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CFP – The “Voice from Below”. Workshop EHESS–CEFRES

The “Voice from Below” – In the Face of Repression and Arbitrary State Violence

This PhD Students Workshop is organized within the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Date: 22 November, 2024
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online)
Deadline for application submissions: 1 September, 2024
Deadline for paper submissions: 30 October, 2024
Language of the workshop: English

When we talk about the forms of resistance and protest that developed in the face of the authoritarian system we are primarily concerned with demonstrations that were quickly and brutally interrupted, acts of desperation such as immolation by fire, or the development of clandestine publications, copied and passed from hand to hand. This is the case for example in the USSR and the countries under its domination, but also in any other authoritarian state, While much research today has renewed the study of these actions, particularly what is referred to as dissidence, there remain many more individual forms of action which, without being an explicit confrontation with the authorities, can be likened to protests, profound questioning of the foundations of the system, attempts to extricate oneself from a repressive process felt to be unjust or expressing unacceptable forms of political violence.

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CEFRES Team

Natalia Marakhovska Research & CV

Embracing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) through Art
in Culturally Responsive Teaching

Research  Area 2: Norms and Transgressions

Natalia Marakhovska, an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology at Mariupol State University, relocated to Kyiv, Ukraine, joins CEFRES for 2024. She is a team member of the Erasmus+ project BELONG (Better Education through Long-term Investment into Inclusiveness and Student and Staff Wellbeing) at the Competence Development Centre of Masaryk University, Brno.

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Non classé

Thomas Chopard – Research & CV

Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe

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

Contact: thomas.chopard[@]ehess.fr

Thomas Chopard is a historian and assistant professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Centre of Historical Research (EHESS/CRH). His research focuses on the history of anti-Jewish persecution and Jewish migration in Central and Eastern Europe. His early work focused on the pogroms and anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine during the revolutionary period, before contributing to the ERC project Lubartworld retracing the trajectories of the Jews of the Polish town of Lubartów. His current research is at the intersection of the study of forced displacement suffered by Jews during the Second World War and the history of Stalinist repression.

CEFRES Team

Petra Hudek – Research & CV

Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe

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

Contact: petra.hudek[@]savba.sk

Petra Hudek is a historian at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Contemporary History. In 2022-2023, she carried out her research project “Iconoclasm in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. The heritage of socialism in historical perspective” as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is currently preparing a monograph on Soviet war memorials in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. Her research focuses on the politics of memory, museums, and the processes of museification of public space, as well as the instrumentalization of history.

Research Projects

Visual Representations of WWII: Museums, Memorials, Commemorations

 Visual Representation of the Second World War in Museums, Memorials, and Commemorations in Central Europe

A project carried out within the TANDEM CNRS-SAV program developed by the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences (CNRS SHS), and the French Research Center for Social Science Research (CEFRES)

Project principal investigators: Petra Hudek and Thomas Chopard

Petra Hudek and Thomas Chopard’s TANDEM project on “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe” aims to examine historical narratives, memorial practices and commemorations in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. Continue reading Visual Representations of WWII: Museums, Memorials, Commemorations →

Calls for Papers

CFP | 32nd Summer University of the Jan Hus Association

32nd Summer University of the Jan Hus Association: Materials and Useless Things: Debris, Waste, Garbage, Remnants, Fragments…

Que deviennent les choses dont nous n’avons plus usage, que nous avons utilisées, usées ? La question apparaît d’entrée de jeu écologique. L’anthropocène est aussi l’âge de la production et de la consommation comme également productrices de déchets. Par-delà les injonctions pratiques et les superstitions catastrophistes on propose ici des voies de réflexion multi directionnelles.

Date : du 21 au 25 août 2024
Lieu : Košice, Slovaquie

Comité d’organisation :

  • Daniel VOJTEK (Université P. J. Šafárik, Košice, Slovaquie)
  • Karin SEMANÍK MIKLÓSSIOVÁ (Université P. J. Šafárik, Košice, Slovaquie)
  • Zuzana MALINOVSKÁ (Université Comenius, Bratislava, Slovaquie)

Comité scientifique :

  • Eva BERÁNKOVÁ (Université Charles, Prague, République tchèque)
  • Sylviane COYAULT (Université Clermont-Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
  • Josef FULKA (Académie tchèque des sciences, Prague, République tchèque)
  • Róbert KARUL (Académie slovaque des sciences, Bratislava, Slovaquie)
  • Petr KYLOUŠEK (Université Masaryk, Brno, République tchèque)
  • Zuzana MALINOVSKÁ (Université Comenius, Bratislava, Slovaquie)
  • André SCALA (IDBL Digne-les-Bains, France)

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