Third International Workshop:
Central European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective
The international conference is organized by the Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, within the framework of the Central European Masculinities research project.
Date: September 29 – October 1, 2025
Location: University Library, Michalská 1, Bratislava
Language: English
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This workshop is organised by CEFRES in partnership with CNRS & the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Prague, within the research project Contested energy transitions. Conflicts and Social innovations in big cities in the Czech Republic, France and Poland supported by the CNRS / CAS Tandem Program.
Date: September 22, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Convenor: Gilles LEPESANT, Research fellow at CNRS/CEFRES (Prague)
Program
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EHESS-UMIFRE Workshop
This doctoral programme will consist of four 2-3 hour workshops over two days, each focusing on a dialogue and joint readings.
Date: May 12-14, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language of the workshop: English, French
Organizers : EHESS, CEFRES (Prague), CRFJ (Jerusalem), IFA SHS (Frankfurt/Main)
Coordination : Falk Bretschneider (EHESS / IFRA-SHS) & Mateusz Chmurski (Sorbonne Université / CEFRES)
Argumentary:
How do we name the things that happen? If this question is always relevant, it is never as sensitive, divisive, or necessary as it becomes in times of crisis. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, followed by the crisis in the Near East that erupted on October 7, 2023—with their respective share of daily tragedies—give this question a cruel and painful urgency. How do we name what is happening to us? Pogrom. Resistance. Colonisation. Terrorism. Genocide. Segregation. Apartheid. War crimes. How do we choose these words, and who chooses them for us? Are these words precise enough to fairly capture reality, while broad enough not to be reduced to the empirical description of isolated events? If imprecision is a necessary attribute of language, how can we be sure that the intentions behind these words are free from manipulation, harmful visions, or dangerous ideologies? To which frameworks—legal, legislative, expert, academic—do these words belong? What do they permit, and what do they silence? How do they mobilise reason, emotion, moral judgement, or ethical and political positions? In what historical contexts were these words created or imbued with meaning, and how much would it cost to free them from those contexts? Indeed, to question, clarify, and correct the words we use as categories to analyse the world as it is—this is no easy task.
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A European Middle Ages. Circulation of Objects, Practices, and Techniques between Central and Western Europe (1000–1600)
Fourth PhD Students Workshop organized within the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: April 24, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online, to get the link, register at the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language of the workshop: English
Convenors:
- Lise Saussus, Center of historical research, UMR 8558, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences
- Jakub Sawicki, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
- Tomasz Cymbalak, National Heritage Institute, Prague
- Nicolas Thomas, National Institute of Preventive Archeological Research, Laboratory of Western Medieval Studies, Paris
The “Voice from Below” – In the Face of Repression and Arbitrary State Violence
Third Doctoral Workshop organized within a cooperation Agreement between the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS), CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences
Date: 22 November 2024
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online, to connect, please write to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English
Read the thesis of the Workshop here.
Program
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The Resistible Rise of the Far Right? Central European Perspectives
This international workshop is coordinated by Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po, CERI-CNRS) in connection with the Research Group “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane”. The workshop is organized in cooperation with CEFRES (Prague) and Sciences Po (CERI) with CREE (INALCO, Paris).
Date: Friday November 15, 2024
Location: Salle de Sacy, Maison de la recherche INALCO, 2, rue de Lille, Paris (and online)
Language: English
To get the link to the online meeting please send a message to nadege.ragaru@sciencespo.fr
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