Ali Al Moussaoui

is a psycholinguist, postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES and at Charles University since January 2026. His research project entitled : “Domestic Archives of Displacement: Memory, Language, and Informal Bookmaking among Armenian and Palestinian Populations and Women in Lebanon” contributes to CEFRES Research Areas 1 and 2 : Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices and Norms and Transgressions. His research is conducted within a project entitled Paper Bonds: Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East  within the AV ČR-CNRS Tandem program.

Ioana Cîrstocea

Contact : ioana.cirstocea[@]ehess.fr

is a CNRS researcher appointed at CEFRES  since September 2023. Her research project entitled « For the (Well-)being of Children ». A Political Sociology of Mobilizations to Define Educational Norms in a Post-Socialist Context contributes to the CEFRES 2nd Research Area : Norms and Transgressions. She is also the coordinator of the IRN ProCoMF (CNRS, 2026-2030) entitled Architects of gender equality beyond and across geopolitics. Prosopography of participants in the world conferences on women (UN, 1975-1995).

Anne Fornerod

is a legal expert specializing in religion and a research director at the CNRS. In 2026, she received International Mobility Support (SMI) from the CNRS to join CEFRES. She coordinates, alongside Barbora Spalová, the project Agency of the presence and absence of religious buildings in Europe, developed within the UK-CNRS Tandem program contributing to Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces.

Gilles Lepesant

Contact : gilles.lepesant[@]cnrs.fr

is geographer, Senior research fellow at CNRS appointed at CEFRES and associate researcher at the Centre March Bloch, Berlin. Alongside Martin Ďurďovič, he joined CEFRES within the AV ČR–CNRS Tandem Program. 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.

Louisa Martin-Chevalier

Contact: louisa.martin-chevalier[@]sorbonne-universite.fr

is a musicologist, assistant professor at Sorbonne University (IReMus, UMR 8223) hosted on a CNRS delegation at CEFRES. Alongside Valeriya Korablyova, she joined CEFRES within the CU-CNRS Tandem Program. 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.

Hélène Martinelli

Contact : helene.martinelli[@]ens-lyon.fr

is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, and benefits from International Mobility Support (SMI) from CNRS at CEFRES for the year 2026. She coordinates, alongside Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė, the project Paper Bonds: Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and the Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East. developed within the AV ČR-CNRS Tandem program, and contributing to CEFRES Research Areas 1 Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies and 2 Norms and Transgressions.

Maika Nguyen

is a literary researcher, post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES for two years since January 2026. Her research project entitled  ‘”Vietnamese” Across “Europe”: Displacement, Identity and Dis/connections’ contributes to the CEFRES Research Area 1 : Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices. 

Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė

is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associated researcher at CEDEJ in Cairo. In 2026-2027, she works with Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon) and Ali Al-Moussaoui (Charles University) within the AV ČR-CNRS  Tandem Program on the project Paper Bonds: Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and the Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East, and contributing to CEFRES Reasearch Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices and 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Barbora Spalová

is an anthropologist of religion at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University , who returns to CEFRES from January 2026. Together with Anne Fornerod, she coordinates the project Agency of presence and absence of religious buildings, developed within the UK-CNRS Tandem program and contributing to CEFRES Research Area 3 : Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces.

Romain Tiquet

is a historian and a CNRS researcher at the Institut des Mondes Africains. Starting in January 2026, he is hosted at CEFRES, in collaboration with Silvestr Trnovec, to develop a project entitled No Colonies, Still Colonial ? (Czecho)Slovak History and the French Colonial Empire in Africa (18th–early 20th centuries). This project is conducted within the SAV-CNRS Tandem Program and contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3 : Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Silvester Trnovec

is a historian and specialist in Africa at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Alongside, Romain Tiquet, he joined CEFRES in January 2026 within the SAV-CNRS Tandem Program. His research entitled No Colonies, Still Colonial ? (Czecho)Slovak History and the French Colonial Empire in Africa (18th–early 20th centuries)contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Associated researchers

Eloïse Adde

is an associate professor at the Central European University and a associate researcher at CEFRES. Her projet, titled Community, Identity, Individuals: Shaping the (Political) Nation in Premodern Europe (400-1800), contributes to Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Oleksii Ankhym

Contact: ankhimoleksii[@]gmail.com

is associate professor at the Department of Germanic Philology and Foreign Literature (Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, Ukraine). As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his project entitled Transnational Literature: Conceptualization, Research Methodology, Poetics (Based on Modern German-Language Literature by Authors of Ukrainian Origin) contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Katarína Bednárová

is a professor at the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, her project, The Humanities in Translation – Translation in the Humanities. Issues of Cultural Transfer and Literary Reception in the 20th Century” contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Lara Bonneau

Contact: bonneau[@]flu.cas.cz 

is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FLÚ AV ČR) and an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research, Emil Utitz et la science générale de l’art, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Kateřina Čapková

Contact: katerina.capkov[@]ff.cuni.cz

is an Asistent Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, her work, Prague Center for Romani Histories, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Hanna Chemerys

is a researcher at Zaporizhzhia National University and associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project entitled Visual Narratives, Commemoration of War and Graphic Representation of National Identity: Comparative Analysis of Ukrainian and European Contexts, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Júlia Čížová

Contact: julia.cizova[@]savba.sk

is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, her work titled History of the environment in the XXe century, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Anemona Constantin

is a research fellow at CEVIPOL, Université libre de Bruxelles and associate at CEFRES. Her work, entitled Conservative intellectuals and transnational networks, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Oksana Dovgopolova 

Contact : o.dovgopolova[@]onu.edu.ua

is a researcher at the Odesa І.І. Mechnikov National University and an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project entitled Transforming the Regional Identity in Odesa in Context of Russia-Ukraine War contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Mátyás Erdélyi

is a postdoctoral researcher at the Central European University and associate researcher at CEFRES. His work, titled Insurance, Banking, and Capitalist Modernity in the Late Habsburg Monarchy, contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Josefína Formanová

is a researcher at Charles University and an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project, Philosophy of Failure. Negativity and Error in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Viacheslav Grekov

Contact: grekov_vd[@]ukr.net

is a researcher at the NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his work, titled Ukrainian Nuclear Physics within the Coordinates of Empire and Independence: Ways of Rethinking the History and Heritage of Ukrainian Science, contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Ronan Hervouet

Ronan Hervouet is a Professor of sociology at the University of Bordeaux and a member of the Centre Émile Durkheim (UMR 5116). As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his research project, titled EXILEST : Les exilé.e.s bélarusses, russes et ukrainien.ne.s après l’invasion de Ukraine. Politisations, interactions, solidarités et tensions, contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Kajetán Holeček

Contact: kajetan.holecek[@]cefres.cz

is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FLÚ AV ČR). As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his work titled Decline and Beginning: Jewish Settlements in Bohemia at the End of the Middle Ages, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Iwona Janicka

Contact: Janicka[@]flu.cas.cz

is a researcher at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P) and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, her work, titled Living on Earth: Philosophies of Habitability in the 21st Century, contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Olga Kalashnikova

Contact: Kalashnikova_Olga(@)phd.ceu.edu

is a researcher at the Central European University and associate researcher at CEFRES. Her project, Assemblage of political medievalisms in contemporary Russia (2010-2024), contributes to CEFRES Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Pavlo Khudish

Contact: pavlo.khudish[@]uzhnu.edu.ua

is a researcher at the Uzhhorod National University and associate researcher at CEFRES. His project, Restitution, reintegration, and interactions of Jewish Holocaust survivors with their former neighbours in Transcarpathia, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies.

Valeriya Korablyova

Contact: valeriya.korablyova[@]fsv.cuni.cz

is a researcher at Charles University and associate researcher at CEFRES. Her project, titled A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Eva Krásová

Contact : eva.krasova[@]ff.cuni.cz

is a researcher in the Department of Czech Literature and Comparative Studies at Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. She contributes to the research project Displacements: Gendered-based Violence, Women’s Writing and Creative Practices in Modern Central and Southeastern Europe (CEFRES Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions).

Dominik Kulcsár

is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV). As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his work, titled The Philosophical Concept of Revolt , contributes to CEFRES Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Igor Lyman

Contact: lyman[@]ukr.net

is a researcher at the Berdyansk State Pedagogical University and associate researcher at CEFRES. His project, titled Mapping and Connecting Ukrainian Science Diaspora in France, Czech Republic, and Visegrád Countries, particularly in the Context of Wars, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Natalia Matveieva

Contact: natalyamatveieva[@]gmail.com

is an associate professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language and Slavistics and researcher at the Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics at the Institute of Ukrainian Language. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, her work, titled Language Biographies of Temporarily Internally Displaced Ukrainians in the Context of the Full-Scale Russian-Ukrainian War, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Chiara Mengozzi

is a researcher at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University and associate researcher at CEFRES. Her project, Animal Matters:
Challenging the Anthropological Difference and Literary Norms, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Vincent Montenero

is a researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague and associate researcher at CEFRES. His research project Interpersonal and inter-organizational relations within commercial and industrial organizations contributes to Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Vadym Osin

is an Associate Professor at Dnipro University of Technology, and associate researcher at CEFRES. His research project entitled Ukrainian Academy Under Fire: Politics of Knowledge in Russian-Ukrainian War contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Elina Paliichuk

Contact : e.paliichuk[@]kubg.edu.ua

is an Assistant Professor at the Linguistics and Translation Department of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, her work, titled Changing Young Minds: Student Awareness of Human Trafficking under War Conditions  contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Fedora Parkmann

is a researcher at the Institute of Art History (Czech Academy of Sciences) and associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project, entitled The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art contributes to CEFRES’s Research Areas 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Vojtěch Pojar

is an associate professor at the American University of Central Asia (Bichkek). As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his work, entitled Experts in Post-Imperial Transitions: Entanglements and Diverging Trajectories of Eugenicists between the Habsburg Empire and the Nation States, 1912–1939, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Pascal Schneider

contact: pascal.charles.schneider[@]gmail.com

is a researcher at Centre Marc Bloch and associate researcher at CEFRES. His research project, Objects and Traces of the German annexation by the Third Reich: A comparative study of the Eger district in the Sudetenland and the Saverne district in Alsace, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Josef Šebek

Contact: josef.sebek[@]ff.cuni.cz

Igor Serdiuk

is a researcher at the University «Kyiv School of Economics» and associate researcher at CEFRES. His project, Social and demographic history of Ukraine in the 18th–19th centuries, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Sergiy Shevtsov

Contact : sergiishevtsov[@]gmail.com

is Professor of the Department of Philosophy of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his work, Mapping and Connecting Ukrainian Science Diaspora in France, Czech Republic, and Visegrád Countries, particularly in the Context of Wars, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Bohdan Shumylovych

Contact: b.shumylovych[@]lvivcenter.org.ua

is associate professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Ukrainian Catholic University, and associate researcher at CEFRES. His research project, Late (post)Soviet Ukrainian art: Urban creative groups and their involvement with the place/space of the 1980s–1990s contributes to CEFRES Research Area 3: Everyday experience of spaces.

Clément Steuer

Contact: steuer[@]iir.cz

is a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations and associate researcher at CEFRES. His work, Party systems in the Midle East and North Africa in a comparative perspective, contributes to CEFRES’s Research Area 1: Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies.

Yevhenii Tkachenko

is a researcher at the Department of Constitutional Law of Ukraine, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. As an associate researcher at CEFRES, his work, Protection of Minority Rights in the Field of Education: A Comparative Study (Cases of Ukraine, Czech Republic, and France), contributes to CEFRES Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions.

Ivanna Tsar

Contact: vakavaka7[@]gmail.com

is a researcher of the Department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics, of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. As an associate researcher at CEFRE, her work, entitled Language behavior of ukrainian youth during the russian-ukrainian war, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1:Displacements, « Dépaysement » and Discrepancies .

 

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