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

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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

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 €)

New Acquisitions. May 2025

CONTENTS

PHILOSOPHY
SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
ARTS & LITERATURE
HISTORY

Philosophy

111.1 PEL
PELLUCHON, Corine
L’être et la mer : Pour un existentialisme écologique. Corine Pelluchon. Paris PUF 2024, 333 p.;
6750
Résumé : Une réflexion sur l’existentialisme écologique qui suppose de rompre avec l’imaginaire terrestre et de penser l’humain en partant de la mer. © Electre 2024
Mots-clés : Existentialisme, Environnement : philosophie, Environnement

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CFP | Central European Masculinities: Norms and Transgressions

The international conference is organized by the Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, within the framework of the Central European Masculinities research project.

Deadline for the submissions: June 25, 2025
Please send your proposal (title and short description) to Ivana.Taranenkova@savba.sk

Date: September 29–30, 2025
Location
: Bratislava
Conference language: English

Conference Committee

  • Judit Acsády (HUN REN)
  • Marcin Bogucki (IKP WP UW)
  • Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne)
  • Filip Mazurkiewicz (IP WH UŚ)
  • Richard Müller (ÚČL AV ČR)
  • Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK)
  • Wojciech Śmieja (IL WH UŚ)
  • Ivana Taranenková (ÚSlL SAV)

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CFP | Foucault at 100: Echoes and Encounters in Central and Eastern Europe

Deadline for submission: November 15, 2025
on the address: foucault100ece@flu.cas.cz
Date and Location:
Prague (June 1–2, 2026) and Warsaw (June 4–5, 2026)

Host Institutions
The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales en Prague (CEFRES)
Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones en Pologne (CCFEF)

Organizing Committee: Mateusz Chmurski, Isabel Jacobs, Jiří Růžička, Radosław Szymański, Laurent Tatarenko

Contact Email: foucault100ece@flu.cas.cz

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