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Armenian Chronicles from Ukraine

Between Poland and the Ottoman Empire: Armenian Chronicles from Ukraine during the Thirty Years’ War

Fifth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
Already in 2023, we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: March 28, 2025, from 10am to 12pm
Language: French

Speaker: Petra Košťálová (Institute of Ethnology , Czech Academy of Sciences)
Discussant: Radu Paun (CERCEC/CNRS) & Laurent Tatarenko (CCFEF, Warsaw)

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Literature as a Tool for Understanding History and Society

Blurring Boundaries: Literature as a Tool for
Understanding History and Society.
Meaningful work during normalized Czechoslovakia

7th session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library and online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English

Valentin Auger (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

Chair: Jan Váňa (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

Fifth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
In 2023 we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday February 28, 2025, from 10 am
Language: French

Speaker: Eva KRÁSOVÁ (Institute of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Discussant: tbc

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École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

A conference organized in partnership with the National Gallery in Prague and the French Institute in Prague, within the joint series Rezonance/Résonnance.

Date: 20 February, 2025, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Location: Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1 ; French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Languages: French & English

Program
I. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

9:30 Registration, coffee

10:00 Introduction

Jacek Gajewski, Ambassador of Poland in Czech Republic
Stéphane Crouzat, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic
Alicja Knast, General Director, National Gallery in Prague

10:15 – 11:30  Visual Arts

L´École de Paris entre les deux guerres et les artistes tchécoslovaques / École de Paris Between the Wars and Artists from Czechoslovakia
Anna Pravdová, Curator NGP and Curator of the Exhibition École de Paris: Artists from Bohemia and Interwar Paris

Les artistes juifs de l’École de Paris / Jewish Artists of the École de Paris
Pascale Samuel, Curator, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

École de Paris and Its Polish Connection
Artur Tanikowski, National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Warszawa

11:30-11:50 COFFEE BREAK

11:50 – 13:00 Visual Art and Music

The Ukrainian Branch of the School of Paris. From Ukraine to Paris via Prague
Vita Susak, member of the Swiss Academic Society for East European Studies, Bern

Le groupe artistique polonais “Comité de Paris” (Kapistes) dans la Ville des Lumières / Polish artistic group “Paris Committee” (Kapists) in the “City of Lights”
Anna Baranowa, Association of Art Historians, Krakow Branch

 A Musical School of Paris? Between Ghost and Opportunity
Federico Lazzaro, University of Fribourg

13:10 – 14:10 LUNCH BREAK

II. LECTURE–CONCERT

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

14:30 – 16:00
Paris, capitale musicale polonaise dans l’entre-deux-guerres / Paris, the Polish Musical Capital in the Interwar Period 
Performers: Renata Suchowiejko (lecture in French), Joanna Maklakiewicz (piano), Marek Bugajski (viola).

III. FILM
French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
19:00 Jean Marie Drot: Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse

Revisiting “La pensée de midi”. Albert Camus & Mikhail Bakunin

Revisiting “La pensée de midi” – Albert Camus and the Legacy of Mikhail Bakunin

6th session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library and online, to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz
Date: Tuesday, 18th February, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English

It wll be hosted by:
Dominik Kulcsár (CEFRES / Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Chair: Dan SWAIN (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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Rethinking knowledge, questioning scientific approaches?

Rethinking knowledge, questioning scientific approaches? The Baltic States, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldavia Between Central Europe and the Former Soviet Space

Conference organized by Lab Research Clusters Central Europe and East (GDR CEM & GDR EST) of the French National Center for Scientific Research Humanities & Social Sciences Institute (CNRS SHS) with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. 

Date: February 12-13, 2025
Location: INALCO  and Institute of slavic studies (Paris)
Language: French & English

Scientific Committee: Olga Bronnikova, Mateusz Chmurski, Anna Colin-Lebedev, Iryna Dmytrychyn, Galyna Dranenko, Catherine Géry, Alexandra Goujon, Catherine Gousseff, Paul Gradvohl, Luba Jurgenson, Emilia Koustova, Éric Le Bourhis, Anne Le Huérou, Florent Parmentier, Ioana Popa, Nadège Ragaru, Kathy Rousselet, Clara Royer, Laurent Tatarenko.

Organizing Committee: Olga Bronnikova, Françoise Daucé, Paul Gradvohl, Valéry Kossov, Emilia Koustova, Nadège Ragaru, Kathy Rousselet, Clara Royer, Tatyana Shukan.

CEFRES will be represented by: Pavlo Khudish, Valeriia Korablyova

Program

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