The first international conference organized in the frame of the VOICE excellency research center by the Institute of Romance Studies and the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, in celebration of Charles University’s new membership within the Agence universitaire de la francophonie. The conference has received the patronage of Roland Galharague, Ambassador of France in the Czech Republic.

Date & Venue: 1-2 December, Faculty of Arts, room 300(náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)
Language: French
Partners : FF UK, VOICE, CEFRES, French Institute in Prague, French Embassy in the Czech Republic, Agence universitaire de la francophonie, University of Cambridge, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, École Normale Supérieure in Lyon,  Paris-Sorbonne University, University of Paris X-Nanterre, Reims Champagne-Ardenne University, University of Clermont-Auvergne, University of Limoges, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Masaryk University (Brno).
See also the website of the conference.

Twenty-one scholars in philosophy, literary studies and art history will tackle the topic of “emotions”, their sources, expression, transmission and conceptualization. Papers will be grounded in French-written literature and philosophy from all around the world, from Renaissance to today.

Program

Friday 1 December

8:30-9 am Opening Remarks  (Faculty of Arts, room 300)

9-10:30 am
Panel I: Philosophy I
Discussant: Ondřej Švec

• Denis KAMBOUCHNER (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): L’héritage cartésien dans les théories modernes des émotions
• Pierre-François MOREAU (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon):
  Politique des affects

Coffee break

10:45-12:45 am
Panel II: Philosophy II
Discussant: Chiara Mangozzi

• Ian JAMES (University of Cambridge): Affectivité, sens et affects : les émotions comme articulation de la vie biologique
• Véronique Le RU (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne):
  Individuation et affects : les rythmes de l’empathie
• Ondřej ŠVEC (Charles University): L’historicité radicale des émotions

1-2 pm
Lunch break

2:30-6 pm
Panel III: French literature of the 17th and 18th century
Discussant: Catherine Ébert-Zeminová

• Záviš ŠUMAN (Charles University) : Catharsis : essai de légitimer la fiction théâtrale au XVIIe siècle en France
• Camille Guyon-Lecoq (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) :
  Sensibilité à la douleur et compassion chez Robert Challe voyageur : de l’expérience de l’attendrissement à une réflexion sur la nature humaine
• Céline BONHERT (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne):
  Émotion et décision dans les livrets de Philippe Quinault : la tragédie en musique et les passions du prince
• prof. Jean-Louis HAQUETTE (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne): “Notre âme est un tableau mouvant”. Énergétique des émotions et puissance de l’image chez Diderot

Saturday 2 December

9-11 am
Panel IV: French literature of the 19th century
Discussant: Jovanka Šotolová

• Pascale AURAIX-JONCHIÈRE (Université Clermont-Auvergne) :
  L’expression des émotions, un paradigme structurel dans les nouvelles de Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
• Cécile GAUTHIER (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne) :
  Barbarie, émotion et altérité : les affects “excessifs” de la slavité fin-de-siècle
• Eva VOLDŘICHOVÁ BERÁNKOVÁ (Charles University) :
  La valeur cognitive des passions dans “le système symboliste”

Coffee break

11:15-1:15 pm
Panel V: Literature of the 20th century – theoretic approaches
Discussant: Clara Royer

• Alexandre GEFEN (Université paris IV-La Sorbonne): Le tournant affectif des études littéraires : bilan et perspectives
• Anne-Élisabeth HALPERN (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne): “Cette émotion appelée poésie” (Reverdy)
• Sylviane COYAULT (Université Clermont-Auvergne): Article 353 du code pénal de Tanguy Viel, ou la tenson entre la loi et les affects

1:30-2:30 pm
Lunch break

3-5 pm
Panel VI: Post-colonial and diaspora literature I
Discussant: Eva Voldřichová Beránková

• Petr KYLOUŠEK (Masaryk University): Ariel et Caliban : double discours de la diaspora haïtienne de Montréal
• Chiara MENGOZZI (CEFRES, Université Charles): Aux frontières de l’humanité: (in)efficacité de l’empathie et de l’expérience esthétique
• Jean-Michel DEVÉSA (Université de Limoges) : L’Amère Souffrance des enfants de la (post)colonie

Coffee break

5:15-6:45 pm
Panel VII:  Post-colonial and diaspora literature II
Discussant: Milena Fučíková

• Petr VURM (Masaryk University): 1984-2084. Faux-semblants révélés, émotions refoulées : les émotions à l’âge totalitaire chez George Orwell et Boualem Sansal
• Vojtěch ŠARŠE (Charles University): La manifestation collective du sentiment de la tristesse dans l’Afrique romanesque

This conference originates from the encounter of three projects: a Russian-French project on trials in the USSR (FMSH/RGNF), the micro-project of the Labex Création, Arts, Patrimoines ‘Images de la justice”, and the WW2CRIMESONTRIAL1943-1991 project supported by the French National Research Agency.

Find out more about the ANR project “Nazi War Crimes in Court” here

Partners: CEFRES, March Bloch Center, CERCEC, CEFR, GDR “CEM” and CERHEC
Time & Venue: 12-14 Octobre 2017, CEFRES, Prague
Language: English

Read the call for papers here

Program

Thursday 12 October 

9.00 Opening Remarks

Media narratives and their reception
9.30-11.30 
Panel I: Mediatization As a Turning Point: Attractive Features & Risks 
Discussant: Françoise Mayer

• Ornella Rovetta: Judging War Criminals in the 1920s: A Pioneering Precedent in Making Post-War Justice Visible?
• Radu Stancu: Capital Punishment for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Romania after World War II
• Enrico Heitzer: The “Norwegians”: a Nearly Forgotten Group of German and Austrian Nazi and War Criminals in Front of Soviet Courts 1946/47

Coffee Break

11.45-1.45
Panel II: Fixed Components of Media Narrative and Its Consequences 
Discussant: Dimitri Astashkin

• Alexander Epifanov: Information Support to Trials over Hitler’s War Criminals and Accomplices in the USSR in 1941–1956
• Elena Kokkoken: Pskov Regional Press: The Trials over Russian Collaborators
• Marie-Bénedicte Vincent: Ernst Kaltenbrunner in the Trial of Nuremberg: Which Reception in the Press Under Military Control of Occupied West Germany?

Lunch Break

Social Mobilisation and Justice
3.00-5.00
Panel III: Sparking off social commitment
Discussant: Audrey Kichelewski

• Agnieszka Smelkowska: Revenge and justice on display: rehabilitacja in post-war Poland
• Gabriel Finder: Jews, Poles, and Justice in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
• Nadège Ragaru: Differentiated Publicity: The Sandglass of the (In-) visibilization of the Trials for Anti-Jewish Crimes in Bulgaria (1944-1945)

Friday 13 October
Social Mobilization and Justice 

9.30-11.30
Panel IV: Victims and Witnesses: Driving Forces for Justice (1)
Discussant: Vanessa Voisin

• Natalia Aleksiun: Survivor Networks and the Polish Post-War Trials
• Giovanni Focardi, Andrea Martini: Shadows and lights in Trials against Fascists: Transitional Justice in Italy (1943-1953)
• Maxilimian Becker: Victims’ Unions’ Reception of Trials: The Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem 1961 and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965

Coffee Break

11.45-1.15
Panel V: Victims and Witnesses: Driving Forces for Justice (2)
Discussant: Emilia Koustova

• Máté Zombory: Arrow Cross atrocities on trial: the public trajectory of a key witness in Budapest (1945-1949)
• Birte Klarzyk, Anne Klein: Dynamics and Multiperspectivity of Justice: The “FFDJF” and the “Lischka Trial” of Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen and Ernst Heinrichsohn in Cologne, 1979/80

Lunch Break

1.50-2.30
Film projection: The Victims Accuse (Moscow/Minsk, 1963). Commented by Jasmin Söhner and Vanessa Voisin

2.40-4.40
Panel VI: The Limits of Social Mobilization
Discussant: Alain Blum

• Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva: Soviet citizens write to the press and to the general prosecutor: the reception of the Kacherovski trial in Riga (1959)
• Regina Kazyulina: The Contingency of Postwar Justice in the Crimean Countryside
• Andrea Pető: Post WWII Trials and Perpetrators in Hungarian Cinema. The Missing Composure

Saturday 14 October
Transnational Justice in Postwar Europe

9.30-11.30
Panel VIII: Reception of Propaganda and Political Fallout
Discussant: Clara Royer

• James Ryan: Ideology on Trial: Ideology on Trial: The Prosecution of Leftists and Pan-Turkists at the Dawn of the Cold War in Turkey, 1944-1947
• Fabien Théofilakis: The Eichmann Trial (1961) on the Front Page”: How did the Western European Press deal with the Nazi Past?
• Jasmin Söhner: Presenting unambiguous results: the case of Erwin Schüle

Coffee Break

11.45-1.45
Panel IX: Media Impact on Judicial Procedures
Discussant: Sylvie Lindeperg

• Steven Remy: The Visual Politics of Infamy: The Malmedy Massacre Trial and its Aftermath
• Kateřina Králová: In the Shade of Eichmann: Prosecution of Max Merten in Greece and Beyond
• Vojtěch Kyncl: Judicial scandal in the “Malloth” process

1.45-2.45: Concluding Remarks

When: 20–21 September 2017
Where: Czech Academy of Sciences, Villa Lanna, Prague
Language: English

The conference is a joint event bringing together two recent academic initiatives focusing on the research on the history of the Roma and supporting new approaches in the field: the Prague Forum for Romani Histories and the Research network on ‘Legacies of the Roma Genocide in Europe since 1945’, which is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC, United Kingdom). Both initiatives aim at fostering a debate on the history of Roma as part of European history and contemporary European society.

Find the program of the conference here!

See the flyer and the program here.

More on the Prague Forum for Romani Histories

Where: Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague 1
Organizers: Eliyana Adler (The Pennsylvania State University), Kateřina Čapková (ÚSD AV ČR) and Ruth Leiserowitz (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)

Check the program and details on the organizers’ website here

Program

Wednesday 15 March

9:00 – Welcome

9:15 – 11:00 Family and Genocide
Chair: Eliyana Adler (Pennsylvania State University)

Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Narrating Families’ Daily Life in East European Ghettos: Concepts and Dilemmas

Michal Unger (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel): Separation and Divorce in the East European Ghettos

Volha Bartash (Hugo Valentin Centre, University of Uppsala): Romani Family in the Holocaust: Ethnographic Field Notes from the Belarusian-Lithuanian Borderland

11:00-11:15  Coffee break

11:15 -12:30 Family Correspondence
Chair:  Kateřina Králová (Charles University, Prague)

Joachim Schlör (University in Southampton): „I could never forget what they had done to my father“: The Absence and Presence of Holocaust Memory in a Family’s Letter Collection

Rony Alfandary (Bar Ilan University): Family Letters from Thessaloniki – Real and Imaginary Consequences

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:45 Family and Choice
Chair: Ruth Leiserowicz (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)

Kiril Feferman (Ariel University): Changing Roles: Flight Decision-Making in the Mixed Families in the Soviet Union, 1941

Alina Bothe (Free University, Berlin): “This was the last time I saw my mother” – Families Responding to the First Mass Deportation in October 1938

Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York City): Negotiating Gender, Family, and Survival Behind the Lines: Perspectives from the Margins of Holocaust History

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:45 Children’s Perspectives
Chair: Clara Royer (CEFRES, Prague)

Boaz Cohen (Western Galilee College, Akko): Family Survival Strategies as Seen by Survivor Children in their Early Testimonies

Sarah Rosen (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem): The Survival of Deported Families in Transnistrian Ghettos as Reflected in Diaries of the Youth

Joanna Beata Michlic (Bristol University): Grayer Shades of Jewish Identity: Atypical Histories of Child Survivors from Mixed Polish-Jewish Families in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Thursday 16 March

9:00 – 10:45 Imagined Families
Chair: István Pál Ádám (CEFRES, Prague)

Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, New York City): Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families

Rita Horvath (Yad Vashem): Hasidic Families under Pressure: An In-Depth Analysis of the Holocaust Testimonies Collected by Yaffa Eliach

Viktória Bányai (Institute for Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): The Impact of the Joint’s Assistance Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945-49

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12: 45 Postwar Dilemmas
Chair: Stephan Stach (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)

Laura Hobson Faure (Sorbonne Nouvelle University): Siblings in the Holocaust and its Aftermath: Rethinking the “Holocaust Orphan” in France and the United States

Marcos Silber (University of Haifa): Migrations, Gender and Family: Bottom-Up Perspectives on Migrations and Nation Building in 1950s’ Poland and Israel

Kamil Kijek (Wrocław University): Jewish Family Confronting the Holocaust Aftermath and Demise of Modernism: The Case of Polish Lower Silesia, 1945-1957

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:45 Rebuilding the Family
Chair: Kateřina Čapková (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)

Robin Judd (Ohio State University): “Experiencing Family and Home”: Jewish Military Brides, Allied Soldier Husbands, and the Centrality of Kinship, 1944-1950

Anja Reuss, Independent Historian: “Return to Normality”—The Relevance of Motherhood and Family for Sinti and Roma Survivors in the Aftermath of World War II

Sarah Wobick-Segev, University of Western Ontario: Looking for a Nice Jewish Girl . . .: Personal Ads and the Creation of Jewish Families in Germany during and after the Shoah, 1938-1953

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45 Concluding discussion

This international conference will bring together in Prague researchers from different European countries. One of its main purposes is to create a Central European network of scholars dealing with the topic of the human-animal relations across disciplines.
Organizers: Dr. Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES & FF UK) & Dr. Anna Barcz (University of Bielsko-Biala in Poland)
Language: English

Program

7 February 2017 – French Institute in Prague

French Institute in Prague, Štĕpánská 35, 5^th floor

5:00-5:30 Welcome speech by the organizers, Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES & Charles University) and Anna Barcz (University of Bielsko-Biala) 5:30-7:00
Lecture by Anne Simon (CNRS/EHESS): Literature and Animal Expressiveness: of the Cognitive and Ethic Aspects of Zoopoetics

8 February 2017 – CEFRES

Na Florenci 3, 3rd floor, conference room

Panel I Animals’ Biography, History and Microhistory

Chair: Lucie Storchová (Charles University)

9:00-9:20 Maria Gindhart (Georgia State University): Animals and Humans in Belle Époque Postcards from the Jardin des Plantes Menagerie

9:20-9:40 Violette Pouillard (Wiener-Anspach Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Oxford): Nonhuman Animals as Objects or Individuals? A History of Primates at the London Zoo from 1828 to the Present Time

9:40-10:00 Discussion

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

Panel II Literary Lines I

Chair: Alice Flemrová

10:40-11:00 Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES-Charles University, Prague): The Blind Spot of the Plot: Thinking Beyond Human with Karel Capek 

11:00-11:20 Matilde Accurso Liotta (University of Pisa): The Renegotiation of the Human-Animal Line in Anna Maria Ortese’s L’iguana

11:20-11:40 Discussion

Lecture

11:40-12:50 Lecture by Kari Weil (Wesleyan University): Animal Magnetism and Moral Dressage: Horses and Their Humans in 19^th Century France

12:50-2:00 Lunch

Panel III Philosophical and sociological narratives

Chair: Ondřej Švec (Charles University)

2:00-2:20 Kári Driscoll (Utrecht University): ‘Une langue ou une musique inouïe, assez inhumaine…’: Narrative Voice and the Question of the Animal

2:20-2:40 Michał Krzykawski (University of Silesia): Animal, Number

2:40-3:00 Tereza Vandrovcová (University of New York in Prague): Moral Evolution Toward the Earthlings: A Sociological Approach

3:00-3:20 Discussion

3:20-3:40 Coffee Break

Panel IV Visual Line I

Chair : Anna Barcz (University of Bielsko-Biala)

3:40-4:00 Olivier Vayron (Paris-Sorbonne University): From Frémiet to Kipling: the Orangutan on the Fringe of Mankind 

4:00-4:20 Fae Brauer (University of East London): Becoming Simian: Creative Evolution and Interspecies Modernism

4:20-4:40 Discussion

9 February 2017 – French Institute in Prague

French Institute in Prague, Štĕpánská 35, 5^th floor

Panel V Human-Animal History

Chair: Kari Weil

9:00-9:20 Quentin Montagne (University of Rennes 2): Seeing Eye to Eye, Through a Glass Clearly ? The Blurring of the Boundary Between Humans and Animals

9:20-9:40 Anna Barcz (University of Bielsko-Biala): Visualising Human-Animal Bond during the Flood 1997/2010 in Poland

9:40-10:00 Discussion

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

Panel VI Visual Lines II

Chair: Clara Royer (CEFRES)

10:20-10:40 Concepción Cortés Zulueta (Autonomous University of Madrid): Cameras that Pose as Animals: Imagining Non-human Animals through the POV Shot

10:40-11:00 Discussion

Lecture

11:20-12:30 Lecture by Éric Baratay (Jean Moulin Lyon III University): Writing Biographies on Animals (in French, with simultaneous translation)

12:30-1:30 Lunch

Panel VII Literary Lines II

Chair: Richard Müller (Czech Academy of Sciences)

1:30-1:50 Anita Jarzyna (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): Laika’s Lullaby

1:50-2:10 Nicolas Picard (University of Paris III): Hunt Practices: In Quest of Animal Existences

2:10-2:30 Eva Beránková (Charles University, Prague): Animals As Victims and Monsters at the Age of Decadence

2:30-2:50 Discussion

2:50-3:10 Coffee Break

Panel VIII Animals in Pop Culture

Chair: Anne Simon (CNRS / EHESS)

3:10-3:30 Lenka Svobodová, Ondřej Krajtl (Masaryk University): Animal Monster as a Representation of Contemporary Culture

3:30-3:50 Catherine du Toit (University of Stellenbosch): It is not for the Pig to Call the Sheep Pen Dirty. Identity and Animality in Multiethnic Crime Fiction

3:50-4:10 Discussion

Session IX Literary Lines III

Chair: Jan Matonoha (Czech Academy of Sciences)

4:10-5:30 Jana Gridneva (Charles University, Prague): Liminal Creatures: Representing Animals in Ulysses

4:30-4:50 Jonathan Pollock (University of Perpignan): From Becoming-Animal to Being a Beast. Literary Experiments in Crossing the Species Divide

4:50-5:10 Enrico Riccardo Orlando (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice): Between Silence and Effusiveness: Garnett’s Fox and Bacchelli’s Tuna

5:10-5:30 Discussion

Closing

Scientific committee

Éric Baratay (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University), Anna Barcz (University of Bielsko-Biala), Jakub Čapek (Charles University), Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES – Charles University), Anne Simon (CNRS/EHESS), Petr Urban (Czech Academy of Sciences)

See the call for papers here