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Subversive Conformism? Youth Culture, Jews and Rock’n’roll in 1960s‘ Poland

Přednášku v rámci semináře o soudobých dějinách Židů organizovaného Ústavem pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR ve spolupráci s Masarykovým ústavem přednese Marcos Silber (Haifa Univerzita)

Místo: knihovna CEFRESu, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1
Čas: 17:30-19:00
Jazyk: angličtina

Abstrakt (EN):

March 1968 was a short but important period in recent Polish history. That year, it seemed, almost the whole world was experiencing a cultural revolution provoked by the youth. Unlike most of the historical research on Poland in March 1968, which has tended to focus on political power struggles and rising antisemitism, this paper explores connections between post-war Polish-Jewish youth subculture, a group sidelined because of its ethnicity and age, and the anti-Jewish campaign of March 1968 which led to the emigration of thousands of Polish Jews.

Z Čech na Jadran a zpět

Z Čech na Jadran a zpět. Vznik topografie středo-evropského kulturního dědictví mezi říšským paradigmatem a národními okolnostmi (1900-1940), přednáška Daniela Barica

Místo: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, Husova 4, Praha 1
Datum a čas: 22. května 2019
Organizátoři: CEFRES, ÚDU AV ČR

Daniel Baric

Daniel Baric studied History and completed German, Slavic and Hungarian studies in Paris, Berlin and Budapest. 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.
His researches focus on cultural transfers and interculturality in Central Europe, especially within the Habsburg Empire.

Abstrakt (EN)

To reflect upon the elaboration of patrimony policies and their endorsement by local actors means necessarily to take into account a wider context. The relationship of central imperial power with its Oriental circumferences is one of its major dimensions even more significant for the Austrian Empire.

There is a double aspect in Daniel Baric’s ongoing researches. They can be especially observed located among its geographical and historical boundaries. On the one hand, we can find a focus point on imperial Viennese institutions as they are considered to be an instrumental in the genesis of modern patrimony policies. On the other hand, there is a specific study revolving around the most peripheral provinces of Austria-Hungarian, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Adriatic coast under Austria-Hungarian administration (1878–1918)

Our considerations will be concerned by the tremendous consequences due to the evanescence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the domains of embellishment policy and cataloging process.

Archeologists had indeed to find new ways of protecting patrimony through the implementation of new museums and university chairs (i.e. Carl Patsch in Sarajevo and then Vienna, Anton Gnirs in Pula and then at Loket). This process had been achieved by overcoming imperial structures that had collapsed in 1918.

Both of them were scholars born in Bohemia and trained in Prague. In accordance with their acknowledged expertise, they were sent to the Slavonic speaking provinces in the South of Austria-Hungary. They also both finished their researches once they went back to Bohemia and Austria.

The mainstream archeological researches were modified due to political changes and their own departure from their first fields of excavation. De facto, studies on romanization and imperial latinity that were so strongly developed in the Austria-Hungarian period were no more dominant. A new interest emerged for all things medieval and national, giving way to a new paradigm in archaeology.

The tight ties between biography and topography shall be addressed, in regard with current researches based on (mainly autobiographical) manuscripts due to be published.

Daniel Baric’s bibliography

Publications
1. Langue allemande, identité croate. Au fondement d’un particularisme culturel, Paris, Armand Colin, 2013. (Croatian translation : Zagreb, Leykam, 2015)

As an editor
2. Identités juives en Europe centrale, des Lumières à l’entre-deux-guerres, with Tristan Coignard and Gaëlle Vassogne, Tours, Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2014.

3. Archéologies méditerranéennes, Revue germanique internationale, 2012.

4. Mémoire et histoire en Europe centrale et orientale, with Jacques Le Rider and Drago Roksandić, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

Prezentace knižních novinek CEFRESU – červen 2019

Konec akademického roku oslavíme prezentací francouzských knižních novinek  v humanitních a společenských vědách.

Sejdeme se v úterý 25. června 2019 v 17:00 v knihovně CEFRESu.

Mimo jiné budou představeny následující knihy:

  • Diane AFOUMADO: Indésirables (Calmann-Lévy, 2018)
    Florence Vychytil Baudoux
  • Franz FANON: Oeuvres. N° 2 (La Découverte, 2018)
    Thomas C. Mercier
  • Marc JOLY: La révolution sociologique (La Découverte, 2017)
    Jan Maršálek
  • Claudia MOATTI: Res Publica. Histoire romaine de la chose publique (Fayard, 2018)
    Hana Fořtová
  • Gérard NOIRIEL: Une histoire populaire de la France, De la guerre de Cent ans à nos jours (AGONE, 2018)
    Michel Perottino

Čeští a jihoafričtí komunisté

Gellnerovský seminář
Profesor Tom Lodge (University of Limerick) v rámci Gellnerovského semináře organizovaného Českou asociací pro sociální antropologii (CASA) spolu s Českou sociologickou společností  a ve spolupráci s Etnologickým ústavem AV ČR a CEFRES.

Kdy: 14. května 2019, 16:30
Kde: Ústavu české literatury, konferenční místnost (Na Florenci 3, Praha 1)
Jazyk: angličtina

Abstrakt (EN)

Documented Encounters between South African and Czech communists were sporadic and accidental in the early history of both Communist parties. Many years later the pioneering South African trade unionist, Ray Alexander, recalled meeting Klement Gottwald at a clandestine training school in her native Latvia shortly before her migration to Cape Town in 1930.  The Czech crisis of 1939 prompted the resignation of a senior personality in the South African party.  Young South African Communists visited Prague just after the Second World War and were later active in the Communist-affiliated international student movement based in the Czech capital.  The Czech government maintained a diplomatic presence in South Africa until 1962, the last communist administration to so and Czech officials were urged by South African communists to support trade sanctions.  By the 1960s contact between the “fraternal” parties was more institutionalized.  At this stage, the Czech army was beginning to supply training to Communist recruits in the insurgent force led by Nelson Mandela, Umkhonto we Sizwe.  The South Africa Communist Party, in exile from 1965, held a key party meeting hosted by Czech communists in Prague that year.  For the next two decades the South African Party would be locally represented in Prague on the editorial board of the World Marxist Review. The South African Communists were divided internally by the events of the Prague Spring though in public they professed their support for “normalization”.  This lecture will explore the background to these contacts and encounters.  The Czech “people’s democracy” of the 1950s was a key source of inspiration for the development of the South African notion of a “national democratic” revolution.  Czech support for this programme in the 1960s and 1970s was both a source of confidence and fragility, though.  The lecture will consider South African-Czech connections and linkages against the backdrop of the broader strategic concerns that informed and shaped Soviet and East European support for the South African liberatory politics.

Tom Lodge is a professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Limerick.

With a mother and father born respectively in Calcutta and Brno, Tom Lodge was educated in Nigeria, Borneo and Britain.  He has a D. Phil from York in Southern African Studies and he is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.  After working as a research assistant at the University of York’s Centre for Southern African Studies he began teaching in the Politics Department at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1978. He remained at Wits University until 2005, leading its politics department through the 1990’s.  In 2005 he moved to the University of Limerick as Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies.  He visits South Africa two or three times a year and is a board member of the Electoral Institute, a Johannesburg-based NGO. He has published extensively on South African political history. His books include Nelson Mandela: A Critical Life (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2017).  He has almost completed a book about the history of the South African Communist Party from its origins in the syndicalist politics of the white labour movement in South Africa in the 1900’s to its present-day development as a mass party.  He is about to begin a book commissioned by Routledge entitled “Political Corruption in Africa”.

Transnational Governmentability

Deváté setkání epistemologického semináře organizovaného CEFRESem a Institutem mezinárodních studií FSV UK veden

Felipe K. Fernandes (EHESS / přidružený doktorand CEFRESu)
Transnational Governmentability

Místo: knihovna CEFRESu, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
Čas: středa 15. května 2019, od 16:30
Jazyk: angličtina

Textů:

  • J. Ferguson and A. Gupta, “Spatializing States : Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality”, American Ethnologist, vol. 29, n° 4, 2002, p. 981-1002.
  • Armelle Choplin, Olivier Pliez, “The Inconspicuous Spaces of Globalization”, Articulo – Journal of Urban Research, 12, 2015, p. 8–12.
    https://journals.openedition.org/articulo/2596⟩. ⟨halshs-01947925⟩

Revisiting the 1989 event in Central Europe: social margins, writing practices, new archives

Mezinárodní konference

Místo: Vědecké centrum Polské akademie věd (rue Lauriston 74, Paříž), Sorbonne Univerzita (rue de la Sorbonne 17, “Salle des actes”, Paříž)
Datum: 7.-8. června 2019
Organizers: Vědecké centrum Polské akademie věd v Paíži, Centrum polské civilizace (Sorbonne Univerzita), CEFRES,  Centrum francouzské civilizace a frankofonních studií ve Varšavě
Jazyk: angličtina

Tato událost je první z cyklu konferencí nazvaného “1989-2019: Beyond the Anniversary, questionning 1989“. Konference se budou konat v Paříži, Varšavě a Praze.

Podrobný program naleznete zde.

Popis (EN)

What is known about 1989, this chain of major events that have shaken up the map of Europe and the world? The collapse of communist regimes has been extensively studied and commented on. The human and social sciences have long focused on the 1989 enigma, which saw the un-anticipated collapse of the European part of the Soviet bloc in just a few months. However, the work on 1989 quickly led to other research agendas, proposing to study the current transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. Because contrary to what the large number of stories about 1989 may suggest, there are few empirical studies on this object and for good reasons. Because of its historical situation as the final moment of the communist period and as the inaugural moment of the “democratic transition”, 1989 was finally little addressed as such and for itself. Retrospective analyses of the reasons for the fall of the communist bloc and prospective studies on the democratization of Eastern European societies quickly marginalized the event as an object of investigation, in favor of more interpretation-oriented writings. More recently, it is more a questioning around the memory controversies on 1989 that has caught the attention of researchers. This conference therefore proposes a return to the event itself. Going back to the field, diving in the past, mobilizing new sources, without of course sacrificing the analysis to pure facts. This is the perspective adopted which consists in questioning the event through its social margins, actors who have until now remained in the shadows (for example workers or women), through writing and cultural practices and by engaging in a debate on the archives of 1989, raising new or too long ignored questions. Several leads seem to be possible:

  • 1989 and social margins : What did 1989 mean for the Eastern European working classes, rural communities, people living in urban areas far from the heart of events, women, young people or the regime’s elites? Crossing the political event and the social worlds offers an original perspective on the dynamics of the collapse and makes it possible to rethink the relationships between the “revolutionary process” and social classes, which are known to be central to Marxist theory.
  • Writing and cultural practices : How was 1989 figured, documented and co-constructed, both during and after, through various writing practices (diaries, actors’ memoirs, underground press, samizdats, correspondence) and artistic genres such as literature, theatre, happening, painting or documentary? What traces does it leave in the visual memory of the event? What exactly is described, from what point of view?
  • New archives : Which archives were constituted on 1989 and on the period preceding the event? Are the archives on 1989 part of the archives of communism? Did 1989 produce its own archivists? Who are they and how can these archives be used? How can we interpret the development of oral history in the East and the multiplication of real “banks of testimonies”, which are emerging as new archives of communism and post-communism?

It is therefore about revisiting 1989 by consciously taking a fragmented look on the series of political events that have transformed Central and Eastern Europe. Hence the use of new and heterodox sources: oral history with ordinary citizens, self-writing, memoirs written by former members of the opposition or communist parties, posters, literary and artistic materials, etc., which have been the subject of so few publications since then.

Vědecké vedení Cyklu konferencí
  • Maciej Forycki, Vědecké centrum Polské akademie věd v Paříži
  • Jérôme Heurtaux, ředitel CEFRESu
  • Nicolas Maslowski, Centrum pro francouzská studia (CCFEF), Univerzita ve Varšavě
  • Paweł Rodak, Centrum polské civilizace (Sorbonne Univerzita)