Third International Workshop:
Central European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective
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.
Date: September 29 – October 1, 2025
Location: University Library, Michalská 1, Bratislava
Language: English
Program
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This workshop is organised by CEFRES in partnership with CNRS & the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Prague, within the research project Contested energy transitions. Conflicts and Social innovations in big cities in the Czech Republic, France and Poland supported by the CNRS / CAS Tandem Program.
Date: September 22, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Convenor: Gilles LEPESANT, Research fellow at CNRS/CEFRES (Prague)
Program
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A conference organized by:
Centre d’études historiques de l’Académie polonaise des Sciences (CBH-PAN)
ISP (UMR 7220)
LincS (UMR 7069)
Université de Toulon
Université de Łódź
and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES, Prague)
Date: September 15–16, 2025
Location: Berlin, Polish Academy of Sciences, Marc Bloch Center
Languages: English & French
La « mémoire » comme objet d’études, objet politique, social et médiatique envahit le débat public à partir de la fin des années 80 en Europe. « Devoir de mémoire », « lieux de mémoire », « guerres de mémoires », « concurrence des victimes », « envahissement mémoriel », « chemins de la mémoire », « politique de la mémoire », « défense de la mémoire », « assassins de la mémoire » : autant d’expressions qui traduisent un nouveau rapport au monde, un nouveau régime d’historicité que François Hartog appelle présentisme. Cette nouvelle configuration du rapport au passé se traduit par des revendications identitaires variées notamment de la part de groupes jusqu’alors dominés mais aussi par des pratiques institutionnelles nouvelles. La mémoire devient ouvertement un outil mobilisateur et d’intervention médiatique, public, politique au sens large du terme, mais également littéraire et artistique. Elle nourrit une réflexion épistémologique au sein de la communauté des sciences humaines et sociales. Continue reading Memory, Narrative, and Conflict: At the Confluence of Perspectives →
In Summer, i.e. from July 1 until August 8 th, the library is open by appointment. Then it will be closed between August 11 and 22.
Please write to: claire.madl[at]cefres.cz
or call us: +420 224 912 494
9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association
The conference is organized by Memory Studies Association, Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of CEFRES.
Date: July 14–18, 2025
Location: Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
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When: June 25-28, 2025
Where: Prague
Organizers: Czech Association for African Studies & European African Studies Association
AEGIS organises the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) every second year, in a different European city, convened by one or more AEGIS members. It has become the largest global African Studies gathering, growing exponentially every year and attracting scholars from across Europe, Africa and the world.
CEFRES is a proud partner of this international conference which is is for the first time in its history located in one of the post-communist Visegrad countries – in the Czech Republic, known as the heart of Europe.
The 20th anniversary of ECAS will give us a great opportunity to look retrospectively at African studies in Europe, and more generally over the past two decades, while also providing new insights into the future development in the field. We will do our best to design a challenging programme of keynote speakers, plenary and roundtable sessions, film screenings, book displays focusing on African studies, and cultural and artistic events.
See the full program of the conference here.
