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Inequality

The 9th session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Barbora Chaloupková (PhD candidate at FSV UK)
Topic: Inequality

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, April 7th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Milanovic, Branko: Global Inequality. A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.  – for reading: Introduction + pages 155-161 from Chapter 4

Core-periphery

The 7th session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Zach Lavengood (PhD candidate at FSV UK)
Topic: The concept of “Core-periphery”

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, March 10th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Shannon, T. R.  “The Contemporary World-system”. In : T. R. Shannon, An Introduction to the World-System Perspective (pp. 85-124). Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

Prefiguration within legal frame: process of depoliticising of an autonomous zone

The 6th session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Lukáš Kotyk (PhD candidate at FSV UK / associated at CEFRES)
Topic: Prefiguration within legal frame: process of depoliticising of an autonomous zone
Discussant: Yulia Moskvina (PhD candidate at FSV UK / associated at CEFRES)

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, February 24th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Luke Yates, “Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy: The Roles of Prefiguration in the Reproduction, Mobilisation and Coordination of Movements”, Political Studies, 2020-1

An Anthropology of Middleman Minorities: The Case of Sapa in Pragueue

The fifth session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Felipe Kaiser Fernandes (PhD candidate at CEU / associate at CEFRES)
Topic: An Anthropology of Middleman Minorities: The Case of Sapa in Prague

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, December 16th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Edna Bonacich : “A Theory of Middleman Minorities”. American Sociological Review, vol. 38, n° 5 (oct., 1973), p. 583-594.

Exploring (linguistic) imaginaries in the Albanian-Greek borderlands

The fourth session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Ekaterina Zheltova (PhD fellow FSV / CEFRES)
Topic: Exploring (linguistic) imaginaries in the Albanian-Greek borderlands

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, December 2nd, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Strauss, C. (2006). The imaginary. Anthropological theory, 6(3), pp. 322-344.
  • Schieffelin, B. B., Woolard, K. A., & Kroskrity, P. V. (1998). Language ideologies: Practice and theory. Oxford University Press, pp. 3-5 (up to “What is ideology?”).

Deservingness as a Means of Transnational Governance of Displacement, Sexuality and Gender Identity

The third session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Mert Koçak (PhD candidate at CEU / associate at CEFRES)
Topic: Deservingness as a Means of Transnational Governance of Displacement, Sexuality and Gender Identity: Queer Refugees in Turkey

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, October 25th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Sébastien Chauvin & Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas : Becoming Less Illegal: Deservingness Frames and Undocumented Migrant Incorporation” Sociology Compass 8/4 (2014): 422–432.