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CEFRES Researchers 2024–2025

Thomas Chopard

Contact: thomas.chopard[@]ehess.fr

is a historian and assistant professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Centre of Historical Research (EHESS/CRH). Alongside Petra Hudek, he joins CEFRES for two years as part of the Tandem CNRS-SAV program. He benefits from International Mobility Support (SMI) from CNRS starting from June 2024. Their research, titled “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe,” contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3 Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Ioana Cîrstocea

Contact : ioana.cirstocea[@]ehess.fr

is a CNRS researcher appointed at CEFRES  since September 2023. Her research project at CEFRES, devoted to the contemporary debates around the redefinition of parental norms and the sub-political mobilizations of mothers and families in a post-socialist context, contributes to the CEFRES 2nd research area.

Martin Ďurďovič

Contact : martin.durdovic[@]soc.cas.cz

is a sociologist, researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He joined CEFRES in February 2024 within the CNRS–AVČR Tandem program together with Gilles Lepesant. Their research project, entitled « Contested energy transitions. Conflicts and social innovations in the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, and France » contributes to CEFRES Research area 2 Norms and Transgressions

Petra Hudek

Contact: petra.hudek[@]savba.sk

 is a historian at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Contemporary History. Alongside Thomas Chopard, she joins CEFRES in June 2024 for two years as part of the Tandem SNRS-SAV program. Their research, titled “Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of the Second World War in Central Europe,” contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3 Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Valeriya Korablyova

Contact: valeriya.korablyova[@]fsv.cuni.cz

is a sociologist and political theorist, assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. Since February 2024 she is joining CEFRES within the CU–CNRS Tandem Program, together with Louisa Martin-Chevalier. Their research project, entitled “A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine” contributes to CEFRES Research area 1. Displacements, « dépaysement » and discrepancies.

Gilles Lepesant

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French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships at the seven Institutes of Aix-Marseille, Cergy, Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Paris. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists to develop their innovative research projects in France.

Application deadline: July 16th, 2025 – 6:00 pm

Applications are submitted online via www.fias-fp.eu where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria and selection procedure.

Find more info here.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, FIAS offers 28 fellowship positions: 7 in Aix Marseille, 3 in Cergy, 2 in Loire Valley (Orléans-Tours), 3 in Lyon, 2 in Montpellier, 4 in Nantes and 7 in Paris. Continue reading French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme

CFA | TANDEM CU–CNRS Program 2026–2027

Charles University (CU), the CNRS Humanities and Social Sciences (CNRS SHS) and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague (CEFRES) are launching the second call for applications for the TANDEM incubator program dedicated to researchers from CNRS and Charles University.

Since 2018, the TANDEM program endeavors excellency in social sciences and humanities by bringing together Czech and French colleagues to intensify scientific collaboration between our countries in the frame of European Research Area. The program is a joint initiative of CEFRES, CNRS SHS, CU and the Czech Academy of Sciences (AV ČR) in the frame of the CEFRES Platform of scientific collaborations. Its former members have obtained two ERC grants, including the BOAR project. Continue reading CFA | TANDEM CU–CNRS Program 2026–2027

CFP – Queer Materiality: Becoming-Relations 

This international conference is jointly organised by Department of Czech and Comparative Literature (Faculty of Arts, Charles University), the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts, Charles University), CEFRES, the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. (Slovak Academy of Sciences) and Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P) (the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences).

Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2025
Date: March 12–13, 2026
Location: Charles University, Faculty of Arts & CEFRES, Prague
Language: English (Slovak and Czech are also accepted)

Coordinators: Michaela Rumpíková, Mateusz Chmurski, Josef Šebek, Iwona Janicka, Alžbeta Kuchtová, Eva Voldřichová Beránková
Scientific Committee: TBC

Keynotes:
Prof. Jack Halberstam (Columbia University),
Dr. Bogdan Popa (Transylvania University),
Hélène Giannecchini (to be confirmed)

In their 2009 book Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable, Judith Butler attempts to rethink “the complex and fragile character of the social bond and to consider what conditions might make violence less possible, lives more equally grievable, and, hence, more livable” (2009: 1). With multiple ideological conflicts around the globe, Butler’s project remains relevant. While the Czech and Slovak governments still refuse to acknowledge the Istanbul agreement, elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe we can observe an underlying tension around LGBTQI+ and other minorities’ rights. Continue reading CFP – Queer Materiality: Becoming-Relations 

CFA – CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowships

Call for applications for 2nd year and above PhD students at the Charles University or the Czech Academy of Sciences

Deadline for submission: 16 March 2025 (call closed)
Duration: 1 September 2025 – 31 August 2026

Within its Platform partnership agreement, CEFRES offers a year-long fellowship to PhD students enrolled at the Charles University and/or working as fellows at the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Fellows’ research should contribute to one of CEFRES’s research areas.

The amount of the fellowship is cca 9 000 EUR / 225 000 CZK per year.

Good command of English is mandatory, command of French is appreciated. The selected PhD fellows will join CEFRES team and take part in the Center’s scientific life. Continue reading CFA – CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowships

CFA – FiF UK Young Researchers Mobility Grants At CEFRES

Call for application for 2nd year and above PhD students and postdoctoral researchers enrolled at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University (FiF UK)

Deadline for submission: March 16, 2025 (call closed)
Duration: 2 to 5 months between September 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026

The Faculty of Arts of Comenius University (FiF UK), the French Institute Slovakia (IFS) & the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) offer mobility grants at the CEFRES to 2nd year and above PhD students and postdoctoral researchers (up to 10 years after their PhD defense) at the FIF UK. Continue reading CFA – FiF UK Young Researchers Mobility Grants At CEFRES