Monthly Archives: April 2024

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Thomas Chopard – Research & CV

Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe

Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Contact: thomas.chopard[@]ehess.fr

Thomas Chopard is a historian and assistant professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Centre of Historical Research (EHESS/CRH). His research focuses on the history of anti-Jewish persecution and Jewish migration in Central and Eastern Europe. His early work focused on the pogroms and anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine during the revolutionary period, before contributing to the ERC project Lubartworld retracing the trajectories of the Jews of the Polish town of Lubartów. His current research is at the intersection of the study of forced displacement suffered by Jews during the Second World War and the history of Stalinist repression.

CEFRES Team

Petra Hudek – Research & CV

Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe

Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Contact: petra.hudek[@]savba.sk

Petra Hudek is a historian at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Contemporary History. In 2022-2023, she carried out her research project “Iconoclasm in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. The heritage of socialism in historical perspective” as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is currently preparing a monograph on Soviet war memorials in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. Her research focuses on the politics of memory, museums, and the processes of museification of public space, as well as the instrumentalization of history.

Research Projects

Visual Representations of WWII: Museums, Memorials, Commemorations

 Visual Representation of the Second World War in Museums, Memorials, and Commemorations in Central Europe

A project carried out within the TANDEM CNRS-SAV program developed by the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences (CNRS SHS), and the French Research Center for Social Science Research (CEFRES)

Project principal investigators: Petra Hudek and Thomas Chopard

Petra Hudek and Thomas Chopard’s TANDEM project on “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe” aims to examine historical narratives, memorial practices and commemorations in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. Continue reading Visual Representations of WWII: Museums, Memorials, Commemorations →

Calls for Papers

CFP | 32nd Summer University of the Jan Hus Association

32nd Summer University of the Jan Hus Association: Materials and Useless Things: Debris, Waste, Garbage, Remnants, Fragments…

Que deviennent les choses dont nous n’avons plus usage, que nous avons utilisées, usées ? La question apparaît d’entrée de jeu écologique. L’anthropocène est aussi l’âge de la production et de la consommation comme également productrices de déchets. Par-delà les injonctions pratiques et les superstitions catastrophistes on propose ici des voies de réflexion multi directionnelles.

Date : du 21 au 25 août 2024
Lieu : Košice, Slovaquie

Comité d’organisation :

  • Daniel VOJTEK (Université P. J. Šafárik, Košice, Slovaquie)
  • Karin SEMANÍK MIKLÓSSIOVÁ (Université P. J. Šafárik, Košice, Slovaquie)
  • Zuzana MALINOVSKÁ (Université Comenius, Bratislava, Slovaquie)

Comité scientifique :

  • Eva BERÁNKOVÁ (Université Charles, Prague, République tchèque)
  • Sylviane COYAULT (Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
  • Josef FULKA (Académie tchèque des sciences, Prague, République tchèque)
  • Róbert KARUL (Académie slovaque des sciences, Bratislava, Slovaquie)
  • Petr KYLOUŠEK (Université Masaryk, Brno, République tchèque)
  • Zuzana MALINOVSKÁ (Université Comenius, Bratislava, Slovaquie)
  • André SCALA (IDBL Digne-les-Bains, France)

Continue reading CFP | 32nd Summer University of the Jan Hus Association →

Research Projects

Representing same-sex desire

Representing same-sex desire.
Local contexts, global circulations

A project funded by the 4EU+ University Alliance, developed by Sorbonne University (Paris), the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague), the Universities of Copenhaguen, Milan and Warsaw, and CEFRES.

Project coordinators:

Josef Šebek, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature – principal investigator of the 4EU+ minigrant
Mateusz Chmurski, CEFRES – French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague / Sorbonne Université
Carlotta Cossutta, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale / FUEL – Feminist and Queer Philosophy Lab
Libuše Heczková, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature / Centre of Gender Studies
Anton Juul, University of Copenhagen / Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Difference
Iwona Kurz, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Kultury Polskiej
Jean-François Laplénie, Sorbonne Université / Initiative Genre Philomel

Abstract

The project intends to develop a network of 4EU+ colleagues working on LGBTQ+ cultural and literary history around a book project for the International Comparative Literature Association series’ Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (ICLA CHLEL). Continue reading Representing same-sex desire →

CEFRES Team, Non classé

Gábor Egry – Research & CV

Contact : egrygabor@phistory.hu

An invisible empire? Austro-Hungarian economic space in Central and Southeastern Europe 1890-1930: actors, structures, embeddedness, factors of resilience

Historian, Phd, DSc, chief director. He has published four books and two edited volumes, most recently Etnicitás, identitás, politika. Magyar kisebbségek nacionalizmus és regionalizmus között Romániában és Csehszlovákiában 1918-1944 [Ethnicity, identity, politics. Hungarian minoirties between nationalism and regionalism in Romania and Czechoslovakia 1918-1944] (Napvilág, Budapest, 2015), and numerous articles in specialist journals (incl. SlavicReview and EastCentral Europe), volumes and media outlets on topics of history and politics of identity. He was visiting lecturer at the University of Miskolc, at Stradins University, Riga and at ELTE Budapest, „Europa” Fellow of the New Europe College – Institue for Advanced Studies, Bucharest, visiting fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena and at IOS Regnesburg, Fulbright visiting reserach scholar at Stanford University, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Continue reading Gábor Egry – Research & CV →