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: 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? 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? →
Workshop : Ritualization of transgressions and normativities in the European Mediterranean public space
Kdy: Pondělí 28. února 2022, 10:30–17:00
Kde: v CEFRESu a online (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87924365313)
Jazyky: French and English
Organizují: Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES), Yoann Morvan (CNRS, MESPOLHIS) and Alessandro Testa (FSV UK, přídružený CEFRESu)
This workshop focuses on the ritualization of transgressions and ‘normativities’ in Euro-Mediterranean public spaces. It aims to adopt an anthropological approach to contemporary European religious phenomena and rituals, both as factors of cultural, symbolic, and spatial sharing and division in Euro-Mediterranean spaces. In particular, the discussions will question the processes of secularism and secularization, of “de-secularization” or “re-enchantment,” or of political and/or social maintaining of the religious. The focus will also encompass the logics of encounters, hybridizations, tensions, and transgressions between different religious actors and practices, both in the case of majority groups and those in minorities, within public spaces that are often pluralistic and pluricultural, in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe.
Program
10:30–12:00 – Roundtable (in French)
Ritualization of transgressions and forms of normativities in Euro-Mediterranean public spaces: anthropological approaches
With:
- Dionigi Albera (CNRS, IDEMEC)
- Alessandro Testa (Charles University)
- Yoann Morvan (CNRS, MESPOLHIS)
- Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES / University of Bordeaux)
- Viola Teisenhoffer (Charles University / Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Moderators:
- Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES)
- Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES / Paris Dauphine University)
14:00–15:30 – (in English)
Ritualization of transgressions and forms of normativities in public spaces in Central Europe
With:
- Martin Pehal (Charles University)
- Viola Teisenhoffer (Charles University / Eötvös Loránd University)
- Agata Ładykowska (Charles University / Polish Academy of Sciences)
Discussant:
- Dionigi Albera (CNRS, IDEMEC)
16:00–17:00 – (in English)
Presentation of Alessandro Testa’s book,
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Routledge, 2020)
Discussants:
- Alessandro Testa (Charles University)
- Dionigi Albera (CNRS, IDEMEC)
- Martin Pehal (Charles University)
Ilustrace: Martin Pehal
Galaktická rovina lidských dějin aneb vliv nekonečně velkého měřítka na naše životy
1. zasedání roku 2022 Semináře CEFRESu
Kdy: středa 16. února 2022, 16:30
Kde: v CEFRESu a online (Přihlaste se na adrese claire(@)cefres.cz)
Jazyk: anglicky
Promluví: Julien Wacquez, post-doktorand na Univerzitě Paris Nanterre a v CEFRESu
Obor environmentální humanistiky, který se v posledních desetiletích rychle rozvíjí, již svými předměty zkoumání a výzkumnými otázkami směřuje k tomu, aby pracoval s širokou škálou prostorových a časových měřítek. Historici, sociologové, antropologové a literární vědci však nejsou zvyklí uvažovat o koexistenci jevů v těchto měřítkách. Případ SARS-CoV-2 je toho dobrým příkladem. Abychom pochopili důsledky výskytu viru, je třeba neomezovat se pouze na měřítko na úrovni genomu a molekuly, jako je třeba protein SPIKE, díky němuž se virus může dostat do našeho těla, tak se přes měřítko na úrovních jednotlivce a populací dostaneme na úroveň ekosystémů, a následně celé planety. Jak s tak různorodými měřítky pracovat? Je třeba využít různých oborů a mnoha druhů znalostí. Jak mohou tyto obory spolupracovat? Pokračování textu Galaktická rovina lidských dějin aneb vliv nekonečně velkého měřítka na naše životy →
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Sejdeme se v pátek 10. prosince 2021 v 15:00 on-line (na platformě zoom viz ID 895 7040 0457)
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