10th 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, June 10, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English
Speaker: Honorata Sroka (CEFRES / National Science Centre, Poland)
Chair: Hélène Martinelli (CEFRES / École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Text to be read: Peter Bürger (1974). Theory of the Avant-Garde. Translation Michael Shaw. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Abstract:
The presentation will take the form of very preliminary remarks related to my post-doctoral research, which I have been conducting for 7 months at the French Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences. My project develops the same line of research as my doctoral thesis, however, approaches the issue in a broader way. Specifically, using selected examples of neo-avant-gardes in Central and Eastern Europe, I hope to show how and why artists decided to create subversive forms of historiography and what kind of experimental strategies can be found in archives. Employing the methodology so-called “cultural history of the avant-gardes”, I will reflect on vanguard institutions and practices oriented towards a self-historiography. What I dare to claim one can essentially call a discussion on Peter Bürger’s pivotal book Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974). He was the one who argued that the avant-gardes stood against institutions. In contrast to his assumption, my research aims to display how neo-avant-gardes in Central and Eastern Europe developed rather than destroyed art institutions, as well as subversive forms of historiography, and why these two were intertwined.
Please find the complete program of 2024–2025 seminar here.
Polish Communities in France and in the United States after WW2 and their Political Practices
9th 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, May 27, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English
Speaker: Florence Vychytil-Baudoux (EHESS / CEFRES)
Chair: tba
Text to be read: Michael Werner & Bénédicte Zimmermann, « Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity », History and Theory, 2006, vol. 45, no 1, p. 30‑50.
Abstract:
Between the 1880s and the 1930s, over 12 million people left Polish territories “za chlebem” (for bread). While before WW1 the United States attracted most Polish peasants looking for a better future, it was France that became the main destination for Polish migrants in the interwar period. Continue reading Transatlantic Crossings →
Eighth 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 May 23, 2025, from 10 am
Language: French
Speaker: Gilles LEPESANT (CEFRES / CNRS)
Discussant: tba
Abstract Continue reading Energy and its Renewed Cartography →
Transnationalism, Activism and Solidarity
The conference is supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences (Lumina Quaeruntur Fellowship, project Romani Atlantic: Transcontinental Logic of Ethno-Racial Identities, LQ300582201) and Strategy AV21-Identities in the World of Wars and Crises. It is organized by the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences together with Faculty of Arts, Charles University; French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES, MEAE–CNRS); Prague Forum for Romani Histories and CEU Romani Studies Program.
When: 21–23 May 2025
Where: Vila Lanna
CEFRES, Prague – 3rd block of conferences
Convenors: Tina MAGAZZINI and Martin FOTTA (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
PROGRAM
Continue reading Conference | Romani Racialization Beyond Majority-Minority Narratives →
To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Centre universitaire francophone of the University of Szeged, in partnership with the Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Modern History and Mediterranean Studies of the University of Szeged, is organising a conference entitled ‘Central Europe and Francophone Africa in the aftermath of the Second World War: crossroads’.
This event has been created in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague (CEFRES) and the French Institute in Hungary.
When: May 19 and 20, 2025
Where: Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged
READ THE FULL PROGRAM HERE
Discover this powerful novel about the fate of the inhabitants of a Parisian house in the 1940s.
When: May 17, 2025, 4 PM
Where: Výstaviště Praha Holešovice, Křižíkovy pavilony
Retrouvez-nous au Salon du livre le
samedi 17 mai à
16h pour une rencontre avec l’écrivaine et réalisatrice
Ruth Zylberman, qui viendra nous parler de son roman
209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe : Autobiographie d’un immeuble (Points, 2021) dont la traduction tchèque a été publiée par les éditions
Maraton en 2024. Dans le récit de Ruth Zylberman, prennent vie les histoires de disparus et de survivants, d’enfants et d’adultes, de collaborateurs et de résistants, de jeunes filles amoureuses et de femmes à la réputation sulfureuse, de personnes de diverses nationalités dont les destins se sont trouvés réunis par une même adresse parisienne. La discussion sera suivie d’une
séance de dédicace sur le Stand France.
Ruth Zylberman, réalisatrice et écrivaine française, a réalisé plusieurs documentaires et publié son premier roman, La Direction de l’absent, en 2015. Son œuvre reflète un profond intérêt pour l’histoire de l’Europe centrale : son documentaire Dissidents, les artisans de la liberté (2009) est entre autres consacré à Václav Havel, tandis que Le Procès – Prague 1952 (2021) retrace le destin de trois condamnés : Rudolf Slánský, Artur London et Rudolf Margolius. En 2018, elle a réalisé le documentaire Les Enfants du 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe, qui a servi de base à son roman paru en 2020. Ce film et ce livre ont reçu un accueil enthousiaste tant du public que des spécialistes.
