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Raluca Muresan: Research & CV

Culture, Urban Society, and Representation of Territories. The Architecture of Public Theaters in the Eastern Lands of the Habsburg Monarchy (1770-1812)

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

Contact: raluca.muresan@cefres.cz (from 1st September 2018)

My research seeks to understand the mechanisms behind the rise of public theater buildings in various towns in the Eastern lands of the Habsburg Monarchy between 1770 and 1812. It therefore looks into their architectural specificities and into their impact on the representation of the scales of urbanity of these towns. I use the geographical term “Eastern” that refers to the countries to the East of the Holy Roman Germanic Empire border: the Hungarian Kingdom, including the lands of Saint Stephen, and the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. Continue reading Raluca Muresan: Research & CV

Ekaterina Zheltova: Research & CV

National belonging, transnational localities and ideologies of language: Discursive practices at the Greek-Albanian borderlands

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

Contact: ekaterina.zheltova@cefres.cz (from 1st September 2018)

In my PhD project I explore how people living in the Albanian-Greek borderland region imagine and narrate their lives on the border, their relations with the nation-state(s), and their linguistic experience in this contested space.

The border region of the Albanian-Greek frontier is one of the vivid examples of a space existing in a dichotomy of controversial national narratives, different languages spoken sometimes by the closest neighbors, long-existing conflicts, often economic or political but usually interpreted in ethnic terms, that coexist with the “mixed” marriages, friendships and businesses. Continue reading Ekaterina Zheltova: Research & CV

Felipe Kaiser Fernandes: Research & CV

Rise of a Merchant Nation: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Bazaar Economy in Central Europe

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

Contact: felipe.fernandes@cefres.cz

As a third-year PhD student in Anthropology at Ehess and a Phd fellow at Cefres, I conduct a participant observation of Sapa marketplace, situated in the suburbs of Prague. My aim is to analyze traders’ ways of thinking, working and living in this market in an attempt to characterize its role and its importance to the Vietnamese migration in Central Eastern Europe. Therefore, my thesis studies the pathways of specific Vietnamese traders who came from North Vietnam in the 60s,70s and 80s, the rise of the merchant networks and the bazaar economy nowadays in Eurasia. In this sense, my research highlights the capacity of the bazaar economy (Geertz, 1979) to federate, considering several levels: countries, cities and urban territories. Continue reading Felipe Kaiser Fernandes: Research & CV

Pavel Baloun: Research & CV

“The Gypsy Scourge!” Creation and Implementation of Anti-Gypsy Measures in Czechoslovakia and After, 1918-1942

Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions

Contact: pavel.baloun@cefres.cz (from 1st September 2018)

My PhD deals with the long-term process of criminalization of those inhabitants who were labelled as “Gypsies”. It focuses on exploring continuities and discontinuities in enforcing anti-Gypsy measures in relation to the Genocide of Roma and Sinti in the Czech lands during the Second World War. The main aim of the project is to reconstruct the ways how anti-Gypsy measures, understood here as a complex of diverse legal norms worked against a heterogeneous group of inhabitants labelled as “Gypsies”. Continue reading Pavel Baloun: Research & CV

PhD Fellows Team 2017-2018

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.

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.

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 2016-2017

Magdalena Cabaj

Contact: magdalena.cabaj@cefres.cz

is a PhD student in cotutelle between the University of Warsaw and the École normale supérieure in Paris under the supervision of Wincenty Cesluk-Grajewski and Dominique Lestel. Her PhD dissertation on Hermaphrodite Writing is at the crossroads between philosophy and literature, and contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Mátyás Erdélyi

Contact: matyas.erdelyi@cefres.cz

is a fifth-year PhD student at the Central European University in Budapest under the supervision of Karl Hall and Susan Zimmermann. His dissertation is entitled The Making of a Productivist Middle Class in the Habsburg Monarchy, is at the crossroad between history and sociology, and contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Anna Gnot

Contact: anna.gnot@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Faculty of Philology, University of Opole under the supervision of Joanna Czaplińska. Her dissertation in literary studies is entitled Ninth Autobiography – Dimensions of Autobiographical Space in Literary Work of Ota Filip and contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Filip Herza

Contact: filip.herza@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at Faculty of Humanities of Charles University under the supervision of Lucie Storchová. His dissertation is entitled Imaginations of Bodily “Otherness” and Prague’s Freak Show Culture 1860-1939, is at the crossroad between cultural anthropology and history, and contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Mathieu Lericq

Contact: mathieu.lericq@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at Aix-Marseille University (LESA) under the supervision of Thierry Roche. His dissertation in cinematography studies is entitled Troubling Intimacies in Communist Poland Films (1968-1989): the Birth of a Bio-Cinema?, and contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

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.

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.

Lucie Trlifajová

Contact: lucie.trlifajova@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at Faculty of Social Science of Charles University. Her dissertation is entitled The Role of Social Protection in the Context of Rising Labour Market Precarity is at the crossroad between anthropology and public policy 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.