Sára Bagdi, MA MA
PhD-researcher and part of "Tackling Empire"
Kontakt
Mail: sara.bagdi@univie.ac.at
Telefon: +43-1-4277-41218
Sára Bagdi is a research fellow (PraeDoc) in the project "Tackling Empires" (project lead: Lucile Dreidemy) at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Within this project, she focuses on Austria’s and Hungary’s engagement with regions outside Europe in the years between the two World Wars.
Simultaneously, in her PhD research, she examines how workers of the global peripheries and their work appeared in the cultural production of the Hungarian labor movement in the 1920s. She also discusses left wing discourses on the emergence of the international division of labor and the consequent hierarchies among workers of different states and regions.
She is a member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” and a junior Research Fellow at Kassák Museum where she is working on the publication of the Digital Critical Edition of the Correspondence of Lajos Kassák and Jolán Simon between 1909 and 1928. Kassák (1887-1967) and his partner, Jolán Simon (1885-1938) were central figures of the interwar Hungarian avant-garde. Kassák’s works have been researched extensively in the last few decades; however, the contribution of the women of his household has been rarely mentioned. Within the framework of this project, Bagdi looks at the Kassák – Simon correspondence through the lenses of the Marxist feminist understanding of household formation, to better understand the interconnections between the formal labor market and the internal labor division of the household.