Viola Lászlófi, a junior researcher at CEU CELAB, will present her research at the GRACEH 2025 conference on Law and Diversity in European History at the University of Vienna. Her presentation, Competing Medical Professional and Legal Norms in State-Socialist Healthcare in Hungary in the 1950s-1960s, explores how legal and professional norms shaped the implementation of universal healthcare in Hungary during this period. Her work offers deeper insight into the tensions between ideological aspirations, legal frameworks, and the practical challenges of providing free, high-quality healthcare within the state-socialist system.
About GRACEH
The GRACEH (Graduate Conference in European History) series was launched in Budapest in 2007 and is co-organized since 2010 by Central European University, the European University Institute, University of Vienna, and the University of Oxford. The conference is hosted annually by one of these institutions.
The central aim of GRACEH is to create a network of graduate students and early career researchers in the field of European history, covering topics that range from the early modern period to the recent past. It functions as a platform for historiographical, methodological, and theoretical discussion among peers and senior academics. Participants are encouraged to share their research within the framework of the conference topic.
GRACEH 2025
Law and Diversity in European History
7–9 April 2025, University of Vienna & online
GRACEH 2025 offers a platform to explore the complex interplay between legal systems and the diverse social fabric of Europe across different historical spaces and periods. Europe’s rich cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity has shaped numerous legal traditions, often oscillating between integration and exclusion. The conference seeks to examine the interaction between legal structures and social diversity as well as the role of law in promoting or suppressing diversity from a historical perspective. In this context, diversity can be understood as the variety of identities, social groups and cultural backgrounds. It includes among other aspects, differences in terms of encompassing gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social class and DisAbilities.