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The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

Fifth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
In 2023 we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday February 28, 2025, from 10 am
Language: French

Speaker: Eva KRÁSOVÁ (Institute of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Discussant: Chiara MENGOZZI (Faculty of Arts, Charles Unversity)

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Revisiting “La pensée de midi”. Albert Camus & Mikhail Bakunin

Revisiting “La pensée de midi” – Albert Camus and the Legacy of Mikhail Bakunin

6th 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, 18th February, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English

It wll be hosted by:
Dominik Kulcsár (CEFRES / Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Chair: Dan SWAIN (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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Armenian Chronicles from Ukraine

Between Poland and the Ottoman Empire: Armenian Chronicles from Ukraine during the Thirty Years’ War

Fifth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
Already in 2023, we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: March 28, 2025, from 10am to 12pm
Language: French

Speaker: Petra Košťálová (Institute of Ethnology , Czech Academy of Sciences)
Discussant: Radu Paun (CERCEC/CNRS) & Laurent Tatarenko (CCFEF, Warsaw)

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(Non-)presence of Jews in Middle Age Urban Space

(Non-)Presence of Jews in Urban Space: Cheb (Eger) in the High Middle Ages

5th 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 register and get the text, please write to cefres@cefres.cz
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English

It wll be hosted by:
Kajetán HOLEČEK (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
and chaired by Petr GIBAS (Masaryk University, Brno/Institute of Sociologyy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Text to be commented: Lars Frers, “The Matter of Absence”, Cultural Geographies 20/4 (2013), p. 431–445.

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The Borders of Mountains or Rocks

Borders of Mountains or Rocks

Fourth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
In 2023 we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday 13th December, 2024, from 10 am to 12 pm
Language: French

Speaker: Alžbeta KUCHTOVÁ (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Discussant:  Iwona Janicka (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

In the book “Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism”, anthropologist Elisabeth Povinelli explains the concept of entanglement and its role in the indigenous cultures of Australia. In our talk, we will analyze the concept of proper and its relationship to entanglement. The concept of proper is linked to the separation of identities by boundaries. It can refer to what is proper to humans, but also to what is proper to rocks. The concept of proper implies the creation of limits and boundaries between different identities: subjects, objects, nations, races and genders.  The questions we’ll be reflecting on concern the possibility of creating boundaries between sacred rocks or mountains, and how these boundaries facilitate the capitalist exploitation of (indigenous) land today. This implies that the European concept of the proper cannot be applied in a reflection on indigenous territories, simply because it is not universal. The concept of “proper” creates the foundation of colonialism and capitalism.

See the complete program of the 2024-2025 seminar here.

Agency and Emancipation in Exile

Agency and Emancipation in Exile: A Decolonial Analysis of Conflict- Displaced Afghan Women in Europe

3rd 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
Date: Tuesday, 5 Novembre, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English
Contact / To register: cefres[@]cefres.cz

Seema Sridhar (CEFRES / CEU)

Chair: Zuzana UHDE (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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