Preaching the Passion in 14th-century Bohemia: The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons

Contact: Kalashnikova_Olga[@]phd.ceu.edu

Olga Kalashnikova is a doctoral candidate at the Central European University in Budapest. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Preaching the Passion in 14th-century Bohemia: The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

My dissertation aims at shedding light on the nature of late medieval Bohemian piety by tracing the evolution and peculiarities of preaching techniques for Good Friday in fourteenth-century Bohemia, from the 1330s till the 1380s. Good Friday sermons were one of the most elaborated forms of late medieval preaching and became crucial in shaping the religious devotion of the time, which increasingly focused on the commemoration of the Passion of Christ. The main goal of the dissertation is to examine the theological and communicative methods of composing and presenting Good Friday sermons, the peculiarities of Bohemian preaching styles, and possible reasons for these characteristics.

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The impact of the environmental crises upon international law

Research Area 2 –Norms and Transgression

Contact: arthur.thevenet(@)cefres.cz

The environment is a recent concept in the legal sciences. Because it is part of the human sciences, law has not escaped the fact that it has evolved over the centuries, reflecting the major issues facing humanity.

From a legal point of view, international texts began to take environmental protection into account in the 1970s and 1980s (Stockholm Declaration, Montreal Protocol, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).

Nevertheless, acts harmful to the environment on an international scale are not yet clearly punished. The issue of the crime of ecocide, recognised only in a dozen of States, has not yet emerged at the international level and is not included in the category of international crimes recognised before the International Criminal Court.

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The interdisciplinary selection jury of the CEFRES mobility grants auditioned 12 candidates on May 31, 2022. It congratulates all the candidates for the high quality of their file and their hearing.

After deliberating, the jury have decided as follows:

Platform CEFRES Grants

1. Jan Kremer (Charles University, PedF): Digital Game as a Representation of History

Waiting list

1. Debraj Banerjee (Charles University, FHS): The Nation and its Aliens: Contentions of Citizenship under a Hindu Nationalist regime

Young Fellows Grants

1. Vojtěch Pojar (CEU): Experts in Post-imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the Nation States, 1912–1939
2. Sabrina Rospert (Université Paris 1/LMU Munich): Penser et percevoir la désobéissance contre l’État. Vers une histoire
3. Emina Zoletic (University of Warsaw): Intergenerational transmission of the memory of the war: The Cases of Families in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe

Waiting list

1. Adrien Beauduin (CEU): Réarticulations de genre, sexualité, race et classe dans la droite radicale populiste en Tchéquie et en Pologne

The following candidates are proposed to become «associated fellows» to CEFRES for the year 2022–2023

• Laura Brody (Charles University, FF/Université Paul Valéry): Imagining Imvros: Past and Present Narratives of Place, Memory and Belonging from Within the Imvriot Diaspora
• Ciro Porcaro (Charles University/ Sapienza Roma): Metonymy: Theoretical Perspectives and Migration Discourse in German Language