Inside the Lobbying Regulation Processes in Central Europe: Negotiating Public and Private Actors’ Roles in Governance

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines”, Jana Vargovčíková (CEFRES-FF UK) will present her PhD work on Modes of Legitimating Lobbying in Central Europe and their Ambivalences. Her presentation will be discussed by CNRS Research Professor Pierre Lascoumes, a member of the European Studies Center (CEE), and a specialist among others on political corruption, law-making process, and contemporary forms of economic crime.

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3.

Language: English.

 

Making Life and Death Quantitative: Social Statistics and Life Insurance in the Dualist Monarchy

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines”, Mátyás Erdélyi (CEU, Budapest & CEFRES) will present a chapter of his PhD work on The Making of a Productivist Middle Class in the Habsburg Monarchy. His presentation will be discussed by CNRS researcher Wolf Feuerhahn, co-director of the Alexandre Koyré Center and chief-editor of the Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines.

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3.

Language: English.

Czechoslovak-Portuguese Relations in 1960-1980

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Disciplines and Areas”, Barbora Mencová (FSV UK) will present her work on Czechoslovak-Portuguese relations in 1960-1980.

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3.

Language: English.

 

“Slowing down” Modernity: Risky, Futile or Progressive?

The IMS-CEFRES seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines” will host post-doctoral researcher
Filip Vostal (CEFRES & FLÚ AV ČR)
who will present his work on
“Slowing down” Modernity: Risky, Futile or Progressive?

Photo Marc BessinHis presentation will be discussed by French sociologist Marc Bessin  (director of IRIS-EHESS, editor-in-chief of the scholarly review Temporalités).

The seminar will be held in English.

Venue:  Carolinum – Small conference room (2nd floor), Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1.

Contact:  Paul Bauer paul.bauer@fsv.cuni.cz & Clara Royer clararoyer@cefres.cz

Adrian Brisku: Political Economic Thought, Empire, and Nation-State

The IMS-CEFRES seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines” will host post-doctoral researcher Adrian Brisku (FSV UK), who will present his work on Political Economic Thought, Empire, and Nation-State – The Cases of Albania, Czecho/Slovakia and Georgia, c. 1880s to 1920s.

Xavier Bougarel - copieHis presentation will be discussed by French historian Xavier Bougarel (CETOBAC-EHESS and Marc Bloch Center, Berlin).

The seminar will be held in English.

Place: Jinonice, room 1037.

Regional Security Cooperation Arrangements in Europe

The IMS-CEFRES seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines” will host
Martin MICHELOT (FSV UK)
who will present his work on
“Regional Security Cooperation Arrangements in Europe: Building Europe, Strengthening Transatlantic”

The presentation will be discussed by Tomaš Weiss PhD. (IMS FSV).

The seminar will be held in English.