International workshop within the program of the CEFRES non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars in humanities and social sciences, 2023 Continue reading Impediments & engagements international workshop
Applications are open to all French-speaking and/or English-speaking students throughout the academic year.
The Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales is actively seeking interns for periods of one to several months. It offers the exceptional opportunity to work as part of a team of researchers in a laboratory based in Prague, under the joint supervision of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and liaising with researchers based in the four countries of the Visegrád group.
Internships may be scientific in nature (fieldwork or consulting archives as part of a research project, joining the centre’s scientific network, etc.) or administrative. In both cases, the aim of the proposed internship is to contribute to CEFRES’ scientific development missions and to provide support for the running of the research centre in collaboration with its team. Continue reading Intern at CEFRES
We are happy to announce the name of the winner of the seventh CEFRES Platform Award for best article in social sciences and humanities in an international peer-reviewed journal (see the cfa here):
The seventh Derrida Social and Human Sciences Prizes rewarded:
1. Anna ALTOVÁ (Faculty of Science, Charles University) for her thesis:« Lifestyle risk factors of cancer »
2. Filip KINNERT (Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology) for his thesis: « Wholeness As a Basic Assuption for Understanding of Meaning Provided by Architectural Language »
3. Lukáš NOVÁK (Palacky Olomouc University Social Health Institute/University of Groningen) for his work on the neural bases of compassion
The award ceremony took place on 22 June 2019 at the French Embassy in Czech Republic in the presence of the Ambassador Alexis Dutertre and one Nobel Prize laureate: Jean-Marie Lehn.
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Call opens June 16, 2025
Deadline for submission: September 15, 2025
Publication of the results: beginning of October 2025
Period: January 1, 2026-December 31, 2027
Application Language: English
Address for submission: mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)
Two postdoctoral researchers will be recruited from January 1, 2026 for two years at CEFRES. They will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for their research at Charles University (UK). The selection of both postdoctoral researchers will be based on the quality of their research project and its adequation to the research area or the research project it intends to contribute to. Continue reading CFA: Two Postdoctoral positions at CEFRES 2026–2027
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
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
