4th session of CEFRES Seminar 2021-2022

Digital Games as Representations of the Past: The Central European Context

Hosted by:
Jan Kremer, Phd-fellow at CEFRES and at the Faculty of Education, Charles University

When: November 10th, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Where: CEFRES and online (to register please mail to claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English

Jan Kremer will present historical game studies as a part of a broader field of public history. The paper will deal with historical games as a fluid research subject, it will introduce main analytical methods and strategies. Jan Kremer as a medievalist writing his PhD thesis on digital medievalism will further examine ludic representations of the Middle Ages focusing on Central European digital games production in the context of regional historical culture.

3rd session of CEFRES Seminar 2021-2022

What Did the Typewriter Do to Banking?
Bureaucratic Practices, Materiality, and the Logic of Capitalism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Hosted by:
Mátyás Erdélyi, post-doctoral fellow at CEFRES and Charles University

When: November 3rd, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Where: CEFRES and online (to register please mail to claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English

Abstract
In this talk, I present my current research project that focuses on bureaucratic practices in banking at the turn of the century from the perspective of the materiality of office work. The project reconstructs the emergence of the modern bureau by relating the “grubby details” of office work to the multi-faceted identity of functionaires. Based on the case study of several savings banks in the Dual Monarchy, it studies how the logic of capitalism materialized and was embodied in different forms, how bureaucratic practices were implanted in the body and hands of clerks, and what exactly clerks did and they did it with what?

2nd session of CEFRES Seminar 2021–2022

Nation(s) in the Middle Ages? Discussing a Controversial Concept through a Sample of the Oldest Czech Historical Sources

Date: Wednesday 13 October 2021 at 4:30 pm
Location: CEFRES Library and online (to register, please write to the address: claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Hosted by:
Arthur Pérodeau (PhD candidate at EHESS, Paris, and Charles University, Prague, associated at CEFRES)

International academic conference

Location: Faculty of Humanities University of Primorska, Koper/Capodistria
Date: Monday, October 11th 2021
Language: English
Organizers: Katja Hrobat Virloget, Aleksej Kalc, and Michèle Baussant
The conference is the result of two joint research projects, the Slovenian-French bilateral Proteus project entitled “Pasts without history and displaced histories of people without traces” (Baussant, Hrobat Virloget) and the Slovenian SRA project “Migrations and social changes in a comparative perspective: the case of Western Slovenia after WW II” (Kalc) from University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria, ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Migration Institute, Ljubljana and CNRS, CEFRES, Prague

You can download the program and the abstracts of the conference here.

Program

09:00 ‒ 10:50

Opening and welcome addresses

MIRJAM MILHARČIČ HLADNIK (ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Migration Institute, Ljubljana): The new town Nova Gorica on the new border and the old routes of migration – Memories of defection and the imaginings of “new” life.

ALEKSEJ KALC (ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Migration Institute, Ljubljana, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria): Society and immigration in Slovenian coastal towns in the 1950s. Some reflections on research approaches.

KATJA HROBAT VIRLOGET (University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria): The discourse of urban vs. rural, social relations and heritage in Istrian urban society before and after »exodus«.

Discussion

11:10 ‒ 12.50

MICHÈLE BAUSSANT (CNRS, CEFRES, Prague, ICM Fellow): A place that changes its place: Alexandria, between place and milieu of memory

ŠPELA LEDINEK LOZEJ (ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Nova Gorica): Under the Campanilles of Saint Marco vs. Town withou Bell Towers.

MARIA KOKKINOU (CEFRES, Charles University, Prague, postdoctoral fellow): Persistent memories of transformed spaces.

Discussion

14:30 ‒ 16:00

JANJA SEDLAČEK: The role of the Port of Koper in economic and social transformations of the city of Koper after the second world war.

NEŽA ČEBRON LIPOVEC (University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria, postdoctoral fellow): The bathtub quest: The living standard and ideological discourses in the modernisation process of housing in post-war Koper/Capodistria

Discussion / Conclusions

Ist session of CEFRES Seminar 2021-2022

Conducting fieldwork in the post-socialist countryside. Crossed perspectives on ethnographic research in Mongolia and Belarus

When: Wednesday 6 October 2021, 4:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
With:
Veronique Gruca (PhD candidate at Paris-Nanterre University and PhD fellow at CEFRES)
&
Ronan Hervouet (Professor of sociology at the University of Bordeaux, temporarily assigned at CEFRES by CNRS)

Veronique Gruca and Ronan Hervouet will both present their research based on fieldworks respectively led in Mongolia and Belarus, and cross perspectives in order to address issues regarding the access to the fieldwork, the ways of conducting research, and the use of gathered ethnographic data. Through the focus on two different research subjects – rituals and family stories in rural Mongolia, everyday politics in rural Belarus – the aim is to raise broader epistemological questions and lead to a common reflection on the ways of constructing ethnographic research.

CEFRES and Primorska University organize the second Proteus Webinar as part of the bilateral program PHC Proteus.

When: July 2nd, 2021, at 10:30 am
Where: Online
Connection link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960136043 
Language: English

Organizers:
Neža Čebron Lipovec, University of Primorska and
Maria Kokkinou, Charles University / CEFRES
Funding and Evaluation: Campus France, French Institute in Slovenia, MEAE, MESRI (France) Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenian ministry of science (Slovenia)

Speakers:
Gruia Bădescu, Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg,
University of Konstanz
Olga Sezneva, the Amsterdam Institute for Social
Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam

with the collaboration of:
Felipe Kaiser Fernandes (CEFRES / EHESS) and
Johana Wyss (CAS / CEFRES)