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CFP – Facing Familiar Violence. A 4EU+ International Conference

Facing Familiar Violence: Women’s Creative and Literary Practices in Central and Southeastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Century

The conference is part of the project “Displacements: Gendered-based Violence, Women’s Writing and Creative Practices in Modern Central and Southeastern Europe” (4EU+ mini grant). Continue reading CFP – Facing Familiar Violence. A 4EU+ International Conference →

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RETHINK. Objects, models, and methods

RETHINK. Objects, models, and methods in Humanities and Social Sciences since the invasion of Ukraine

Seminar within the program of the CEFRES non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars in humanities and social sciences, 2023

From May 2023, the CEFRES Ukraine fellows in Humanities and Social Sciences will remotely present their current research projects in discussion with Czech, French, and international specialists of respective fields. Our goal is to analyze what the Russian invasion has done to our disciplines, objects, methods of research and ways of thinking. Together, we invite fellows, colleagues in situ and all interested public to rethink: Continue reading RETHINK. Objects, models, and methods →

CEFRES Actions for Ukraine

Selected projects | CEFRES Non-residential Fellowships for Ukrainian Researchers

CEFRES fellowships for Ukrainian researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023.
Selected projects

CEFRES received 220 applications representing all regions of Ukraine and almost all disciplines of humanities and social sciences.

On behalf of CEFRES as well as the institutions gathered in the CEFRES Platform, the CNRS, the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague, we are pleased to announce that 16 grants have been awarded so far. The evaluation process was as follows: Continue reading Selected projects | CEFRES Non-residential Fellowships for Ukrainian Researchers →

Calls for Papers

CFP – Dynamics of Political Participation. A PhD CEFRES–EHESS workshop

Dynamics of Political Participation: Disciplinary Knowledge through the Prism of “Area Studies”

This PhD Students Workshop is organized withing the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Organizers and chairs of the workshop: Lucie Drechselova (CETOBAC, EHESS), Falk Bretschneider (Centre Georg Simmel, EHESS), Mateusz Chmurski (director of the CEFRES)
Time and place: 26 September 2023 – CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (with a possibility of online participation)
Proposal deadline: 25 May 2023
Deadline for submission of the final papers: 15 August 2023
Language of the workshop: English
Limited budget is available to support accommodation and travel costs of selected participants.

Keynote by Olga Lomová, Charles University et Tomáš Weiss, Charles University.

Eligibility: PhD students (and advanced Master’s students) in humanities and social sciences affiliated with CEFRES, EHESS, any university in the Czech Republic or based in Central and Eastern Europe understood broadly are invited to apply. Continue reading CFP – Dynamics of Political Participation. A PhD CEFRES–EHESS workshop →

Calls for Applications, Join us

CFA – 2024 SAV PhD students mobility grants at CEFRES

Call for applications for 2nd year and above PhD students enrolled at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV)

Deadline for submission:  April 15, 2024
Duration:  9 months between September 1, 2024 & May 31, 2025

The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the French Institute in Slovakia (IFS) & CEFRES offer mobility grants at the CEFRES to 2nd year and above PhD students enrolled the SAV. Continue reading CFA – 2024 SAV PhD students mobility grants at CEFRES →

CEFRES Team

Josef Šebek: research & CV

Sexuality and social transformation in the  writing of the self

Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions

Contact: josef.sebek@ff.cuni.cz

Josef Šebek is an assistant professor at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He specializes in cultural materialism, the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and current French sociology of literature and works also on contemporary theory of discourse and rhetoric, media theory of literature, genres of life writing, and queer theory. He is the author of the book Literature and the Social: Bourdieu, Williams, and their Successors (Prague, FF UK, 2019), managing editor of the journal Slovo a smysl / Word & Sense and a member of the editorial team of Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics. 

CV 

 Education 

 2016 Ph.D., Faculty of Arts, Charles University, history of literature and literary theory 

2010–2011 SSEES, University College London 

2008 MA, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech language and literature, aesthetics 

 Positions 

 Since 2018 – managing editor of the journal Slovo a smysl (Charles University) 

Since 2017 – researcher (since 2017) and assistant professor (since 2019) at the Institute of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University 

2016–2018 – Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of theory 

Since 2008 – member of the editorial team of the journal Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, since 2020 Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics (Charles University – University of Helsinki) 

Since 2005 – translator of scholarly books and articles 

 Selected Publications 

 Monographs 

  •  Literatura a sociálno. Bourdieu, Williams a jejich pokračovatelé. Praha, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova 2019.  

 Edited books 

  •  Petr A. Bílek – Josef Šebek (eds.): Česká populární kultura. Transfery, transponování a další tranzitní procesy. Praha, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova 2017. 
  • Richard Müller – Josef Šebek (eds.): Texty v oběhu. Antologie z kulturně materialistického myšlení o literatuře. Praha, Academia 2014. 

 Articles and chapters  

  •  ‘Sketch for a Self-Analysis’: Self-Reflexivity in Bourdieu’s Approach to Literature. In: Vojtěch Kolman, Tereza Matějčková (eds.): Perspectives on the Self: Reflexivity in the Humanities. De Gruyter, Berlin – New York 2022, pp. 209–227.  
  • The Author in the Making: Ethos, Posture, and Self-Creation. In: Vojtěch Kolman, Tomáš Murár (eds.): Devouring One’s Own Tail: Autopoiesis in Perspective. Praha, Karolinum 2022, pp. 152–172. 
  • ‘And Don’t Forget To Subscribe…’ Reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race mezi komplexní reprezentací queer identity a komodifikací individuality.“ In David Skalický, Jan Wiendl (eds.): Protřepat, nemíchat! Mezi literární vědou a kulturálními studii. K 60. narozeninám Petra A. Bílka. Praha, Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta 2022, pp. 229–245.  
  • Social Space, Physical Space, Representation of Space: Spatiality and Bourdieu’s Theory of the Literary Field. Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik 35, 2021, no. 2, pp. 7–21. 
  • ‘Práce, o kterou se pokoušíte, se vám ani v nejmenším nedaří’: Reflexe psaní v povídkách Karla Miloty. Svět literatury 31, 2021, no. 63, pp. 41–58. 
  • Komunikace, roztok a medialita. K paradoxnímu charakteru Williamsova myšlení o médiu. In Richard Müller, Tomáš Chudý a kol.: Za obrysy média. Literatura a medialita. Praha, Karolinum, 2020, pp. 393–418. 
  • Richard Müller – Tomáš Chudý – Alice Jedličková – Josef Šebek – Stanislava Fedrová: Kroky k mediální teorii literatury. Závěrečná úvaha (polylog). In Richard Müller, Tomáš Chudý a kol.: Za obrysy média. Literatura a medialita. Praha, Karolinum, 2020, pp. 567–581. 
  • Komunikace a roztok. K pojetí média u Raymonda Williamse. Česká literatura 67, 2019, no. 5, pp. 684–710. 
  • Mezi sociální determinací a singularitou. Autorská postura podle Jérôma Meizoze. Slovo a smysl 16, 2019, no. 31, pp. 261–262.  
  • Postmoderna. In Ondřej Sládek a kol.: Slovník literárněvědného strukturalismu. Brno, Host 2018, pp. 540–549. 
  • Literární pole. In Jan Matonoha a kol.: Za (de)konstruktivismem. Kritické koncepty (post)poststrukturální literární a kulturní teorie. Praha, Academia 2017, pp. 318–332. 
  • Výjimečný stav. Násilí a válka v prózách Ladislava Fukse. In Vít Schmarc (ed.): Obraz válek a konfliktů. V. kongres světové literárněvědné bohemistiky. Válka a konflikt v české literatuře. Praha, Akropolis 2015, pp. 315–323. 
  • Motiv a intertextovost. Vztahy mezi texty v literárněvědných pracích Alexandra Sticha. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Philologica. Slavica Pragensia 42, 2014, no. 3, pp. 211–221. 
  • Literárněvědná metodologie Alexandra Sticha. Česká literatura 55, 2007, no. 4, pp. 479–516. 

Conference papers 

  • Subversive ‘Realism’: Style, Latency, and Politics in the Novels of Ladislav Fuks, XXIII. Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Tbilisi, Georgia, 24.7.–29.7.2022. 
  • Literatura a společnost: Návrat sociologického pohledu?, VI. kongres světové literárněvědné bohemistiky, The Institue of Czech Literature of the CAS, Prague, 27.6.–1.7.2022. 
  • Le miroir impossible: Politique, sexualité et transformation sociale dans l’autobiographie de Ladislav Fuks. « Le Crépuscule des paradigmes ? » Les canons culturels en Europe centrale : transgressions et réhabilitations depuis la fin du XXe siècle, Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université, Paris, 23.5.2022 – 25.5.2022. 
  • Literatura a sociálno: Číst literaturu „sociologicky“, nebo „v sociálním kontextu“?, ČSS 2021: sociologické reflexe | sociological reflections: Výroční konference České sociologické společnosti, online, Masaryk University, Brno, 23.6.2021 – 25.6.2021. 
  • „Moje zrcadlo“: Queer sebeprezentace Ladislava Fukse v nefikčních a fikčních textech, Teplé dějiny v českých zemích / Queering Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 29.11.2019 – 30.11.2019. 
  • “Sketch for a Self-Analysis”: Self-Reflexive Aspects of Contemporary Literary Theory, Narrativity and Self-Creating Forms: Autopoiesis in Perspective, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Praha, 18.9.2019 – 21.9.2019. 
  • Le « Je » chez Bourdieu : L’auteur littéraire et le sujet linguistique. Dire « je ». Atelier autour de la subjectivité linguistique, The Institue of Philosophy, CAS, Prague, 24.11.2017–24.11.2017. 
  • The Blurred Space In-Between: Repetition in Fiction and Affectivity. XXI. Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Vienna, Austria, 21.7.2016–27.7.2016.