CEFRES team of researchers 2019-2020

Michèle Baussant

Contact: michele.baussant(at)cnrs.fr

is a CNRS associate researcher at CEFRES  from February 2020 within the TANDEM program. She works with Johana Wyss on the TANDEM project “Europe: a Resentful Confederation of Vanquished Peoples? Raw and Lapsed Memories of Post-Imperial (European) Minorities”.

Ludĕk Brož

Contact: broz(at)cefres.cz

is from February 2018 a part-time senior researcher at CEFRES within the TANDEM program. He works with Virginie Vaté on the TANDEM project “Bewildering Boar” as its PI. He is since January 2020 associated to CEFRES.

Giovanna Capponi

Contact: giovanna.capponi(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2019 until December 2019 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES benefitting from the support of the Charles University in Prague. Her research project, entitled Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy, is developed within the TANDEM research program “Bewildering Boar” and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Mátyás Erdélyi

Contact: matyas.erdelyi(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2020 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES benefitting from the support of the Charles University in Prague. His research project, entitled Insurance, Banking, and Capitalist Modernity in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1. 

Paul G. Keil

Contact: paul.keil(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2019 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES and member of the TANDEM program “Bewildering Boar“. His research focuses on human and feral pig relations in Australia. He is since January 2020 associated to CEFRES.

Maria Kokkinou

Contact: maria.kokkinou(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2020 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES benefitting from the support of the Charles University in Prague within the  new TANDEM research project. Her research project, entitled The Europe of Resentment and Rubble: a Confederation of the Vanquished? contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1. 

Virginie Vaté

Contact: Virginie.vate(at)cnrs.fr

is a CNRS associate researcher at CEFRES  from February 2018 within the TANDEM research project “Bewildering Boar: Changing Cosmopolitics of the Hunt in Europe and Beyond” with Ludĕk Brož.

Johana Wyss

Contact: johana.wyss(at)gmail.com

is from February 2020 an associate researcher at CEFRES within the TANDEM program. She works with Michèle Baussant  on the TANDEM project “Europe: a Resentful Confederation of Vanquished Peoples? Raw and Lapsed Memories of Post-Imperial (European) Minorities”.

Benedetta Zaccarello

Contact: benedetta.zaccarello(at)cefres.cz

is a CEFRES senior researcher from January 2017. She works on Hybridations of Paradigms and Circulation of Traditions in the Writing of Contemporary Philosophy looking through the manuscript archives of such philosophers as Jan Patočka and Aurobindo Ghose. Her research is embedded in CEFRES research area 1.

Associate researchers 2019-2020

Daniel Baric

Contact: daniel_baric(at)yahoo.com

is a former associate professor at the Department of German studies of Tours University. He is currently working at the Department of Slavic studies of Sorbonne University and is since January 2019 associated to CEFRES. His researches focus on cultural transfers and interculturality in Central Europe, especially within the Habsburg Empire, and contributes to research areas 1 and 3.

Chiara Mengozzi

Contact: chiara.mengozzi(at)cefres.cz

is after two years of post-doc an associate researcher at CEFRES from January 2018. She contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Thomas C. Mercier

Contact: thomas.mercier(at)cefres.cz

has been since January 2018 a post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES and since March 2018 at the Department of German and French Philosophy of Charles University. His research, entitled Derrida’s Europes: Deconstruction, Marxism, Democracy, is developed within the research program on “Archives and Interculturality” and contributes to  research area 1.

Alexandre Met-Domestici

Contact: a_met_domestici(at)hotmail.com

is from September 2019 an associate researcher at CEFRES. His research project Fighting Money Laundering in the EU and Protecting the EU’s Financial Interests – An Attempt to Define an Integrated Approach contributes to research area 2.

Vincent Montenero

Contact: vincent.montenero(at)cefres.cz

is from September 2019 an associate researcher at CEFRES. His research project Interpersonal and inter-organizational relations within commercial and industrial organizations contributes to research area 1.

Kannan Muthukrishnan

is from March 2018 an associate researcher at CEFRES within the “Archives and Interculturality” research program. He is a permanent researcher of the Pondicherry French Institute, India.

Fedora Parkmann

Contact: fedoraparkmann(at)aol.com

is from January 2019 a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project, entitled A Transnational Perspective on Czech Social Photography. A Case Study of Czech International Exhibitions from 1933 to 1934 between Germany, France and the USSR contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.

Naïs Virenque

Contact: nais.virenque(at)gmail.com

is an associate researcher at CEFRES from January 2020. Her research project is entitled: Diagrammatic thought in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern period and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague