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Běla Sýkorová

Studied history of religions and French (translating and interpreting studies) at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Prague. Her field of specialization is translation (from French and from English into Czech), copywriting, redaction and proofreading (in Czech). She works for publishers such as Grada (Metafora) or Karmelitánské nakladatelství. She works at CEFRES from October 2022.

Mateusz Chmurski

Mateusz Chmurski is since September 2022 the director of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences in Prague. Associate Professor of Polish and Central-European Literatures at Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université and Codirector of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Central Europe (CIRCE, UMR 8224 EUR’ORBEM, with Clara Royer, 2018-2022)

He graduated in Polish Literature, Art History and Slavonic studies at the Universities of Warsaw and Paris-Sorbonne. Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt Universtät zu Berlin (2017-2018), International Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles (2016-2017), twice awarded by the START Stipend by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP, 2015, 2016).

Recent publications include the monograph Journal, fiction et identité(s). Modernités littéraires d’Europe centrale (1880-1920) à travers les œuvres de Géza Csáth, Karol Irzykowski et Ladislav Klíma (Paris 2018, Polish ed. Warsaw 2023), coeditor of ten collective volumes incl. La Voïvodine, une région centre-européenne et ses littératures (Paris, 2022), Dominik Tatarka, Le Démon du consentement et autres textes (Paris 2019) Problemy literatury i kultury modernizmu w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej (1867-1918) (vol. 1-3, Warsaw 2017).

See Mateusz Chmurski’s complete CV here.

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Committee’s Composition 2020-2021

Statutory Members

  • Ondřej Beránek, Vice President in charge of Research Area III. Humanities and Social Sciences of AV ČR
  • Lenka Rovná, Vice-Rector for European Affairs of UK
  • Jérôme Heurtaux, director of CEFRES

UK Representatives

AV ČR Representatives

List of PhD Fellows

PhD Fellows Team 2020-2021 

Véronique Gruca

contact : veronique.gruca(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at Paris-Nanterre University. Her PhD dissertation, entitled: Shamanism, Death and Mining in Postsocialist Mongolia, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Nikola Ludlová

contact : nikola.ludlova(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Department of History of the Central European University. Her PhD dissertation, entitled: Roma as an Object of Science and State Polices. Knowledge and Citizens in the Making in Post-war Czechoslovakia, 1945–1989, contributes to CEFRES research area 2. 

Ekaterina Zheltova

contact : zheltova(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, under the supervision of Kateřina Králová. Her PhD dissertation, entitled: Between the Northern Epirus and Chameria: Political, cultural, and linguistic imaginaries in the Albanian-Greek borderlands, contributes to CEFRES research area 3.

Associated PhD students 2020/2021

Arthur Pérodeau
contact: perodeau.arthur@gmail.com

Arthur Pérodeau is a PhD student at the EHESS (Paris) and at Charles University. His dissertation focuses on
the Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas and its influence on practices and uses of History till the beginning of the 13th century and contributes to the CEFRES research area 3.

Honoré Banidjè

contact : kbanidje@gmail.com

Honoré Banidjè is a PhD student in history at the Pedagogy department of Charles University in Prague. His researches focus on “The national construction in Benin (1894-1975) through the central-european prism” and aims to compare national processes in African states established after decolonial movements, specially Benin, with “successor states” in Central Europe, Czechoslovakia in particular, born after the dislocation of Central Powers

Adrien Beauduin

contact : adrien.beauduin(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Central European University. His thesis focuses on the ideas and members of new right-wing political parties in Czechia and Poland and contributes to the CEFRES research areas  2 and 3.

Adéla Klinerová

contact: adela.klinerova@cefres.cz

is a PhD student in cotutelle between the Charles University (Prague) and the École pratique des hautes études (Paris), under the supervision of Richard Biegel and Sabine Frommel. Her dissertation, entitled: Modern French Architecture in the Context of Czech and East-Central European Nineteenth-Century Architecture, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Mert Kocak

contact: mert.kocak(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Central European University. His PhD dissertation, entitled: Transnational Governance of Displacement, Sexuality and Gender Identity: UNHCR as the Main Actor in Creating a Legal Basis for Asylum-Seeking for LGBT Refugees in Turkey, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Lukáš Kotyk

contact: lukas.kotyk(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University. His PhD dissertation, entitled: Nonhierarchical Model of Project Governance, contributes to the CEFRES research area 2.

Astrid Greve Kristensen

contact: astrid.grevekristensen(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at Sorbonne University, Paris, under the supervision of Clara Royer. Her dissertation is entitled Strangers in a Strange Land: Orphans of East-Central European Literature and the Turn towards the Village,  and contributes to CEFRES research area 3.

Yuliya Moskvina

contact: yuliya.moskvina@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at Charles University (Prague) under the supervision of Paul Blokker. Her dissertation in sociology, entitled: Squat, State, Society, contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Pascal Schneider

is a PhD student at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), under the supervision of Johann Chapoutot. His dissertation in contemporary History, entitled: NSDAP Member’s Sociology: the Germans Workers National-Socialist Party in the Annexed Territories of the IIIrd Reich (Alsace, Moselle, Eupen-Malmédy, Sudètes) from 1938 to 1944, contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Františka Schormová

contact: frantiska.zezulakova.schormova@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, in the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague, under the supervision of Justin Quinn. Her PhD dissertation, entitled: African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Tereza Sedláčková

contact : tereza.sedlackova(@)cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, under Dino Numerato’s supervision. Her PhD dissertation, entitled: Multiple bodies in the context of vaccination as a medical practice, contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

Jakub Střelec

contact: jakub.strelec@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, under the supervision of Rudolf Kučera. His PhD dissertation, entitled: How to Cure the War? The Development of Psychiatric Knowledge and its Impact on the Construction of Social Norms in Europe between 1945 and 1968, contributes to CEFRES research areas 1 & 2.

Florence Vychytil-Baudoux

contact: florence.vychytil-baudoux@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the EHESS (Paris) under the supervision of Nancy L. Green. Her dissertation in history, entitled: Between Citizenship, Ethnicity and the Politics of Exile: The Logics of Polonia‘s Political Integration in France, the United States and Canada, 1945-1980, contributes to CEFRES research area 1

New PhD Fellows at CEFRES 2021-2022

The interdisciplinary selection jury of the CEFRES mobility grants auditioned 12 candidates on June the 2nd, 2020. After deliberating, the jury have decided as follows:

Young Researcher Fellowships 

  1. Vojtech Pojar (CEU): Experts in Post-imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the Nation States, 1912–1939
  2. Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw): Entre l’autoanalyse et l’autobiographie. Pratiques quotidiennes de l’écriture des premiers psychanalystes et l’importance des documents intimes pour le développement de la théorie freudienne
  3. Nikola Ludlová (CEU): Roma as an Object of Science and State Polices. Knowledge and Citizens in the Making in Post-war Czechoslovakia, 1945–1989
  4. Véronique Gruca (Paris-Nanterre University): Chamanisme, mort et mines en Mongolie post-communiste

CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowships

  1. Jan Kremer (UK): Digital Game as a Representation of History

Associated PhD Fellows

Honoré Banidjé (UK): La construction nationale au Bénin (1894-1975), un exemple centre européen?
Adrien Beauduin (CEU): Réarticulations de genre, sexualité, race et classe dans la droite radicale populiste en Tchéquie et en Pologne
Eva Kotasková (Masaryk University): From Coal Mining Production to Wilderness Industry: Ethnography of Svalbard Archipelago
Barbora Kyereko (UK): « Cocoa is Ghana, Ghana is Cocoa »: Ethnography of Research Institut
Dusan Ljuboja (Eötvös Loránd University): The State, Nationalism and Pan-Slavism in the “Age of Metternich” (1815-1848) – The Case of the Serbs of Pest and Buda