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CEFRES Team

ANNA LUKEŠOVÁ: Research & CV

Civic Integration of Immigrants in Europe: the Case of Austria and Czechia

Research Area 1 & 2: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices & Norms and Transgressions

Contact: anna.simbartlova@cefres.cz (from September 1, 2019)

My PhD research deals with a phenomenon of new immigrant integration policies, that have been implemented across Europe since the turn of the century. Countries that traditionally used different approaches to immigrant integration in the past, such as France, the Netherlands or Germany, started to introduce language and civic courses or tests, often put as an obligation to immigrants to obtain a certain type of stay permit in the host country. As follows from the scholar debate of the past twenty years, these new integration policies are referred to as civic integration.

This PhD research aims to contribute to the civic integration debate with new knowledge from the region of Central Europe which is omitted in the academic debate on immigrant integration. On the example of Austria and Czechia, the research intends to point out the dissemination of civic integration policies eastward and to evaluate the development of civic integration use and its form in the selected countries. Most importantly, the research aims at studying the question of civic integration in regards to the net of actors who put these integration policies into practice. While working with the multi-level governance theory, the outcomes of this project shall contribute to the debate of questioning a national vs. local turn in integration policies as a consequence of civic integration introduction.

CV

Education

2016- : International Area Studies (PhD Programme), Department of European Studies, Charles University

2013-2016: West-European Studies (MA Programme), Department of European Studies, Charles University

2009-2013: International Area Studies (BA Programme), Institute of International Studies, Charles University

Research

  • 2016- : Civic Integration of Immigrants in Europe: the Case of Austria and Czechia (PhD dissertation, GAUK project 2019-2020)
  • 2018-2020: Increasing Personal Representation of the Czech Republic in International Organizations (TAČR research 2018-2020)
  • 2016: Civic Integration of Immigrants in France in 2002-2012 (Master Thesis)
  • 2013: Alliance Française and Institut Français: Cooperation or Competition? The Case of the Czech Republic (Bachelor Thesis)

Publication

  • Simbartlová Anna, „Civic Integration Policies in Central Europe: The Case of the Czech Republic”, Der Donauraum, forthcoming (2019).

Academic Experience

  • 2019- : Associated PhD Fellow at CEFRES 2019/2020 (CEFRES, Prague)
  • 2019- : Associated Researcher of the Institute of International Relations (IRR, Prague)
  • 2018-2019: Europaeum PhD Scholar
  • 2017-2018: Bachelor Seminar Migration and Integration of Immigrants in Western Europe (FSV UK)
  • 2017: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (PhD Internship)
  • 2014-2017: European Parliament Simulation SPECQUE
  • 2014-2016: Václav Havel Europaeum MA Scholar
  • 2015: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris (Václav Havel Europaeum Study Exchange)
  • 2011-2012: Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Aix-en-Provence (Erasmus Study Exchange)
  • 2006-2008: Invisible Victims of Communism (Research Team Member)

Conferences, Workshops, Summer Schools

  • 2018-2019: Europaeum PhD Scholars Modules (Oxford, Brussels, Geneva, Leiden, Barcelona, Berlin, Prague)
  • 2018: Young Scholars Forum Conference (Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa, Vienna)
    • Author‘s contribution: Civic Integration of Immigrants in Central Europe. The Case of the Czech Republic
  • 2018: IOM Summer School (International Organization for Migration, Prague)
  • 2018: Europaeum Graduate Workshop (University of Oxford, Oxford)
  • 2014: Europe Work Workshop (University of Cologne, Berlin, Brussels)
  • 2014: Europaeum Graduate Workshop (University of Oxford, Oxford)
CEFRES Team

Františka Zezuláková Schormová: Research & CV

African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People Knowledge and Practices

Contact: frantiska.zezulakova.schormova@cefres.cz (from September 1, 2019)

I just finished a PhD program at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University in Prague with a dissertation called “African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia.” I am now working on turning it into a book with the preliminary title Prague, Red and Black: Early Cold War Journeys, Networks, and Poems.

After being a PhD Fellow in 2019/2020, I am pleased to be able to stay in the CEFRES team as an Associated Fellow. In the future, I look forward to my stay at Northumbria University in Newcastle (Anglo-Czech Fund), FU Berlin (John F. Kennedy Library Research Grant), and, most recently, at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Jan Patočka Fellowship).

CV

Education

2016–2020 :PhD studies, English and American Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. Dissertation title: African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia.
Supervisor: Justin Quinn
Date of Defense: December 18, 2020
Opponents: prof. Penny Von Eschen, Stephen Delbos, PhD

2014-2016: Master’s Degree in Anglophone Literatures and cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. MA thesis title: Us and Them: Presenting America 1948-1956

2010-2014: BA program English and American Studies and German for International Communication

Professional Awards and Fellowships

  • 2017-2018: Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
  • Fellow, Fulbright-Masaryk Scholarship
  • 05/2017: Oxford University, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Research stay and participation in Race and Resistance workshop, EUROPANEUM Scholarship
  • 2016: Mathesius Award for the MA thesis, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University Prague
  • 2016: Free University Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD) Scholarship, research stay

Grants

2017-2019 : Things in Poems – Poems of Things
Researcher, supported through Charles University grant (GAUK). Main outcome: international conference in January 2019

Journal articles

2021 – “Stalinův černý apoštol: Paul Robeson v Praze,” [Stalin’s Black Apostle: Paul Robeson in Prague], Soudobé dějiny  (accepted for publication, spring 2021)

Chapters in collective monographs

2020 – “Hlasy z Harlemu: Transkontinentální solidarita v poezii Noémie de Sousy” [Voices from Harlem: Transcontinental Solidarity in Noémia de Sousa’s Poetry], Zamyšlení nad africkými identitami zobrazenými v básnickém prostoru [Reconsidering African Identities in Poetry], Praha: FF UK, 2020.

2018 – “Pravidla hry: Zábranovy poznámky k detektivní próze” [Rules of the Game: Zábrana’s Translations of Detective Fiction] Jan Zábrana, Básník, překladatel, čtenář [Jan Zábrana: Poet, Translator, Reader], Praha: Karolinum, 2018

Selected academic reviews

2020 – “Kánon a já”[The Canon and I], Svět literatury 62, p. 183–187. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/123014

2019 – Half-Buried Books: Forgotten Anti-Imperialism of Popular Front Modernism”Historical Materialism, electronic version http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/half-buried-books-forgotten-anti-imperialism-popular-front-modernism

2018 – “Forget English! Orientalism and World Literature” Twentieth Century Literature 64 (2): p. 259–264. https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-6941939

2017 – “Švéda, Josef. Země zaslíbená, země zlořečená: obrazy Ameriky v české literatuře a kultuře (Promised Land, Accursed Land. Images of America in Czech Literature and Culture)” Brno Studies in English, 42 (2): p. 179–184. https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2017-2-10

Conferences

  • 09/2019 – Secrets: Biennial Conference & 22nd International Colloquium of American Studies, Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies & the Department of English and American Studies, Palacky University Olomouc
    “Cold War Secrets and African American Literature: The Story of Abraham Chapman”

  • 03/2019 – Bad Romance: The Ethics of Love, Sex, and Desire, Harvard University.
    “Me, Too, but What? Socialist Sex, Translatability, and Milan Kundera
  • 01/ 2019 – Things in Poems – Poems of Things, Charles University Prague
    “All those Pretty Things: Women and Their Objects in Anglophone Poetry”
    conference organizer – the conference was supported through a grant from Charles University (GAUK)
  • 11/2018 – Cesty translatologie, Charles University Prague “Konceptualizace rasy v českých překladech afroamerické literatury” [Concepts of Race in Czech Translations of African American Literature]
  • 10/2018 – New Pathways in American Studies, Masaryk University Brno “Black Bodies White Translations: Cold War Journeys of African American Poets”
  • 06/2017 – The Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies Seminar, Aarhus University „Solidarity in Black and Red: Transnational Perspective on the Translation on Anti-colonial Poetry in Cold War Czechoslovakia”
  • 12/2015 – Prva Stran, International Student Conference in Comparative Literature, University of Ljubljana “‘The Other America’: Constructing American Literature 1948- 1956“
  • 11/2015 – Jan Zábrana: básník, překladatel, čtenář, Charles University Prague “Pravidla hry: Zábranovy překlady detektivní prózy” [Rules of the Game: Zábrana’s Translations of Detective Fiction]

Academic Seminars

10/2019–02/2020 : Charles University Prague, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: “Reading African American Literature Now (and from Europe)” Course Design; Lecturer

 

CEFRES Team

Tereza Sedláčková: Research & CV

Multiple Bodies in the Context of Vaccination as a Medical Practice

Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions

Contact: tereza.sedlackova@cefres.cz

The research focuses on understanding the nature and character of vaccination as a medical practice and controversies associated with it. Firstly, it asks How is vaccination done in medical practices?. The project focuses on mandatory vaccination of children in the Czech Republic and, by conducting ethnography, it aims to examine practices, activities and negotiations connected with vaccination in paediatricians’ clinics. Secondly, the research is concerned with bodies in the context of vaccination. It studies practices that enact (un-)vaccinated bodies, various conceptualisations of (un-)vaccinated bodies and their consequences for social debates related to the vaccination.

CV

Education

2018 – : Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology
PhD thesis: Multiple Bodies in the Context of Vaccination as a medical practice

2016–2018: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology
Specialization: Social Anthropology and Qualitative Research Master thesis: Lived Epilepsy: Management of Disease and Embodied Knowledge

2012–2017 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Media studies
Bachelor thesis: I eat, therefore I am: the construction of foodie bloggers identity

2012–2016 Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology and Social Anthropology
Bachelor thesis: Workcamp Liminality, or There and Back Again (and the extraordinary experiences that happen between)

Working Experience

  • 2019-2020: Teaching Assistant, leading seminars – Introduction to Social Anthropology, Thinking sociologically – an introduction
    Charles University in Prague
  • 2018-2019: Teaching – Seminar in Anthropology II
    Charles University in Prague
  • 2017–2019: Research assistant
    Civic Engagement and the Politics of Health Care
    Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Science
  • 2017-2019: Teaching Assistant
    Leading seminars – History of Sociology
    Charles University in Prague
  • 2017-2018: Public Space Research in Humpolec Town
  • 2016–2018: Moral Economies of Contemporary Monasteries in the Czech Republic and in Austria, member of international research team under guidance of Barbora Spalová, Ph.D. and Isabele Jonveux, Ph.D.

Conference Papers

  • 2019 SEDLÁČKOVÁ, T. “Body, memory and vaccination in different political regimes”. Accepted for The 2nd International Workshop in Medical Anthropology. Jerusalem.
  • 2019 SEDLÁČKOVÁ, T. “Objectified subjectivity: Multiple modes of knowledge production among epileptic patients”. Social Sciences & Health Innovations: Multiplicities. Tomsk.
  • 2018 NUMERATO, D., HONOVÁ P. A., SEDLÁČKOVÁ T. “Politicisation, de-politicisation and re-politicisation of health care”. Midterm Conference ESA RN 32. Prague.
  • 2018 SEDLÁČKOVÁ, T. “To vax, or not to vax, is that even the question?” Workshop Re-politicising Public Health. King’s College London.
  • 2018 SEDLÁČKOVÁ, T., SPALOVÁ, B. “Reinvention of monastic life in the Czech Republic: The agency of material archives of monastic buildings” Biennial Conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists. Stockholm.
  • 2018 SEDLÁČKOVÁ, T., SPALOVÁ, et al. ”Moral Economy of Monasteries in the Czech Republic; in the Process of Separating the State and the Church” Annual Conference of Biograf Journal. Mochov.

Publications

  • Sedláčková, Tereza, and Barbora Spalová. 2019. “The Lived Spirituality Of Czech Monasteries Through Architectural Materiality”. In A Visual Approach To The Study Of Religious Orders: Zooming In On Monasteries, Marcin Jewdokimow and Thomas Quartier, 121-147. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • In press: Sedláčková, Tereza. Becoming authentic: Sartrian sadomasochism of fieldwork. Biograf.
  • Under review: Vochocová L. / Numerato D. / Sedláčková T. 2020. The Other Side of the Pendulum: Pro-vaccine Online Participation and Trench-warfare Dynamics in a Public Health Controversy. Social Science and Medicine.

Non classé

PhD Fellows Team 2018-2019

Pavel Baloun

Contact: baloun@cefres.cz 
is a PhD student at the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities, under the supervision of Pavel Himl. His PhD dissertation entitled “The Gypsy Scourge!” The Creation and Implementation of Anti-Gypsy Measures in Interwar Czechoslovakia and After, 1918-1942, contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Martin Pjecha

Contact: martin.pjecha@cefres.cz
is a PhD student at the Central European University (Budapest) under the supervision of Matthias Riedl. His dissertation is entitled Discourses of Violence within the Hussite Movement, and contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Florence Vychytil-Baudoux

Contact: florence.vychytil-baudoux@cefres.cz
is a PhD student at the EHESS (Paris) under the supervision of Nancy L. Green. Her dissertation in history is entitled Between Citizenship, Ethnicity and the Politics of Exile: The Logics of Polonia‘s Political Integration in France, the United States and Canada, 1945-1980 and contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Julien Wacquez

Contact: julien.wacquez@cefres.cz
is a PhD student at the EHESS (Paris) under the supervision of Jean-Louis Fabiani. His dissertation in sociology is entitled The Grammar of Likelihood: The Attachement to Reality of Sci-Fi Practitioners, and contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Associated PhD students 2018-2019

Mihai-Dan Cîrjan

Contact: mihai-dan.cirjan@cefres.cz
is a PhD student at the Central European University in Budapest under the supervision of Balázs Trencsényi. His PhD dissertation in comparative history on Indebtedness and Credit Relations in Times of Crisis: Reinventing the State by Governing Economic Life in Post-liberal Romania (1929-1944) contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Felipe Kaiser Fernandes

Contact: fernandes@cefres.cz
is a PhD student at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Institute of Anthropology of the Contemporary (IIAC), under the guidance of Sophie Wahnich. His dissertation entitled Popular Market Spaces: Migrant Women in Informal Work. A Multi-Site Ethnography, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Adéla Klinerová

Contact: adela.klinerova@cefres.cz
is a PhD student in cotutelle between the Charles University (Prague) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), under the supervision of Richard Biegel and Sabine Frommel. Her dissertation is entitled Modern French Architecture in the Context of Czech and East-Central European Nineteenth-Century Architecture, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Yuliya Moskvina

Contact: yuliya.moskvina@cefres.cz
is a PhD student at Charles University (Prague) under the supervision of Paul Blokker. Her dissertation in sociology is entitled Squat, State, Society, and contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Raluca Muresan

Contact: muresan@cefres.cz 
is a PhD student at the Sorbonne-Universités, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, under the guidance of Jean-Yves Andrieux. Her dissertation is entitled Culture, Urban Society, and Representation of Territories. The Architecture of Public Theaters in the Eastern Lands of the Habsburg Monarchy (1770-1812) and contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Olga Słowik

Contact: slowik@cefres.cz
is a PhD student at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, under the supervision of Libuše Heczková. Her dissertation is entitled Food, Gender, Identity, and their Entanglements in Contemporary Czech Prose and contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Ekaterina Zheltova

Contact: zheltova@cefres.cz 
is a PhD student at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, under the supervision of Kateřina Králová. Her dissertation is entitled National belonging, transnational localities and ideologies of language: Discursive practices at the Greek-Albanian borderlands and contributes to CEFRES research area 3.

Calls for Applications

CFA: one funded PhD Position – “Justice, law and politics of history in Central Europe and/or South East Asia”

Sciences Po Paris is looking for a PhD Candidate to join the “Justice, law and politics of history in Central Europe and/or South East Asia” project funded by the CNRS.

This doctoral thesis will question, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the relationships between justice, law and history (the latter being considered as a sector of public action). The research work may contribute to a diversity of fields, including the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of the public uses of the past and/or the sociology of public action. A consideration of issues of temporalities and spatial differences will be needed. The project should lie at the intersection between political science, history and area studies. Mastering one of the Central European languages is requested, and if fieldwork includes a country in Asia, the idiom of this country should also be mastered.

A least three issues will be explored: the judicial writing of history; historians in the courtroom; the place of judicial matters in the public policies of history – in particular war crime trials and/or trials against political opponents. A consideration of the legal and institutional frameworks within which history is written will combine with a reflection on the political and social uses of history.

In the selection of case studies and the devising of research methods, the student will build upon the literature on entangled history, connected histories, and global history. The time frame of the topic will be closely tied to the construction of cases. Empirical research may focus on any segment of the 20th century.

Working Environment

The selected candidate will enrol in Sciences Po Paris’ doctoral programme and will be part of the Political science doctoral school. The doctoral student will work within the Center for International studies (CERI Sciences Po), CNRS, UMR 7050.

CERI is a multidisciplinary centre for research in the social sciences and humanities that brings together specialists of Russia, Central and Southeast Europe, and Asia – among others.

The PhD will be supervised by Dr. Habil. Nadège Ragaru, Sciences Po (CERI-CNRS).

The doctoral student will take part on the collective life and research activities of the center. 

Constraints and Risks

The doctoral contract includes an obligation to conduct fieldwork. The doctoral student will spend at least three months per year doing field research in order to collect empirical data (through participant observation, interviews, etc.). During these periods, the student will be hosted by the Centre français de recherches en sciences sociales (CEFRES), in Prague, Czech Republic. CEFRES is part of the network of French research institutes abroad (UMIFRE). It offers administrative and logistical support and constitutes a stimulating scientific environment, connected with both local and regional research networks. Depending on the case studies chosen, fieldwork in other countries may be required.

Profile

  • The candidate must hold a Master’s Degree in social sciences (history, anthropology, sociology, political science) with a specialization in Central and Southeast European studies and/or South Asian area studies. He/she must not be enrolled in another doctoral programme. Mastering one of the languages of Central Europe, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe is requested, and if fieldwork includes a country in Asia, the idiom of this country must also be known.
  • The doctoral thesis can be written in French or in English.

Conditions

  • The PhD is funded. The selected PhD candidate will sign a “contrat doctoral” granting 2135 euros (gross salary) per month for a period of three years from 1st of October 2019 to 30th of September 2022.
  • The PhD is funded by the CNRS and is a CNRS doctoral contract.
  • The PhD candidate will conduct his or her work based at the CERI – Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Applications

All applications for the funded PhD position within the framework of the CNRS-funded project have to be made – exclusively by email – to the following address: nadege.ragaru@sciencespo.fr

Only complete applications will be reviewed.

The candidates will apply for thePolitical Science Doctoral Programme.

Please include in the subject of your email: CNRS Project “Justice, law and politics of history in Central Europe and/or South East Asia”

Applications requirements are available on the Doctoral school website: http://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-doctorale/en/content/admission-phd

Attention: You must include the following documents in your application:

  • A thesis project in PDF or Word format (2,000 to 5,000 words maximum)
  • A synopsis of your thesis project (two pages) in PDF or Word format
  • Two academic recommendation
  • A CV
  • Proof of identity
  • A copy of the last completed degree (for the PhD in political science, highest honours on the Masters thesis is required) 
  • Transcripts
  • A signed letter from Nadège Ragaru, indicating that she accepts to supervise your thesis and a letter from the CERI Director indicating that he accepts to host you in the research unit. 

Special deadline

The applications are open till the 9th of September 2019 midnight.

Candidates might be contacted for Skype interview between the 10 and 20 of September 2019.

For all questions regarding the project and the academic profile please contact: nadege.ragaru@sciencespo.fr.

For further information about the CERI, see: http://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr.

For further information about the Doctoral school, see: http://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-doctorale/fr.

CEFRES Team

Jakub Střelec: Research & CV

How to cure the war? The development of psychiatric knowledge and its impact on the construction of social norms in Europe between 1945 and 1968

Research Area 1 & 2: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices & Norms and Transgressions

Contact: jakub.strelec(@)cefres.cz

This research project will deal with development of psychiatric knowledge and its impact on the social stability of post-war European societies between 1945 and 1968. The main aim of this project is to examine how this knowledge – in the interaction with the criminal justice system – shaped the social stability of different post-war European societies.

The research project will be divided into three main parts: The first part analyses the production of psychiatric knowledge and ‘deviant’ behaviour within the European psychiatric network. The main aim of this part is to study the exchange of knowledge and ideas, as well as knowledge transfers across the Iron Curtain amongst psychiatrists.

The second part examines how psychiatric knowledge was used in psychiatric expert testimonies of ‘deviant’ behaviour in criminal proceedings at the courts of three different European cities (Prague, Düsseldorf & London). Those cities were selected because all of them were situated within different political and social contexts in which psychiatric knowledge and the law system interacted. 

The third part examines how these criminal proceedings were covered in the local media, for instance, in newspapers and journals. It furthermore examines the negotiation between psychiatry, law and the public about the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviour. From this point of view, the social consensus between state and society was permanently renegotiated.

This PhD project combines transnational and comparative approaches and it conducts a macro analysis of psychiatric discourse, as well as a micro analysis of case studies. This together builds the methodological framework of this research project.

CV

Education

2018- : Ph.D., Modern History, Institute of International Studiesm Charles University in Prague

2018: Mgr., History – Economic and Social History, Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

2015: Bc., History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

Fellowships and Scholarships

  • 09/2019-08/2020: CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowship
  • 06/2019, 09/2017-02/2018: DAAD Lehrstuhl für Geschichte und Kulturen Osteuropas, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
  • 09/2016-06/2017: Erasmus, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK

Research Grants

  • 2018-2022: Charles University Grant Agency “How to cure the war? The development of physiatric knowledge and its impact on the construction of social norms in Europe between 1945 and 1968?”

Working Experience

  • 10/2018-06/2019: Research Assistant, Herzl Center of Israel Studies, Charles University in Prague

Publications

  • Střelec, Jakub. In the Name of Unions and Nation. The Development of Welsh Labour Historiography in the 1950s – 1990s, in Prager wirtschafts- und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen – Prague Economic and Social History Papers, 2017, 26, 2, s. 62-74.