Paul-Antoine Météier

BA in History and Czech at Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) University, Paris / Master at Sciences-Po-IEP de Paris.
Master’s thesis topic: Courtly Culture As a Transfer in 12th-15th c. Bohemia
Internship period : June—July 2016.

 

Marion Clain

Master International and European Studies, Politics and Societies, Europe and the World, University of Nantes, France. Bachelor in Law and Political Sciences, University of Nantes.
Master thesis: Islamophobia in Central Europe/Czech Republic.
Internship period: May—June 2016

Pierre Neau

Masters in Gender Studies at EHESS, Paris, France.
Bachelor in Philosophy and Sociology & Bachelor in Cultural studies at Lille 3 University, Lille, France.
Fields of research: Sociology, Gender Studies, homosexualities, masculinities, post-colonial and post-communism studies.
Master’s thesis topic: “Expatriation, Manlihoods, and Homosexualities: Prague as a Gay Paradise Named Desire”.
Internship period: April 2016

Ludovic Schlosser

Master TEMA EHESS / FF UK.
BA in history and slavic studies at Aix-Marseille University and Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (Germany).
Fields of research: Social history of German culture and East-Central Europe, history of everyday life.
Master’s thesis topic: Tourism Industry and Ethnographic Production. Their Changing Interrelations and Impact on Local Identity Patterns in the Giant Mountains (1880-1918).
Internship period: March—April 2016.

Marion Eschard

Master at Paris-Sorbonne University.
Graduated in Eastern Central European Studies, specialization in Czech and Hungarian Languages (Paris-Sorbonne University) and in Literary Studies at Nantes University.
Fields of research: History and Literature. Idiocy, Humour and Dissidence.
Master’s thesis topic: Smart Idiocy in the Journalistic Writings of Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) and Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923).
Internship period: February–April 2016.

Gwendal Piégais

Master at University of Louvain.
Graduated in philosophy and in history – University of Bretagne Occidentale (Brest) and Catholic university of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve).
Fields of research: Military and social history in WWI.
Planned PhD thesis topic: Practices and Uses of Interrogating German and Austro-Hungarian Deserters by the Intelligence Service of the Entente Armies during WWI.
Internship period: October 2015—January 2016.

Xavier De Poulpiquet de Brescanvel

Master TEMA EHESS / FF UK.
BA in history and in philosophy at University of Rennes.
Fields of research: Modern history, cultural history.
Master’s thesis topic: An Analysis of De la Crequinière’s Narrative: Conformity of Eastern Indians’ Customs with these of Jews and other ancient peoples (17-18th c.).
Internship period: October—December 2015.

Alicia Bouchot

Master TEMA EHESS / FF UK.
BA in history and geography at Jean-Jaurès University, Toulouse.
Fields of research: Urban studies, minority studies, history of immigration.
Master’s thesis topic: “Ethnic neighborhood” or “place of diversity”: the study of a neighbourhood in Toulouse (1969-2009).
Internship period: October 2015. Intern at the library.

The Construction of a Philosophical International Through World Congresses of Philosophy between 1900 and 1940

Research Area 1: Displacements, Dépaysements and Discrepancies.

Contact: giuseppe.bianco@cefres.cz

My current research aims at appraising the history of world congresses of philosophy between 1900 and 1940, and the way European philosophers strove to translate and exchange their concepts. I am taking into consideration these fifty years through which European philosophers attempted to create a transnational community, and a common vocabulary and language. This case study is not limited to the texts and their content, but also encompasses the social, technical and economical aspects of this endeavour to spread concepts. This phenomenon implies a complex dynamic not undevoided of struggles engaging several actors (such as the authors, the societies, magazines, governments and so forth), which unfold both in the national and the international space.

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Conceptual art in Bratislava in the 1960s-1980s

Research Area 1: Displacements, Dépaysements and Discrepancies.
Research Area 2 : Norms & Transgressions.

Contact: perin-emel.yavuz@cefres.cz

This project focuses on the avant-garde microcosm of Bratislava in the 1960s-1980s, which included artists such as Július Koller (1939-2007), Stano Filko (1937-2015), Miloš Laky (1948-1975 ), Peter Bartoš (1938), Alex Mlynárčik (1934), Jana Želibská (1941). Provocatively compared with the communist context that prevailed then, I designate these artists as entrepreneurs because they had to find their own ways to create and show their work, in a context where private galleries were rare and where State dominated the worlds of art. These artists should therefore invent experimental forms and exhibition solutions that were very similar to those of Western avant-garde at the same time. One can perceive in these inventions, outside this official circuits of recognition of art, a way to access a kind of freedom from not only material contingencies but political oppression.

Through historical research on this avant-garde microcosm and its local context, I want to investigate the origins and deep motivations of these artists’ “disguised” solutions to create and show their work. Starting from the assumption that art and politics are part of a relationship of interdependence, my goal is, first, to observe individual paths in relation to local art history, and secondly, to study their relationship with the coercive framework imposed by the State. In this way, the challenge is to determine the genesis of artistic innovation. In terms of reception, I also will question how the actions of these artists, these transgressive ways of making art, were perceived by connoisseurs and authorities. Including the use of institutional approaches and functional George Dickie Nelson Goodman from analytic aesthetics, this project thus commits an aesthetic thought on the status of an artistic production once it is not recognized by official channels. By using analytical aesthetics methods (including George Dickie’s institutional approach[1] and Nelson Goodman’s functional approach[2]), this project thus commits an aesthetic thought on the status of an artistic production when it is not recognized by official channels.

Beyond the local context, sources of these transgressive forms and practices will also be to find, according to the theory of cultural transfers, in exchanges with the Western world and the artists of the former Eastern bloc networks. This will enable to lay the groundwork for a histoire croisée of the turn of art in the 1960s-1980s and to review the chronologies of this artistic phenomenon which is still dominated by Western avant-garde.

[1] Dickie George, 1964, « The myth of the aesthetic attitude », American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 1, n^o 1, p. 54-64 ; 1969, « Defining art », American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 6, n^o 3, p. 253-256 ; 1974, Art and the Aesthetic. An Institutional Analysis, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.

[2] Goodman, Nelson, 1992 [1977], « Quand y a-t-il art ? », transl. by Daniel Lories, in Genette, Gérard, Esthétique et poétique, Paris, Seuil, p. 89-90.

CV

Current situation

• Associated to Centre for the Study of Arts and Language (CRAL UMR 8566) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
• Co-founder of the research group ARVIMM, which is engaged in the study of contemporary visual arts in Maghreb and Middle East.
• Member of the editorial board of the French online review on art theory Proteus.
• Member of the scientific board of the French and German online review Trajectoires. Travaux des jeunes chercheurs du CIERA.

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Education

7 Jan. 2015 : Audition for the residency competition within the program “Approches et théories de l’art mondialisé et du post-colonialisme”, National Institute for Art History (INHA), Paris, ranked second for one position.

23 Oct. 2014: Audition for the post-doc competition of the research programm “Labex Creation, Art and Heritage” (CAP), Paris.

27 June 2014: Audition for the post-doc competition Fernand Braudel IFER outgoing, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris, ranked fourth for three positions.

2014: Qualification to become a university assistant professor in sections 18 (Aesthetics) and 22 (Art History).

2013 : PhD in Arts : History and Theory, EHESS, under the supervision of Jean-Marie Schaeffer, CRAL. Jury: Jacques Morizot, Jan Baetens, André Gunthert, Michel Gauthier. Mention très honorable. Dissertation title: Narrative art : de l’expérience du monde quotidien au monde de l’œuvre. Herméneutique de l’événement esthétique [Narrative Art: from the Everyday Life Experience to the Artwork. Hermeneutic of the Aesthetic Event].

9 June 2011 : Interview to  “concours externe de professeur des écoles nationales supérieures d’art”, École nationale supérieure d’art of Dijon, ranked 3^rd.

2002 : 2^nd year of MA in Contemporary Art History, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne – Paris I. Mention bien.

2000 : 1^rst year of MA in Contemporary Art History, Université Louis Lumière – Lyon II – Ruprecht Karls Universität, Heidelberg, Allemagne (Erasmus program). Mention bien.

Professional Experience

Research Experience

2008-2009 : Fellow, “History of Art and Aesthetic” Programm, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Paris)

2006 : Fellow, Graduiertenkolleg “Körper-Inszenierungen”, Department of Theater Studies, Freie Universität (Berlin, Germany)

2006 : Fellowship from the Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Études et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne (Paris) for a field trip in Germany (Berlin, Munich, Germany)

2004 : Fellow at the École Française de Rome, Villa Medici (Italy).

Teaching Experience

2014-2016 : In charge (with Annabelle Boissier, Fanny Gillet, Alain Messaoudi and Silvia Naef) of ARVIMM’s seminar, EHESS, Paris

2012-2013 : Tutor, Master Trans — Mediation Teaching, Haute école des arts et de design, Geneva (Swiss)

2008-2011 : Professor of History of Art at ESAL-Art School, Metz-Epinal (France)

2010-2011 : Part-time Lecturer of Contemporary Art History at University of Marne-la-Vallée (France)

2007-2008 : In charge (with Jean-François Guennoc) of the seminar Interart — Penser l’interdisciplinarité et les formes artistiques, EHESS, Paris

2005-2007 : Part-time Lecturer of Comparative Literature at University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin (France).

Curating Experience

Sept. 2014-Aug. 2015 : (with Alain Messaoudi & Fanny Gillet) TYPOGRAPHIAe ARABICAe, Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC), 15 June-8 August 2015.

Communication and Edition Experience

June 2013-Dec. 2015 : Scientific Communication Manager, Institute for Advanced Studies in Islam and Islamic Societies (IISMM), EHESS, Paris.

Dec. 2007-Oct. 2010 : Managing Editor, Trivium, French-German online journal for Human and Social Sciences, Paris — http://trivium.revues.org/

Conferences and Workshops

9 July 2015 : Panel Images, narrativités, identités. Ce que nous disent les arts plastiques des sociétés du Maghreb et du Moyen Orient (XIX^e-XXI^e siècle) [Images, Narrativities, Identities. What do tell Visual Arts about Maghreb and Middle East (XIXth-XXIrst Century)] — Congress of the Groupement d’intérêt scientifique “Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans” (CNRS), INALCO, Paris. Co-organized with Annabelle Boissier, Fanny Gillet and Alain Messaoudi.

15 June 2015 : Workshop Typographie et graphisme de la lettre arabe : enjeux et perspectives [Arabic Typography and Graphic Design: Issues and Perspectives], Pôle des langues et civilisations, Paris. Co-organized with Fanny Gillet and Alain Messaoudi.

2014-2015 : Lecture series Conversation du spectateur, Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris. Co-organized with Edith Magnan and Bruno Trentini.

8 Nov. 2010 : Conference Sur les routes. La marche et les pratiques artistiques [On the Road. Walking and Artistic Practices], ESAL-Art School, Metz-Epinal, Musée de l’image, Epinal (France).

6-7 May 2010 : Conference Avant-gardes politiques / Avant-gardes artistiques dans les années 60-70. Un parallèle en question [Political Avant-gardes/Aesthetical Avant-gardes in the 60s-70s: from Parallel Towards Interaction], CRAL-EHESS/INHA, Paris. Co-organized with Malika Combes and Igor Zubillaga Contreras.

13-14 March 2009 : Conference Agencements – arrangements – a-genre-ments? Narrations en tous genres (France-Allemagne) [Gender-Collage? Gender-Muster? Gender-Er-zählung? Geschlecht(er) und Narration(en)], CIERA-EHESS-University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. (Co-organized with Patrick Farges and Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn).

Publications

Books and Special issues

• (ed. with Annabelle Boissier, Fanny Gillet & Alain Messaoudi), “The Visual Arts in Islamic Lands: New Approaches, New Challenges”, special issue, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2017. (Project accepted)
• (ed. with Bruno Trentini), “Que fait la mondialisation à l’esthétique?” [What Does Globalization Make to Aesthetic?], special issue, Proteus, 2015: 8.
• (ed. with Malika Combes & Igor Contreras), A l’avant-garde ! Art et politique dans les années 60-70 [In the Vanguard ! Art and Politics During the 60s and 70s], Peter Lang, March 2013.
• (ed. with Patrick Farges & Cécile Chamayou-Kuhn), Le Lieu du genre. La narration, un espace de performation du genre [Narrative, a Space where Gender Performs], Presses de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, 2011.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• “La traversée du Delaware, l’aventure esthétique de Bill Beckley” [The Delaware Crossing, the Aesthetical Adventure of Bill Beckley], in: Danièle Méaux (ed.), “Espaces phototextuels” [Phototextuals Spaces] (special issue) Revue des sciences humaines, 319, 2015: 3, p. 155-166.
• “Narative Art. Da autoridade do referente a uma possível ficcionalidade da fotografia”, in : Ana Maria Pacheco Carneiro, Beatriz Rauscher & Daniel Luís Barreiro (eds.), “Interdito: fotografia e fabulação” (special issue), ouvirOUver (Brazil), [online journal], vol. 11, no. 2, 2015. See online.
• “La mythologie individuelle, une fabrique du monde” [Individual Mythology, a Factory of World], in: Florence Baillet & Arnaud Regnauld (eds.), “L’Intime et le Politique dans la littérature et les arts contemporains” (special issue), Poétique de l’étranger (Paris), [online journal], no. 8, 2011. See online.
• “Photographie, séquence et texte. Le Narrative art aux confins d’une temporalité féconde” [Photography, Sequence and Text. Narrative art within a Fecund Temporality], in : Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger & Hilde Van Gelder (eds.), “Time and Photography” (special issue) Image&Narrative (Louvain), [online journal], no. 23, 2008. See online.

Chapters in Collective Works

• “Le Narrative art. De l’autorité du référent vers un possible fictionnel de la photographie” [Narrative Art. From Referential Authority to Fiction in Photography], in: Bernard Guelton (ed.), Fiction et Intermédialité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013, p. 31-36.
• “La politique de l’image aux confins d’une avant-garde qui ne dit pas son nom” [Picture Politics within an Avant-garde without Name], in: Malika Combes, Igor Contreras & Perin Emel Yavuz, A l’avant-garde ! Art et politique dans les années 60-70, Peter Lang, 2013, p. 157-168.
• (With Patrick Farges & Anne-Isabelle François) “Les Gender Studies entre transfert et institutionnalisation: une circulation des modèles et des pouvoirs” [Gender Studies between Tranfers and Institutionalization: a Circulation of Models and Powers], in: Aline Le Berre, Angelika Schober & Florent Gabaude (eds.), Le Pouvoir au féminin – Spielräume weiblicher Macht. Identités, représentations et stéréotypes dans l’espace germanique, Limoges, PULIM, 2013, p. 27-42.
• “La lecture comme paradigme esthétique. De l’extase moderniste au plaisir du texte” [Reading as Aesthetic Paradigma. From Modernist Excatsy to Pleasure of the Text], in: Andreas Beyer & Danièle Cohn (eds), Die Kunst denken. Zu Ästhetik und Kunstgeschichte, Berlin et Munich, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2012, p. 199-213.

Communications

• (with Annabelle Boissier) “Temporalités en histoire de l’art. Valeurs et usages de la notion de retard” [Temporalities in Art History. Values and Uses of the Notion of Delay], ARVIMM’s seminar, EHESS, Paris, 2016-2-17.
• “Le tournant de l’art en Turquie, importation ou appropriation du modèle européo-américain? Lecture des écrits du STT” [Turn of Art in Turkey, Importation or Appropriation of the European and American Model? Reading the STT’s Writings], Conference Écrits et paroles d’artistes d’Afrique du Nord, du Moyen-Orient et de l’Europe de l’Est dans la guerre froide (1947-1989), IISMM-EHESS, 2015-11-4/5.
• “Sanat Tanımı Topluluğu (The Art Definition Group), passeur de l’Art conceptuel en Turquie” [Sanat Tanımı Topluluğu (The Art Definition Group), a Purveyor of Conceptual Art in Turkey], Conference Arts visuels et islams. Inventions, constructions, prescriptions (XIX^e-XXI^e siècle), Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme d’Aix-en-Provence, 2014-10-2/3.
• “Le tournant de l’art des années 1970-1980 en Turquie: formes et enjeux” [The Turn of Art during the 70s-80s in Turkey: Forms and Issues], ARVIMM’s seminar, EHESS, 2014-12-19.
• “L’introduction de l’art conceptuel en Turquie : le Sanat Tanımı Topluluğu (1978-1981)” [The Introduction of Conceptual Art in Turkey: the Sanat Tanımı Topluluğu (1978-1981)], Frédéric Hitzel & Timur Muhidine’s seminar, “Art, patrimoine et cultures dans le monde turc et ottoman”, IISMM-EHESS, 2014-11-19.
• “L’achèvement de l’œuvre. Implications esthétiques de la narrativité dans la réception” [The Achievement of the Artwork. Aesthetical Rule of Narrativity in Reception], Bernard Guelton’s seminar “Le spectateur face à l’œuvre interactive”, Research Project “Fiction et interactions”, Institut ACTE, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne-Paris-1, Paris, 2013-12-13.
• “Le Narrative art: de la destitution du modèle romanesque du récit à la narrativité” [Narrative Art: from Destitution of Novel’s Narrative Model to Narrativity], Anne-Isabelle François’ seminar, “Récit et sens de l’intrigue”, Master de recherche de littérature générale et comparée, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Paris, 2013-12-12.

Eastern Bohemia in the First Globalization (1870s-1940s)

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Contact: s.plyer@cefres.cz

My research focuses on Eastern Bohemia from the 1870s to the 1940s. Despite its fringe position at the Silesian border, between the Elbe and Moravia, this territory developed the most modern textile industry within the Double Monarchy and fully integrated the circuits of global exchanges of the end of 19th century. At the same time, Eastern Bohemia’s society experienced violent clashes between its Czech- and German-speaking populations. The expulsions of Germans in 1945-1946 put an end to a period tainted with globalization, democratization and nationalist drifts.

According to the available sources, the local society was organized within networks of information, business and sociabilities (as evidenced by the matrimonial alliances contracted between textile business families,  the pendular migrations of workers down to Silesia, and the circulation of local papers). These networks more or less fit the same regional geographical borders.

My aim is to study how such networks – and through them, local actors – would make use of the various spatial scales as ressources or as ways to escape in time of crisis. The efforts undertaken by some to impose a mainstream action – in order to integrate parochial conflicts into larger national politics for instance, or as they assimilated the national goals for their own local purposes, or as they chose to emigrate overseas – shall be scrutinized as they met growing nationalist discourses. Such analysis should provide a better understanding of how multiculturality was managed in a regional frame in the context of this first globalization.

CV

Current Situation

Since 2010, assistant professor at the Strasbourg University.

Education and professional career

2007: PhD at the Sorbonne Panthéon (Paris I) University, under the supervision of Robert Frank and Étienne François, cum summa laude.
Dissertation title: Germans from Sudeten and from Germany: Group Identity Mutations (The Case of Braunau/Broumov in Bohemia).

1995: received at “agrégation” national competitive examination in history (national recruitment examination for high-school/university professors).

Teaching

Since 2010: courses preparing to the national recruitment examination for high-school/university professors; courses in BA and MA; seminars for PhD students, at the Strasbourg University.

2014-2015: co-organization of two trinational summer schools “Gathered within Diversity?” with the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn, Paris-Sorbonne University, Warsaw and Wrocław University, Bonn 2014, Strasbourg 2015. Course given in 2015: “Cities”. Courses given in 2014: “Informationsgesellschaft” and “Migration und Grenzen”.

2002-2008: high-school teacher within the Versailles academy.

Affiliations

• Member of the research center EA 3400 (Faculty of history, Strabourg University).
• Member of the CNRS research group no. 3607  « Connaissance de l’Europe médiane ».
• Member of the peer-review committe of Revue d’Allemagne.
• Partner researcher of the UMR SIRICE-Sorbonne research center “European Identities,  International Relations and Civilizations”.

Last Publications

• « Récits de vie et expulsion : l’exemple des Allemands des Sudètes », in Dominique Herbet et Caroline Hähnel-Mesnard (dir.), Fuite et expulsion des Allemands : transnationalité et représentations, XXe-XXIe siècle, Lille, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2015, p. 367-388.
• « Restaurer la sensibilité au paysage. Deux mouvements de patrimonialisation aux confins de la Bohême pendant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle », Revue d’Allemagne, t. 47, n° 2, 2015, p. 151-168.
• « Expulsion, grands récits nationaux et petits récits européens. Mémoires individuelles et construction des communautés en Europe centrale depuis 1945 », Source(s). Cahiers de l’équipe de recherche ARCHE, n°4, juin 2014.
• Notices : “Charte 77”, “Luxembourg (Rosa)”, “Spartakisme”, “Mur de Berlin”, “Rideau de fer”, “Contraception (et avortement)”, “Féminisme et mouvements féministes”, “J’écris ton nom Liberté”, dans : Georges Bischoff et Nicolas Bourguinat (dir.), Dictionnaire historique de la liberté, Nouveau monde éditions, 2015.

You can see Ségolène Plyer’s full list of publications here.