and organized by Center for Social Science, Prague. My research tasks included: participant observation in the various programs organized by the Youth Directorate for young people from East Europe, conducting interviews with participants in these program and COE staff, analyzing various legal, normative provisions of the Council of Europe regarding the new member states.  1998 anthropological fieldwork (participant observation, in-depth interviews with the social mothers and the village's staff) at the SOS Children Village (an international, non- governmental welfare organization for orphan or abandoned children), in Kecskemet, Hungary for the MA thesis in Gender Studies entitled: ‘Negotiating Motherhood: Identity and Difference in Professional Foster Mothering’  1996-1997 - as a member of College for Cultural Studies, Cluj I carried out empirical research and anthropological fieldwork in Cluj for the project ‘Cluj, in the Period of Transition’ conducted by Prof. Enikő Magyari Vincze. The research resulted in an MA thesis, entitled ‘The Anthropological Analysis of the Institutions. The case of Transylvanian Business Center’.  1994 - specialization in qualitative and quantitative methodologies in social sciences at the Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest

4 FELLOWSHIPS

 September 2000 Fellowship at Oxford University, Oxford, UK  February-July 2001 Doctoral Support Fellow at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary  March 2001 Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex University, UK  September 2001-August 2002 Dissertation writing fellowship at Eötvös Lóránd University, Institute of Sociology, Budapest, Hungary  September 1998 – January 2001 Civic Education Project Eastern Scholar Visiting Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 Member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists  Member of ELPLAT (European Platform on Ethics in Organ Transplantation)  Member of the Institute for Gender Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj  Founding Member of Institute for Anthropology, Babes-Bolyai University (since 1998 until its closure in 2008)  Member of the Athena2 and Athena3 Network

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BORDS

 Member in the Editorial Board of the Romanian Journal for Liberal Arts (1999- 2000)  Member in the Editorial Board of the International Journal: Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe)

LANGUAGUES:

Hungarian (mother tongue), English (excellent), Romanian (excellent), German (basic), French (basic)

5 SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Practising Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies. (co-author) Raw Nerve Books, York, 2006, 92 p.

Open Minds. Opportunities for Gender Equity in Education. A Report on Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. (co-author) OSI, New York, 2003, 82p.

Chapters in books:

“The Convergence Seminar, the DEMOCS Card Game and Nanologue; Three experiments with cross national deliberative processes within the 6th and 7th Framework Program of the EU” in Sto, Eivind et all (ed) Democratisation of Science and Technology Development: Deliberative processes in the Development of Nanotechnologies Singapure: Pan Sanford, 2013. (with Judit Sandor and Peter Kakuk).

Applied Case Studies in Ethics and Medicine in Eastern Europe: The Role of Bioethics in Living Organ Donation Decision Making. In EACME Book of Abstracts, 2011, p. 213. (with George Tudor Florea).

“Disciplinos, galia ir žinių gamyba žvelgiant į dabartinius, su biotechnologijos prasmėmis susijusius klausimus [’Disciplines, Power and Knowledge Production in Addressing Current Issues Related to the Implications of Biotechnology’] in A. Cadoret, A. Cepatiene, J. Edwards, M. Melhuus (eds.) Socialinė Antropologija, Etnografija ir Biotechnologija [Social Anthropology, Ethnography and Biotechnology], Vilnius: Lietuvos Istorijos Institutas, 2010, pp. 129-152.

„Bioethics, social sciences and biotechnology: the challenges of interdisciplinarity in the policy context” in Vasil Gluchman (ed.) Bioethics in Central Europe. Presov: Filosofica fakulta PU v Presove, 2009, pp. 151-160.

’‘Loving mothers’ at Work: Raising Other’s Children and Building Families with the Intention of Love and Take Care.’ In European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology, edited by Edwards, J. and Salazar, C. Oxford: Berghahn Press, 2009, pp. 128-143.

6 ’Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge Production in the Age of Biotechnology. The Case of Anthropology and Bioethics’ in Anthropo Imprints, ed. by Harabula, H. and Magyari Vincze, E, Cluj, 2008;

‘ Paradigma feministă între critică şi afirmare’ (co-autor). In Magyari-Vincze, Enikő, Petruta Mandrut (eds..) Gen, Societate, Cultura. Desire Publishing House, Cluj, 2003, 9-102.

‘Participarea femeilor in societatea civila si redefinirea regimurilor de gen in Romania postcomunista.’ In Gizella Cosma, Magyari Vincze Eniko si Ovidiu Pecican (eds.) Prezente feminine: Studii despre femei in Romania, Cluj-Napoca, Desire Publishing House, 2001, 267-297.

‘ Grassroots Needs and the Discursive Practices of National and International Agencies/Institutions’, in Politics as Religion, Religion as Politics, Proceedings of ESA World Conference, Krakow, 2000.

Policy papers:

Demény, Enikő with Judit Sándor et al. (2012) Improving the Effectiveness of the Organ Trade Prohibition in Europe. In Living Organ Donation in Europe: Scientific Report. Authors of the chapters: 2.4, 3.4, 4. Available at: http://www.eulod.org/Files/Eulod/Content_Files/HwcOgEULOD.WP3.ImprovingTh eEffectiveness.pdf

Demény, Enikő with Sándor, Judit and Petra Bárd: CELAB Paper Series No. 3, The Legal Regulation of Biobanks; National Report: Lithuania, Budapest: CEU, CELAB, 2009.

Demény, Enikő with Sándor, Judit and Petra Bárd: CELAB Paper Series No. 9, The Legal Regulation of Biobanks; National Report: Romania, Budapest: CEU, CELAB, 2009.

Articles in Journals:

“Universal values, contextualization and bioethics: knowledge production in the age of genetics” in JAHR, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2010, pp. 19-37. (Publication of the Department of Social Sciences and Medical Humanities, University of Rijeka)

‘The Agents of Transfer and the Agents of Change: Young Europeans and the Council of Europe’. In Council of Europe After Enlargement: an Anthropological Enquiry, CEFRES No. 18, Prague, 1999

7 ‘Negotiating Motherhood: Identity and Difference in Professional Foster Motherhood’, in Caietele Tranzitiei, no. 2-3, Babes-Bolyai University Press, EFES, Cluj, 1998

‘Value Transfer in European Institutions. The Case of the Council of Europe’, in Caietele Tranzitiei, no. 2-3, Babes-Bolyai University Press, EFES, Cluj, 1998

‘Two Initiative for the Promotion of a Gender Sensitive Education, Research and Policy’, in Caietele Tranzitiei, no. 1., Babes-Bolyai University Press, EFES, Cluj, 1998

‘Anthropology and Ethnography - Two Parallel Discourses?’, in Caietele Tranzitiei, no. 1, Babes-Bolyai University Press, EFES, Cluj, 1997

‘The Traditional Ethnography from an Anthropologist's Point of View’, in Ethnographia, Cluj, February Issue, 1997.

‘Observations Related to the Findings of a Public Investigation’, in Erdelyi Naplo, Oradea, May, 1996.

‘A Sociological Study about Students Attending Two Faculties’, in Korunk, Cluj, May, 1996.

Science Communication:

A nano-biotechnológia társadalmi megítélése és alkalmazásának etikai kérdései [Ethical an social aspects of nano-biotechnology] Interview with Enikő Demény, reporter Ágnes Ferbert-Vadász. In Fábri, György (ed.) Civilek és tudomány I. Nanotechnológia, humángenomika [Civil Society and Science I.: Nanotechnology, Human Genomics], Budapest: Tudástársadalom közhasznú Alapítvány, 2009, pp. 115-125.

PAPERS GIVEN AT CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS

“Ethical Challenges of the Facebook Campaign in Promoting Organ Donation” (with Mihaela Frunza, Judit Sandor and Beatrice Ioan) at the PR Trend. New Media, Challenges and Perspectives -International Conference, October 19–20, 2012, Cluj, Romania

8 “Vulnerability in the Reforming Health Systems Process—Legal vs. Ethical Perspectives” (with Adina Rebeleanu and Mihaela Frunză) at the Eighth National Conference on Bioethics, September 13–16, 2012, Cluj, Romania

“Ethical Perspectives on Facebook Organ Donation Campaign” (with Mihaela Frunză, Judit Sándor and Beatrice Ioan) at the Eighth National Conference on Bioethics, September 13–16, 2012, Cluj, Romania

“Networks of Reproduction in the Globalized World“ at the New Perspectives on Gamete and Embryo Donation: Ethics, Kinship and Citizenship in a Globalized World European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop, September 11–12, 2012, Essex, UK

“The Globalization of Organ Transplantation Policies in a Regional Context” (with Teddy Florea) at the Policies and Practices of Health and Illness Panel at the 2012 International Congress on Romanian Studies: Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in Their Region and the World, July 2–4, 2012, Sibiu, Romania

“Global Health and Ethics at CEU-CELAB” at the Equal Opportunities for Health: Action and Development 3rd Partnership Meeting, May 10–11, 2012, Poznań, Poland

“Resisting Exploitation of Women’s Reproductive Health and Human Rights” (with Hedva Eyal, representing the e International Coalition for Reproductive Justice) at the Twelfth AWID International Forum: Transforming Economic Power to Advance Women’s Rights and Justice, April 19–22, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

“Bioethics and the Vulnerable Selves in the Context of Living Organ Donation” (with Teddy Florea) at the Rethinking the Self: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Bioethical and Biopolitical Concerns International Symposium organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, April 10–12, 2012, Helsinki, Finland

“Dissecting the Dead for Medical Purposes: Attitudes towards Deceased Organ Donations” at the CEU 20th Anniversary Postdoctoral Fellowship: To Make Dead Bodies Talk

9 Seminar Cycle: Caring for Dead Bodies from Medieval to Contemporary Society, Organized by CEU Department of Medieval Studies, March 20, 2012, CEU, Budapest, Hungary

“Assessing Structural and Institutional Deficiencies in the Implementation of the Romanian Legal Policies” (with George Florea) at the 4th ELPAT Conference and EULOD meeting, November 3–6, 2011, Berlin, Germany

Applied Case Studies in Ethics and Medicine in Eastern Europe: The Role of Bioethics in Living Organ Donation Decision Making.” (with George Tudor Florea) at Bioethics from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics (EACME) 25th Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, September 15–17, 2011

The Role of Bioethics in Living Organ Donation Decision Making. (with George Tudor Florea at Ethics and Professions Conference, organized at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, April 14–16, 2011

Organ trade in Romania: Case Studies and Stakeholder Interviews, 3rd ELPAT Congress, Sofia, 8-10 October, 2010

A kicsi szép? A nanotechnológiáról mindenkinek. /Small is beautiful? About nanotechnology for everybody. Presentation and discussion about nanotechnology at the forum organized by Tudatos Vasarlok Szovetsege, 16 March, 2010

High Level Workshop – Responsible Development of Nanotechnology: Governance Challenges, 17 April 2009, Budapest, Hungary. Paper presented, with Peter Kakuk: “Nanotechnology and deliberative processes in Hungary: state of art and future opportunities challenges”.

"Nanotechnology: Risk assesment and legislation initiatives in the European Union"seminar organized by Hungarian Food Safety Office. Participant in roundtable discussion, 8th April 2009, Budapest, Hungary

10 Nanoplat meeting, 26-27 March, 2009, Istanbul. Paper presented: “Country report on Hungarian nanotechnology stakeholder interviews”, 7 April 2009, Budapest, Hungary

Methodological and Methodical Issues in Bioethics Today International Regional UNESCO Conference, 21 – 22 January 2009, Presov, Slovakia. Paper presented: „Bioethics, social sciences and biotechnology: the challenges of interdisciplinarity in the policy context.”

Action Research and Feminism, 5-7 December, 2008, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. Paper presented: “Interdisciplinarity and participatory research.”

Conference on nanotechnolgy, 20 November 2008, Veszprem, Hungary Paper presented with Péter Kakuk: "The social, ethical and legal aspects of nanotechnology."

CELAB-UNESCO Workshop: Local, Regional or International? Laws, Standards and Codes for Biotechnology, 7-8 November 2008, Budapest, Hungary. Paper presented: “Bioethics and cultural diversity.”

Conference on Environmental Ethics: "Development and Environmental Responsibility", organized by Philosophy Department, University of Szeged, 25-26 September 2008, Szeged, Hungary. Paper presented with Péter Kakuk: "Some issues related to nanotechnology and participatory governance".

International Workshop on Nanotechnology, Society, and Policy Organized by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, 9-12 September 2008, Manchester, UK. Paper presented: “The topic of nanotechnology in the Hungarian media”

Athena “Practicing Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies” working group meeting, Nijmegen, 4-6 April, 2008. Paper presented: “Interdisciplinary in gender studies: opportunities and challenges”

11 Anthropology, Ethnography and Biotechnology, International Conference, Vilnius, 12-14 September 2007, Lithuanian Institute of History, Department of Ethnology and University of Vilnius. Paper presented: Gender, power and biotechnology.

Academic Cultures And The Feminist Critique, International Conference, Cluj-Napoca, 14-15 July 2007, organized by the Center for Gender Studies, Babes Bolyai University with the support of HESP. Paper presented: Breaking the power of disciplines.

Traveling concepts Athena workshop, Berlin, 16-20 May 2006, Humboldt University. The outcomes of the Practicing Interdisciplinarity working group meeting have been published in the book: Practising Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies.

Contemporary Perspectives on Kinship in Europe, Workshop, Paris, 24-25 November, 2005, organized by Centre de Cooperation Franco-Norvegienne en Sciences Sociales et Humanities and Maison des Sciences de L’Homme. Paper title: Natural parenthood in the age of new reproductive technologies and genetics.

Genetics in Society, Public Forum, 15 December 2004, University of Barcelona Presentation title: Public understanding of genetics and governance.

Genetics in Society, Symposium, 16-17 December 2004, University of Barcelona. Presentation title: Genetics and governance in Hungary.

Traveling concepts Athena workshop, London, September 2004, London School of Economics. The outcomes of the Practicing Interdisciplinarity working group meeting have been published in the book: Practising Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies.

Public Understanding of Genetics and the Body , Paris, 17-19 June 2004, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Paper presented: Genetics or Gestation? The monistic account of motherhood and the challenges of surrogacy arrangements.

The Media and Public Understanding of Genetics, Rome, 4-6 December 2003, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi per Studi di Politica e Economia, Observatorio Sulla Bioetica. Paper presented: The ‘Stem cell debate’ in the Hungarian media. Case study.

12 Governance and Legal Understanding of Genetics, Budapest, 26-28 June 2003, CEU, Budapest, co-organizer, co-writing the workshop report with Prof. Judit Sandor.

6th EASA Conference, Krakow 26-29 July, 2000, Jagiellonian University. Paper presented: Grassroots needs and the discursive practices of national and international agencies/institutions

Women and Civil Society, Workshop, Cluj, 12 June, 1999, organized with the support of CEU Gender Department Small Grant Program, organizer. Paper presented: Women’s participation in civil society and the redefinition of gender regimes.