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Hosting High-Level Researchers. ANR Call 2015

26 May 2015 Cefres

The French National Research Agency has just published the second edition of the “Hosting High-Level Researchers” call. This funding instrument dedicated to individuals and open to all scientific fields enables “junior” or “senior” researchers from any country to carry out an ambitious research project in a reputed institution in France. The ANR funding is designed to help French laboratories fulfil their role as host and researchers to conduct their research.

See the description of the program on the site of the French National Research Agency.

See the 2015 call.

The call closing date is scheduled for 29th May 2015.

CEFRES publication

Contemporary Art Museums in Central Europe. Between International Discourse and National (Re)building Strategies

7 July 2014 Cefres

Miklós Syékely, Etudes du CEFRES, 2014, 37 p.

The paper investigates the collection-building strategies in the contemporary art museums of Central Europe. As its methodology, the study takes into consideration the collection-building principles and the way they are related to other activities of the institutions. It focuses on the role of the collection as an ensemble of musealized objects. The paper also intends to raise questions on how such institutions contribute, through their collections, to the participation of the given country in international discourse on contemporaneity. As a consequence of this collection-based observation conception, contemporary art centers and museums without collections are excluded from the observations. The observation focuses on the factors of national and international narratives intersecting each other in the process of modern and contemporary art museum based national cultural policies.

Miklós Székely PhD works as a research fellow at the Institute of Art History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and as lecturer in the field of museum studies at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities. His fields of scholarly interest are nineteenth-century Hungarian art, the history of universal exhibitions, museum studies, contemporary museum architecture, cultural politics. He held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at CEFRES for the summer term (February 1st – July 31st, 2013).

Central Europe, contemporary art, museum, museum studies, political change, cultural policy, museum collection, acquisition policy, documentation, archives

Download : https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/CEFRES/halshs-01019728v1

CEFRES publication

Minorités nationales en Europe centrale : démocratie, sciences et enjeux de représentation

13 July 2011 Cefres

Minorités nationales en Europe centrale : démocratie, sciences et enjeux de représentation, vedení: Paul BAUER, Christian JACQUES, Mathieu PLÉSIAT, Máté ZOMBORY, Praha: CEFRES, 2011, 237 p.

ISBN 978-80-86311-24-1

Le questionnement concernant la production et les usages des discours scientifiques sur les minorités nationales en Europe centrale est à l’origine de la conception de cet ouvrage. Celui-ci rassemble les interventions prononcées lors des journées d’études savoirs scientifiques et modes de construction des minorités nationales en Europe centrale organisées par le Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES, Prague) en mars 2010. Le choix d’appréhender le thème des minorités nationales par le biais des sciences répondait au départ à une exigence de prudence partagée par les organisateurs : celle de ne pas utiliser des catégories sans en connaître les logiques de constitution. Ainsi, de nombreuses contributions de cet ouvrage portent sur le rôle des statistiques, des recensements et des enjeux de représentation des nationalités. Au-delà de la diversité des études de cas et des approches disciplinaires, trois axes thématiques se sont détachés : « minorités nationales et démocratie », « minorités nationales et savoirs scientifiques » et « minorités nationales et enjeux de représentation ».

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CEFRES publication

Les acteurs locaux à l’épreuve du modèle européen LEADER : France – Hongrie – Pologne

13 July 2010 Cefres

modele_leader_couv Les acteurs locaux à l’épreuve du modèle européen LEADER : France – Hongrie – Pologne, sous la direction de Marie HALAMSKA et Marie-Claude MAUREL, Prague, CEFRES / Varsovie, IRWiR PAN, 2010, 206 p.

ISBN 978-80-86311-22-7 (CEFRES) / ISBN 83-89900-34-3 (IRWiR PAN)

Apparu, il y a plus de deux décennies et expérimenté avec succès par les anciens États membres sous la forme d’une initiative communautaire, le modèle LEADER a été progressivement intégré à la politique européenne de développement rural. La question du transfert du modèle européen de développement local à la Hongrie et à la Pologne, nouveaux pays membres de l’UE, est au cœur de l’analyse.
À l’issue de la transition post-collectiviste, le transfert de l’approche LEADER impliquait l’apprentissage par ces sociétés d’un nouveau mode de développement de type endogène, fondé sur la mobilisation des ressources locales, en particulier sur le capital humain et culturel des communautés rurales. Une telle expérimentation constituait une forme de mise à l’épreuve des acteurs locaux.
Les acteurs et les canaux de diffusion, les modes d’appropriation et les effets de ce modèle d’action publique sont successivement analysés. Continue reading Les acteurs locaux à l’épreuve du modèle européen LEADER : France – Hongrie – Pologne →

CEFRES publication

Social Movements and Public Action

13 July 2009 Cefres

Social Movements and Public Action : Lessons from Environmental Issues
edited by :
Pascal MARTY and Sandrine DEVAUX
Prague, CEFRES, 2009, 193 p.
ISBN 978-80-86311-20-3

Since the end of the 80’s environment issues are taken into account in almost every domain of public action (energy, industry, agriculture, regional development, strategies for sustainable development…). Environment is not any more only related to narrow “green” issues (e.g. waste management, nature and wildlife conservation…). On the other hand, environmental issues have long been promoted by local groups and NGOs representing alternative social movements.
As public action for environment is now acknowledged or presented as a necessity by almost every institutional actor, social movements involved in environmental issues are being put in front of new challenges and particularly participation in public decision-making and institutionalisation.
This book was published with the support of the EU-CONSENT network of excellence, a European Commission Framework 6 programme. Continue reading Social Movements and Public Action →

CEFRES publication

Europeanisation : Social Actors and the Transfer of Models in EU-27

10 July 2009 Cefres

Europeanisation : Social Actors and the Transfer of Models in EU-27
edited by :
Sandrine DEVAUX and Imogen SUDBERY
Prague, CEFRES, 2009, 257 p.
ISBN 978-80-86311-21-3

1eDeCouvLight Since the 1980’s, the growing role of social actors has been observed in the framework of the European polity. If this new conception of European mechanisms is well understood and recognised by almost all stakeholders, nevertheless the manner in which social actors inside the EU-27 are using these new resources has still been little studied. The challenge of this collective volume is to capture the effects of both EU widening and deepening processes on social actors from old, new and prospective member states. The empirical findings presented here are the results of a research that took place within the EU-Consent programme, which was supported by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission.
The ultimate question is “has the European polity changed due to the widening process ?” Are stakeholders from candidate and new member states able to frame or reframe the rules of the European game ? To answer these questions, this book proposes a comparative approach of strategies adopted by social actors from different European countries.