Yearly Archives: 2025

CEFRES Actions for Ukraine, Join us, Non classé

UMIFRE fellowships for Ukrainian researchers | Results

      1. ANKHYM, Oleksii (Ivan Franko State University)
        Between Languages and Cultures: on Contemporary German-language literature by authors of Ukrainian origin
      2. KARABIN, Tetiana (Uzhhorod State University)
        Anti-Corruption Potential of Ukraine’s New Law on Administrative Procedure
      3. NAMESTIUK, Svitlana (Medical University Chernivtsi )
        Conceptualisation littéraire de la guerre et réception française du mythe du Donbass. Vers une poétique de la mémoire dans la littérature ukrainienne contemporaine
      4. PALIICHUK, Elina (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University)
        The development of the concept of the translation ecosystem in Ukraine for accession to the EU
      5. YANENKO, Anna (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Museums)
        Art and Photo (in) History: Museum of the History of Religion(s) of the Kyiv All-Ukrainian Museum Town in the early 1930s
      6. SHUMYLOVYCH, Bohdan (Lviv Centre for Urban History)
        “Quiet Trauma”: Wartime Violence and Mediatized Gaze
      7. BILOKON, Alona (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
        Focuses on the intersection of energy transition, international relations, and regional development, with particular attention to the socio-economic and geopolitical dimensions of energy transition and the green economy.
      8. FISUN, Oleksandr (Karazin University Kharkiv)
        Resilience, and Local Governance in Ukraine’s Frontline Regions
      9. MYKHALCHUK, Roman (Rivne State University of Humanities)
        The Holocaust in the general district of “Voly-Podillia”: bystanders, victims, executioners, 1941-1944
      10. SHUMYTSKA, Halyna (Uzhhorod State University)
        Diversity, Identities and Language Integration
      11. KUDRYAVSTEVA, Natalia (State Pedagogical University Kryvyi Rih)
        Building Ukraine’s Multilingual Policy from Below
      12. ROMANYSHYM, Nataliya (Lviv Polytechnic National University)
        Ukrainian National Identity and Memory in Wartime Discourse: Literary Strategies and Symbolic Reconfiguration

WAITING LIST   

        1. Gnatiuk, Mykola (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
          Integration of Ukraine into the EU: Social Representations in the Context of War
        2. Razyhraev, Oleh (Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University)
          Daily life in the prisons of interwar Poland (1918–1939)
        3. Stefurak, Olena (University of Tchernivtsi)
          Les traductrices de la diaspora ukrainienne : circulation et réception de la littérature ukrainienne en France (XXe–XXIe siècles)
        4. Chemerys, Hanna (Zaporizhzhia National University)
          Feminist Strategies in Ukrainian Wartime Art as a Soft Resistance
Calls for Papers

CFP | Queer Bookshelves and LGBTQI+ Literatures

Circulation, Anthologisation And Canon Formation In Comparative Perspective

Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2025
Date: May 12-13, 2026
Location: Brussels
Language: English and French
Contact email: clement.dessy@ulb.be

Organizers
Mateusz CHMURSKI, CEFRES/Sorbonne Université
Clément DESSY, FNRS/Université libre de Bruxelles
Ana I. SIMÓN-ALEGRE, Adelphi University, NYC Continue reading CFP | Queer Bookshelves and LGBTQI+ Literatures →

Calls for Applications, Join us

CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027

Call opens June 16, 2025
Deadline for submission: September 15, 2025
Publication of the results: beginning of October 2025
Period: January 1, 2026-December 31, 2027
Application Language: English
Address for submission:  mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)

Two postdoctoral researchers will be recruited from January 1, 2026 for two years at CEFRES. They will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for their research at Charles University (UK). The selection of both postdoctoral researchers will be based on the quality of their research project and its adequation to the research area or the research project it intends to contribute to. Continue reading CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027 →

Research Projects

Paper Bonds

Paper Bonds
Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East

A project developed within AV ČR-CNRS Tandem Program supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences, CNRS and CEFRES

Project principal investigators:
Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon / CEFRES)  helene.martinelli@ens-lyon.fr
Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences): saba@orient.cas.cz

ANNOTATION Continue reading Paper Bonds →

Calls for Applications, Mobility, Visegrad > France

French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.

Application deadline: July 16th, 2025 – 6:00 pm

Applications are submitted online via www.fias-fp.eu where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria and selection procedure.

Find more info here.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, FIAS offers 28 fellowship positions: 7 in Aix Marseille, 3 in Cergy, 2 in Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), 3 in Lyon, 2 in Montpellier, 4 in Nantes and 7 in Paris. Continue reading French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme →

Join us, Mobility

CEFRES PhD grants 2025 | Results

France & Visegrád PhD mobility grants

  1. KOZIIENKO Ruslana, CEU: The Effects and Affects of the (Im)mobility of Men During Russia’s Full-Scale War against Ukraine

  2. FROMONT Garance, Université Paris-Cité: Too Loud a Freedom: Emergence of a Cinematographic New Wave in Communist Czechoslovakia (1956-1968)

Waiting list (gives the right to become associate)

3. SCAGLIUSI Domenico, Sorbonne Université: The Tribunal of the Heirs: The Memory of the Gulag in contemporary Russophone Literature (2000-2022)

4. QUELVENNEC Natasza, EHESS: (Battle)fields of Gender and Democracy. Relational Sociology of the Politicization of Abortion in Poland 2015-2025

CEFRES-SAV PhD mobility grants

PAPCUNOVÁ Nina, ÚSL SAV: Nature in Modernism

CEFRES Platform PhD grants

  1. VASSILEVA Sabina, FSV UK–SOÚ AVČR: Gender of Metabolism. Enacting Sexed Bodies at the Intersection of Metabolic and Sex Hormones

  2. RUMPIKOVA Michaela, FF UK: A Phenomenological Reading of the Young Gerl in First-Person Coming-of-Age Novels: Becoming Through Orientation, Objects, and Others

    Waiting list

  3. MYCHKA Katerina, FF UK-La Sapienza: Serhij Žadan’s Work in the Context of Transformative Dynamics
CEFRES-CEU mobility grants

  1. POLLAK, Markus: Evaluating Democracies. International Election Observers and the Contestation of Liberal Ordering (2 500 €)

  2. AKSNOWICZ, Adam: Towards What Homeland? (Trans)national Armies in Exile and Renegotiations of Polish and Czechoslovak National Narratives, 1939-1947 (2 000 €)

  3. RAEHME, Sophie: Intersectional & Gendered Subjects of Transitional Justice and the Right to Reparation. A Case Study on the Negotiation and Recognition of Gendered Victimhood in Colombia since 1997 (500 €)

CEFRES-FiF UK mobility grants
  1. VAŠÍČEK, Andrej: Cultural and Historical Memory of the Landscape in Hungary in the 18th Century (3 000 €)

 2. DROBNÁ, Dominika: Theory and Practice of Architecture in Bratislava around 1800 (2 000 €)