We are happy to announce the name of the winner of the height CEFRES Platform Award for best article in social sciences and humanities in an international peer-reviewed journal (see the call for applications here):
Kristýna KAUCKÁ (Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Akademy of Sciences) for her article:
“The Unknown Infection, or “Rožňava Disease” in Czechoslovakia in 1951’”, Contemporary European History, 2023: 1–19.
Photos Ondřej Besperát
The award ceremony took place on 28 June 2024 at the French Embassy in the presence of Mrs. Milena Králičková, Rector of Charles University, Mrs. Eva Zažímalová, President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic Stéphane Crouzat and Nobel Prize laureate, Jean-Marie Lehn.
Veronique Debord Lazzaro, attachée for scientific cooperation of the French Embassy to the Czech RepublicMateusz Chmurski, director of CEFRES
Anna Yanenko is a researcher (Deputy Head of the Research Department of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Museums History) in the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” (Ukraine). She is a co-founder and coorganizer the continual Research Seminar on History of the Humanities in Ukraine (an initiative of ICOM Ukraine and the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). She coordinates conferences on history of humanities, archaeology and museums in Ukraine. Continue reading Anna Yanenko – Research & CV→
“‘Exilic energies’: the expirience of Julia Kristeva”
Contact: r.dzyk[@]chnu.edu.u
Research Area 1 – Displacements, “dépaysement”, discrepancies
Roman Dzyk holds a PhD in Philology and currently serves as the Head of the Department of World Literature and Theory of Literature at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. He obtained his bachelor’s degree (2007) and master’s degree (2008) in philology with honors from the same university. In 2012, he successfully defended his PhD thesis in literary theory. Continue reading Roman Dzyk – Research & CV→
“From a Party Truth to a Class Truth”: Picture of Operaismo in Heresy (1956–1969)
Research Area 1 and 2
His PhD research focuses on the Italian branch of the international “new left-wing”, appearing after 1956, as an intellectual network and activist groups in periphery of the partisan left-wing. His subject is more precisely connected to the group magazines associated with “Operaismo” or “Workerism”, namely Quaderni rossi and Classe operaia, whose archives he discusses (work notes, letters, mettings reports, personal papers) with hybrid methods. He thus uses tools from social history of political ideas, socio-history of parties, sociology of political crisis and transnational mobilisations.Continue reading Julien Allavena – Research & CV→
“The Quest for a Lost Meaning: Work and Workers in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia. A Story of Flying Literature”
Contact: valentin.auger[@]ff.cuni.cz
Research Area : 1
My doctoral research focuses on the notion of meaning in the work experienced by workers in socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. It is being carried out at the Institute of Economic and Social History (ÚHSD) of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.Continue reading Valentin Auger – Research & CV→
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague
Roman Dzyk holds a PhD in Philology and currently serves as the Head of the Department of World Literature and Theory of Literature at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. He obtained his bachelor’s degree (2007) and master’s degree (2008) in philology with honors from the same university. In 2012, he successfully defended his PhD thesis in literary theory. 
His PhD research focuses on the Italian branch of the international “new left-wing”, appearing after 1956, as an intellectual network and activist groups in periphery of the partisan left-wing. His subject is more precisely connected to the group magazines associated with “Operaismo” or “Workerism”