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Anna Kuszmiruk: Research and CV

“A philosophical critique of the concept of time in 20th-century physics. Henri Bergson and the relativity theory”

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

Contact: annakuszmiruk@gmail.com

The main issues I address in my thesis are Henri Bergson’s conception of time in philosophy and his critique of relativity theory in relation to the concepts of time and simultaneity in the special theory of relativity. Furthermore, my work tackles the great breakthroughs in 20th[1]century physics, including the transition from the concepts of abstract time, empty space and absolute motion to the relativity of space-time and then to the indeterminacy principle ushering in quantum physics, which, incidentally, seems to confirm, according to the great physicist Louis de Broglie, Bergson’s thoughts on the understanding of time. Moreover, I also address the issues of accusations of irrationalism against Bergson and his contemporary rehabilitation, including new voices in the interpretation of Bergson’s debate with Einstein and the most recent research on Bergsonism.

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CEFRES Residential Scholarships for Ukrainian Researchers in HSS | Results

CEFRES Residential Scholarships for Ukrainian Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences | Results of the 2024 call


Full duration proposed:

  1. KHUDISH, Pavlo (2024), Uzhhorod National University: Restitution, reintegration, and interactions of Jewish Holocaust survivors with their former neighbors in Transcarpathia
  2. YANOV, Dmytro (2023), Odesa Archaeological Museum-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences: Ottoman coins in the circulation of Bohemian and Moravian lands in the 17th century
  3. PALIICHUK, Elina (2023), Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University: Changing Young Minds: Student Awareness of Human Trafficking under War Conditions
  4. TSYBULIAK, Natalia (2023), Berdyansk State Pedagogical University: Art and Displacement: navigating identity and isolation among Ukraine’s IDP artists

Partial duration proposed:

  1. MATVEIEVA, Natalia (2024), Ternopil National Pedagogical University: Language biographies of temporarily internally displaced Ukrainians in the context of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war
  2. CHEMERYS, Hanna (2023), Zaporizhia National University: Visual Narratives, Commemoration of War and Graphic Representation of National Identity: Comparative Analysis of Ukrainian and European Contexts
  3. KOZAK, Nazar (2024), National Academy of Sciences: Preserving the Past or Erasing History? Ukraine’s Medieval Churches and Russian Colonial Ideology

Waiting list:

  1. GNATIUK Mykola (2024), Kyiv: Europeanness (“Westerness”) in Ukrainian Society amid the Uncertainty of War
  2. ROMANYSHYN, Nataliia (2023), Lviv Polytechnic National University: Discursive (de)construction of Ukrainian national identity: from Totalitarism to Democracy
  3. TSAR, Ivanna (2024), National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv: Language behavior of Ukrainian youth during the Russian-Ukrainian war
  4. OSIN, Vadim (2023), Dnipro University of Technology: Comparative analysis of political science in the Czech Republic and Ukraine: impact of political regime on stability, identity, and legitimacy
  5. DUMANSKA, Ilona (2024), Khmelnytsky National University: Digital transformation of the economy and development of IT entrepreneurship in today’s challenges and priorities of the postwar reconstruction of Ukraine
  6. MOMOT, Volodymyr (2024), Alfred Nobel University, Dnipro: Psychological Capital for Ukrainian Recovery

CFA | CEFRES Residential Fellowships for Ukrainian Researchers in HSS

CFA | CEFRES Residential Fellowships for Ukrainian Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences

The French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) in close collaboration with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), the French National Research Center (CNRS SHS) as well as the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚSD AV ČR) and Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR) launches a program of residential fellowships in Prague dedicated to Ukrainian researchers in humanities and social sciences.

Duration: from 14 days to 2 months at CEFRES in Prague
Suggested periods: March 1-May 31 or September 1-December 15, 2024
Funding: 2 000 € / month (prorata temporis for shorter periods)
Housing: Offered by CEFRES in collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institutes of Contemporary History and of Art History
Deadline for submission of applications: January 31, 2024

Objective of the program

The goal of the new program is to offer the recipients of the non-residential fellowships comfortable conditions for developing research goal, accessing resources (archives, libraries, scientific events…)  in Prague and strengthening collaborations and contacts developed in the frame of the nonresidential fellowships program.

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CFP – Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions

Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions: European Currents and Local Appropriations

A workshop organized by: the Institute of Art History Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; CEFRES – French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague; École pratique des hautes études – PSL (Paris, research university); Institute of Art History, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg; Institute for Art History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; National Gallery Prague.

Time: June 11 and 12, 2024
Location
:  CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague & National Gallery Prague
Proposal deadline: May 10, 2024
Language of the conference: English

This international two-day workshop for PhD students, post-docs and early career researchers focuses on the Renaissance as the key to the transformation of European art and society on the threshold of modern times. The normative approach often left aside Continue reading CFP – Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions

Anabela Zigova : Research et CV

“Invisible violence within dissidence au féminin”

Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions

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

Contact : Anabela.Zigova@etu.univ-paris1.fr

I propose to research and write a PhD thesis that revisits the legacy of Czechoslovak dissidents as a striking practice of nonviolence in the face of the “erasure” and “invisibility” of women in the 19th and 20th centuries and their afterlives in similar violence against women in the 21st Century. Common to all is an anatomy of the subtle, almost invisible forms of violence which precede clear and manifest events of violence and the erasure of persons.

The aim of this thesis is to draw out and document the various invisible processes that take place even before the more blatant act of wars; the not-so-visible day-to-day practices of violence that precede the destruction of the dignity and integrity of persons, and that often issues in the physical harm, death, rape, or torture of women (but not limited to them) and other phenomena that serve to erase female identity.

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Aysha Farhana Chakkampully – Research & CV

“Doctoral project: Embodiment in Islam: the everyday menstrual experiences of Hyderabadi Muslim Women in India.”
Research area: 1 & 2
Contact : 30486391@fsv.cuni.cz

My doctoral dissertation project explores the intricate relationship between menstruation, religion, societal norms, and the consequences of religious adherence and transgressions in menstrual management among married Muslim women in Hyderabad City, South India. It focuses on menstruation as a practice-oriented phenomenon to understand the gendered behavioral attributes within communities.

This research aligns with Area 2 of CEFRES, which examines norms and transgressions, as it delves into the role of menstruation as a normative functional system regulated by religion. Menstruation is viewed as a complex societal system with imaginary boundaries that shape individual actions and carry profound consequences. The study aims to shed light on the multifaceted aspects of menstruation and its regulation by studying actions and outcomes, including techniques adopted to conform to or resist societal expectations.

 

This innovative approach challenges traditional perspectives on menstruation, moving away from viewing it as a mere individual management issue or an object of exotic fascination. Instead, it focuses on the subjective experience of menstruators and how menstruation shapes their emotional and spatial identities, tracing the intergenerational transfer of menstrual knowledge. By intertwining the research area’s emphasis on transgressions and the societal functions they embody (Area 2) with the exploration of displacements and imagined boundaries (Area 1), the study aims to uncover the profound influence of menstruation on both individuals and the societies they inhabit. This contributes to a broader understanding of menstruation beyond Western frameworks and Orientalist stereotypes, shifting the discourse from shame and taboo to viewing menstruation as a phenomenon involving actors, actions, and consequences.

CV

Education

2020-present: Ph.D. in Sociology, supervised by PhDr. Mgr. Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Ph.D. (ISS, FSV, UK).

2017-2019: Master in Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India.

2014-2017: Bachelor in Sociology, Farook College, University of Calicut, India.

Research Projects & Grants

2022-2024 (Principal Investigator): “Changing social meanings of menstruatio

n – the role of taboos, rituals, and agency and the experience of Indian women,” Grants Agency of Charles University (GAUK), Czech Republic.

Teaching

2019-2021: Teaching intern at Blossom Public School, Tamil Nadu, India.

Recent Publications

Book review: “A Reflection on the Interventionist Approach to Menstrual Manag

ement in the Global South,” Gender and Research Journal, 22(2), 185-190.

  • 2020: “Menstrual hygiene and the flood apocalypse: gender and disaster management,” Amal College, India.
  • 2019: “Feminization of agriculture; plausible implications in sustainable farming,” Kerala Sociological Society, Kottayam, India.
  • 2019: “Digitalization, modernity, and inclusiveness: the case of special needs students in smart classrooms, a study at the University of Hyderabad,” New Government Degree College, Telangana, India.
  • 2015: “Challenges of people’s participation in local governance; experiences from Feroke Panchayath,” Kerala Sociological Society, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.