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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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CEFRES Actions for Ukraine, Join us, Non classé

UMIFRE fellowships for Ukrainian researchers | Results

      1. ANKHYM, Oleksii (Ivan Franko State University)
        Between Languages and Cultures: on Contemporary German-language literature by authors of Ukrainian origin
      2. KARABIN, Tetiana (Uzhhorod State University)
        Anti-Corruption Potential of Ukraine’s New Law on Administrative Procedure
      3. NAMESTIUK, Svitlana (Medical University Chernivtsi )
        Conceptualisation littéraire de la guerre et réception française du mythe du Donbass. Vers une poétique de la mémoire dans la littérature ukrainienne contemporaine
      4. PALIICHUK, Elina (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University)
        The development of the concept of the translation ecosystem in Ukraine for accession to the EU
      5. YANENKO, Anna (Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Museums)
        Art and Photo (in) History: Museum of the History of Religion(s) of the Kyiv All-Ukrainian Museum Town in the early 1930s
      6. SHUMYLOVYCH, Bohdan (Lviv Centre for Urban History)
        “Quiet Trauma”: Wartime Violence and Mediatized Gaze
      7. BILOKON, Alona (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University)
        Focuses on the intersection of energy transition, international relations, and regional development, with particular attention to the socio-economic and geopolitical dimensions of energy transition and the green economy.
      8. FISUN, Oleksandr (Karazin University Kharkiv)
        Resilience, and Local Governance in Ukraine’s Frontline Regions
      9. MYKHALCHUK, Roman (Rivne State University of Humanities)
        The Holocaust in the general district of “Voly-Podillia”: bystanders, victims, executioners, 1941-1944
      10. SHUMYTSKA, Halyna (Uzhhorod State University)
        Diversity, Identities and Language Integration
      11. KUDRYAVSTEVA, Natalia (State Pedagogical University Kryvyi Rih)
        Building Ukraine’s Multilingual Policy from Below
      12. ROMANYSHYM, Nataliya (Lviv Polytechnic National University)
        Ukrainian National Identity and Memory in Wartime Discourse: Literary Strategies and Symbolic Reconfiguration

WAITING LIST   

        1. Gnatiuk, Mykola (National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
          Integration of Ukraine into the EU: Social Representations in the Context of War
        2. Razyhraev, Oleh (Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University)
          Daily life in the prisons of interwar Poland (1918–1939)
        3. Stefurak, Olena (University of Tchernivtsi)
          Les traductrices de la diaspora ukrainienne : circulation et réception de la littérature ukrainienne en France (XXe–XXIe siècles)
        4. Chemerys, Hanna (Zaporizhzhia National University)
          Feminist Strategies in Ukrainian Wartime Art as a Soft Resistance
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: September 29–30, 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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CFP | Foucault at 100: Echoes and Encounters in Central and Eastern Europe

Deadline for submission: November 15, 2025
on the address: foucault100ece@flu.cas.cz
Date and Location:
Prague (June 1–2, 2026) and Warsaw (June 4–5, 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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Committee’s Composition 2022-2024

Statutory Members

  • Mgr. Ondřej Beránek, Ph.D., Vice President in charge of Research Area III. Humanities and Social Sciences of AV ČR
  • prof. PhDr. Eva Voldřichová Beránková, Ph.D., Vice-Rector for International Affairs of UK
  • prof. PhDr. Lenka Rovná, CSc., Member of the UK Rector’s College for European Affairs
  • Mateusz Chmurski, PhD, director of CEFRES

UK Representatives

AV ČR Representatives

Committee’s Composition 2015-2016
Committee’s Composition 2017-2018
Committee’s Composition 2018-2019
Committee’s Composition 2019-2020
Committee’s Composition 2020-2021

Rules of the Steering Committee