This session will bring together two presentations:
Astrid Greve KRISTENSEN (PhD candidate Sorbonne University – CEFRES)
E(co)schatological Entrypoints: The Abject and the Anthropocene in Bianca Bellová’s novel Jezero [The Lake]
Matylda SZEWCZYK (University of Warsaw)
On Darkness and Light: Images of Nuclear Power and Reproduction
Location: CEFRES Library and online
Dates: Friday 21 October 2022, 16:30–18:30
Language: English
Contact: cefres[@]cefres.cz
Abstracts
Part 1: E(co)schatological Entrypoints: The Abject and the Anthropocene in Bianca Bellová’s novel Jezero [The Lake] – Astrid Greve KRISTENSEN
The 2016 Czech coming-of-age novel Jezero [The Lake] by Bianca Bellová conjoins the drying up of a life-giving lake with an obscene amount of bodily fluids bursting from its teenage protagonist. Together, this ecocritical subject combined and a rather literal interpretation of the abject, form a basis for my interpretation of this orphan narrative.
Part 2: On Darkness and Light: Images of Nuclear Power and Reproduction – Matylda SZEWCZYK
The seemingly counterintuitive juxtaposition of nuclear energy images – power plants, atomic tests, nuclear apocalypses – with visions of reproduction (biological fertilization, parenthood, symbolical figures of parents and children) returns in the history of culture with puzzling frequency. It brings along the questions about the social attitude towards technology, science and the fundamental “facts of life” and has already been a subject of academic discussions, from the feminist analysis of Evelyn Fox Keller to historical reconstructions of Spencer R. Weart. The contemporary and historical functioning of these motives in visual culture will create the background for my presentation, concentrating on the images of nuclear apocalypse and parenthood/reproduction in the novels Sakhalin Island by Eduard Verkin (2018) and Brightness by Maja Wolny (2019).
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When: Friday, October 7th, 16:30
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague and online (please contact cefres[@]cefres.cz
Language: English
The second session of CEFRES seminar will be hosted by two researchers:
Ronan Hervouet (Professor of sociology, CEFRES / University of Bordeaux):
Belarusian exiles in Central and Eastern Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Research project presentation
Abstract
The research project, called BIELEXIL, aims to understand the consequences of the outbreak of war in Ukraine on Belarusian exiles, who fled their country after 2020 and found refuge in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. It focuses on circulations, experiences and forms of politicization. Funded by the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), it is hosted by the CEFRES and is coordinated by Michèle Baussant and Ronan Hervouet. This talk will retrace the different steps that led from conceiving the project to submitting a proposal, discuss the aims of the project, and question possible developments of the research beyond the funding period (2022-2023).
Emina Zoletić (PhD candidate CEFRES / University of Warsaw) :
Intergenerational transmission of the family memory of the war: Displacement and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe
Abstract
The study of wartime memory transmission has great social and political significance. The past does not simply disappear; lived experience eventually becomes a narrative curated among one generation and passed on to another. Moreover, even when a story appears to die, it may only lie dormant, ready to emerge generations or even centuries, later.
The proposed discussion focuses on the specific case of the intergenerational transmission of memory among families of those who lived through the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and among Bosnian families living abroad in the EU. The proposed discussion offers an interdisciplinary approach (sociology combined with social psychology and memory studies ) in a multidisciplinary context, with a methodological focus. It will also focus on how the past is played out in a wider social, political, and cultural context.
Landscapes with Shadows. Presentation of Luba Jurgenson’s research project
In June, July and August 2022, the researcher, writer and translator Luba Jurgenson, professor at Sorbonne University and director of Eur’ORBEM, will be at CEFRES as a guest researcher. For further information, click here to see her CV.
When: Thursday, June 30th, 10:30 – 12:00 a.m.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague & also “online” – link to ZOOM meeting on request (cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English
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Jewish Women in Psychoanalysis: Central-European Careers and Emigrations
5th session of the Seminar “Rethinking Psychoanalysis in Central Europe. Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives”
When: Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 4:00-6:00 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Coordinator : Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)
Guest-speakers :
- Klara Naszkowska (Union Theological Seminary/Center for Jewish History)
- Anna Borgos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Discussants :
- Clara Royer (Sorbonne University)
- Mateusz Chmurski (Sorbonne University)
- Mathieu Lericq (Sorbonne University)
Polish Queer Literature, Psychoanalysis and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
4th session of the Seminar “Rethinking Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives”
When: Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 5:30–7:00 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Coordinator : Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)
Guest-speakers :
- Błażej Warkocki (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Discussants :
- Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)
- Małgorzata Smorąg-Goldberg (Sorbonne University)
Reading Sándor Ferenczi: Mutual Analysis and the Hungarian Origins of Trauma Theory
3rd session of the Seminar “Rethinking Psychoanalysis in Central Europe. Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives”
When: Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 4:00-5:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Coordinator and discussant : Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)
Guest speaker : Peter L. Rudnytsky (University of Florida/American Psychoanalytic Association)
