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Voltaire Days

Partners: CELLF, CEFRES, Voltaire Foundation (Oxford), Balassi Institute in Paris, Université d’Amiens Picardie
Venue: Amphithéâtre Michelet, 1 rue Victor Cousin, Paris
Dates: 22-23 juin 2018
Organizer: Guillaume MÉTAYER (CELLF)
Language: French

Program

Friday 22 June

9:00
Christophe MARTIN (director of CELLF) and Guillaume MÉTAYER (CELLF): Welcome

Panel I: Voltaire and the German Lands
Chair: Sylvain MENANT (CELLF)

9:15
Gérard LAUDIN (Sorbonne Université) : Les Annales de l’Empire

9:45
Myrtille MÉRICAM-BOURDET (Université Lyon II): Voltaire historien de l’Empire : sur quelques aspects de la question religieuse

10:15
Renaud BRET-VITOZ (Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès): L’expérience théâtrale de Voltaire à Berlin et Potsdam entre 1750 et 1753, autour du Duc d’Alençon ou les frères ennemis

10:45 Break

Panel II: Round table on the Manuscripts of Frederic II
Chair: Natalia SPERANSKAYA (Saint Petersburg)
  • Natalia SPERANSKAYA (Bibliothèque nationale de Russie, Saint Petersburg): Un manuscrit de La Poloniade de Frédéric II dans la bibliothèque de Voltaire
  • Vanessa de SENARCLENS (Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald): L’Art de la guerre de Frédéric annoté par Voltaire
  • Gillian PINK (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford): Les Œuvres du philosophe de Sans Souci annotées par Voltaire

12:00 Break

Panel III: Presence and Circulation of Voltaire’s Work in the Empires
Chair: Gérard LAUDIN

12:15
Daniele MAIRA (Université de Göttingen): La Henriade en Allemagne: traductions et réception XVIIIe-XIXe siècles

14:30
Jean BOUTAN (Sorbonne Université, Paris) : De La Pucelle à La Guerre des Femmes, la “Jungfrau in Waffen” dans la culture tchèque

15:00
Emese EGYED (Université de Cluj-Napoca) : Le double message du comte János Fekete: La Pucelle en hongrois (1799)

15:30
Olga PENKE (Université de Szeged) : L’écho hongrois des contes et des dialogues philosophiques de Voltaire

16:00 Break

Panel IV: Spreading and Publishing Voltaire’s Works
Chair: Nicholas CRONK

16:30
Linda GIL (Université de Montpellier III): Imprimer et diffuser Voltaire en Allemagne : l’édition Kehl des Œuvres complètes de Voltaire par la Société Littéraire Typographique

17:00
Claire MADL (CEFRES, Prague): Voltaire produit de librairie dans la monarchie des Habsbourg

7 pm : Lectures à haute voix par la Sorbonne sonore (Félix Libris)
Saturday 23 June
Panel V: Debating and Rewriting Voltaire
Chair: Ludolf PELIZEUS (Université de Picardie Amiens, CERCLL)

9:30
Nicholas CRONK (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford): Autour des Lettres philosophiques : la réponse de Johann Gustav Reinbeck à la lettre sur Locke

10:00
Sylvie LE MOËL (Sorbonne Université): Fécondité et apories du tropisme voltairien chez Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

10:30 Break

11:00
Ritchie ROBERTSON (Université d’Oxford) : Wieland, the German Voltaire

11:30
András KÁNYÁDI (INALCO, Paris): Casanova et Fréderic le Grand dans les lettres hongroises inconnues de Voltaire

12:00 — Final Conclusions by Christiane MERVAUD (Honorary President of the SEV)

Introduction to CEFRES research projects

An intern seminar of CEFRES as the center welcomes its new members, post-doctoral researchers Aníbal Arregui, Thomas Mercier (CEFRES & Charles University) and Marianna Szczygielska (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Venue: conference room, Na Florenci, building A, 3rd floor
Language: English

2:15-3:30 Archives and Interculturality
  • Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES/CNRS), PI: an introduction of the research project and a footnote on a mission in an Indian philosopher’s archives
  • Thomas Mercier (CEFRES-UK): Studying the philosophical text from the standpoint of its archive: Derrida’s readings of Marxist texts in unpublished materials
  • Discussion
3:45-5:15 Bewildering Boar Project
  • Ludĕk Brož (Institute of Ethnology AV ČR & CEFRES) and Virginie Vaté (CNRS), PIs: an introduction of the TANDEM research project
  • Aníbal Arregui: Animating the Wild Pig: Bows and Arrows in European Ecopolitics
  • Marianna Szczygielska: Wild Pigs and Proud Elephants: Engendering Wildlife in Central Eastern Europe
  • Discussion

CEFRES 2016/17 Concluding Seminar

After a year spent at CEFRES, CEFRES 2016/17 PhD students will present to their fellow colleagues the outcomes of their research in a joint concluding seminar, and welcome the members of CEFRES team 2017/2018.

Place and time: Na Florenci 3, building C, conference room, 3rd floor, between 2 and 5:30 PM
Language: English

Program

2:00 Mátyás Erdélyi : Modernity, Capitalism, and Private-Clerks: The Philosophy of Money in Austria-Hungary

2:30 Filip Herza : Freak Shows and the Collective Body of Nation in Prague 1860s-1930s: The Concept of Disability and Nationalism Studies

3:00 Katalin Pataki : From Victims to Collaborators: the Dissolution Procedure of Mendicant Monasteries in the Hungarian Kingdom (1787-1793)

3:30 Coffee Break

4:00 Chiara Mengozzi (post-doctoral researcher): Literary Animals: Thinking Beyond Human, Reading Against Allegory

4:30 Magdalena Cabaj : From Hermaphrodite Writing to Intersex Writing

5:00 Lara Bonneau : Fall and Ascent: Reading Warburg with Binswanger

Summer Seminar – Nationalism, Religion & Violence in Europe

The Summer Seminar on Nationalism, Religion and Violence organized by Charles University in Prague and International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki, supported by the LSEE, PRIO and CEFRES, is preparing for its fourth year. A key goal of the Summer Seminar, taking place in Prague from June 20 to July 1, 2016, is to contribute in a substantial way to the study of violence and to catalyze the growth of the study of violence as a field.

  • led by the best international researchers in the field
  • bringing together lecturers from the most prestigious institutions such as USHMM, Sciences Po, University of Montreal or George Washington University
  • targeting students and graduates of Political Science, History, Anthropology, International Relations, International Law, Journalism & other related disciplines
  • course for both undergraduates, (post)graduate students and activists
  • taking place at the oldest university in Central Europe

See the complete program, the list of lecturers and how to register on the website of the summer school:
http://nrvsschool.fsv.cuni.cz/

Architecture and Art as Historical Sources: On the Borders of Humanities and Social Sciences

A session led by Monika Brenišínová

In various theoretical discussions on architecture, we may notice that there is not a singular way of approaching it. From the classical perspective of the history of art classical art historical perspective, it is possible to identify at least three basic methods of inquiry: archaeological building survey („Bauforschung“, A. von Gerkan, in Czech “SHP”, D. Líbal); style-critical and style-historical analyses (H. Wölfflin, H. Focillon, M. Dvořák); semantic analysis (G. Passavant, E. Hubala). When we consider art in general, things however get even more complicated. If we take into account the fact that even among historians of art a consensus about the definition of art as such does not exist, what will happen when we will look at art from the perspective of another scientific discipline? When we conceive art as an historical source, traditional art historical categories such as the aesthetic point of view, the author’s fantasy, the styles or commonplaces (loci communes) quickly lose their significance. Moreover, historical work with visual sources is largely interpretative and requires a significantly critical approach. Thus we suddenly find ourselves on the borders of humanities and social sciences. And it is exactly such space, outside the frontiers of clearly defined disciplines, where the space and time change their shapes and where other disciplines – such as anthropology – can be brought into play.

Readings:

  • Clifford Geertz. ‘Art as Cultural System.’ MLN 91(6): 1473–1499, 1976.
  • George Kubler. ‘History: Or Anthropology: Of Art?’ Critical Inquiry, 1(4): 757-767, 1975.

Architecture and Art as Historical Sources: On the Borders of Humanities and Social Sciences

Session led by Monika Brenišínová.

Readings

  • Clifford Geertz. ‘Art as Cultural System.’ MLN 91(6): 1473–1499, 1976.
  • George Kubler. ‘History: Or Anthropology: Of Art?’ Critical Inquiry, 1(4): 757-767, 1975.

In various theoretical discussions on architecture, we may notice that there is not a singular way of approaching it. From the classical perspective of the history of art classical art historical perspective, it is possible to identify at least three basic methods of inquiry: archaeological building survey („Bauforschung“, A. von Gerkan, in Czech “SHP”, D. Líbal); style-critical and style-historical analyses (H. Wölfflin, H. Focillon, M. Dvořák); semantic analysis (G. Passavant, E. Hubala). When we consider art in general, things however get even more complicated. If we take into account the fact that even among historians of art a consensus about the definition of art as such does not exist, what will happen when we will look at art from the perspective of another scientific discipline? When we conceive art as an historical source, traditional art historical categories such as the aesthetic point of view, the author’s fantasy, the styles or commonplaces (loci communes) quickly lose their significance. Moreover, historical work with visual sources is largely interpretative and requires a significantly critical approach. Thus we suddenly find ourselves on the borders of humanities and social sciences. And it is exactly such space, outside the frontiers of clearly defined disciplines, where the space and time change their shapes and where other disciplines – such as anthropology – can be brought into play.