Kick-off meeting of a research project developed within CU-CNRS Tandem Program supported by Charles University, CNRS and CEFRES
Date: Thursday, 19 March 2026 | 10:00–13:00
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 and online
(to receive the online link, please write us at: cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English Continue reading Tandem Kick-off | Religious Buildings
Kick-off meeting of a research project developed within the TANDEM CNRS-SAV program developed by the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences (CNRS SHS), CEFRES and the French Institute in Slovakia.
Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2026 | 9:30
Location: Univerzitná knižnica v Bratislave, Klariská 5, Bratislava
Language: English
Project principal investigators:
Silvester TRNOVEC (Institute of Oriental Studies, SAV / CEFRES)
Romain TIQUET (Institut des mondes africains, CNRS / CEFRES)
Program Continue reading Tandem Kick-off | No Colonies, Still Colonial?
The conference is organized as a part of the EURETES (Research Alliance) “War and Society. Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th-21st centuries”: CERCEC-EHESS, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Institute of International Studies at the Faculty
of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.
Date: November 12-14, 2025
Location: CEFERS, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English Continue reading Body & Care in the Ordeal of War
This event is organised by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, The French Institute in Prague, in cooperation with CEFRES.
Date: October 21–23, 2025
Location: The Cinema 35, Štěpánská 35, Praha 1 &
Archive of Parliament of the Czech Republic (Komunardů 1634/44, Prague 7)
Language: English
On the eve of the workshop, there will be a public debate with actors of dissidence and exile: Jan Kavan, Ivanka Lefeuvre, Martin Palouš, Jacques Rupnik and Anna Šabatová, moderated by a historian Michal Kopeček (Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences). The debate will take place on Tuesday, October 21, at 5 p.m. in the Institut français de Prague (Francouzský institut v Praze, Štěpánská 35, 110 00 Prague 1). It will be in Czech and interpreted into English. Find more information here. Continue reading Helsinki at 50. Human Rights, Peace, and Security
A conference organized by:
Centre d’études historiques de l’Académie polonaise des Sciences (CBH-PAN)
ISP (UMR 7220)
LincS (UMR 7069)
Université de Toulon
Université de Łódź
and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES, Prague)
Date: September 15–16, 2025
Location: Berlin, Polish Academy of Sciences, Marc Bloch Center
Languages: English & French
‘Memory’ as a subject of study and a political, social and media issue has dominated public debate in Europe since the late 1980s. ‘Duty to remember,’ ‘realms of memory,’ ‘wars of memory,’ ‘competition among victims,’ ‘memory invasion,’ ‘paths of memory,’ ‘politics of memory,’ ‘defence of memory,’ ‘murderers of memory’: these expressions reflect a new relationship with the world, a new regime of historicity that François Hartog calls presentism. This new configuration of the relationship with the past is reflected in various identity claims, particularly from previously dominated groups, but also in new institutional practices. Memory becomes a tool for mobilisation and intervention in the media, in public life, in politics in the broad sense of the term, but also in literature and the arts. It fuels epistemological reflection within the humanities and social sciences community. Continue reading Memory, Narratives, and Conflicts: At the Confluence of Perspectives
