The next edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Wednesday, December 18, at 4:30 pm at CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
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.
So far, the following presentations are announced:
- Luz Ascarate : Imaginer selon Paul Ricoeur. La phénoménologie à la rencontre de l’ontologie sociale (Paris : Hermann, 2022) by Josefína Formanová
- Lise Foisneau : Kumpania. Vivre et résister en pays gadjo (Marseille : Wildproject, 2023) by Yasar Abu Ghosh
- Jean-Baptiste Fressoz : Sans transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l’énergie (Paris : Seuil, 2023) by Gilles Lepesant
- Jacques Rancière : Les voyages de l’art (Paris : Seuil, 2023) by Hélène Martinelli
- Ioana Cîrstocea : La fin de la femme rouge ? Fabrique transnationale du genre après la chute du Mur (Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019) by Anemona Constantin who will hold a dialogue with the author
The next edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Friday, June 21st, at 3:00 pm at CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
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.
So far, the following presentations are announced:
- Luz Ascarate : Imaginer selon Paul Ricoeur. La phénoménologie à la rencontre de l’ontologie sociale (Paris : Hermann, 2022) by Petr Horák
- Lise Foisneau : Kumpania. Vivre et résister en pays gadjo (Marseille : Wildproject, 2023) by Yasar Abu Ghosh
- Baptiste Morizot : L’inexploré (Marseilles : Wildproject, 2023) by Hana Fořtová
- Hyacinthe Ravet : Musiciennes. Enquête sur les femmes et la musique (Paris : Autrement, 2011) by Louisa Martin-Chevalier
- Christelle Taraud (dir.) : Feminicides. Une histoire mondiale (Paris : La Découverte, 2022) by Hélène Martinelli
Discussion around Paul Lenormand’s book Tchécoslovaques en guerre (Passés composés 2023)
Date: 7 December, 2023, from 4 p.m.
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3
Language: English
Organizors: CEFRES; University Paris-Nanterre / Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP); Research Center „Postwar(s). Political and Social Changes during and after the Second World War“ at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IMS FSV UK)
Chair: Jakub Štofaník, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (MÚA AVČR)
Discussant: Václav Šmidrkal, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IMS FSV UK)
Continue reading A view from abroad: Czechoslovaks in World War II and the early Cold War →
Interview with Xavier Galmiche on the publication of two books in Czech: Le Poulailler métaphysique (Revolver Revue, 2023) and Znaky a přízraky (Karolinum, 2023).
Date: 6th December, 2023, from 6.p.m.
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 644/35, 110 00 Nové Město, Prague.
Language: French and Czech (simultaneous translation)
Partners of the event: CEFRES, French Institute in Prague, Charles University and Karolinum Press
Chair: Mateusz Chmurski, director of CEFRES, associate professor in Polish & Central European literature at Sorbonne University.
Discussant: Xavier Galmiche, Professor of Czech and Central European Literature and History at Sorbonne University.
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The next edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on
Tuesday, June 27th, at 3 pm,
at CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
in French.
This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, 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. A short discussion follows each presentation. Continue reading CEFRES Review of books – June 2023 →
Presentation of the book: Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux Proměny společnosti ve střední Evropě v 17. a 18. století. Nakl. Karolinum, 2023 organized by the French Institute in Prague, Karolinum Publishing and CEFRES.
With the participation of the auteur, the scientific editors and the translator of the book.
- Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux (EHESS), the author
- Ivana Čornejová (Charles University), scientific editor
- Zdeněk Hojda (Charles University), Scientific editor and moderator
- Adéla Stříbrná (PhD student at Charles University & Université Paris-Nanterre), translator
When: Friday 12 May 2023, 3 pm
Where: Svět knihy, Výstaviště, Prague 7, Hall “Mluvného slova”
Langauge: Czech
Continue reading A French Perspective on Czech History. Svět knihy 2023 →
