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CEFRES PhD grants 2025 | Results

France & Visegrád PhD mobility grants

  1. KOZIIENKO Ruslana, CEU: The Effects and Affects of the (Im)mobility of Men During Russia’s Full-Scale War against Ukraine

  2. FROMONT Garance, Université Paris-Cité: Too Loud a Freedom: Emergence of a Cinematographic New Wave in Communist Czechoslovakia (1956-1968)

Waiting list (gives the right to become associate)

3. SCAGLIUSI Domenico, Sorbonne Université: The Tribunal of the Heirs: The Memory of the Gulag in contemporary Russophone Literature (2000-2022)

4. QUELVENNEC Natasza, EHESS: (Battle)fields of Gender and Democracy. Relational Sociology of the Politicization of Abortion in Poland 2015-2025

CEFRES-SAV PhD mobility grants

PAPUCNOVÁ Nina, ÚSL SAV: Nature in Modernism

CEFRES Platform PhD grants

  1. VASSILEVA Sabina, FHS UK–SÚ AVČR: Gender of Metabolism. Enacting Sexed Bodies at the Intersection of Metabolic and Sex Hormones

  2. RUMPIKOVA Michaela, FF UK: A Phenomenological Reading of the Young Gerl in First-Person Coming-of-Age Novels: Becoming Through Orientation, Objects, and Others

    Waiting list

  3. MYCHKA Katerina, FF UK-La Sapienza: Serhij Žadan’s Work in the Context of Transformative Dynamics
CEFRES-CEU mobility grants

  1. POLLAK, Markus: Evaluating Democracies. International Election Observers and the Contestation of Liberal Ordering (2 500 €)

  2. AKSONOWICZ, Adam: Towards What Homeland? (Trans)national Armies in Exile and Renegotiations of Polish and Czechoslovak National Narratives, 1939-1947 (2 000 €)

  3. RAEHME, Sophie: Intersectional & Gendered Subjects of Transitional Justice and the Right to Reparation. A Case Study on the Negotiation and Recognition of Gendered Victimhood in Colombia since 1997 (500 €)

CEFRES-FiF UK mobility grants
  1. VAŠÍČEK, Andrej: Cultural and Historical Memory of the Landscape in Hungary in the 18th Century (3 000 €)

 2. DROBNÁ, Dominika: Theory and Practice of Architecture in Bratislava around 1800 (2 000 €)

New Acquisitions

New Acquisitions. May 2025

CONTENTS

PHILOSOPHY
SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
ARTS & LITERATURE
HISTORY

Philosophy

111.1 PEL
PELLUCHON, Corine
L’être et la mer : Pour un existentialisme écologique. Corine Pelluchon. Paris PUF 2024, 333 p.;
6750
Résumé : Une réflexion sur l’existentialisme écologique qui suppose de rompre avec l’imaginaire terrestre et de penser l’humain en partant de la mer. © Electre 2024
Mots-clés : Existentialisme, Environnement : philosophie, Environnement

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Calls for Papers, Non classé

CFP | Central European Masculinities: Norms and Transgressions

The international conference is organized by the Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, within the framework of the Central European Masculinities research project.

Deadline for the submissions: June 25, 2025
Please send your proposal (title and short description) to Ivana.Taranenkova@savba.sk

Date: 29–30 September 2025
Location: Bratislava
Conference language: English

Conference Committee

  • Judit Acsády (HUN REN)
  • Marcin Bogucki (IKP WP UW)
  • Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne)
  • Filip Mazurkiewicz (IP WH UŚ)
  • Richard Müller (ÚČL AV ČR)
  • Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK)
  • Wojciech Śmieja (IL WH UŚ)
  • Ivana Taranenková (ÚSlL SAV)

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Calls for Papers, Non classé

CFP | Foucault at 100: Echoes and Encounters in Central and Eastern Europe

Deadline for submission: 15 November 2025
on the address: foucault100ece@flu.cas.cz
Date and Location:
Prague (1–2 June 2026) and Warsaw (4–5 June 2026)

Host Institutions
The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales en Prague (CEFRES)
Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones en Pologne (CCFEF)

Organizing Committee: Mateusz Chmurski, Isabel Jacobs, Jiří Růžička, Radosław Szymański, Laurent Tatarenko

Contact Email: foucault100ece@flu.cas.cz

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Calls for Applications, Non classé

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)
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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 →