Fifth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by:
Vojtěch Šarše (FF UK / associated to CEFRES)
Benedetta Zaccarello (CNRS / CEFRES)
Topic: Postcolonial issues / decolonizing theory
Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 11 December 2019, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English
Texts to be read:
- Enrique Dussel : “A new age in the history of philosophy: The world dialogue between philosophical traditions”. Philosphy and Criticism, 2009, May 15, p. 499-515. DOI: 10.1177/0191453709103424
- Aurobindo Ghose, “A Misunderstanding of Continents” & “Towards Unification”. In: Complete Works, Vol. 12.”Essays Divine and Human”, p. 389-393.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah: “Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?”. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter, 1991), pp. 336-357
Fourth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by:
Yuliya Moskvina (FSV UK / CEFRES)
Topic: Orders of Worth and Urban Space
Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 27 November 2019, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English
Text to be read:
- Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot: “On Justification. Economies of Worth”, (Princeton U. P. 2006 = De la justification. Les éconmies de la grandeur. Paris, Gallimard, 1991), chapters:
“The polity model” (74 – 80),
“A Framework for analyzing the commons worlds”, “The sense of the common”, “The art of living in different world” (140 – 158),
“The civic world” (185 – 193).
Second session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by
Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/associated at CEFRES)
Topic: Civil Disobedience: A Conceptual History
Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 13 November 2019 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English
Text to be read:
- Alexander LIVINGSTON. “Fidelity to Truth: Gandhi and the Genealogy of Civil Disobedience.” Political Theory 46 (4), 2018, pp. 511-536.
The second session of the Epistemological seminar organized by CEFRES (Jérôme Heurtaux) and the Institute for International studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IMS FSV UK) (Tomáš Weiss and Mitchell Young) will be hosted by:
Pascal Schneider (PhD student at Paris-Sorbonne University, associated to CEFRES), who will introduce
The notion of “domination” under the Third Reich, taking the example of the annexed territories.
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The first introductive session will be hosted by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES’ director), Tomáš Weiss (IMS FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK) who will introduce the seminar and present general remarks about concepts and their uses in humanities and social sciences.
To introduce this session, we shall base our discussion on the following texts:
- John Gerring, “What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences”, Polity 31-3, 1999, p. 357-393.
- Giovanni SARTORI, „ Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics“, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 64, No. 4. (Dec., 1970), pp. 1033-1053.
During this session, the program of the winter semester will be set up.
The eighth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this year will be hosted by
Julien Wacquez (CEFRES / EHESS)
Is ‘Hard Science’ a Limit to the Concept of ‘Field’?
Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 17 April 2019 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Bourdieu, Pierre & Wacquant, Loïc (1992), “The Logic of Fields,” in An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Pierre Bourdieu & Loïc Wacquant, The University of Chicago Press, 1992, pp. 94-115
- Materials on Larry Niven’s Ringworld (1970) novel, by Julien Wacquez
