Music and Sound in Times of War and Displacement
A workshop organized within the research project: A Subaltern That Sings. From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine developed within CU-CNRS TANDEM Program supported by Charles University, CNRS and CEFRES in the context of ERC MUTE (NHRF) and UkFeMM (CNRS, Sorbonne University).
Organizers: National Hellenic Research Foundation, École française d’Athènes, Institute of Research in Musicology, Paris (IrEMus), Sorbonne University in partnership with CEFRES.
Date: November 24, 2025
Location: École française d’Athènes
Language: English
Preliminary program Continue reading Crossing Borders →
Entering literature 2: Self-made Books
This symposium is organised within the framework of the TANDEM Program AV ČR-CNRS and led by Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon) & Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).
Date: November 14, 2025
Location: ENS Lyon – Buisson (D8 003), 19 allée de Fontenay
Language: French, English
Full program can be downloaded here
Program
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Historical Legacies and Contemporary Debates
A workshop of the research project carried out within the TANDEM CNRS-SAV program developed by the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), the CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences (CNRS SHS), and the French Research Center for Social Science Research (CEFRES).
Project principal investigators: Petra Hudek and Thomas Chopard
Date: November 10, 2025
Location: French Institute in Bratislava, Sedlárska 7, Bratislava
Language: French Continue reading The Memory of World War II in Eastern Europe →
This workshop is organised by CEFRES in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
Date: October 31, 2025, 10:00 – 12:00
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language : English
We are pleased to welcome Frédéric WORMS, Director of the ENS Paris and a renowned specialist in the thought of Henri Bergson, as the main speaker.
Participants
Frédéric WORMS (ENS Paris)
Anna KUSZMIRUK (CEFRES, Prague),
Radka VALIŠKOVÁ (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague),
Jakub ČAPEK (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)
The workshop is part of the Research Program “Conflict in Thought: Failure as a Resilience-Inducing Dynamic”
See the poster in PDF here.
This symposium is jointly organised by the Central European University & The French Research Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, Prague, (CEFRES).
Date: Octobre 2-3, 2025
Location: CEU Campus, Quellenstrasse 51, Vienna
Language: English
Convenors: Valeriya Korablyova, Louisa Martin-Chevalier & Seema Sridhar
See the program of the event here.
The symposium aims to bring together a variety of perspectives on creative expressions of women’s resistance through art and cultural diplomacy by engaging with academics, activists and conflict-affected artists. The event centres around insights from diplomats; scholars specialising in diverse academic streams on feminist scholarship, creative research methods, musicology; activists working with supporting and promoting exiled artists; and conflict-affected artists living in Europe. Continue reading Women’s Resistance. Art and Cultural Diplomacy →
