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Archives Stories: Writing thinkers and their archives

Archives stories: Writing thinkers and their archives

The conference aims at fostering a collective reflection about methodologies and digital tools that could enable us to better perceive, beyond and through the manuscripts, the intellectual figures and their transcultural trajectories, the stories and their roots in cultural contexts, the networks and the collective practices they have been grounded in. Besides giving a different image of the history of ideas, such approach could also produce more intuitive narrations, enabling these materials to reach – thanks to their digital representation – a broader public and a non-scholar audience. The event will gather all the major actors of the network « AITIA – Archives of International Theory, an Intercultural Approach ».

Date: December 12, 2024, from 9:30 a.m.
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague, and online
Language: English

Provisional program

MANUSCRIPTS

Morning: Writing Thinkers

Jan Frei, Jan Patocka Archives, Prague

Julia Jensen and Emanuele Caminada, Husserl Archives Lewen

Ladislav Hejdanek Archives*, Prague

Benedetta Zaccarello, ITEM (CNRS/ENS) (on dialogues in philosophical manuscripts)

Afternoon: Displaying Literature

Museum of Literature (ML PNP) Prague*

Archives et Musée de la Littérature*, Brussels

The School for Cultural Texts and Records*, Jadavpur University Kolkata (on Tagore’s digitalarchive “Bichitra”) (will be held online)

Mateusz Chmurski, director at CEFRES (CNRS/MEAE), Prague (on a facsimile edition)

Round table: “interpreting and (digitally) archiving intellectual manuscripts”, a dialogue with Alois Pichler*, Wittgenstein Archives at the Bergen University, followed by a round table on the topic.

Conference dinner

ARCHIVES

Morning: Archiving Research

Lucie Merhautová and Milan Hanis, on the collections at “The Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS”

Sylvie Archaimbault, Eur’ORBEM (CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle), on « Numerislav » digital archive

Nirmalya Chakraborty (Professor of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata) and Madhucchanda Sen (head of Philosophy Department, Jadavpur University Kolkata), on Darshan Manisha Digital Library (Sanskrit Philosophy) (will be held online)

Daniel Raveh, Professor of Indian and Comparative Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, on Daya Krishna digital archive online

Afternoon: when research shapes the archives

Emmylou Haffner* and Christophe Eckes* (ITEM, CNRS/ENS), on Banana ANR project, digital archives of “Nicolas Bourbaki” (mathematics collective manuscripts) (will be held online)

Venkat Srinivasan*, National Centre for Biological Sciences Archives, on the making of NCBS archives and collections (will be held online)

Institut Français de Pondichéry*, CNRS/MEAE, on the making of their own archives (Indology, Ecology, Indian Traditional Medicines) and the history of their French-Indian institution (will be held online)

Round table: Archives on the make, the making of archives – a dialogue with Laetitia Zecchini* (THAMIL, PI IRN Postcolonial Print Cultures), on the Pen India archives, followed by a round table on the topic.

Disruptions and reconfigurations in the HSS since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Dislocated Landscape. Disruptions and reconfigurations in the Humanities and Social Sciences since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The workshop is part of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) program of non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences, developed in close collaboration with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the French Embassy and Institute in Ukraine as well as the Ukraine in a Changing Europe Research Center at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Department of East-European Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, as well as the Institute of Art History and the Institute  of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (see: https://cefres.cz/en/20938). 

Date: 22 & 23 October 2024
Location: at CEFRES and online (to get the link, please write to the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English
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Collaborative autoethnography of vulnerability on post-soviet spaces

A workshop organized by the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (CERCEC) as part of “Global EHESS” program, in partnership with Charles University and Nemtsov master’s program, Brīvā Universitāte (Free University in Riga, Svobodnij University) and the CEFRES.

Date: 23 September 2024
Location: Charles University
Language: English
Convenors: Françoise Daucé (CNRS/EHESS), Dmitri Dubrovski (Charles University & Brīvā Universitāte), Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES), Daniela Kolenovská (Charles University) & Boris Melnichenko (CNRS/EHESS & Brīvā Universitāte)
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Boundless Affections: Methodologies in Transnational History of Same-Sex Desire

Boundless Affections.
Methodologies in Transnational History of Same-Sex Desire in Literature (19th-20th centuries)

This international workshop is conceived as a preparatory event for the ICLA Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series’ Topic Volume Representing Same-Sex Desire. Local Contexts, Global Circulations in European Literary Cultures. (CHLEL : https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/chlel/).

Date: September 19-20, 2024
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague and online (to register, please write to the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

Organisateurs

Partners          

  • Coordinating Committee for the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series, International Comparative Literature Association (CHLEL-ICLA)
  • National Scientific Research Fund, Belgium (FNRS)
  • Adelphi University (New York), United States
  • French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Prague
  • Department of Czech & Comparative Literature, Charles University, Prague (ÚČLK FF UK

THURSDAY,  SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
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CEFRES IS HIRING AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

CEFRES in a nutshell

  • a French public research institution with partnerships throughout Central Europe
  • an international research and administrative team (12 nationalities by 2024), developing cutting edge research projects in the humanities and social sciences
  • twenty in-house researchers & fifty associates
  • about fifty events a year
  • some twenty funding grants.

Responsibilities and tasks

  • entering and archiving invoices, checking supporting documents, entering suppliers and recording payment requests via Elap (AGE) tool
  • follow-up of administrative and scientific team trip requests: preparation of requests, purchase of tickets and hotel reservations, calculation of expense statements and post-trip data entry
  • preparation of salary documents of 5 Czech employees, in direct contact with the firm in charge of payroll management and the accounting agency
  • placing orders with suppliers and monitoring of the cash register for the Center’s small expenses (including issuing appropriate administrative certificates)
  • follow-up of CEFRES invitations: drafting of invitation agreements, purchase of tickets
    and hotel reservations
  • logistical support for CEFRES events (setting up & preparing receptions)
  • ad hoc tasks on request (proofreading of administrative documents, minor translations)

Expected skills

  • Good command of French (spoken and written), English (read, written, spoken)
  • Proficiency in office automation tools (in particular Outlook, Excel)
  • Versatility and ability to handle several tasks simultaneously

Required qualities

  • Autonomy, precision, punctuality
  • Thoroughness and exactitude in administrative tasks
  • Communication skills, responsiveness and ability to work as part of a team
  • Respect for confidentiality and good presentation

Qualification

  • Studies in administrative management / economics or business / humanities or social sciences / OR experience in a similar position
  • Appetence for human resources, accounting and administrative management
  • Knowledge of Czech labor law and tax administration is a plus.

Conditions & benefits

  • 1-year fixed-term Czech law contract, with possibility of extension
  • part-time job according to candidate’s profile and needs: 28 to 36 h attendance / week
  • Flexible working hours
  • Gross salary 28 to 36k CZK / month
  • 21 to 25 days paid vacation
  • Long summer break with no scientific events
  • Professional training offered by the employer according to the candidate’s profile and needs
  • French language courses at all levels at the Institut français de Prague offered by CEFRES
  • Office in the center of Prague, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
  • Free access to the Kino 35 cinema at the Institut français de Prague

How to apply

  • The position is to be filled no later than on 1/10/2024
  • Send your CV and motivation letter in French to: claire.madl@cefres.cz Subject:« Candidature au poste de chargé/e de communication et de traduction »
  • CC: mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz

Only selected applicants will be invited to be interviewed, in French.

CFA – Post-Doctoral Position. 2024 Complementary Call

Call opens 15 June 2024
Deadline for submission: 15 July 2024
Publication of the results: 28 July 2024
Period: 1st October 2024—31st  December 2025
Application Language: English
Address for submission:  mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz)

One post-doctoral researcher will be recruited from 1 October 2024 for 15 months at CEFRES. She or He will be both affiliated to CEFRES and to a relevant department for his or her research at Charles University (UK). The selection of the post-doctoral researcher will be based on the quality of his or her research project and its adequation to the research area it intends to contribute to.

Charles University & CEFRES joint postdoctoral positions. Presentation of the program

Charles University (UK) and CEFRES jointly finance two high-quality post-doctoral research fellows who reside elsewhere than the Czech Republic when applying  and have also defended their PhD dissertation in a university outside the Czech Republic. Both post-doctoral researchers are assigned to CEFRES as a hosting institution of the Post-Doc research program of Charles University: “Junior Fund”.

The present position is a 15-months contract starting on 1 October 2024 at CEFRES. The gross monthly salary is 40 173 CZK. 

Eligibility criteria
  • Be a high-level young researcher from abroad (resident of a country out of the Czech Republic), who defended a PhD dissertation no more than 5 years prior to the application deadline in a university outside the Czech Republic (exceptions to this rule apply for parental or medical leave; for other reasons please contact us directly).
  • Conducting a research befitting one of the CEFRES Research areas
  • Good command of English is mandatory, French is a plus.
Counterparts

UK-CEFRES post-doc research fellow is expected to:

  • contribute through her or his own research to the research area, within which she or he applies;
  • take part in the scientific life of the CEFRES;
  • submit a yearly report on their research to the director of CEFRES;
  • come to live in Prague from 1 October 2024
Evaluation

The applications will be evaluated by a commission chaired by CEFRES Director and composed of researchers from and outside of the CEFRES, to represent the applicants’ various disciplines.

This post-doctoral position is intended for researchers whose research project can be part of one of CEFRES’s three research areas:

1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge & Practices
2 – Norms & Transgressions
3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Research projects whose object is located in Central Europe, connected to this area and other areas or in comparison with other “cultural areas”, will be prioritized.

Application Package

Applicants must submit the complete application package consisting of the following elements:

  1. The application form duly filled in (to be downloaded here).
    The application form includes the description of the personal research project and must:

    1. specify the CEFRES research area you want to apply to and how the personal project will benefit it
    2. include:
      1. an explanation on the methodology and inputs of your own research, as well as a selected bibliography (max. 1 page-long)
      2.  expected outcomes (publications, conferences, and so forth).
  2. One letter of reference from the former PhD supervisor of the candidate. Please use the following model form to be downloaded here. The letter must mention the title of the PhD, the date of defense etc.
  3. A detailed CV
  4. A list of publications
  5. A copy of the PhD diploma

Application packages must be submitted by 15 July 2024 at 23:59 CET electronically in an email entitled “YOUR LAST NAME_CEFRES-UK” at: mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz (send a copy to: claire.madl@cefres.cz). Please send the application form in both PDF and as a Word-document.