International conference
Date: 28 & 29 November 2022
Venue: Goethe-Institut, Masarykovo nábřeží 32, Prague 1
Organizer: Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences within the Strategy AV21
Partners: Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten Continue reading Memory of the Past and Politics of the Present
When: 4 – 5 November 2022
Where: Prague, Czech Republic
Convenors:
Astrid Greve Kristensen (Sorbonne University, associated at CEFRES)
Rose Smith (Charles University & University of Groningen),
Emina Zoletic (University of Warsaw / CEFRES)
A Workshop organized by 4EUPlus with the collaboration of CEFRES.
Read the call for papers here.
Friday November 4th 2022
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
17.30–19.00 | Roundtable discussion
Transmissions of memories of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Moderated by František Šístek (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University).
With historians and memory scholars:
Jelena Đureinović (University of Vienna)
Vjeran Pavlakovic (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Naum Trajanovski (University of Warsaw, Institute for Sociology)
Saturday November 5th 2022
Location: Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Smetanovo nábř. 995/6, Room 212, Prague 1
08.30–09.15 | Registration and welcome
09.15–09.50 | Keynote lecture about the war in Ukraine
Elmira Muratova, PhD (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University)
10.00–12.00 | Panel 1
The Road to the Audience’s Heart? Theatre, Songs and Poetry
Discussant: Türkay Salim Nefes, PhD (University of Oxford)
Chair: Emina Zoletić
Alice Clabaut (Sorbonne University & Charles University)
Hammering Brecht’s Theater During the Cold War: Between Political Nostalgia and Cultural Propaganda
Nenad Milosavljević (Sorbonne University)
The Wars of the Years 1990s in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro in the Mirror of the Poetry Written in These Countries
Lubna Batool (Rawalpindi Women University)
Embedment of War Memories in Youth Through National Songs: A Multimodal Analysis of Remakes in Pakistan
Aida Čopra (Sorbonne University, University of Florence, University of Bonn)
Nothing to be done. Theatre as a Medium of Memory in Wartime Sarajevo (1992-1995)
12.00–13.00 | Lunch
13.00 – 14.30 | Panel 2
Distortion Through the Camera Lens
Discussant: Jana Jedličková, PhD (Palacký University, Olomouc)
Chair: Astrid Greve Kristensen
Maria Plichta (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)
First as a tragedy, then as the lowest rated film on IMDb: The Kitschification of the Smolensk catastrophe in the Smoleńsk (2016) film.
Domenico Scagliusi (Sorbonne University)
Time Travel and Poetics of Reenactment: the Kitschification of WWII in Russian Post-Soviet Fantastika
Đejmi Hadrović (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
Cinema as a Political Platform in Post-Yugoslavia
14.30-15.00 | Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.30 | Panel 3
In The Grip of Words: Big Actors, Propaganda and False Narratives
Discussant: Valeriya Korablyova PhD (Charles University)
Chair: Rose Smith
Anna Greszta (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis)
Performance, Masquerade and Post-Truth Sensibilities in Cultural Representations of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Heqi Sun (University of Warsaw)
Spillover effects of the Kosovo War – The US bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999
Nicholas Idris Erameh (Northwest University, South Africa)
In the Shadow of Empire: Putin’s Expansionism, Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Limitation of United Nations Security Council Veto Power
16.30 | Concluding remarks
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Conference
When: From Thursday 28 April to Saturday 30 April 2022
Where: Day 1 and 2: CEFRES and online. Day 3: Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Prague 1. For more information, please contact: vojtech.pojar(@)cefres.cz
Language: English
Convenors:
Nikola Ludlová (Central European University – CEU, Budapest and CEFRES, Prague)
Vojtěch Pojar (CEU Budapest and CEFRES, Prague)
Lucija Balikić (CEU, Vienna)
John Paul Newman (Maynooth University, Ireland)
To assist online, please use the following link :
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92239987638?pwd=aTRMSFVKU2pJdk9DRk5Vbmk2cXNwUT09
Meeting ID: 922 3998 7638
Passcode: 630958
See the program below.
Continue reading Biopolitics and Mass Gymnastics in the Modern History
An international conference organized by the French Embassy in the Czech Republic and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), within the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
When: Thursday, April 14, 2022, 2:30-6 pm
Where: French Embassy in the Czech Republic, Velkopřevorské nám. 2, 118 01 Malá Strana, Prague
Language: English
To assist in person: admission on registration, subject to availability of places: biblio.cefres@gmail.com
To assist online: us02web.zoom.us/j/85072557320
Information: jerome.heurtaux@cefres.cz
Abstract:
In his press conference on December 9, 2021, on the occasion of the presentation of the priorities of the French Presidency of the European Union in 2022, the French President Emmanuel Macron proposed to “resume (…) major work on Europe’s history. (…),” further specifying that ” European history is not simply the sum of 27 national histories. There is a coherence, links that everyone feels, but which cannot be fully apprehended yet.” It is therefore a question of “an independent historiographical framework”, which could allow to ” build an academic framework where historians from across Europe can continue to carry out independent historical work, based on traces, evidence and controversies (…) and to forge a history and historiography of our Europe and a global history of Europe”. Continue reading Towards a Common History of Europe? Crossed Perspectives in the Context of the War in Ukraine
CEFRES 30th Anniversary International Conference (Part 2), Prague, 25–26 November 2021
Venue: Prague, Carolinum, Ovocný trh 3, and online on CEFRES Facebook page and on Zoom
Date: 25–26 November 2021
Academic freedom is weakened and even challenged in many countries by various political, economic and religious powers. The indifference of the population for a freedom often perceived as a caste privilege aggravates this situation. It is therefore urgent to make academic freedom a public good that concerns all members of a society.
After a first part held last May, CEFRES is organising the second part of its 30th anniversary international conference on 25–26 November 2021 in Prague, together with its CEFRES Platform partners, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences. The conference will be held at the Carolinum of Charles University and simultaneously online.
4:30–6:30 pm (English)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85931944473
Film Screening: Science in Exile, by Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj and Pascale Laborier, 2020 (8’).
Moderator: Pascale Laborier, Professor at University of Nanterre, Vice-President of Paris-Lumières University
Cocktail
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9:30–11:15 (English)
Moderator: Alena Marková, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
Coffee Break
11:30–13:00 (English)
Moderator: Mitchell Young, Assistant Professor, Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Lunch
14:15–16:00 (French and English, with live translation)
Moderator: Jakob Vogel, Director of Marc Bloch Center, Berlin
Coffee Break
16:30–18:00 (French and English, with live translation)
Moderator: Jérôme Heurtaux, Director of CEFRES
All Participants and, among others, Katia Boissevain, Director of IRMC (Tunis), Pierre Buhler, CAPS-MEAE, Adrien Delmas, Director of the Jacques Berque Center (Rabat), Adrien Fauve, Director of IFEAC (Bichkek), Anaïs Marin, Researcher at CCFEF, Warsaw and Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, etc.
Download the presentation of the participants here!
International Workshop organized by the CEFRES, in cooperation with the Institute of Sociological Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague).
Date: 4–6 November 2021
Place: CEFRES, Prague and online (for the access, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
17:30 Welcome speech
18:00 – 19:00 Keynote: Agnes Gagyi, University of Gothenburg, Housing struggles in Eastern Europe as a structural field of contention
19:00 Cocktails
9:30 – 11:00 Housing crisis: Alternative housing and resisting actors
Zsuzsanna Pósfai, Periféria Policy and Research Center, Potential financial mechanisms for new forms of affordable housing
Yuliya Moskvina, Ludmila Böhmova, Charles University in Prague, Jakub Černý, University of Ostrava, Písnice as a space of resistance to privatization
Jakub Černý, University of Ostrava, Processes of (collective) resistence in the context of residential displacement in Czechia: Case study „Bedřiška”
Chair: Yoann Morvan (CNRS)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Urban initiatives and movements
Alexandra Bitušíková, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Not in our town: Urban activism in Slovakia (The case of Banská Bystrica)
Justyna Kościńska, University of Warsaw, Theorizing urban movements in Pierre Bourdieu’s terms of capital and habitus
Klemen Ploštajner, University of Ljubljana, Between political and post-political: Two urban movements in Ljubljana
Chair: Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES / CNRS / Bordeaux University)
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Institutional formations in the cities: neoliberalism and beyond
Michaela Pixová, Charles University in Prague, Governance of crises in crisis: Dialogue, cooperation and radical forms of democracy as a way of overcoming inaction
Václav Orcígr, Charles University in Prague, Recent development and planning in Prague – NGO perspective
Pavel Šuška, Slovak Academy of Sciences, From Local ideology to tactical urbanism and strategic integration: Changing place-frames within urban political landscape of post-socialist Bratislava
Svetlana Moskaleva, European University at St.Petersburg, Institutionalization of urban planning in post-soviet Russia
Chair: Yuliya Moskvina (UK)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Spatial practices
Lýdia Grešáková, Zuzana Tabačková, Spolka, Spatial practices from the margins
Adela Petrovic, Greta Kukeli, Charles University in Prague, From a former industrial neighborhood to a creative-class oasis: A case study of Karlín, the inner-city neighborhood of Prague
Chair: Václav Orcígr (UK)
10:00 Critical urban tour at Karlín district with Jakub Nakládal (meeting at CEFRES)
For more information, see the call for papers: here.
