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CFA – Body and Care in the Ordeal of the War

Body and Care in the Ordeal of the War
A Socio-historical Perspective on East-Central and East-Southern Europe in the 20th-21st Centuries

This conference is part of activities conducted by “War and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (20th-21st centuries)” Research Alliance (EURETES, EHESS – MESR) that bring together CERCEC-EHESS, Charles University in Prague and Lviv Center of Urban History. It is hosted and supported by CEFRES, French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences.

Deadline for submission:  May 5, 2025
When: 12-14 November 2025
Where: CEFRES, Prague
Language: english and others (see below)

The aim of this conference is to fill an important gap in our understanding of the relation between war, violence-affected and thus fragilized bodies and care in East-Central and East-Southern European societies in a long-term perspective, that of the armed conflicts of the 20th-21st centuries.

Participants are invited to give particular consideration to the following themes:

  • Body and mental health,
  • Hygiene, nutrition, epidemics,
  • Healthcare institutions and actors,
  • Care provision, regimes, and infrastructure,
  • Material culture of care,
  • Mixed economies of welfare,
  • Circulations,
  • Agency and rights of the cared-for

The conference will include a workshop specifically dedicated to an interdisciplinary discussion on sources and methods; submissions should point to these as well.

See the full text of the call here.

All applications of 700 words maximum should be sent by May 5, 2025 to the organizers here-bellow mentioned.

Applications can be sent in European languages other than English, although correct understanding of english to enable shared discussion is essential.

Scientific committee:

Ioulia Shukan (EHESS) ioulia.shukan(@)ehess.fr
Paul Lenormand (Université Paris Nanterre) plenorma(@)parisnanterre.fr
Iryna Sklokina (Center for Urban History, Lviv)
Laura Lee Downs (European University Institute)
Dominika Gruzhiel (European University Institute)
Oksana Vynnyk (Irish Research Counsil)
Jean-Paul Newman (Maynooth University)
Hanna Zaremba -Kosovych (Institute of Ethonology, Academy of sciences of Ukraine)
Sarah D. Phillips (University of Indiana)
Morgane Labbé (EHESS)
Vaclav Smirdkal (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Mark Edele (University of Melbourne)
Alexandre Sumpf (University of Strasbourg) Continue reading CFA – Body and Care in the Ordeal of the War →

Grand Entretien

Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès

Decolonizing Feminism – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès

On the occasion of the publication in the Czech edition of Un féminisme décolonial (La Fabrique, 2019) by Karolinum, CEFRES, the French Institute in Prague and Charles University invite you to a Great Interview with the author Françoise Vergès.

When: Wednesday, 12/3 2025, 6 pm
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1, 5th floor
Language: French with simultaneous Czech interpretation
Moderator: Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

Who cleans up the world? It is with this question that Françoise Vergès introduces a decolonial feminism, taking as her starting point the underpaid, underestimated work that women, the majority of them racialised, do every day, all over the world, to make a society work. This feminism sees itself as the only one with a true understanding of women’s rights. Françoise Vergès defends an anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism. Continue reading Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès →

CEFRES Team

Helga Mitterbauer – Research and CV

Néo-baroque in Central Europe: Literature, Theatre, Cinema, and Other Arts

Research area: 1

Helga Mitterbauer, full professor of German literature at the Université libre de Bruxelles, is joining CEFRES from January to March 2025 thanks to the ‘Visiting scholars’ international mobility support programme funded by the CNRS. Previously, she was a visiting professor at a number of universities, including the University of Alberta (2010-2015) and ELTE Budapest. She taught at the University of Graz (1993-2013) where she habilitated in 2008.

She was chair of the coordinating committee of the ICLA CHLEL book series (2022-2024; Amsterdam, Benjamins) and is currently co-editor of the book series Forum: Österreich (Frank & Timme, Berlin).

Her project Neo-baroque in Central Europe focuses on the revival of baroque stylistic elements in literature, theatre, film and other arts in Germany and Central Europe. The aim is to study the extent to which this historical perspective is still valid today. Part of the project is to investigate how historical changes in society and power politics are reflected in literature and art, which art forms are used in response or to what extent art and literature facilitate the accumulation of power (the emergence of private galleries and libraries).

link to the full list of publications here.

CEFRES Team

Katarína Bednárová – Research & CV

Research area 1: Displacement, ‘dépaysements’, and discrepancies: people, knowledge, and practices

Contact: katarina.bednarova[@]savba.sk

Katarína Bednárová works as senior researcher at the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) and as professor at the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. She has cooperated with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences CEFRES since September 2024 on her research on social studies and humanities translations, history of literary translations, and surveys of cultural transfers and literary reception in the 20th century.  Since 2022 she has lead the APVV-21-0198 research project Translation and aspects of reception of social science and humanities texts as cultural and literary transfer in the 20th century at the Institute of World Literature SAS. Her work falls into the scope of the 1st CEFRES research area, Displacement, ‘dépaysements’, and discrepancies: people, knowledge, and practices. Continue reading Katarína Bednárová – Research & CV →

Non classé

CFP | A European Middle Ages | Doctoral Workshop EHESS–CEFRES

A European Middle Ages. Circulation of objects, practices, and techniques between Central and Western Europe (1000–1600)

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

Date: 24 April, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online)
Deadline for application submissions: 31 January, 2025
Notification to authors: 28 February, 2025
Language of the workshop: English

Convenors:

  • Lise Saussus, Center of historical research, UMR 8558, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences
  • Jakub Sawicki, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
  • Tomasz Cymbalak, National Heritage Institute, Prague
  • Nicolas Thomas, National Institute of Preventive Archeological Research, Laboratory of Western Medieval Studies, Paris

Continue reading CFP | A European Middle Ages | Doctoral Workshop EHESS–CEFRES →

Non classé

French Ressources on Central Europe | EBCO Access

Reporting, promoting and digitising French resources on Central Europe and Balkans

 

Libraries

Bibliothèques

Bibliothèque Nationale Universitaire
Bibliothèque Malesherbes
La Contemporaine
BULAC
Institut d'études slaves
Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur

 

Digital Ressources

Projects

Nom du rojetDescription du projetLienOrganisateurs et partenaires
NUMERISLAVProjet d'inventaire, de numérisation, de diffusion et de mise à disposition des archives de l'Institut d'études slaveshttps://numerislav.huma-num.fr/Institut d'études slaves -
Eur'Orbem, Sorbonne université, Huma-Num (hébergement), CNRS, Dim Sciences du texte et écriture nouvelle
DISSINVENTProjet d'inventaire et de valorisation des collections produites par les dissidences de "l'Est" en France https://www.collexpersee.eu/projet/dissinvent/Université Paris Nanterres -
La contemporaine, Université de Paris, BULAC, BNU, CERCEC, Institut des sciences sociales du politique, Institut d'études slaves, CREE, Eur'Orbem

Research Centers

Research group (GDP) “connaissance de l’Europe médiane”

 

To find more about the latest publications from those researchers:

For example : Publications from CEFRES

Journals specializing on Central Europe

Digitized journals

Austriaca
Les Cahiers Anatole Leroy Beaulieu
Cahiers d'études hongroises
Revue Communisme
Etudes tchèques et slovaques
Regard sur l'Est
Revue des études slaves
Le Monde Slave
Les Cahiers slaves
Kultura
Rhin-Danube-Baltique
La nation tchèque
La Revue française de Prague
Preuves
Revue d’études politiques et Constitutionnelles Est-Européennes
Est Europa (Revue d'Etudes politiques et constitutionnelles est-européennes)
Revue de justice constitutionnelle Est-Européenne
Europe centrale
L'Europe nouvelle
France Bohême
France - Europe Orientale
Nouvelles tchécoslovaques
Paris-Balkans
Revue d'Orient et de Hongrie
L'Europe nouvelle (notes du service de documentation)

Non digitized ressources on Central Europe

  • AFTS
  • L’autre Europe
  • Cahiers de l’observatoire de Berlin
  • Collegium Budapest Discussion Papers
  • Collegium Budapest, Public Lectures
  • Le Courier des pays de l’Est
  • Etudes danubiennes
  • Europe
  • Messager Européen
  • Nouveaux cahiers de l’Est
  • Revue d’études comparatives Est/ouest
  • Revues d’Europe centrale
  • Transeuropéennes
  • Les travaux du centre Marc Bloch
  • 300 Monographie environ
  • 140 thèses et mémoires en partie numérisées
  • Danube
  • Est Europa – Revue d’Etudes politiques et constitutionnelles est-européennes (anciennement Revue d’Etudes Politiques et Constitutionnelles Est-Européennes
  • France-Europe Centrale
  • La lettre internationale
  • L’alternative / La nouvelle alternative
  • La revue d’Europe centrale (dir. Jean Dayre)
  • Europe centrale 1926-1939
  • L’Europe nouvelle
  • Le Monde slave 1917-1918/1924-1938
  • Le Petit Journal de Prague 1918-1919
  • Rencontres 1934-1984
  • La Revue française de Prague 1922-1938
  • Stepanska 35 1991-2001
  • La Tchécoslovaquie économique et financière
  • Françoise [Hours] “La vision des Tchèques et des Slovaques en France au XIXe siècle: sources”. 1992