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2019 WINNERS OF CEFRES PLATFORM AWARD AND DERRIDA AWARD

We are happy to announce the names of the winners of the third CEFRES Platform Award for best article in social sciences and humanities in an international peer-reviewed journal (see the cfa here):

  • Václav Janeček (Charles University and Oxford University), for his article “Ownership of personal data in the Internet of Things.”

The third Derrida Social and Human Sciences Prizes rewarded three PhD students:

  1. Lucie Drechselová (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague): Women and local power: processes of mobilization and female political pathways in Turkey
  2. Vojtěch Kaše (Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno): Tracing the Origins of Eucharistic Magic : On the Role of Cognitive Attraction in the Cultural Transmission of Collective Rituals
  3. Ľudmila Lacková (Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc): Linguistic Approach to Protein Folding. Towards a Semiotic Description of Living Systems

The award ceremony took place on 26 June 2019 at the National Theatre in Prague in the presence of  the Ambassador Roland Galharague and one Nobel Prize laureate: Jean-Marie Lehn. The prizes were supported by Mgr. Karel Janeček, PhD., MBA.

Mobility

CEFRES MOBILITY GRANTS WINNERS – YEAR 2019-2020

The interdisciplinary selection jury of the CEFRES mobility grants auditioned 14 candidates on May 28, 2019. It congratulates all the candidates for the high quality of their file and their hearing.

After deliberating, the jury have decided:

  1. To give a one-year « Young fellow » grant to M. Eraldo Souza dos Santo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ), to support his research entitled “Désobéissance civile : Un essai de généalogie conceptuelle”.
  2. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to M. Jakub Střelec(FSV UK), to support his research entitled „How to cure the war? The development of psychiatric knowledge and its impact on the social stability of post-war European societies between 1945 and 1968: A comparison of ‘deviant’ crimes in Prague, Düsseldorf, and London“.
  3. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to M. Felipe Fernandes (EHESS) to support his research entitled „Les migrants vietnamiens en République tchèque: une étude sur les lignées familiales et les réseaux économiques au marché de Sapa (Prague)“.
  4. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to Mrs Františka Zezuláková Schormová (FF UK) to support her research entitled „African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia“.
  5. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to Mrs Yulia Moskvina (FSV UK) to support her research entitled „State, Squat, Society“.

It has also decided to propose a contract of Phd Student Associate to the following candidates:

– Mrs Ekaterina Zheltova (FSV UK): „National belonging, transnational localities, and ideologies of language: Discursive practices at the Greek-Albanian borderlands.

– Mrs Anna Simbartlová (FFV UK): “Civic Integration of Immigrants in Central Europe: Case of Austria and the Czech Republic“.

– M. Vojtěch Šarše (FF UK), „The Image of Cultural Decline in the Anticolonial Francophone Sub-Saharan Novel: The processes of subjectivation, objectivation, reification and identity emptiness“.

– Mrs Tereza Sedláčková (FSV UK): „Multiple Responsibilities in the Context of Compulsory Vaccination System in the Czech Republic“.

– M. Pavol Kosnáč (Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University in Brno): „Paramilitary Groups in Slovakia: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Structure, Motivation and Environment“. 
  

All the winners are asked to contact me (jerome.heurtaux@cefres.cz) without delay (copy to landova@cefres.cz) to inform me of their decision regarding the scholarship or the contract of association.

CEFRES Team

The director and the researchers of CEFRES express their support to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The director and the researchers of the French Centre of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) are deeply worried about the dismantlement threatening the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the biggest academic institution of the country. They express their full support to the president of the Academy, Mr. Laszlo Lovasz, and to the whole academic community of Hungary, concerned with the respect of academic freedom and intellectual independence.

One of the CEFRES’ main missions is to promote research in Humanities and Social Sciences and to build long-term cooperation with universities and academic institutions in the four Visegrad’s countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland). The CEFRES’ team is alarmed at the current discourse stigmatizing partners whose intellectual relevance and academic excellence cannot be questioned and at the succession of reforms aiming at weakening them. They express their full support to their colleagues of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, to the Central European University and to all the academic institutions which are currently threatened.

Prague, the 10thof March 2019

CEFRES Team

List of interns at CEFRES 2018-2019

Zineb El Ouassini

Bachelor in Social sciences at EGE Rabat (Ecole de Gouvernance et d’économie) in Morocco. Currently in Prague on exchange at Metropolitan University Prague (International Relations and European Studies department)
Research and study fields: Interest in topics related to global issues in International Relations, contemporary history,  geopolitics and political geography of the MENA region,  development studies, Security studies (migration and refugees) and environmental governance
Internship duration: June-July 2019
Administrative internship

Hoevi Foch

First year of Master program in modern and contemporary civilization (history) at Jean Jaurès University (Toulouse II), currently doing an ERASMUS at Charles University
Research and study field: Contemporary history, history of minorities, medicin and gender during the XIXth century. Interest about the normalization and marginalization process bounded with the history of psychiatry
Master thesis topic: Mania and Melancholia in Toulouse during the XIXth century
Internship duration: June-July 2019
Research and administrative internship

Xavier Vest

Bachelor student at the Institut d’Etude Politique of Rennes, currently in Prague as an exchange student at Charles University, within the Faculty of Sociology
Research and Study fields: General interest for humanities, contemporary history, political philosophy, sociology, International relations
Internship duration: June-July 2019
Administrative internship

Léna Perrin

Bachelor student at the Institut d’Etude Politique of Lyon (Sciences Po Lyon), currently in Prague as an exchange student at Charles University, within the Faculty of Humanities
Research and Study fields: Political science, political philosophy, history of law and institutions, French and comparative constitutional law, cultural anthropology
Internship duration: May-June 2019
Administrative internship

Jacques-Hans Roche

Bachelor in History (Law and Political Sciences) at the University of Lorraine. Currently in Erasmus exchange at Charles University in Prague
Research and Study fields: Contemporary History, History of International relations, History of the European Union construction, Institutional system of the European Union, French political history
Internship duration: May-June 2019
Research and administrative internship

Jade Iafrate

Student at Sciences Po Aix, France, graduated with a double bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Law. Currently an Erasmus student in the Master’s Degree in Social Sciences at Charles University
Research fields: Political science and political decision analysis, international relations, international public law, history of human rights and freedoms, European rights, and history of political thought since 1789
Master thesis topic (provisional title): The impact of private couple-relations on human rights in France’s Fifth Republic
Internship duration: April-May 2018
Research and administrative internship 

Koupaia Corbet

Master Esdoc (Library, Documentation, Research) at Poitiers University, in Information and Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Research fields: open-science, cultural médiation, traditional music, research data management in Scientific and Technical Information
Master thesis topic (provisional title): Open science as a tool for the transmission of ethnomusical heritage
Internship duration : April-July 2019
Administrative internship in library/documentation

Martin Espinas

Bachelor degree in applied human sciences at Grenoble Alpes University currently in exchange at Charles University of Prague
Research and Study fields: Contemporary history, geography, world geopolitics, multidisciplinary and comparative approach on subjects through different human sciences points of views
Internship duration: March-April 2019
Graphic and administrative internship

Hector Marchand

Master’s degree in Political Science at Rennes’ Law University, France. Currently on exchange in Prague at the Metropolitan University Prague‘s International Relations and European Studies department.

Research and Study fields: Interest in broad Political Science topics with an emphasis on questions related to International Politics. International system, governance, structuring ideologies, place and dichotomy of actors (nation-states, supra/infra/inter-state actors…); conceptualization of conflicts and security, among others.

Internship duration: March-May 2019
Research and administrative internship

Coline Perron

Franco-German Master in History and Civilization/Geschichtswissenschaft at EHESS, Paris and Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg; élève normalienne at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, rue d’Ulm.

Research fields: contemporary history, especially the history of the Eastern countries during the communist period; cultural mediation in the field of historical memory, particularly problematics around the opening and making available of archives; administration of cultural institutions, including history museums; translation of literary texts (French /German/English + intermediate level in Spanish and notions of Russian); intercultural communication.

Master thesis topic (provisional title): Independent environmental groups in the GDR in the 1980s
Internship duration: February-April 2019
Research and administrative internship

Marie-Anna Hamanová

Master studies in Interpretation (Czech–French) and Czech Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Research fields: Interpreting, Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Contemporary Czech literature

Master thesis topic: Bilingualism as a disadvantage? Lexical retrieval in the bilinguals’ first language.

Internship duration: July–September 2018
Administrative internship (translation)

CEFRES Team

Giovanna Capponi: Research & CV

Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy

Research Project: Bewildering Boar

Contact: giovanna.capponi(@)cefres.cz

Giovanna is trained as a social anthropologist with a particular interest in human-environment relation, human-animal studies, cultural and historical ecology and ‘natureculture’. During her PhD at the University of Roehampton (London), she conducted an extensive multi-sited fieldwork looking at animal sacrificial practices and perception of the environment in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé, developing her own perspectives in the fields of anthropology of ritual, material culture and human-animal studies. She worked within the AHRC-funded “Cultural and Scientific Perception of Human Chicken Interaction” interdisciplinary project, which brought together researchers in different fields to study the significance of fowls in human cultures through history and in the present days.

At CEFRES she is starting a second fieldwork within the TANDEM “Bewildering Boar” project, focusing on the management of wild boars in the Central Appenine in Italy.

Project: Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy

This project aims at drawing perspectives on human-environment relations and on the sociology of science, especially in how ‘scientific’ notions regarding the environment intertwine and are constructed together with cultural practices and discourses. In particular, it will focus on the management of wild boars and wild fauna in National Parks in Central Italy (Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi and Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini) and in the surrounding rural areas.  By analysing the conflicts between local farmers, hunting associations, forestry managers, conservationsist and ecologists, this research is meant to provide an Italian ethnographic study on the entanglements between ‘nature’ and society in Europe within the TANDEM Bewildering Boar project.

CV

Education

2018: PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Roehampton)

2013: MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (Università di Bologna)

2011: MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies (SOAS)

2009: BA in Anthropological Sciences (Università di Bologna)

Awards

2017: Radcliffe Brown Trust Fund / Sutasome Award – Royal Anthropological Institute (London)

2014: RAI Horniman Museum Collecting Initiative – Royal Anthropological Institute, Horniman Museum and Gardens (London)

Publications
Peer reviewed chapters and papers
  • in preparation – 2020 Chaos in the Street, Order in the Kitchen:Practices of Consumption and Redistribution Amongst Squatters in London. in Food, Culture & Society, Eds. K. Graf & E. Mescoli
  • 2019 The garden and the market: human-environment relations and collective imaginary in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé between Italy and Brazil,in Latin American Religions and Religiosities, Studia Religiologica, Eds. J. Bahia & R. Siuda-Ambroziak. Jagiellonian University of Krakow: Krakow
  • 2019 Sobre a importância das palavras: breve apologia do termo “sacrifício”, in Araújo P.C., Candomblé sem sangue. Appris Editora: Curitiba.
  • 2018 Skipping, in The Global Encyclopedia of Informality vol. 2. A. Ledeneva UCL Press: London, pp. 41-44
  • 2014 Chaos in the Street, Order in the Kitchen: Pratica gastro-politiche di consumo e ridistribuzione tra gli squatters di Londra, in Pop Food, il cibo dell’etnografia. Z. A. Franceschi & V. Peveri, Odoya Editore: Bologna, pp. 53-80
Selected conference papers
  • 2017 Deuses ou ciborgues? Uma análise multiespécies do conceito de assentamento no candomblé, in Anais da VI Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e Tecnologia. vol. 3, n. 3. USP: São Paulo
  • 2015 “Eu me declaro”: diálogo sobre transformações, autodefinições e reivindicações políticas nos cultos afro brasileiros, In. II Simpósio Sudeste ABHR: Gênero e religião: Violência, fundamentalismos e política, PUC/SP: São Paulo, with Patrício Carneiro Araú
CEFRES Team

Fedora Parkmann: Research & CV

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The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art

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

Fedora Parkmann is a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and principal investigator of the five-year grant project Lumina Quaeruntur The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art (PhotoMatrix). She studied art history at Sorbonne University (M.A. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2017) and the École du Louvre in Paris. Since moving to Prague in 2019, she has been an associate researcher at CEFRES. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2019-2021 and at the CEFRES in 2022. Her research interests include the history and theory of photography, 20th century art, and transnational approaches to art history. Her research focuses on Czech photography, which she studies from a transnational perspective. Her recent articles on this topic have appeared in History of Photography and Revue des études slaves. Her current project focuses on photomechanical reproductions of art in art magazines in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Russia from 1900 to 1950. She is particularly interested in their role as vehicles of artistic exchange.

 

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