CEFRES Researchers 2024–2025

Thomas Chopard

Contact: thomas.chopard[@]ehess.fr

is a historian and assistant professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Centre of Historical Research (EHESS/CRH). Alongside Petra Hudek, he joins CEFRES for two years as part of the Tandem CNRS-SAV program. He benefits from International Mobility Support (SMI) from CNRS starting from June 2024. Their research, titled “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe,” contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3 Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Ioana Cîrstocea

Contact : ioana.cirstocea[@]ehess.fr

is a CNRS researcher appointed at CEFRES  since September 2023. Her research project at CEFRES, devoted to the contemporary debates around the redefinition of parental norms and the sub-political mobilizations of mothers and families in a post-socialist context, contributes to the CEFRES 2nd research area.

Martin Ďurďovič

Contact : martin.durdovic[@]soc.cas.cz

is a sociologist, researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He joined CEFRES in February 2024 within the CNRS–AVČR Tandem program together with Gilles Lepesant. Their research project, entitled « Contested energy transitions. Conflicts and social innovations in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and France » contributes to CEFRES Research area 2 Norms and Transgressions

Petra Hudek

Contact: petra.hudek[@]savba.sk

 is a historian at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Contemporary History. Alongside Thomas Chopard, she joins CEFRES in June 2024 for two years as part of the Tandem SNRS-SAV program. Their research, titled “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe,” contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3 Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Valeriya Korablyova

Contact: valeriya.korablyova[@]fsv.cuni.cz

is a sociologist and political theorist, assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. Since February 2024 she is joining CEFRES within the CU–CNRS Tandem Program, together with Louisa Martin-Chevalier. Their research project, entitled “A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine” contributes to CEFRES Research area 1. Displacements, « dépaysement » and discrepancies.

Gilles Lepesant

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CFA | Oszkár Sárkány Fellowship 2025/2026

Fellowship for CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences & IAS CEU Budapest Fellows

Initiated in 2025, the Oszkár Sárkány fellowship commemorates a Hungarian Bohemist (1912–1943), working for a new inclusive and transnational perspective on cultural history with strong ties to French developments in humanities and social sciences, who died tragically young during World War II in a punishment battalion where he was sent because of his oppositional stance to the Horthy regime.

Central European University Institute for Advances Studies (CEU IAS) & Parisian Institut d’études avancées (Paris IEA) in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) offer mobility grants to Budapest (for IEA fellows) and Paris (for CEU IAS fellows) starting from the academic year 2025/2026.

SCHEDULES

For IAS CEU fellows → Paris:

  • July 14, 2025: Opening of the call
  • September 15, 2025, 23:59 CET: Deadline for submissions
  • September 30, 2025: Publication of the results
  • Duration: 1 month in Paris
  • Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026

For CNRS fellows → IAS CEU Budapest:

  • July 20, 2025: Opening of the call
  • October 15, 2025: Deadline for submissions
  • October 25, 2025: Publication of the results
  • Duration: 15 days in Budapest
  • Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026
ELIGIBILITY

At IAS CEU: all 2024/2025 & 2025/2026 fellows
At CNRS: all permanent members of CNRS SHS research units

FELLOWSHIPS

For IAS CEU fellows in Paris:

  • 1-month accommodation at the Cité Universitaire
  • Travel costs
  • Lump sum for daily expenses

For CNRS fellows in Budapest:

  • 15-day accommodation at Wallenberg Guesthouse
  • Travel costs offered by CEFRES
  • Office at IAS CEU

A joint workshop with 2025–2026 fellows & researchers from CEU, CNRS & CEFRES will be organized in Budapest in Spring 2026 around one of the themes developed by the 2025–2026 fellows.

PREFERRED RESEARCH SCOPE 2025
  • Central-Eastern Europe
  • Illiberalism, global and local
  • Scholars at risks, academic freedom & invisible university
APPLICATION PACKAGE (in English or French)

UMIFRE fellowships for Ukrainian researchers | Results

      1. ANKHYM, Oleksii (Ivan Franko State University)
        Between Languages and Cultures: on Contemporary German-language literature by authors of Ukrainian origin
      2. KARABIN, Tetiana (Uzhhorod State University)
        Anti-Corruption Potential of Ukraine’s New Law on Administrative Procedure
      3. NAMESTIUK, Svitlana (Medical University Chernivtsi )
        Conceptualisation littéraire de la guerre et réception française du mythe du Donbass. Vers une poétique de la mémoire dans la littérature ukrainienne contemporaine
      4. PALIICHUK, Elina (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University)
        The development of the concept of the translation ecosystem in Ukraine for accession to the EU
      5. YANENKO, Anna (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Museums)
        Art and Photo (in) History: Museum of the History of Religion(s) of the Kyiv All-Ukrainian Museum Town in the early 1930s
      6. SHUMYLOVYCH, Bohdan (Lviv Centre for Urban History)
        “Quiet Trauma”: Wartime Violence and Mediatized Gaze
      7. BILOKON, Alona (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
        Focuses on the intersection of energy transition, international relations, and regional development, with particular attention to the socio-economic and geopolitical dimensions of energy transition and the green economy.
      8. FISUN, Oleksandr (Karazin University Kharkiv)
        Resilience, and Local Governance in Ukraine’s Frontline Regions
      9. MYKHALCHUK, Roman (Rivne State University of Humanities)
        The Holocaust in the general district of “Voly-Podillia”: bystanders, victims, executioners, 1941-1944
      10. SHUMYTSKA, Halyna (Uzhhorod State University)
        Diversity, Identities and Language Integration
      11. KUDRYAVSTEVA, Natalia (State Pedagogical University Kryvyi Rih)
        Building Ukraine’s Multilingual Policy from Below
      12. ROMANYSHYM, Nataliya (Lviv Polytechnic National University)
        Ukrainian National Identity and Memory in Wartime Discourse: Literary Strategies and Symbolic Reconfiguration

WAITING LIST   

        1. Gnatiuk, Mykola (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
          Integration of Ukraine into the EU: Social Representations in the Context of War
        2. Razyhraev, Oleh (Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University)
          Daily life in the prisons of interwar Poland (1918–1939)
        3. Stefurak, Olena (University of Tchernivtsi)
          Les traductrices de la diaspora ukrainienne : circulation et réception de la littérature ukrainienne en France (XXe–XXIe siècles)
        4. Chemerys, Hanna (Zaporizhzhia National University)
          Feminist Strategies in Ukrainian Wartime Art as a Soft Resistance

CFP | Queer Bookshelves and LGBTQI+ Literatures

Circulation, Anthologisation And Canon Formation In Comparative Perspective

Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2025
Date
: May 12-13, 2026
Location: Brussels
Language: English and French
Contact email: clement.dessy@ulb.be

Organizers
Mateusz CHMURSKI, CEFRES/Sorbonne Université
Clément DESSY, FNRS/Université libre de Bruxelles
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CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027

Call opens June 16, 2025
Deadline for submission: September 15, 2025
Publication of the results: beginning of October 2025
Period:
January 1, 2026-December 31, 2027
Application Language: English
Address for submission:  mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)

Two postdoctoral researchers will be recruited from January 1, 2026 for two years at CEFRES. They will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for their research at Charles University (UK). The selection of both postdoctoral researchers will be based on the quality of their research project and its adequation to the research area or the research project it intends to contribute to. Continue reading CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027

Paper Bonds

Paper Bonds
Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East

A project developed within AV ČR-CNRS Tandem Program supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences, CNRS and CEFRES

Project principal investigators:
Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon / CEFRES)  helene.martinelli@ens-lyon.fr
Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences): saba@orient.cas.cz

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