Transcultural Europe in the Global World

Transcultural Europe Narrated: Testimonies, Interviews, Life narratives in Humanities, Social and Political Sciences

Workshop

Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2022
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 1420, Praha 1
Language: English and French

Organizers: 
  • Chiara Mengozzi, Charles University
  • Ondřej Švec, Charles University

Workshop organized by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, with the collaboration of CEFRES.

Pokračování textu Transcultural Europe in the Global World

Affects, Everyday Writing Practices, and the Origins of Self-Analysis

Affects, Everyday Writing Practices, and the Origins of Self-Analysis. The Case of Julian Ochorowicz and Sigmund Freud.

4th 2022 Session of CEFRES Seminar 

When: Wednesday 30 March 2022, 4:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Host: Agnieszka Sobolewska (Warsaw University/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)

Abstract:

In what ways everyday writing practices (such as keeping a journal or writing letters) are related to science in the second half of the nineteenth century? How the differences between self-reflective techniques (such as introspection and self-analysis) are reflected in the generic divergencies between journal and epistolary practices? During this presentation, I will take a closer look at the important shift in the nineteenth century psycho-medical literature which was closely related to the question of psychological introspection and the emergence of psychoanalytic self-analysis in the late 1890s. This shift can be closely observed in life writing of the nineteenth-century psychologists, physicians, and future psychoanalysts, and was crucial for future understanding of the self in the twentieth century.

Pokračování textu Affects, Everyday Writing Practices, and the Origins of Self-Analysis

The place of absence and the spaces of the absent

The place of absence and the spaces of the absent:
the legacies of the 20th century (de)population movements in Europe and beyond

Seminar

Date: Thursday 24th and Friday 25th March 2022
Location: Paris (CERI, 56 rue Jacob, 75006) and online (ask for the link by e-mail at cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

Organisators:
Catherine Perron, FNSP/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
Michèle Baussant, CNRS/ CEFRES
Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska

Thursday 24th March

12.30 – 14.30

This panel is organised as a session of the seminar “Mémoires et patrimonialisations des migrations” of the EHESS

Neža Čebron Lipovec,University of Primorska – Koper/Capodistria
Intertwined metamorphoses: modern architecture and population change in postwar northern Istria

Petra Kavrečič, Universty of Primorska – Koper/Capodistria
The absence of the “other side” of the territory. The territorial discontinuity with the new Yugoslavian-Italian border

14.30 – 15.00 : Coffee-break

15.00 – 16.30

Maria Kokkinou, CEFRES – Prague
Before and after them: spaces of refuge, spaces of expulsion in Eastern Europe through the example of the refugees of Greek civil war 

Ewa Tartakowsky, CNRS, Institut des sciences sociales du politique – Nanterre
Auschwitz: A research in times of pandemic

17.00 – 18.30

Cornelia Eisler, BKGE – Oldenburg
A present absence. Germans from Eastern Europe and the expellee museums in West Germany

Olga Sezneva, Universiteit van Amsterdam – Amsterdam
 Lost-And-Found: The poiesis of home in a dispossessed land. Tales from Königsberg-Kaliningrad

Friday 25th March

9.30 – 11.15

Elena Soler, Charles University – Prague
Long-lasting ethnicized silences and the imagined (national) community: reflections on a new theoretical approach

Nadège Ragaru, CNRS/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
Seeking Jewish survivors from Northern Greece in the 1960s: West German magistrates and the transnational story of a quest for traces

Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska – Koper/Capodistria
The silence as absence in Istria. Memory and forgetting of the Istrian exodus, the past and future

11.15 – 11.30 :  Coffee-break

11.30 – 12.45

Michèle Baussant, CNRS/ CEFRES – Prague
What absences shape memories of the colonial displaced?

Catherine Perron, FNSP/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
The place of the loss. Expulsions and lost homelands in the German memorial landscape.

14.30 : Round table

Yael Navaro, University of Cambridge – Cambrigde
Antonela Capelle-Pogacean, FNSP/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
Evelyne Ribert, CNRS – IIAC – Paris

Illustration: ©Michèle Baussant

CEFRES webinars for Ukraine

CEFRES webinars for Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks the return of war to Europe. Although the war dates back to the 2014 armed conflict in Donbas, with the war of aggression against Ukraine, it is now taking on an unprecedented scale. This war is also fought in the field of information and interpretation, posing major challenges for observers and researchers. Located in the heart of Central Europe directly affected by the war, CEFRES is hosting a series of webinars dedicated to the analysis of the war and its effects in the region from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences. 

Moderated by: Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES), Michèle Baussant (CNRS-CEFRES), Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES).

Webinar 1

The challenges of hosting refugees from Ukraine in Central Europe

Date: Tuesday, 22nd March 2022, 12:00 – 13:30 (CET)
Location: ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83104476667 (in case of any problems, write to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

A Webinar organized in partnership with the GDR “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane”.

On the front line in hosting refugees from the war in Ukraine, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are facing major challenges. How are they responding to this unprecedented demand for hospitality? Which actors (governments, local authorities, NGOs, etc.) are involved, and what are their resources and capacities? How does this new wave of Ukrainian migration differ from the previous ones? What are the contours of the solidarity shown by Central European societies? This webinar offers a comparative perspective by bringing together different experts to discuss the situation of Ukrainian refugees in Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania).

With :

  • Dr. Olena Babakova, freelance journalist, an expert on Ukrainian migration to Poland.
  • Prof. MUDr. Vladimir Krčméry DrSc. academic, physisian, founder of St. Elisabeth Private University of Health and Social Work in Bratislava.
  • Dr. Ondřej Kopečný, analyst, STEM – Institute of Empirical Research (Prague).
  • Dr. Anemona Constantin, political scientist, a post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES.

Moderated by: Michèle Baussant (CNRS-CEFRES)

Illustration photograph by Martin Mádl (6/3/2022)

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: How Eastern Europe and Latin America Transformed International Law

3. zasedání roku 2022 Semináře CEFRESu 

Kdy: středa 16. března 2022, 16:30
Kde: v CEFRESu a online (Přihlaste se na adrese claire(@)cefres.cz)
Jazyk: anglicky
Promluví: Raluca Grosescu (SNSPA, Bucarest), Eva-Clarita Pettai (Imre-Kertész Kolleg), Anemona Constantin (CEFRES)

Abstrakt

This research investigates how national courts from Latin America and Central Eastern Europe (CEE) have challenged and transformed international criminal law (ICL) in trials held against former authoritarian officials after the “third wave” of democratization. In contrast to the UN-centric approaches that have dominated the scholarship on ICL, I explore the role of two so-called “semi-peripheries” of the international system in shaping global norms. I show how legal actors from the two regions created novel readings of ICL and contested an existing international law order which they considered unable to address their violent pasts. These reinterpretations were determined by the quest to overcome impunity in specific national contexts and by the concern to construct an international legal memory that would include the mass repression perpetrated by communist and military dictatorships. Pokračování textu Justice and Memory after Dictatorship

Pan-Slavism or Romantic Nationalism?

Pan-Slavism or Romantic Nationalism? The case of the Pest-Buda Serbs in the first half of the nineteenth century

2. zasedání roku 2022 Semináře CEFRESu 

Kdy: středa 2. března 2022, 16:30
Kde: v CEFRESu a online (Přihlaste se na adrese claire(@)cefres.cz)
Jazyk: anglicky
Promluví: Dušan Ljuboja (doktorand na Univerzitě ELTE, Budapešť, přidružený CEFRESu)

Abstrakt

The nationalism studies are a broad field, with several different schools of thought, usually divided between the modernists and primordialists. The phenomenon of nation building is generally viewed as a modern concept, characterized by the age of changing social orders, rise of industrial capitalism, new technologies, and information age. Whether the emerging nations had a right to claim that their existence reached far beyond this modern era, does not truly matter. The nationalist movements abide by a certain set of rules. Researchers devised methodological tools which would act as a lens through which we could determine the stage of development of a certain national movement. One of these tools is the framework by Joep Leerssen, a Dutch historian, who proposed the idea of “cultural nationalism.” This theory, among others, would be the basis of my attempt to determine whether a certain movement, regardless of its developmental stage, would qualify as a national one, and if not, what were the reasons for it? Pokračování textu Pan-Slavism or Romantic Nationalism?