Yearly Archives: 2025

CEFRES Team

List of interns 2024-2025

Saša Sláma Floriánová

Student in the second year of the Master’s program ‘Teaching French and Philosophy’ at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University.

Professional interests: language didactics, philosophy didactics, teaching philosophy with literary texts

Internship period: April 2025 – July 2025

Antonin Vuillemin

Fifth-year student in the ERIG programme: ‘International Relations and Global Studies’, NEI course: ‘Negotiations and Expertise’ at Science Po Strasbourg.

Professional interests: specialising in international relations, cultural diplomacy and in research and expertise, with a focus on the Slavic countries, central and Eastern Europe and, in particular, the Czech Republic. Strong multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary interests in economics, political science and history.

Internship period: April 2025 – July 2025

Administrative and research internship

Bleuenn Bidois

Second-year Master´s degree student of History at Rennes 2 University, specialization in “International Relations, Globalisation and Interculturality” / fifth year at Sciences Po Rennes

Professional interests: politics of memory in Europe and Latin America, memory tourism, history and memory of the Holocaust, cultural diplomacy, international relations

Internship period: February 2025 – April 2025

Administrative and research internship

Barbora Musilová

First-year Master’s student of French philology at Faculty of Arts, Charles Univesity.

Professional interests: romance languages, dialectology, comparative linguistics, translation, francophone areas.

Internship period: December 2024 – February 2025

Administrative and translation internship

CEFRES Team, Non classé

CEFRES Researchers 2024–2025

Thomas Chopard

Contact: thomas.chopard[@]ehess.fr

is a historian and assistant professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Centre of Historical Research (EHESS/CRH). Alongside Petra Hudek, he joins CEFRES for two years as part of the Tandem CNRS-SAV program. He benefits from International Mobility Support (SMI) from CNRS starting from June 2024. Their research, titled “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe,” contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Ioana Cîrstocea

Contact : ioana.cirstocea[@]ehess.fr

is a CNRS researcher appointed at CEFRES  since September 2023. Her research project at CEFRES, devoted to the contemporary debates around the redefinition of parental norms and the sub-political mobilizations of mothers and families in a post-socialist context, contributes to the CEFRES 2nd research area.

Martin Ďurďovič

Contact : martin.durdovic[@]soc.cas.cz

is a sociologist, researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He joined CEFRES in February 2024 within the CNRS–AVČR Tandem program together with Gilles Lepesant. Their research project, entitled « Contested energy transitions. Conflicts and social innovations in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and France » contributes to CEFRES Research area 2 Norms and Transgressions

Petra Hudek

Contact: petra.hudek[@]savba.sk

 is a historian at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Contemporary History. Alongside Thomas Chopard, she joins CEFRES in June 2024 for two years as part of the Tandem SNRS-SAV program. Their research, titled “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe,” contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Valeriya Korablyova

Contact: valeriya.korablyova[@]fsv.cuni.cz

is a sociologist and political theorist, assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. Since February 2024 she is joining CEFRES within the CU–CNRS Tandem Program, together with Louisa Martin-Chevalier. Their research project, entitled “A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine” contributes to CEFRES Research area 1. Displacements, « dépaysement » and discrepancies.

Gilles Lepesant

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Calls for Applications, France > Visegrad, Visegrad > France

CFA | Oszkár Sárkány Fellowship 2025/2026

Fellowship for CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences & IAS CEU Budapest Fellows

Initiated in 2025, the Oszkár Sárkány fellowship commemorates a Hungarian Bohemist (1912–1943), working for a new inclusive and transnational perspective on cultural history with strong ties to French developments in humanities and social sciences, who died tragically young during World War II in a punishment battalion where he was sent because of his oppositional stance to the Horthy regime.

Central European University Institute for Advances Studies (CEU IAS) & Parisian Institut d’études avancées (Paris IEA) in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) offer mobility grants to Budapest (for IEA fellows) and Paris (for CEU IAS fellows) starting from the academic year 2025/2026.

SCHEDULES

For IAS CEU fellows → Paris:

  • July 14, 2025: Opening of the call
  • September 15, 2025, 23:59 CET: Deadline for submissions
  • September 30, 2025: Publication of the results
  • Duration: 1 month in Paris
  • Suggested period of mobility: 2025/2026 academic year, preferably in Spring 2026

For CNRS fellows → IAS CEU Budapest: Continue reading CFA | Oszkár Sárkány Fellowship 2025/2026 →

Calls for Applications, Mobility

CFA | Research Grants in Balkan Studies 2025–2026

Research grants for French-speaking doctoral students (6 months)

Le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères, le réseau des UMIFRE et le réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger (EFE – MESR) soutiennent la jeune recherche en études balkaniques en proposant des bourses de terrain d’une durée de six mois à destination de doctorant/es et jeunes docteur/es poursuivant des recherches dans ce domaine. Les boursiers et boursières seront accueilli/es dans un ou plusieurs des centres membres du réseau des UMIFRE ou EFE partenaires du programme (Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes d’Istanbul (IFEA), École française d’Athènes (EFA), Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales de Prague (CEFRES), École française de Rome (EFR). Continue reading CFA | Research Grants in Balkan Studies 2025–2026 →

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. ROMANYSHYN, 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 →