1st session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.
Location: CEFRES Library and online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English
Speaker: Andrej VAŠÍČEK (CEFRES / FiF UK)
Discussant: Markéta ŠANTRŮČKOVÁ (Department of Cultural Landscape and Sites, Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening – VUKOZ v.v.i)
Abstract
The lecture approaches the sacred landscape as a dynamic network of places and routes shaped by Baroque piety, diocesan reorganization and everyday practice. It combines historical geography with GIS to reconstruct how churches, chapels, Calvaries, crosses and cemeteries formed spatial hierarchies and itineraries. Cartographic sources are treated interpretively and cross-checked against canonical visitations, schematisms, municipal and parish records, epigraphy and field observation. A micro-case from the town of Púchov demonstrates hydrological and transport thresholds, the relocation of burial grounds extra muros and the dating power of chronograms. The talk proposes a transferable workflow for the historical-geographical reconstruction of sacred layers in Central Europe and reflects on practical uses in heritage management, spatial planning and public engagement.
Please find the complete program of 2025–2026 seminar here.
Third session of the CEFRES 2023 Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar. The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, June 9th, 10 am – 11.30 am
Language: french
Chiara MENGOZZI (Charles University), discussant Michèle BAUSSANT (CNRS, CEFRES)
While, until the 1990s, migrant deaths at sea occurred fairly far from the Italian coast, the situation changed in the 2000s, following a number of shipwrecks that were widely covered by the media. Continue reading Tragedies in the Mediterranean on the contemporary Italian and European stage →
Second session of the CEFRES 2023 Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar. The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, May 12th, 10 am – 11.30 am.
Language: french
Eloïse ADDE (CEU), discussant Jan ZDICHYNEC (Charles University)
Territory is one of the fundamental markers defining a nation; it is even an essential support of it, alongside the State and the population to which it is attached. Often corresponding to natural phenomena that can be identified spatially, such as mountain ridges or river lines, the territory is generally taken for granted and is therefore rarely questioned. Nevertheless, like the nation it materialises, it is a construction, a production that is fluid and changing depending on the uses that are made of it, and its display is much more contingent than it seems. Territory is closely linked to political practice; it is what unifies a “political community”, but the latter also gives it its shape. In this communication, Eloïse Adde will decipher the function of territory and the way it was perceived and constructed within two projects aimed at founding and consolidating the nation in Bohemia and Brabant in the early 14th century.
See the complete program of the seminar here.
First session of the CEFRES 2023 Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar. The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by beginning by questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, April 14th, 10 am – 11.30 am.
Language: french
Thomas CHOPARD (EHESS / IMS, Charles University), discussant Ronan HERVOUET (Université de Bordeaux / CEFRES)
Recent images reminded us of the entanglement between war, persecution, and exile. What role did the Soviet border play in the survival strategies or in the aggravation of the situation of the Jewish population? What status was the status of the border after the territorial translation and annexations that followed the German-Soviet pact of 1939? Continue reading The Soviet Border as a source for the Holocaust →
“We never talked about you, but you were always there, Algeria.” Exiles and exiled memories of vanished worlds
6th session of CEFRES in-house seminar 2022-2023.
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.
Location: CEFRES Library and online
Date: 14th of March
Language: English
Contact: cefres[@]cefres.cz
Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES/ Institut Convergences Migrations)
Discussant: Emina Zoletić (CEFRES / University of Warsaw)
Continue reading Exiles and exiled memories of vanished worlds →
“We defend the normal world!”: The Men and Women of the Polish and Czech Parliamentary Far Right
1st session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented. Continue reading The Men and Women of the Polish and Czech Parliamentary Far Right →
