Creating an Enemy, Undermining Rights
As part of the Pride Month program in Budapest, the French Institute in Hungary is organizing this roundtable discussion with the support of CEFRES. This event is part of the 31st edition of Budapest Pride.
Date: June 8, 2026, 18:00
Location: Francia Intéret, Auditorium, Budapest
Language: Hungarian and French with simultaneous interpretation
In the presence of:
Valentin BEHR, CNRS Research Fellow at the European Center for Sociology and Political Science (University of Paris 1), winner of the Oszkár Sárkány Fellowship 2025/2026
Andréa PETŐ, Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University (CEU)
Moderator: Viktória RADVÁNYI, President of Budapest Pride Continue reading Anti-gender Policies →
Thinking about Decolonialism
The event is organized in partnership with the Book World Prague, French Institute in Prague, Karolinum, and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: May 16, 2026, 14:00
Location: Franz Kafka Hall, Výstaviště Praha Holešovice, Křižík Pavilions
Language: English
The discussion will be moderated by Guillaume Basset, the artistic director of the Book World Prague.
Continue reading Book World Prague 2026 | Meet Françoise Vergès & Abdulrazak Gurnah →
The French Research Centre in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague welcomes Myriam Catusse, director of the Institute of Research on Contemporary Maghreb (IRMC, Tunis), previously director of the French Institute of Middle East (IFPO, 2021-2024) to an open, not-too-formal conversation on common, or divergent, stakes Social Sciences and Humanities face in recent times.
Date: April 2, 2026, 10:00
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Summary Continue reading Humanities and Social Sciences Amidst War →
Gender Equality Under Pressure
On the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March 2026), celebrating women’s rights and gender equality, the Embassies of France and Germany, together with the French Institute in Prague and CEFRES, jointly invite you to a special evening dedicated to gender equality, combining debate and cinema.
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 17:00
Language: English & Czech, with simultaneous interpretation
Continue reading Back to the Kitchen? →
The event is organized by the French Embassy in Prague, the Danish Embassy in Prague, the Brazilian Embassy in Prague, the French Institute in Prague, Charles University, the French Institute in Prague, and the Association for International Affairs (AMO).
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025, 17:00 – 19:15
Location: Blue Auditorium, Charles University, Celetná 20, Prague 1
Language: English
Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement and following COP30 in Belém, this debate will reflect on the progress achieved, explore ongoing challenges, and discuss the future of global climate action.
Program Continue reading Paris, Belém… What next? →
Shopping, Style, and Desire on Socialist Screens
This event is conceived and organised by Anastasia Mamaeva (PhD candidate, Sorbonne University, associate researcher at CEFRES) and hosted by CEFRES, Ponrepo Cinema, and the National Film Archive (Prague), with support from the Polish Institute in Prague and UMR Eur’ORBEM (Paris).
Dates & locations: December 5, 2025, 18:00
Ponrepo Cinema, Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1
December 12, 2025
CEFRES, Na Florenci, Prague 1 & online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Language: English (films in the Czech/Polish original with English subtitles)
A two-part international workshop exploring the phenomenon of socialist consumerism in Czechoslovak, Polish, and Soviet films of “the long seventies”. The upcoming two-part event – 5th and 12th December – invites both scholars and the general public to take a closer look at national classics and recently rediscovered film gems, and to explore how images, characters, and themes of shopping, style, and everyday life were crafted on socialist screens.
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