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École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

A conference organized in partnership with the National Gallery in Prague and the French Institute in Prague, within the joint series Rezonance/Résonnance.

Date: 20 February, 2025, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Location: Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1 ; French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Languages: French & English

Program
I. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

9:30 Registration, coffee

10:00 Introduction

Jacek Gajewski, Ambassador of Poland in Czech Republic
Stéphane Crouzat, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic
Alicja Knast, General Director, National Gallery in Prague

10:15 – 11:30  Visual Arts

L´École de Paris entre les deux guerres et les artistes tchécoslovaques / École de Paris Between the Wars and Artists from Czechoslovakia
Anna Pravdová, Curator NGP and Curator of the Exhibition École de Paris: Artists from Bohemia and Interwar Paris

Les artistes juifs de l’École de Paris / Jewish Artists of the École de Paris
Pascale Samuel, Curator, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

École de Paris and Its Polish Connection
Artur Tanikowski, National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Warszawa

11:30-11:50 COFFEE BREAK

11:50 – 13:00 Visual Art and Music

The Ukrainian Branch of the School of Paris. From Ukraine to Paris via Prague
Vita Susak, member of the Swiss Academic Society for East European Studies, Bern

Le groupe artistique polonais “Comité de Paris” (Kapistes) dans la Ville des Lumières / Polish artistic group “Paris Committee” (Kapists) in the “City of Lights”
Anna Baranowa, Association of Art Historians, Krakow Branch

 A Musical School of Paris? Between Ghost and Opportunity
Federico Lazzaro, University of Fribourg

13:10 – 14:10 LUNCH BREAK

II. LECTURE–CONCERT

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

14:30 – 16:00
Paris, capitale musicale polonaise dans l’entre-deux-guerres / Paris, the Polish Musical Capital in the Interwar Period 
Performers: Renata Suchowiejko (lecture in French), Joanna Maklakiewicz (piano), Marek Bugajski (viola).

III. FILM
French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
19:00 Jean Marie Drot: Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse

Histoire(s) d’archives

Histoire(s) d’archives: Imagining Thinking and Writing Practices Through Intellectual Manuscripts

The conference aims at fostering a collective reflection about methodologies and digital tools that could enable us to better perceive, beyond and through the manuscripts, the intellectual figures and their transcultural trajectories, the stories and their roots in cultural contexts, the networks and the collective practices they have been grounded in. Besides giving a different image of the history of ideas, such approach could also produce more intuitive narrations, enabling these materials to reach – thanks to their digital representation – a broader public and a non-scholar audience. The event will gather the major actors of the network « AITIA – Archives of International Theory, an Intercultural Approach ».

Date: December 5-6, 2024, from 9:30 a.m.
Location:
5/12 : CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague
6/12: Muzeum Literatury, Pelléova 44/22, Prague
and online
Language: English

Organizers: IRN AITIA, CNRS, CEFRES, Museum of Literature Prague, and the Jan Patočka Archives Prague

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Ukrainian Diplomacy and Musical Creation 2014–2024

This conference is a part of the joint TANDEM research project “A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine” by Dr Valeria Korablyova and Dr Louisa Martin-Chevalier which is dedicated to the musical dimension of Ukrainian resistance as a vehicle for escaping the subaltern position of a double periphery in the blind spot between the EU and Russia. 

Date: 27-29 November, 2024
Place: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Praha 1 and online  (to get the link, please send an email to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

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After words / After Worlds, The Legacy of Jacques Derrida, International Conference

After Words / After Worlds, The Legacy of Jacques Derrida, International Conference

International Conference organized by the University of Silesia in partnership with CEFRES and the French Institute in Poland to reflect on Derrida’s Legacy on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Derrida’s passing

Date: from 5 to 7 November 2024
Place: Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice
Language: English

Organizers:

Partners: CEFRES, French Institute in Poland

Please find thereafter the Thesis of the Conference

Presentation of the conference:

The main axis of the proposed discussion concerns contemporary readings of deconstruction, especially regarding its political and social dimensions. The titles “after-words” and “after-worlds” lead us to reflect on a possible future that could be an alternative to a world plagued by conflicts, climatic and environmental disasters, refugee crises and the tearing of borders and social fabric through the development and constant growth of global Capitalism.

The conference will bring together leading scholars on Derrida’s philosophy from around the world. Among the guests are prof. Anne Berger (University of Vincennes – Paris 8), prof. Vicki Kirby (University of New South Wales), prof. Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) and prof. Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London).

 

Program:

Day 1:

9:30 – 9:45

  • Opening Words – Aleksander Kopka (University of Silesia in Katowice)

9:45 – 11:00

  • Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) – Transfers of Thought

11:15 – 11:45

  • Andrzej Leder (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Impatience and Indolence: Jacques Derrida and the Ethico-political Dimension of Epistemology

11:45 – 12:15

  • Jens Schröter (University of Bonn) – Derrida and Media Theory

12:15 – 12:45

  • Mina Karavanta (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – Deconstruction “At Large”: The Threshold of “Living Together”

12:45 – 13:15

  • Gloria Freitag (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) – Towards a Hospitality to Come: Deconstructing the Cosmopolitan World

14:15 – 14:45

  • Przemysław Tacik (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) – Derrida’s Wadi: How Philosophy Sinks into the Sand

14:45 – 15:15

  • Nitasha Kaul (University of Westminster) – Democracy as Work-in-Progress

15:30 – 16:00

  • Julian Culp (American University of Paris) – Towards a Cultural Turn in Democratic Citizenship Education

16:00 – 17:00

  • The Future(s) of Democracy – Discussion Panel with Nitasha Kaul, Julian Culp and Jeremy Gilbert, chair: Aleksander Kopka

 

Day2:

9:00 – 10:15

  • Anne Berger (University of Paris 8) – Politics of the Heart

10:30 – 11:00

  • Alžbeta Kuchtová (Slovak Academy of Sciences) – Enemy-Friendship Dynamics in Our Relations with Nature?

11:00 – 12:30

  • Joseph Cohen (University College Dublin) – Sacrificing Sacrifice Through History: On Derrida’s Deconstruction of Truth and Donation

12:30 – 13:00

  • Patryk Rogalski (not affiliated) – Capitalism Without Remainder: Derrida and the Economy of the Impossible

14:00 – 15:15

  • Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London) – Reconstructing Solidarity

15:15 – 15:45

  • Giustino De Michele (Aix-Marseille University) – Deconstruction (in) Practice: Revolution, Value, and Work

16:00 – 16:30

  • Aimilianos Tsakiroglou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – Deconstructing Marxist Political Ontology: Towards New Forms of Transgression

16:30 – 17:00

  • Jakub Dadlez (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin) – The Conscious Brain to Come: Malabou after Derrida

17:00 – 17:30

  • Daniel Sobota (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Dictatorship of Literacy

 

Day3:

9:00 – 10:15

Vicky Kirby (University of New South Wales) – Originary Humanicity: Rethinking the Anthropocene

10:30 – 11:00

Maria Gołębiewska (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Jacques Derrida’s Contribution to Linguistic Semantics

11:00 – 12:30

Paweł Dybel (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Derrida’s De-conjuring of Marx. Notes on the Margins of the Spectre

12:30 – 13:00

Yuji Nishiyama (Tokyo Metropolitan University) – Deconstruction as the Thinking of Secret

14:00 – 14:30

Yi Chen (Paris Nanterre University) – “In Dreams Begins Responsibility”: the Ethics of Deconstruction and the Poetics of the Unconscious

14:30 – 15:00

Jimmy Hernandez Marcelo (University of Salamanca) – From Deconstitution to Deconstruction: The Influence of Nicolas Abraham on the Origin of Deconstruction

15:00 –15:45

Jakub Momro (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) – Images After Last Skies.  Jean-Luc Nancy: Between Visual Hegemony and Political Deconstruction

16:00 – 16:30

Cezary Wąs (University of Wrocław) – Metaphysics and Architecture: the Case of Jacques Derrida

16:30 – 17:30

The Reception of Jacques Derrida in Poland / Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis – Discussion Panel with Jakub Momro and Paweł Dybel, chair: Aleksander Kopka

17:30

Closing Remarks – Michał Kisiel (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa) and Aleksander Kopka

 

Thesis:

It has been almost twenty years since Jacques Derrida died. Today, perhaps more than ever, as we confront a grotesque and inhumane countenance of what we are accustomed to call global capitalism, the question of what remains after Derrida becomes especially pertinent.

Is deconstructive promise still relevant and captivating, or has it been confined solely to academic departments and turned into what Derrida calls in Specters of Marx “the neutralizing anesthesia of a new theoreticism”?

In other words, is there still a place and demand for a valuable and vigilant deconstructive practice? If that is the case, shouldn’t we accept the responsibility of re-politicizing deconstruction and facing the “dominant intellectual normativity” of our times?

Challenged by these questions, we would like to make a modest attempt at thinking how it is possible to “produce events, new effective forms of action, practice, organization, and so forth,” as Derrida has it. We intend to investigate what can be done to keep the future open and to envision (im)possible worlds as alternatives to programmed barbarism and social homogeneities aggravated by multiple global crises.

Emancipation through Translation?

Emancipation through translation?
Women trajectories in Central and Eastern Europe (19th–21st centuries)

This international conference is part of the “Femmes et choc(s) d’émancipation” cycle at CIRCE / Eur’ORBEM, developed since 2022 in partnership with CEFRES.

Date: from 17 to 18 Octobre 2024
Place: Czech Centre in Paris, 18 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6e
Language: English & French

Organizers: Cécile Gauthier (University of Reims),
Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg (Sorbonne University)
Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University)
Partners: CEFRES, Eur’ORBEM (CNRS-Sorbonne University)

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Historical Approaches to Technical Creativity

Historical Approaches to Technical Creativity and Innovation

The conference aims to present historical approaches to innovative technology in many fields: from private enterprise to electrification, decolonization, locomotives, watchmaking and the ecological aspects of technology.

Date: October 3, 2024
Place: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, (Technická 2, Prague 6)
Language: French, English

Organizer: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

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