CEFRES Teams’s Research News 2018 & 2019

December

Workshop
Jérôme Heurtaux
(director of CEFRES)
Date: 13 of December
Venue: Institut d’Etudes Slaves de Paris, salle de conférences (2ème étage)
Title of the workshop: La course aux paradigmes. Comprendre et expliquer “l’après 1989”

Winter School
Benedetta Zaccarello (CNRS / CEFRES)
Date: 2-6 décembre 2019
Venue: Institut Français de Pondichéry, Inde
Title of the event: Heritage, Communities, Sustainability. Methodological and Theoretical Approaches in Social Sciences Research
Titles of Benedetta Zaccarello’s lectures and workshop:
–“Archives as Living Practices: Mutations and Evolutions of a Diachronic, Dynamic, Dialogic Device”
–“The archival heritage: interrogating the past through documents”
–Workshop 1 – “The Creation of Memory – Archives as living cultural practices”
URLhttps://winterspy.hypotheses.org/

Lesson
Felipe K. Fernandes (PhD Fellow EHESS / CEFRES)
Date: 4 of December
Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences, Jinonice, Prague
Subject of the lesson: French school, social anthropology in the city, the city as a plurality of environments with different social climate, the concept of cultural construction of a foreigner, the theory of non-place

November

International Conference
Jérôme Heurtaux
(director of CEFRES)
Date: 28-29 of November
Venue: Assemblée nationale française, Paris
Title of the conference : 1989-2019 : Back to Europe
Contribution : Moderation of the round-table “Old and new elites : the handling of national memory”.
Program

Conference
Virginie Vaté
(CNRS/CEFRES) and Giovanna Capponi (post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES)
Date: 21-22 November 2019
Place: Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France)
Title of the conference: Animals in Ethnography: Methods and Ethical Positionings
Title of the contribution: Making the boar visible: Comparing methods of multi-species ethnographies on human-wild boar relations in Europe and chicken/reindeer sacrifice in Brazil and Siberia
URL-CFP

Research Stay
Jakub Střelec (PhD Fellow FSV UK / CEFRES)
Date: 19-30 November 2019
Venue: National Archives at Kew, London
Title of the project: “How to cure the war? The development of psychiatric knowledge and its impact on the construction of social norms in Europe between 1945 and 1968”

Training Day
Claire Madl (deputy director at CEFRES)
Date: 7 November 2019
Venue: CNRS Rhône Auvergne, Villeurbanne (France)
Title of the training day: “ANF Edition académique”

Congress
Felipe K. Fernandes (PhD Fellow EHESS / CEFRES)
Date: 7-8 November 2019
Venue: Maison des sciences de l’homme et de la société (MESHS), Lille (France)
Title of the congress: La ville et les sciences sociales. Ce que la ville fait à l’anthropologie, ce que l’anthropologie fait à la ville
Title of the contribution: “Expériences croisées d’enquêtes ethnographiques de marchés populaires urbains : Beyrouth, Prague”, in partnership with Emmanuelle Durand (anthropologist, EHESS/IRIS)
Programme

Colloquium
Fedora Parkmann
(associate researcher at CEFRES / post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Date: 7-8 November 2019
Venue: Musée des Arts décoratifs of Paris (France)
Title of the colloquium: Patrimoines photographiques : histoires, ethnologies, émotions
Title of the contribution: “L’album de famille du président Antonín Zápotocký : mémoire privée, enjeux publics”
Program

Seminar
Virginie Vaté (CNRS/CEFRES) and Giovanna Capponi (post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES)
Date: 7 November 2019
Venue: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Bochum (Germany)
Title of the contributionCinghiali and sangliers: Controversies around humans and boars in France and Italy
URL-Boar Blog

International Colloquium
Jérôme Heurtaux
(director of CEFRES)
Date: 7 of November
Venue: Polish Library in Paris
Title of the colloquium: 1989 in the East : Between Order and Subversion
Titre of the contribution: Poland, 1989. Was it the first electoral revolution ?
Program

October

Colloquium
Jérôme Heurtaux (directeur du CEFRES)
Date: 29-31 of October
Venue: Institut français de Berlin
Title of the colloquium: “La rue est la tribune du peuple” : vues sur le 4 novembre 1989
Contribution: participant at the discussion around the counterfactual history told by Quentin Deluermoz “Et si le mur n’était pas tombé ?”
Program

Public debate
Františka Zezuláková Schormová
(PhD at CEFRES/FF UK)Date: 25 October 2019, 6 pm
Venue: Kampus Hybernská, large lecture room
Title of the event: Social Movements and Emancipatory Politics in Central Eastern Europe 30 Years After
Title of the contribution : Modarator

International Colloquium
Claire Madl
(deputy director at CEFRES)Date and time: 24 & 25 of Octobre, from 9:00 to 18:00
Venue: German Historical Institute, Paris
Title of the colloquium: Échange linguistique et circulation des savoirs dans l’empire des Habsbourg à l’époque moderne
Title of the contribution: Traduire et imprimer les manuels officiels des écoles impériales et royales : retour sur les implications socio-linguistiques d’une réforme phare de Marie-Thérèse (1774)
Program

Round-table
Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES)
Date and time: 17 of October, from 12:30 to 18:00
Venue: French Institute of Budapest
Title of the round-table: Trente ans de coopération dans les sciences humaines et sociales entre la France et l’Europe centrale : bilan et perspectives
Contribution: communication sur la coopération de l’EHESS en Europe centrale : fondation des Ateliers et Institutions similaires, problèmes d’institutionnalisation, cadres et fonctionnement de la coopération, objectifs initiaux et résultats. L’expérience des trente dernières années

Workshop
Felipe K. Fernandes
(PhD Fellow EHESS / CEFRES)
Date: 10 October
Venue: Ho Chi Minh, University for Humanities and Social Sciences
Title of the workshop: Master Seminar around Students’ works in progress and projects of publications

Debate
Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES)
Date: 8 October 2019, from 6:30pm to 8pm
Venue: INALCO, Paris, room 3.05
Title of the debate: Enjeux politiques contemporains en Europe centrale
Title of the contribution: presentation of the book La démocratie par le droit, Pologne 1989-2016
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September

International Conference
Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES)
Date: 26-27 September 2019
Venue: Warsaw University, Pałac Tyszkiewiczów-Potockich, Sala Balowa
Title of the conference: 1989 Contested legacies. The challenges of the ideological, institutional and (geo)political heritage
Title of the contribution: “What do we know about 1989 in Poland? The historiographical, political and memory issues of an endless controversy”
URL-Program

International Colloquium
Felipe Kaiser Fernandez
(PhD at CEFRES/IIAC-EHESS)Date : 24-25 September 2019
Place : Order of Malta Grand Priory of Bohemia Building, Velkopřevorské náměstí 4, Praha 1 – Malá Strana
Title of the colloquium : Migration and the Generational Experience
Organizers : Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy os Sciences
Title of the contribution : “Young Vietnamese in the marketplace : Challenges of an ethnography of everyday life at Sapa market”
URL-Program

Evening
Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES)
Date: 20 September 2019, 6:30pm
Venue: Bibliothèque polonaise de Paris
Title of the evening: Trente ans après la table ronde
URL-Programme

International Colloquium
Chiara Mengozzi
(Associate researcher at CEFRES)Date : 18-21 September 2019
Place : Kampus Hybernská, Prague
Title of the colloquium : Narrativity and Self-Creating Forms : Autopoiesis in Perspective
Organizers : Hegel in Interdisciplinary Perspectives (HIP)
Title of the contribution : “From Violence to Play. Narrating the Struggle for Recognition in Colonial Contexts”
URL-Program

International Colloquium
Františka Zezuláková Schormová
(PhD at CEFRES/FF UK)Date : 12-14 September 2019
Place : Palacký University, Olomouc
Title of the colloquium : Secrets: Biennial Conference & 22nd International Colloquium of American Studies
Organizers : Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies
& the Department of English and American Studies
Title of the contribution : “Cold War Secrets and African American Literature: The Story of Abraham Chapman
URL-Program

June

International Conference
Felipe Kaiser Fernandes
(PhD at EHESS/associated at CEFRES)Date: 27-28 June 2019
Place: Charles University, Faculty of Science,  Praha
Title of the session: 11th Meeting of European Geographers of Religion: International Colloquia on the Changing Religious Landscape of Europe
Title of the contribution: “Vietnamese Buddhism in the Czech Republic: An ethnographic study”
URL-Program

International Conference
Julien Wacquez
(PhD student CEFRES/EHESS)Date: 26 June 2019
Place: University of California, Davis
Title of the workshop: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Thirteenth Biennial Conference
Title of the contribution: “The Scientific Existence of the “Dyson Sphere””
URL-Program

Workshop
Pavel Baloun 
(PhD Fellow at CEFRES/Charles University)Date: 20-21 June 2019
Place: Arbeitsstelle des Collegium Carolinum and Villa Lanna, Prague
Organizers: Collegium Carolinum – Forschungsinstitut für die Geschichte Tschechiens und der Slowakei (Arbeitsstelle Prag) and Masaryk Institute and Archive of the CAS
Title of the workshop: Workshop zur Kriminalitätsgeschichte Mitteleuropas
Title of the contribution: “Between “Backwardness” and “Habitual Criminals”. Invoking “Gypsiness” at Courts in Interwar Czechoslovakia”
URL-Program

International Conference
Thomas C. Mercier (Post doctoral researcher at CEFRES / UK)
Date : 17-18 juin 2019
Place : University of Salerno
Title of the conference : “From the Archive. Reading Derrida”
URL-Program

International Conference
Florence Vychytil (PhD Fellow at CEFRES/EHESS)
Dat e: 14-16 June 2019
Place : University of Gdansk
Title of the conference : Seventh World Congress
on Polish Studies
Title of the session : The Influence of the Cold War on US Polonia
Title of the contribution : “A Shared Political Culture? A Transatlantic Perspective on Polonia’s Citizenship Practices and Political Norms during the Cold War”
URL-Program

Seminar
Virginie Vaté (Researcher at CEFRES/CNRS)
Date : 12 June 2019
Place : Centre of Mongolian and Siberian Studies (Centre d’études mongoles et sibériennes), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Title of the contribution : “Orthodox Christianity and Indigenous People in Contemporary Alaska dans Chukotka”
URL-Program

International Conference
Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES)Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES/CRNS)
Date: 7-8 June 2019
Place: Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Sorbonne, Paris
Title of the session: Revisiter l’événement 1989 en Europe centrale: Marges sociales, pratiques d’écriture, nouvelles archives
Title of the contribution (J. Heuratux): Candidats communistes aux élections de 1989 en Pologne
URL-Program

International conference
Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES/CRNS)
Date: 7-8 June 2019
Place: ENS, Lyon
Title of the session: Les occasions du livre. Pratiques, discours et imaginaires de la commande dans la littérature des XXe et XXIe siècles
Title of the contribution: “Paul Valéry ou le kairos de la commande.”
URL-Program

Workshop
Julien Wacquez
(PhD student CEFRES/EHESS)
Date: 4-5 June 2019
Place: Collège de France, Paris
Title of the workshop: “Anthropology Off Earth”
Title of the contribution: “How Does Science Fiction Literature Shape Scientific Imagination?”
URL-Program

Seminar
Paul G. Keil (Post doctoral researcher Institute of Ethnology/CEFRES)
Date:
3 June 2019
Place:
Institute of Czech Literature
Title of the contribution: “
Piggers, pigdogs, and other pig- relations: a study of Australian hunting cultures at the feral pig-human interface”
URL-Program

May

International Conference
Jérôme Heurtaux
(CEFRES Director)Date: 24-25 May 2019
Place: University of Warsaw
Organizers: Institute of Philosophy, French Civilisation Center, University of Warsaw, in partnership with CEFRESTitle of the Conference: Delegitimization as Social Phenomenon
Title of the contribution: “Délégitimation et relégitimation dans les processus de changement de régime”
URL Program

International Conference
Thomas C. Mercier (Post-doctoral researcher CEFRES / UK )
Date: 23-24 May 2019
Place: IMEC, Caen
Title of the Conference : Guerre et paix dans la pensée française de la Guerre froide
Title of the contribution : “Pragues Promises.  Jacques Derrida and Czechoslovakia”
URL – Program

Discussion
Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES Director)Date: 22 May 2019
Place:  French Institute in Berlin
Subject of the discussion:  The documentary film “Pokolenie 89/Generation 89” (2002) directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
URL-Program

International Conference
Thomas C. Mercier (CEFRES / UK Post Doctoral Researcher)
Date: 2 May 2019
Place: Red hall, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris
Title of the session: Derrida and Technology
Title of the contribution: “Et si le Golem répondait? De quelques “événements-machines” et “super-monstres”

April

Seminar
Luděk Brož(Czech Academy of Sciences/CEFRES) and Virginie Vaté (CNRS/CEFRES)
Date: 18 April 2019, from 10:00 to 13:00
Place: Quai Branly Museum, Paris
Organizers: Carole Ferret and Frédéric Keck
Title of the seminar (EHESS): “Relations hommes-animaux : questions contemporaines”
Title of the contribution: “Bewildering Boar: Changing Cosmopolitics of the Hunt in Europe and Beyond”

Workshop
Thomas C. Mercier
(CEFRES / UK Post Doctoral Researcher)
Date: 10-12 April 2019
Place: University of Winchester, Winchester, UK
Organizer: The Faculty of Education of the University of Winchester
Title of the workshop: “Deconstruction in Conversation: Conversation in Deconstruction”
Title of the contribution: “Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction of Pedagogy in the Unpublished seminar ‘GREPH: Le concept de l’idéologie chez les idéologues français’ (1974-1975)”

Seminar
Florence Vychytil
(PhD student EHESS / CEFRES)
Date: 9 April 2019
Place: EHESS, Paris
Organizer: Nancy L. Green (EHESS)
Title of the contribution: “Une culture politique de la dispersion ? Les Polonais du monde libre entre intégration et exil durant la Guerre froide
URL – Program

March

Doctoral seminar at IIAC
Felipe Kaiser Fernandes
(PhD student EHESS, associated at CEFRES)Date: 21 March 2019
Place: EHESS, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain (IIAC), Paris
Organizers: EHESS – IIAC
Title of the contribution: “Les migrants vietnamiens en République tchèque: une étude sur les lignées familiales et les réseaux économiques au marché de Sapa (Prague)”

PhD students and young researchers meeting
Martin Pjecha (PHD fellow CEFRES)
Date: 13 march 2019
Place: Akademické centrum, Prague
Organized by: Centre for Medieval Studies
URL Program
Title of the contribution: “The neo-Platonic roots of Hussite reform”

Seminar
Thomas Mercier (CEFRES / UK Post Doctoral Researcher)
Date: 8 March 2019
Place: Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Organized by: American Comparative Litterature Association
URL Program
Title of the session: “Violence: Of the idiom”
Title of the contribution: “Violence: Of the impure”

Workshop
Benedetta Zaccarello (Research Fellow at CEFRES) and
Kannan Muthukrishnan (French Institute of Pondicherry)
Date: 7 and 8 March 2019
Location: Pondicherry
Organizers: CEFRES (CNRS-MAE) and French Institute of Pondicherry
Title of the workshop: “What is an archive in India and Europe?

February

Seminar
Jérôme Heurtaux
(CEFRES’ director)
Date: 28 February 2019
Place: Prague
Organized by: Faculty of Arts; Martin Nejedlý and Jaroslav Svátek
Séminaire historique franco-tchèque
URL – Program
Title of the lecture: “How did Communism collapse in Poland?”

Presentation of the research career
Felipe Kaiser Fernandes (PhD student EHESS, CEFRES Associated PhD student)
Date: 25 February 2019
Place: Ceará State University, Brazil
Organizers: Professor Ana Silvia Rocha Ipiranga and Felipe Kaiser Fernandes

Workshop
Jérôme Heurtaux
(CEFRES’ director)
Date: 22 February 2019
Place: Bucarest, Villa Nöel
Organized by: Centre régional francophone de recherches avancées en sciences sociales
Title of the conference: 1989 : 30 years after
URL – Program
Title of the contribution : Round Table “Political desillusion in Central and Eastern Europe?”

January

Conference
Chiara Mengozzi
(FF UK associated at CEFRES)
Date: 11 January 2019
Place: Prague, FF UK, #217
Organized by Praxis, the association of students in Philosophy at the FFUK
Title of the conference: Ženství – ironie obce [La féminité – ironie de la cité]
URL – Program
Contribution : “Ženy a migranti – ironie obce” [Les femmes et les migrants – ironie de la cité]

Conference
Florence Vychytil-Baudoux
(PhD. fellow EHESS / CEFRES)
Date: 3-6 January 2019
Place: Chicago
Organized by the Polish American Historical Association
Title of the conference : Polish American Historical Association’s 76th Annual Meeting (as part of the 133rd yearly meeting of the American Historical Association)
url :
URL – programme du panel sur le site de American Historical Association
URL – programme sur le site de Polish American Historical Association
Contribution : “Building the Diaspora. Circulation of Ideas and Practices between French and American Polonii during the Cold War”

December

Roundtable
Julien Wacquez, PhD fellow (EHESS / CEFRES)
Date: 4 December 2018
Place: Prague
Organized by Večerní Kavárna Souterrain
Title of the event: Textual Practices/Practical Texts: (Re)writing the Publics

October

Conference
Virginie Vaté, Research fellow, CNRS (CEFRES)
Date: October 25, 2018
Place: Berlin (Germany)
Organizer: The European Commission, the Republic of Finland, the Federal Republic of Germany
Title of the conference: Second Arctic Science Ministerial
url: https://www.arcticscienceministerial.org/en/index.html
Function: Member of the French delegation, representative for social and human sciences sent by the CNRS

Conference
Thomas Mercier
, post-doc CEFRES / UKDate: 18-19 October 2018
Place: Bratislava
Organized by Institut de philosophie de l’Académie slovaque des sciences
Title of the conference: Young philosophy
url: http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/?q=en/youngphilosophy
Contribution: Uses of ‘the Pluriverse’: Cosmos, Interrupted or the Others of Humanities

Workshop
Pavel Baloun, PhD fellow at CEFRES and FHS UKDate: October 25-28, 2018
Place: University of St. Andrews
Purpose: Meeting of the research group (ERC advanced grant “Roma Civic Emancipation between the two World Wars”)
Contribution: Case of Czechoslovakia (together with Slovak historian Anna Jurová)

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague