Insights from Central Europe, the Middle East and Latin America
A conférence organized by the working group “Conservatism, Illiberalism, Far Right” (CILEX) within the Association française de science politique (AFSP)
Date: Tuesday 27 January, 15:30–18:30
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Programme
Chair : Markus POLLAK (CEFRES, Central European University, Vienna)
Discussant: Anemona CONSTANTIN (CESSP (CNRS) / IEE, Free University of Brussels)
Zora HESOVÁ (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague) – Otherness and far-right discourse in the culture wars in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Alihan MESTCI (Chair COLIBEX / LinCS (CNRS), University of Strasbourg) – The Making of the ‘Culture War’: Intellectual Roots and Political Uses in Turkey (1961-2017)
Alfredo JOIGNANT (School of political science, University Diego Portales, Santiago du Chili) – Cultural wars as spectacle: political incorrectness and reactionary aesthetics at VOX’s ‘Europa Viva’ festivals
Ezequiel SAFERSTEIN (CONICET, National University of General San Martín, Buenos Aires) – The intellectuals of Javier Milei and the cultural battle: production, dissemination of ideas, and sociability of the radicalized right
This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in French and in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.
When: Thursday December 18, 2025 at 3 pm
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: French
The review will be followed by our end-of-the-year Party.
So far, the following presentations are announced:
- COEURÉ, Sophie – TESNIÈRE, Valérie : Dissidences de l’Est en exil. Inventaire, histoires et pratiques documentaires. Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps 2022/2 N° 145-146 | par Florence Vychytil-Baudoux
- DELALE, Sarah – Pinel, Élodie – Tachet, Marie-Pierre : Pour en finir avec la passion. L’abus en littérature. Éditions Amsterdam, 2023 | par Michaela Rumpíková
- NICOLAS, Rambert : La conscience de Staline. Kojève et la philosophie russe. Gallimard, 2025 | par Colin Hood
- POTTIN, Ange : Le nucléaire imaginé : le rêve du capitalisme sans la Terre? La Découverte, 2024 | par Jan Maršálek
- ROSANVALLON, Pierre : Les institutions invisibles. Seuil, 2024 | par Hana Fořtová
Hormonal Intra-Actions in Automated Diabetes Care
4th 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, December 16, 2025 at 16:30
Language: English
Speaker: Sabina VASSILEVA (CEFRES / Charles University)
Discussant: Kateřina KOLÁŘOVÁ (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Abstract
Continue reading When Progesterone Meets the Insulin Algorithm →
(Geo)Political Implications of Nostalgia
Third session of the 2025-2026 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar “Dépaysements”: Clues and Trajectories.
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday 12th December, 2025, 10 am
Language: French
Speaker: Adam Bence BALAZS (Jean Monnet Chair, University of Passau)
Discussant: Jay ROWELL (Marc Bloch Center, Berlin)
Abstract Continue reading Toxic “Dépaysements” →
The event is organized by the French Embassy in Prague, the Danish Embassy in Prague, the Brazilian Embassy in Prague, the French Institute in Prague, Charles University, the French Institute in Prague, and the Association for International Affairs (AMO).
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 17:00 – 19:15
Location: Blue Auditorium, Charles University, Celetná 20, Prague 1
Language: English
Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement and following COP30 in Belém, this debate will reflect on the progress achieved, explore ongoing challenges, and discuss the future of global climate action.
Program Continue reading Paris, Belém… What next? →
Shopping, Style, and Desire on Socialist Screens
This event is conceived and organised by Anastasia Mamaeva (PhD candidate, Sorbonne University, associate researcher at CEFRES) and hosted by CEFRES, Ponrepo Cinema, and the National Film Archive (Prague), with support from the Polish Institute in Prague and UMR Eur’ORBEM (Paris).
Dates & locations: December 5, 2025, 18:00
Ponrepo Cinema, Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1
December 12, 2025
CEFRES, Na Florenci, Prague 1 & online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Language: English (films in the Czech/Polish original with English subtitles)
A two-part international workshop exploring the phenomenon of socialist consumerism in Czechoslovak, Polish, and Soviet films of “the long seventies”. The upcoming two-part event – 5th and 12th December – invites both scholars and the general public to take a closer look at national classics and recently rediscovered film gems, and to explore how images, characters, and themes of shopping, style, and everyday life were crafted on socialist screens.
Continue reading Comrade Consumer →
