Conservative mobilizations in Central Eastern Europe in transnational perspective

International Conference

Date: 8-9 December 2022
Location: CEFRES Library
Organizers:
– CEFRES
– Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
– Research Group (GDR)  “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane”, CNRS,
– The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research – PARCECO Programme
Convenors:  Anemona Constantin (CEFRES / Charles University), Valentin Behr (CNRS, Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique)
Language: English, French

Program

Day 1, 8 December 2022

09:30 : Welcome coffee & snacks
10:00 : Opening remarks, Mateusz Chmurski, Director of CEFRES
10:15 : General introduction, Valentin Behr & Anemona Constantin

10:30–12:00 – Panel 1 – Intellectuals’ engagements and the transnational circulation of ideas
Chair : Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES / Université de Bordeaux)
Discussant: Jakub Franek (IPS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)

10:30 : Alihan Mestci (CESSP, Paris I University/CNRS/ EHESS), “Erdoğan regime. The expertise on the issue of the “legitimate culture”

10:50 : Anemona Constantin (CEFRES / IPS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University), “How the conservative intellectuals do mobilize? Reflections on the emergence of a conservative International”

11:10 Discussion

11: 30 : Q&A

12.00-13.30: Lunch

13:30–15:30 – Panel 2 – Espaces intermédiaires et registres de mobilisation conservatrice
Chair: Michèle Baussant (ISP-CNRS / ICM / CEFRES)
Discussant: Annie Collovald (ISP-CNRS / Paris Nanterre University)

13:30 : Marie-Hélène Sa Vilas-Boas (CREDA, IHEAL / ERMES / Paris 3 University – Côte d’Azur University) “The ‘truth’ as a programm. Production of the political offer and religious references among the Bolsonarists in Rio (online)

13:50 : Aurélie Stern (CETOBaC, EHESS / Galatasaray University), “All descendants of Attila? The Turkish presence at the Macar Turan Kurultayı identity festival in Hungary.”

14:10 : Adrien Nonjon (CREE, INALCO), “Technology as a tool of the conservative renewal in Baltic space? The case of the prometheist new-right wings”

14:30 : Discussion

14:50 : Q&A

15.30-16.00: Coffee break

16:00–18:30 –Panel 3 – Late socialism and illiberal post-communism in perspective
Chair: Valentin Behr (CESSP, Paris I University / CNRS / EHESS) & Anemona Constantin (CEFRES / Charles University)

16:00 : Michal Kopeček (Czech Academy of Sciences): “Compromise in the Rule-of-Law: politics of liberal constitutionalism and the Rule of Law doctrines in East Central Europe after 1989”

16:20 : Laure Neumayer (Picardie University “Jules Verne”): The transformations of Central European anti-Communism after 1989

16:40 : Jérôme Heurtaux ( Paris-Dauphine University) : “When left-wing historians and activists re-read the communist past in Poland” (online)

17:00 : Julian Waller (IERES / George Washington University) (online): “‘Illiberalism’ in the East but ‘postliberalism’ in the West? Conceptualizing and mapping ideological dissent from Eastern Europe to America” (online)

17:20 : Discussion

17:40 : Q&A

18.30: End of Day 1

19:30 : Dinner

Day 2: 9 December 2022

9:00–11.00 – Panel 4 – Civil society and grassroots mobilizations
Chair: Valentin Behr (CESSP, CNRS)
Discussant: Pavel Barša (Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

9:00 : Eve Gianoncelli (Maison francaise d’Oxford) The forms and limitations of metapolitics: the case of the European Conservative (tbc)

9:20 : Marcin Ślarzyński (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences), “From the rituals of rebellion to the rituals of power? Local cultural and political practices of right-wing civil society organizations in Poland before and after taking power in 2015”

9:40 : Adrien Beauduin (CEFRES / Central European University), “Learning from the West? Western sources of the Czech parliamentary far-right”

10:00 : Discussion

10:20 : Q&A

11:00-11:30: Coffee break

11:30–13:30: Panel 5 – Legal order, moral order and illiberal identities within the conservative realm
Chair: Fedora Parkmann (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Discussant: Zora Hesová (Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

11: 30 : Natasza Quelvennec (CESSP, Paris I University / CNRS / EHESS), “Gender on trial. A legal think tank at the heart of the conservative international”

11:50 : Victor Hugo Ramirez-Garcia (LIPHA, Paris-Est Créteil University), “European institutions’ response to conservative backlash. The case of transnational justice and gender education”

12:10 : Paul Gradvohl (Paris 1 University), “Moral order, social order and (inter)nationalist circulations during the 20th and 21st centuries”

12:30 : Discussion

12:50 : Q&A

13:30: End of Day 2 

You can find the call for papers here.

You can find the abstract of each presentation here.

You can download the programme here.

You can find the list of participants here.

Foto: Petr Sís, Člověk a víra.

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 →

 Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop

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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Biopolitics and Mass Gymnastics in the Modern History of East Central Europe: Continuities and Discontinuities

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.

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Towards a Common History of Europe?
Crossed Perspectives in the Context of the War in Ukraine

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.

Download the presentation of the participants here!

Program 

Thursday, 25 November 2021

4:30–6:30 pm (English)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85931944473

Welcome speeches

• Lenka Rovná, Vice-Rector of Charles University
• Alexis Dutertre, Ambassador of France in Czech Republic (to be confirmed)
• Ondřej Beránek, Vice-President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, responsible for Humanities and Social Sciences
• Jérôme Heurtaux, Director of CEFRES

Film Screening: Science in Exile, by Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj and Pascale Laborier, 2020 (8’).

Round-Table: Is academic freedom a freedom of all?

Moderator: Pascale Laborier, Professor at University of Nanterre, Vice-President of Paris-Lumières University

• Jiří Přibáň, Professor at Cardiff University
• Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj, Photographer and Video Artist
• Dilnur Reyhan, President of European Uyghur Institute
• Olga Golubko, Emergency Program Manager at the Education Office for the New Belarus
• Michal Vašečka, Program Director of Bratislava Policy Institute

Cocktail

Friday 26 November 2021

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81879262389

Scholars and institutions facing powers

9:30–11:15 (English)

Moderator: Alena Marková, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

• Gábor Egry, Director of the Institute of Political History, Budapest The silence of the lambs? Cooptation, exclusion, rewarding: Means of creating a silenced academia in Hungary
•  Piotr Forecki, Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
  History on trial. The attack on Holocaust researchers in Poland 
• Shamil Jeppie, Associate Professor at University of Cape Town Freedom and ethics in the academy
• Cherine Hussein, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations, Prague                                                        Resistance Movements, Scholar-Activism and the Question of Solidarity

Coffee Break

Does New Public Management challenge scientific freedom?

11:30–13:00 (English)

Moderator: Mitchell Young, Assistant Professor, Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

• Tereza Stöckelová, Researcher at the Institute of sociology of Czech Academy of Sciences
  Why academic freedom must be challenged
• Michael Komm, Michaela Vojtková et Lukáš Dvořáček, Věda žije!
  When scientists are not playing fair and how to deal with it
• Frédéric Sawicki, Professor of political science, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University                                                                                              The perverse effects of the managerial turn: The French experience

 Lunch

How to defend and protect academic freedom?

14:15–16:00 (French and English, with live translation)

Moderator: Jakob Vogel, Director of Marc Bloch Center, Berlin

• Catherine Gousseff, Senior researcher at CNRS                                The exceptional welcome of the Russian academic exile in Prague (1920–1939): State policy and benefits of experiences
• Pascale Laborier, Vice-President of Paris-Lumières University, Co-Founder of PAUSE                                                                                        Some lessons on hosting researchers in exile abroad
•  Habib Mellakh, President of the Association tunisienne de défense des valeurs universitaires (ATDVU)                                              Challenging and defending academic freedom: The Tunisian experience
• Béatrice Hibou, Senior researcher at CNRS – CERI-Sciences Po, Paris
  Some lessons from the support to Fariba Adelkhah, scientific prisoner in Iran

  Coffee Break

What to do? How to do?

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!