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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

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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 →

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CFA | UMIFRE fellowships for Ukrainian researchers

UMIFRE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UKRAINIAN RESEARCHERS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 2025 –Українська нижче

Call reviewed on April 22.

In collaboration with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), the French Embassy in Ukraine and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the three French overseas research institutes in Central Europe (UMIFRE) are offering a double scholarship programme for Ukrainian researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

The Eastern Europe, Caucasus and North Asia Research Institute (IRECA, Warsaw), the French Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES, Prague) and the Marc Bloch Center (CMB, Berlin) are continuing the programme initiated in 2023 at CEFRES and continued in 2024 by CEFRES and the CMB (41 non-residential scholarships and 13 residential scholarships awarded in 2023-2024).
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CFA – TANDEM Program, CNRS / AV ČR 2026–2027

The French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) in Prague, the French National Research Center (CNRS), the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Charles University (UK) are launching the fifth call for applications for the TANDEM incubator program of the CEFRES Platform.
TANDEM program endeavors excellency in social sciences and humanities by bringing together Czech and French colleagues to intensify scientific collaboration between our countries in the European Research Area.

The aim of the program is to associate two researchers, one from the CAS and one from CNRS or affiliated to CNRS (i.e. member of an UMR) around a joint research project leading to foster joint Czech-French scientific collaboration through the submission of a project proposal: Continue reading CFA – TANDEM Program, CNRS / AV ČR 2026–2027 →

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Eva Krásová – Research and CV

Eva Krásová teaches theory of literature at the Institute of Czech Literature and Comparative Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.

Her research focuses on the history of thinking about literature, especially in the 20th century, using historiographical methods such as text genetics and work with archival documents. She is interested in the relations between Czech and French linguists mainly Emile Benveniste, Antoine Meillet, Jan Mukařovský, Vilém Mathesius, Vladimír Skalička, etc.

In addition, she has long been a lecturer in world literature in creative writing programmes, first at the Josef Škvorecký Literary Academy, and from 2015 to the present at the Text and Screenplay Department of the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory and College, where she has had the opportunity to meet young poets in their
formative stages.

Her most recent professional interest is the analysis of popular culture using the tools of classical narratology and pop culture tropology and the resulting reflections on the place of literature in the contemporary media situation.

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CFA – SAV PhD students mobility grants at CEFRES

Call for applications for PhD students enrolled at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV)

Deadline for submission:  March 16, 2025
Duration:  9 months between September 1, 2025 & May 31, 2026

The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the French Institute in Slovakia (IFS) & CEFRES offer mobility grants at the CEFRES to PhD students enrolled the SAV. Continue reading CFA – SAV PhD students mobility grants at CEFRES →