One-day academic workshop hosted by CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague) and co-organised by Dilnur Reyhan, Shaivya Mishra, and Zbyněk Mucha (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences).
Dates: September 17, 2026
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Abstract
The workshop explores the plurality of colonial legacies in contemporary societies by bringing into dialogue perspectives on postcoloniality, decolonisation, and anticolonialism from non-Western contexts. It aims to foster comparative and interdisciplinary discussion on colonial continuities, transformations, and resistances across regions and historical settings.
The event builds on the organisers’ research on anti-colonial movements in British India, postcolonial migration governance in Bangladesh, and Chinese colonialism in East Turkestan and decolonial movements in Eurasia. It is envisioned as a focused, discussion-oriented workshop.
Read answer the call for proposals – open until July 31, 2026.
The program will be announced soon.
Cross-disciplinary approach to the role of women in the cinema of Central, Eastern, and Balkan Europe
The event is part of the Quinzaine du genre centre-européen and will feature CEFRES doctoral students.
Partner Institutions
Cerilac (Université Paris Cité), Laslar (University of Caen Normandy).
Date: Film screening – June 3, 2026; Workshop – June 10, 2026
Location: Filmothèque du Quartier latin, Université Paris Cité, 10/06/2026 room 064E (Halles Aux farines) and online.
Language: French
Organizing Committee
Léa DABROWSKI (Université de Caen – Normandie / LASLAR)
Garance FROMONT (Université Paris Cité / Cerilac – CEFRES)
See the official poster and program of the event here.
Narratives of Womanhood in the Modernisms of Central and Eastern Europe (1870-1970)
Organizing committee: Naïma Berkane, Mateusz Chmurski, Cécile Rousselet et Clara Royer
Date : June 3–5, 2026
Location: Paris, Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, 9 rue Champollion, salle bleue; Centre d’Études slaves, 9 rue Michelet;
Language : English, French
Access the official poster
& to the CfP.
Program
Continue reading Colliding Women →
Epistemic Frameworks and Interpretative Models of Politics Beyond Liberal Democracy
Organized by the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University (IAS CEU), the Parisian Institut d’études avancées (Paris IEA), CNRS and CEFRES
Date : June 2, 2026, 15:00-17:30
Location : CEU, Nádor u. 15, Budapest, Room 101
Language : English
Speakers
Valentin BEHR (CNRS) and Joseph TANKE (University of Hawaii)
See the official poster for the event here.
Abstract
Continue reading Neoliberalism, Postliberalism, Antiliberalism, Illiberalism? →
Echoes and Encounters in Central and Eastern Europe
This workshop is coorganised by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the French Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) & the Center for French Culture and Francophone Studies in Poland (CCFEF).
Dates and locations: University of Warsaw Library, room 256, Dobra 56
May 28–29, 2026
Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Prague 1, room 205/206
June 1, 2026
Language: English
Organizing Committee: Mateusz CHMURSKI, Isabel JACOBS, Jiří RŮŽIČKA, Radosław SZYMAŃSKI, Laurent TATARENKO
See the CfP here.
Program in Warsaw
Continue reading Foucault at 100 →
The Entangled Histories of Romani Imitation
The conference is supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Lumina Quaeruntur Fellowship project Romani Atlantic: Transcontinental Logic of Ethno-Racial Identities, StrategyAV21 – Identities in the World of Wars and Crises and the ERC project Inclusive History of East-Central Europe: Mid-19th Century to Present and CEFRES.
Dates: May 27–29, 2026
Locations: Institute of Czech Literature – AV ČR, Vila Lanna, CEFRES, Prague
Language: English
Download the full event program here. Continue reading Between Cultural Appropriation and Ethnic Shifting →
