De-Imperial Europe: a Resentful Confederation of Vanquished Peoples? Raw and Lapsed Memories of Post-Imperial Minorities

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: michele.baussant@cnrs.fr

Michèle Baussant is an anthropologist, research director at CNRS. She graduated in history and anthropology at Paris-Nanterre University and held a postdoctoral position at Laval University (Quebec) between 2003 and 2005. Her research, since its beginnings, has crossed an anthropological perspective with other disciplinary approaches (history, political sociology, geography, digital humanities) and a comparative and connected vision of her different fields allowing her to grasp her main research topic: the role of memory as a resource for, on the one hand, creating solidarities based on a lived and/or transmitted past, and, on the other hand, producing mechanisms of rejection, exclusion and disaffiliation. This path is, therefore, characterised by the continuity of her fields of investigation, from Algeria in its links with France, to Egypt and Lebanon, and finally to the Israeli-Palestinian spaces.

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The Europe of Resentment and Rubble: a Confederation of the Vanquished?

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Maria Kokkinou has recently completed a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology in the IIAC (Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Anthropologie du Contemporain) research lab at the EHESS school in Paris. At CEFRES she is a postdoctoral researcher within the TANDEM project entitled “The Europe of Resentment and Rubble: a Confederation of the Vanquished?”.

Diagrammatic thought in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern period

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practice

Her researches focus on the production, the dissemination and the formal and figurative characteristics of diagrams in school, university, scientific and devotional contexts in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance. Using the methods of cultural and social history, history of science and technology and visual studies, she investigates the pedagogical, propaedeutic, mnemotechnic and cognitive role that diagrams play in the development of the European thought.

Insurance, Banking, and Capitalist Modernity in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies 

Mátyás Erdélyi explores the social and intellectual history of private clerks in the late Habsburg Monarchy, their battle for social legitimation, intellectual authority, and a middle-class identity between the 1860s and the onset of the First World War. He studies bureaucratic practices and knowledge production in banking and insurance in Budapest, Prague, and Vienna. Research questions include, how agents in the early capitalist urban environment negotiated and re-negotiated issues of public interest and defined what qualified as public good, why and who assigned meaning to hitherto non-existent social problems, and how agents in the private economy tried to assure and monopolize social authority against competition from outsiders and insiders. The rationale of this research is to provide an alternative narrative to the process of modernization and enrich our understanding of capitalist modernity through the history of a marginalized social group.

Fighting Money Laundering in the EU and Protecting the EU’s Financial Interests – An Attempt to Define an Integrated Approach

Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions

Contact: a_met_domestici(@)hotmail.com

The EU is currently undergoing several crises. Beyond the lingering economic crisis, a political crisis is caused by Euroscepticism and Brexit. The increasing terrorist threat adds to the challenges European integration is currently facing.

This research project aims at analyzing the fight against money laundering carried out by the EU, as well as the protection of the EU’s financial interests. Its goal is to demonstrate the need for an integrated approach to these two areas of European law. It will build upon analyses of the existing legal frameworks, as well as the various ongoing reform processes. Such an integrated approach requires the integration of the various aspects of the fights against both criminal offences, as well as further integration between these two areas. Furthermore, increased cooperation between the various actors involved in the fight is required, as well at the national level as at the European level -between national and European authorities.
The need to carry out this research stems from the various reforms currently being carried out.

Interpersonal and inter-organizational relations within commercial and industrial organizations.

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Contact: vincent.montenero(@)cefres.cz

He is working on interpersonal and inter-organizational relations within commercial and industrial organizations. After working more than 25 years internationally, a period during which he managed several cross-cultural teams (up to 80 persons), he decided to become a teacher and a researcher. To that end, he earned a PhD in Management at Dauphine University (PSL Paris), with life in multinational corporations as his field of work.