To Live in a Library of Five Dimensions
Date: June 11, 2025, 18 h
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Praha 1
The event will be held in French with simultaneous translation into Czech.
Where does the hostility towards literature come from, and what are the roots of its growing devaluation? How can we enrich our readings by taking a decentralised look at the texts? To what extent can a perspective from afar shed new light on our understanding of the Greek tragedies? And with what far-reaching arguments has Pope Francis put an end to a long history of scathing indictments of literary texts?
As part of the ‘Grands entretiens avec…’ series, this event is organised by CEFRES and its Platform partners in collaboration with the French Institute in Prague. Continue reading Grand Entretien | The World of Wiliam Marx →
Decolonizing Feminism – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès
On the occasion of the publication in the Czech edition of Un féminisme décolonial (La Fabrique, 2019) by Karolinum, CEFRES, the French Institute in Prague and Charles University invite you to a Great Interview with the author Françoise Vergès.
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6 pm
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language: French with simultaneous Czech interpretation
Moderator: Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Who cleans up the world? With this question, Françoise Vergès introduces a Decolonial feminism, taking as her starting point the underpaid, underestimated work that women, the majority of them racialised, do everyday all over the world, to make a society work. This feminism sees itself as the only one with a true understanding of women’s rights. Françoise Vergès defends an anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism. Continue reading CANCELED – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès →
“Grand entretien” with Pierre Monnet.
Charles IV, King and Emperor in Europe (1316–1378)
This “grand entretien” is organized in partnership with the French Institute in Prague, Karolinum Publishing and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 6:00 PM
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Langue: French with simultaneous translation into Czech
Moderation: Václav Žůrek, Center for medieval studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of sciences
Pierre Monnet will present his book: Charles IV, un empereur en Europe, published in Czech in 2023 at Karolinum Publishing in the translation by Jana Žůrková, and funded by « Fonds Šalda ».
Abstract
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“Grand entretien” with Boris Cyrulnik
This “grand entretien” is organized in partnership with the French Institute in Prague and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 6:00 PM
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Langue: French with simultaneous translation into Czech
Moderator: Alice KOUBOVÁ (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Abstract
Since the advent of neuroimaging, it has become evident that environmental deficiencies lead to brain dysfunction. When the environment is impoverished, the corresponding brain areas atrophy, causing individuals to perceive the world differently, often as hostile. All mammals can suffer from such disrupted development.
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Mali or Bohemia ? “Grand Entetien” with François-Xavier Fauvelle and Ladislav Varadzin
Date : May 22, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Location : French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language : french and czech (simultaneous translation)
Partners of the event : CEFRES, French Institute in Prague, Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences
François-Xavier Fauvelle and Ladislav Varadzin will discuss about Africa’s cultural diversity and various historical paths of african societies. The will think about characteristics of a “global” Middle Ages including Central Europe and several regions of Africa. Engaging the exercice (inevitably risky) of historical comparaison, they will share their thoughts about medieval written documentation (including arabic and jewish works) available for these two regions, the role of archaeology, the emergence of the State, meeting of Central European and African societies with Christianity or Islam, “broker” States and business and more. They will mention the kingdoms of Bohemia, Moravia, Ghana, Mali and Ethiopia.
François-Xavier Fauvelle is professor at the Collège de France, holder of the chair of history and archaeology of African worlds at the Collège de France and currently director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem. He worked in South Africa, in Ethiopia where he excavated the Christian site of Lalibela and discovered several Muslim towns, and in Morocco where he excavated the medieval city of Sijilmasa. Among some twenty books translated into a dozen languages, he is the author of Zlatý nosorožec : Příběhy o africkém středověku (Prague, 2021).
Ladislav Varadzin is a researcher in the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. A specialist in recent prehistory and ancient history of societies in North-East Africa and Central Europe, he worked in Sudan and in Egypt, and he excavated the medevial site of Vyšehrad in Prague. He is the author of more than a hundred scientific articles and book chapters.
Grand entretien with Antoine Compagnon : « If you don’t innovate, you die »
CEFRES and the French Institute in Prague invited Antoine Compagnon to give a “Grand Entretien” on the occasion of his participation in the conference „Proustian perspectives“ organized by the Departement of Czech and Comparative Literature and the Department of Romance studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (ÚČLK & ÚRS FF UK) in partnership with CEFRES.
Where: French Institute in Prague
When: Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, 6pm
Language: Czech and French (simultaneous interpretation)
Contact : cefres[@]cefres.cz
Antoine Compagnon (Collège de France / Académie française)
Modération: Eva Voldřichová-Beránková (UK)
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