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.
Continue reading Comrade Consumer →
The expert seminar is organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Prague, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague, and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), in cooperation with the Embassy of the French Republic in Prague.
Date: June 10, 2025
Location: Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1
Language : English
PROGRAM
Continue reading Europe at the Crossroads: Energy Security Challenges →
Reinventing our cities in the face of climate and societal challenges
“La Nuit des idées 2025 – Acting for a Resilient City” is organized by the Institut français de Prague and the French Embassy in the Czech Republic, in partnership with CEFRES, AMO and the festival Les 48h pour l’agriculture urbaine. The project is supported by the Institut français de Paris.
Date: April 14, 2025, 6 PM
Location: Cinema Kino 35, Institut français de Prague,
Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language of the workshop: English
How can we build cities that are both sustainable and inclusive in the face of growing environmental and social challenges? What will tomorrow’s city look like? What innovative solutions exist for sustainable urban planning? What tools can help create more inclusive and greener cities?
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of urban resilience and innovation.
Speakers:
- Barbora CHMELOVÁ (Ministry of the Environment / AMO) – Specialist in public policies for sustainability
- Martin ĎURĎOVIČ (Academy of Sciences / CEFRES) – Researcher in urban planning and ecological transitions
- Flore-Anaïs BRUNET (AFAUP) – Urban agriculture specialist and activist
Moderator: Gilles LEPESANT (Geographer, CNRS / CEFRES)
Key Topics:
- Cities and climate resilience – How can we adapt urban infrastructures to extreme weather events (heatwaves, floods, droughts)? What role can nature-based solutions play in making cities more sustainable?
- Urban planning and new development models – How can we balance urban density, land-use efficiency, and quality of life? What tools are available to create more inclusive and accessible cities?
- Circular economy and social innovation – How can cities promote new modes of production and consumption? What impact do urban commons and citizen-led initiatives have on local governance? What role does urban farming play in strengthening cities’ resilience?
- Mobility and energy transition – What are the alternatives to polluting transportation? How can we foster shared, fair, and sustainable mobility solutions?
Find more informations about all the events here.
From Baku to Brussels:
The European Climate Policy after the COP29
This roundtable discussion is organized within the Tandem project “Contested Energy Transitions” led by Martin Ďurďovič (CEFRES – Czech Academy of Sciences) and Gilles Lepesant (CEFRES – CNRS) with the participation of Krzysztof Tarkowski (CEFRES – Charles University).
Date: Thursday 12 December 2024, 9–11 am
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Audience: on invitation only (Chatham House Rule)
The seminar will highlight the key outcomes from COP29 (Baku, Azerbaijan from 11–22 November 2024), examining the contrasting climate stances of major stakeholders. Continue reading The European climate policy after the COP29 →
An invisible empire?
Austro-Hungarian economic space in Central and Southeastern Europe 1890–1930:
actors, structures, embeddedness, factors of resilience
A roundtable discussion around the research project led by Gábor Egry, invited researcher at CEFRES in June 2024, thanks to a support granted by CNRS (SMI program).
Date: Thursday June 27, 2024, at 5 pm
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci, Prague 1
Language: English
Gábor Egry is PI of the ERC NEPOSTRANS, Director General of the Institute of Political History in Budapest and member of the COST Action Women on the Move project, Gábor Egry studies post-imperial transitions on the example of Austria-Hungary.
Please find a presentation of his research work here.
In 2017, he received an ERC Consolidator grant for the project NEPOSTRANS – Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation, a comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe.
