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?”.

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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Aníbal Arregui

Contact: anibal.arregui(at)cefres.cz

is presently researcher at the University of Barcelona, Department of Social Anthropology, and at the University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and associate researcher at CEFRES. In 2018, Aníbal Arregui was post-doctorant at CEFRES financed by Charles University. His research project, entitled Animating the Wild Pig: Bows and Arrows in European Ecopolitics, is developed within the TANDEM research program “Bewildering Boar” and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Daniel Baric

Daniel Baric studied History and completed German, Slavic and Hungarian studies in Paris, Berlin and Budapest. A former associate professor at the Department of German studies of Tours University, he is currently working at the Department of Slavic studies of Sorbonne University and is since January 2019 associated to CEFRES.
His researches focus on cultural transfers and interculturality in Central Europe, especially within the Habsburg Empire and contributes to research areas 1 and 3.

Ludĕk Brož

Contact: broz(at)eu.cas.cz

is from February 2018 a part-time senior researcher at CEFRES within the TANDEM program. He works with Virginie Vaté on the TANDEM project “Bewildering Boar” as its PI.

Giovanna Capponi

Contact: giovanna.capponi(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2019 until December 2019 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES benefitting from the support of the Charles University in Prague. Her research project, entitled Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy, is developed within the TANDEM research program “Bewildering Boar” and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Paul G. Keil

Contact: paul.keil(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2019 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES and member of the TANDEM program “Bewildering Boar“. His research focuses on human and feral pig relations in Australia.

Chiara Mengozzi

Contact: chiara.mengozzi(at)cefres.cz

is after two years of post-doc an associate researcher at CEFRES from January 2018. She contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Thomas C. Mercier

Contact: thomas.mercier(at)cefres.cz

has been since January 2018 a post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES and since March 2018 at the Department of German and French Philosophy of Charles University. His research, entitled Derrida’s Europes: Deconstruction, Marxism, Democracy, is developed within the research program on “Archives and Interculturality” and contributes to  research area 1.

Kannan Muthukrishnan

is from March 2018 an associate researcher at CEFRES within the “Archives and Interculturality” research program. He is a permanent researcher of the Pondicherry French Institute, India.

Fedora Parkmann

Contact: fedoraparkmann(at)aol.com

is from January 2019 a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project, entitled « A Transnational Perspective on Czech Social Photography. A Case Study of Czech International Exhibitions from 1933 to 1934 between Germany, France and the USSR » contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.

Marianna Szczygielska

Contact: szczygielska(at)cefres.cz

is since 2018 an associate researcher at CEFRES within the TANDEM research project “Bewildering Boar“. She is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III Artifacts, Knowledge, Action. Her research project is entitled Wild Pigs and Proud Elephants: Engendering Wildlife in Central Eastern Europe.

Virginie Vaté

Contact: Virginie.VATE(at)cnrs.fr

is a CNRS associate researcher at CEFRES  from February 2018 within the TANDEM research project “Bewildering Boar: Changing Cosmopolitics of the Hunt in Europe and Beyond” with Ludĕk Brož.

Benedetta Zaccarello

Contact: benedetta.zaccarello(at)cefres.cz

is a CEFRES senior researcher from January 2017. She works on “Hybridations of Paradigms and Circulation of Traditions in the Writing of Contemporary Philosophy” looking through the manuscript archives of such philosophers as Jan Patočka and Aurobindo Ghose. Her research is embedded in CEFRES research area 1.