Second session of 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by

Martin Pjecha (CEFRES – CEU)
Human Agency and Apocalyptic Violence

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 08.03.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text:

• Matthias Riedl, “Terrorism as ‘Apocalyptic Violence’ On the Meaning, and Validity of a New Analytical Category”, Social Imaginaries 3.2 (2017), pp. 77-107.

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First session of Summer semester common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by

Mihai-Dan Cirjan (CEFRES – CEU)
Framing the ‘Crisis’: Between Vernacular Conflicts and Expert Disputes

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 22.02.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text :
Guyer, Jane I. “Terms of Debate versus Words in Circulation: Some Rhetorics of the Crisis.” in Carrier, James G. (ed.),  A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 612-626.

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Illustration: Pandemonium by George Grosz, 1914

Fifth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by

Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES – FF UK)
On the Use and Abuse of the concept of World Literature

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 14.12.2017 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text :

• Franco Moretti: “Conjecture on World Literature”, New Left Review, Jan. 2000, p. 54-68.

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Fourth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Adéla Klinerová (CEFRES & FF UK-EPHE)
The Concept of Cultural Transfer

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: Thursday 7.12.2017 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text:

• Štefanová Dana: Cultural Transfer, Regional History and Historical Comparison as Research Concepts. Comparing Research Between Western and Eastern Europe, in: Čapská Veronika et al.: Processes of Cultural Exchange in Central Europe, 1200-1800, Opava 2014.

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Third session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by
Julien Wacquez (CEFRES – EHESS):
New approach to the concept of Translation and the notion of Literary Inscription. From linguistics to the Actor-Network Theory.

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: 23.11.2017 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Texts:
— Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Sage Publication, 1979), p. 43-90.

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Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK,

Yuliya Moskvina (FSV UK & CEFRES)
Critical Actor and Political Critique

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text:

• Paul Blokker: European Crisis and Political Critique of Capitalism. in: European Journal of Social Theory, 17 (3) 2014, p. 258-274.

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