Emigrating Animals and Migratory Humans: Belonging, Prosperity and Security in More-Than-Human World

Workshop

Venue:  CAS, “Lower Hall” (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Date: 10-11 September 2019
Organizers: Institute of Ethnology and Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES, with the support of the program “Strategy AV21”
Language: English

Check the program of the workshop here.
Argumentary

In 2018, Polish authorities announced a plan to build one of Europe’s longest fences to protect the country’s Eastern border from unwanted migrants and a highly contagious disease they might be carrying. At the first glance, the plan is reminiscent of president Trump’s design for a wall along the US Mexican border, or the already built Hungarian fence at the Serbian and Croatian borders. However, there is an important difference: the disease that Polish and other European authorities fear is African Swine Fever (ASF), and the unwanted migrants are not humans but wild boars from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The Polish plan has since been dropped, yet similar fences, such as one between Denmark and Germany, are already being built. It seems that the “Trojan boar”, the feared virus carrier, is contributing toward the resurrection of the old-new borders just as human refugees have, eroding the Schengen space of free movement. This account of foreign boars, biosecurity, and border walls is just one example of the interesting parallels between human and nonhuman animal movement and how the state organises in response.

Noting the unfolding conceptual exchange between mobility studies and animal studies, the objective of this workshop is to further the dialogue and bring together scholars of human migration and non-human animal migration. At the intersection of these two fields of study we expect a range of engaging questions to emerge. Migration often involves the destabilisation of established orders of belonging and the triggering of processes of othering and protectionism. What are the potential empirical and analytical synergies between studying the movement of people and that of non-human animals across geophysical, symbolic and biopolitical borders? In many contexts, human migrants are derogatively described with the use of animal metaphors (e.g. as cockroaches) while animals, often equally derogatively, are described with the human qualifiers (e.g. as invaders). What should we make out of those analogies? Can we still speak about the flow of  “metaphors” between accounts of human and non-human migration if we refuse to see the two as belonging to ontologically disparate domains (one exclusively human, the other exclusively non-human)?

We invite participants to share empirical research on, and conceptualizations of, migration in relationally complex multispecies world. Focusing on ongoing, historical and anticipated movements of humans and non- human animals we wish to explore the changing meaning and analytical utility of such concepts as belonging, precarity, (bio)security, prosperity, invasiveness, climate refugees, ecosystem, native, nation or state.

You can download the abstracts here.

Critical Suicide Studies International Network Meeting

International Network Meeting

Venue: Institute of Ethnology of the CAS (5th Floor), Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
Date: 26-27 June 2019
Organizers: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES
Language: English

Argumentary

As part of its ongoing commitment to growing the emerging field of critical suicide studies, an international network of scholars will come together for two days in Prague to address the following goals:

1.      Identify ongoing opportunities for collaborative grant-writing, research and writing projects.

2.      Develop a regular conference schedule to build on the success of three international conferences to date (Prague, Canterbury, Perth). The next conference is planned for Vancouver in June 2020.

3.      Articulate a set of guiding ethics to serve as a touchstone for our scholarly, practice and pedagogical engagements.

4.      Continue to mobilize critique for productive ends by identifying opportunities to re-think what it means to do suicide prevention.

5.      Expand the field to include scholars, practitioners and those with lived experience from around the world.

For further information: https://criticalsuicidology.net/.

Theologies of Revolution: Medieval to Modern Europe

Workshop

Date: 20 and 21 May 2019
Place: Academic Conference Center (AKC, Husova 4a,
Prague 1) et Faculté des Lettres de l’Université Charles, salle 104 (FF UK, náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)
Organized by: Martin Pjecha (CEU / CEFRES)
Organized in partnership with: CEFRES, Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), Central European University (CEU)
Language: English

Keynote speakers

  • Phillip Haberkern (Boston University) : When did Christians Become Revolutionary? A Reflection on Hannah Arendt
  • Matthias Riedl (Central European University, Budapest) Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer

Report to the call for contributions.

20th May 2019

 

10:00 – Introductory comments

10:30-12:00  Panel 1: Urban and noble rebellion in the 17th century

  • Rik Sowden (University of Birmingham): Religion and rebellion in Nottingham during the British Civil wars – (discussant: Vladimír Urbánek)
  • Márton Zászkaliczky (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest): Calvinist Political Theology in the Bocskai Rebellion (1604-1606) – (discussant: Vladimír Urbánek)

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13:00-14:20 – Panel 2: 20th century interpretations

  • Behrang Pourhosseini (University Paris 8): From Christian Victimary Politics to Shi’ite Messianism : A Debate around the Iranian Revolution – (discussant: Thomas C. Mercier)
  • Giacomo Maria Arrigo (KU Leuwen/University of Calabria): Gnosticism and Revolution: Towards an Explanatory Pattern – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)

14:20-14:40  Coffee break

14:40-16:00  Panel 3: Imperial and Soviet Russia

  • Anastasia Papushina (CEU, Budapest): Martyrs and heroes: revisiting religious patterns in revolutionary times – (discussant: Hanuš Nykl)
  • Daniel García Augusto Porras (Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona)/Universidad Pontificia Comillas ):  Revolution as political religion in Russia: Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and its interpreters in Russian religious thought – (discussant: Hanuš Nykl)

16:00-16:20  Coffee break

16:30-18:00 – Keynote 1

  • Matthias Riedl (CEU, Budapest): Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer

21st May 2019 

 

10:00-11:20  Panel 4: The French Revolution

  • Mathias Sonnleithner (MLU, Halle-Wittenberg) : Robespierre’s Belief to Be God’s Chosen – A Key Element of the Political Theology of the Terror – (discussant: Jakub Štofaník)
  • Amirpash Tavakkoli (EHESS, Paris) : French revolution, a Christian reading – (discussant: Jakub Štofaník)

11:20-11:50 – coffee break

11:50-13:10  Panel 5: Violence and bliss in medieval Bohemia

  • Pavlína Cermanová (CMS, Prague): The Theology of Hussite Innocence – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)
  • Martin Pjecha (CEU, Budapest/CEFRES, Prague): “Cosmic” revolution in radical Hussitism – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)

13:10-14:30  Lunch

14:30-16:30 – Panel 6: Intellectual transfers and comparisons in early modernity

  • Sam Gilchrist Hall (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest): “But I do not doubt the people”: Thomas Müntzer and King Lear – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)
  • Luke Collison (Kingston University London): Hobbes and ‘Religion’ on the Threshold of Modernity – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)
  • Benjamin Heidenreich (University of Würzburg): Huldrich Zwingli´s influence on the “Peasants´ War” of 1525 – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)

16:30-16:50 – Coffee break

17:30-19:00 – Keynote 2

  • Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): When did Christians Become Revolutionary? A Reflection on Hannah Arendt
    FF UK, salle 104 (náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)

19:00  Closing remarks

Theologies of Revolution: Medieval to Modern Europe

Workshop

Date: 20 and 21 May 2019
Place: Academic Conference Center (AKC, Husova 4a,
Prague 1) et Faculté des Lettres de l’Université Charles, salle 104 (FF UK, náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)
Organized by: Martin Pjecha (CEU / CEFRES)
Organized in partnership with: CEFRES, Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), Central European University (CEU)
Language: English

Keynote speakers

  • Phillip Haberkern (Boston University) : When did Christians Become Revolutionary? A Reflection on Hannah Arendt
  • Matthias Riedl (Central European University, Budapest) Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer

Report to the call for contributions.

20th May 2019

 

10:00 – Introductory comments

10:30-12:00  Panel 1: Urban and noble rebellion in the 17th century

  • Rik Sowden (University of Birmingham): Religion and rebellion in Nottingham during the British Civil wars – (discussant: Vladimír Urbánek)
  • Márton Zászkaliczky (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies, Budapest): Calvinist Political Theology in the Bocskai Rebellion (1604-1606) – (discussant: Vladimír Urbánek)

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13:00-14:20 – Panel 2: 20th century interpretations

  • Behrang Pourhosseini (University Paris 8): From Christian Victimary Politics to Shi’ite Messianism : A Debate around the Iranian Revolution – (discussant: Thomas C. Mercier)
  • Giacomo Maria Arrigo (KU Leuwen/University of Calabria): Gnosticism and Revolution: Towards an Explanatory Pattern – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)

14:20-14:40  Coffee break

14:40-16:00  Panel 3: Imperial and Soviet Russia

  • Anastasia Papushina (CEU, Budapest): Martyrs and heroes: revisiting religious patterns in revolutionary times – (discussant: Hanuš Nykl)
  • Daniel García Augusto Porras (Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona)/Universidad Pontificia Comillas ):  Revolution as political religion in Russia: Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and its interpreters in Russian religious thought – (discussant: Hanuš Nykl)

16:00-16:20  Coffee break

16:30-18:00 – Keynote 1

  • Matthias Riedl (CEU, Budapest): Apocalyptic Platonism: The Thought of Thomas Müntzer

21st May 2019 

 

10:00-11:20  Panel 4: The French Revolution

  • Mathias Sonnleithner (MLU, Halle-Wittenberg) : Robespierre’s Belief to Be God’s Chosen – A Key Element of the Political Theology of the Terror – (discussant: Jakub Štofaník)
  • Amirpash Tavakkoli (EHESS, Paris) : French revolution, a Christian reading – (discussant: Jakub Štofaník)

11:20-11:50 – coffee break

11:50-13:10  Panel 5: Violence and bliss in medieval Bohemia

  • Pavlína Cermanová (CMS, Prague): The Theology of Hussite Innocence – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)
  • Martin Pjecha (CEU, Budapest/CEFRES, Prague): “Cosmic” revolution in radical Hussitism – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)

13:10-14:30  Lunch

14:30-16:30 – Panel 6: Intellectual transfers and comparisons in early modernity

  • Sam Gilchrist Hall (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest): “But I do not doubt the people”: Thomas Müntzer and King Lear – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)
  • Luke Collison (Kingston University London): Hobbes and ‘Religion’ on the Threshold of Modernity – (discussant: Matthias Riedl)
  • Benjamin Heidenreich (University of Würzburg): Huldrich Zwingli´s influence on the “Peasants´ War” of 1525 – (discussant: Phillip Haberkern)

16:30-16:50 – Coffee break

17:30-19:00 – Keynote 2

  • Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): When did Christians Become Revolutionary? A Reflection on Hannah Arendt
    FF UK, salle 104 (náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)

19:00  Closing remarks

 

What Is an Archive in India and Europe?

International Workshop

Organizers: Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES) & Kannan Muthukrishnan (French Institute in Pondicherry)
Partners: CEFRES & French Institute in Pondicherry
Where
: French Institute in Pondicherry, India
When: 7 & 8 March 2019                                                                                    Language: English

Programme

March 7th, 2019

9:30 AM Opening remarks

Prof. Frédéric Landy, director, IFP

Session 1: Methodological, historical and theoretical standpoints
  • Dr. Benedetta Zaccarello, CEFRES (CNRS-MEAE, Prague) and Mr. Kannan M. (IFP), introductory remarks

11 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM

  • Dr. Jayanta Sengupta (secretary and curator at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata), on the intercultural issues related to archival practices
  • Prof. Subbarayalu (IFP), on archives and inscriptions: an historical overview

1 PM Lunch

2 PM

Living memories: past and present of some Indian archives

  • Mr. Peter Heehs (historian, former archiviste, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives), on the history of Sri Aurobindo’s Archives
  • Mr. Rengaiyah Murugan (Librarian, MIDS, Chennai), on Tamil manuscripts and archives
  • Dr.  Roland  Wittje  (IIT,  Chennai),  collections  and  archives: history of science and technology

4 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM

  • Dr. Anupama K. (IFP), on interrelated collections at the Ecology Department of IFP
  • Mr. Venkat Srinivasan (Archiviste, IIS, Bangalore), on the digital representation of the archives at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visit of the IFP collections (palm leaf manuscripts with Dr. Devi Prasad, collections of photographs with Mr. Ramesh Kumar and collections of Ecology with Dr. Anupama K.)

7.30 PM Dinner at IFP

March 8th, 2019

Session 2: Archives beyond borders and mindsets

Archives: trans-cultures and post colonialisms

9:30 AM

  • Prof. Albert Dichy, IMEC, Caen, France, head of literary collections
  • Dr. Chandramohan (Curator, GOML, Chennai), on the colonial period and the palm leaf and paper manuscripts from the “McKenzie” collection

11 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM

  • Mr. Richard Hartz (Researcher, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives), on the intercultural aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s manuscripts
  • Dr. G. Sundar (Director, Roja Muthaiah Research Library, Chennai), on archiving 20th century Tamil

1 PM Lunch

2 PM

Oral traditions and visual heritage in the age of digital archives

  • Dr. C.S Lakshmi (director, SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, Mumbai), on archiving women’s testimonies and archives of orality
  • Mr. Prashant Parvatneni (Kabir Project, Bangalore), on building the “Kabir Project” Archive
  • Ms. Ranjani and Mr. Faizal (Keystone Foundation), on the creation of the Keystone Foundation Resource Centre, Nilgiris

4 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM

  • Dr. Alexandra De Heering (IFP), on accessibility to visual archives
  • Mr. Gopinath Sricandane (IFP), on the visual medium of archives
  • Dr. Pierre Triomphe (Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris), on heritage and archives

5:30 PM Roundtable discussion

Porcine Futures 1: Re-negotiating “Wilderness” in More-than-human Worlds

Workshop

Organized by the team of Bewildering Boar project at CEFRES – Aníbal Arregui, Luděk Brož, Marianna Szczygielska and Virginie Vaté together with Erica von Essen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) kindly supported by the Swedish Hunting Association through the grant “Challenges Facing Swedish Hunting Ethics in Post-Modernity”.
When: 16-17 October 2018
Where: Prague, AV ČR, Národní 18, Prague 1
Language: English

See the call for paper here.

Programme

TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2018

(joint programme with Anthropology of Hunting & Conservation Network)

9.00 – 9.10 Welcome address (T. Petrasova, J. Woitsch)

9.10 – 9.20 Introduction (A. Arregui, L. Broz, M. Szczygielska, V. Vaté & E. von Essen) 

9.20 – 10.35 Session 1 (chair: E. von Essen)

9.20 – 9.45  Engaging with Hunting: Mosaic Pieces of Larger Pictures
Garry Marvin (University of Roehampton, London)

9.45 – 10.10 Hunters and Wild Boars: the (inter)corporeality of a relationship
Thorsten Gieser (University of Koblenz-Landau)

10.10 – 10.35 Wild boar hunting in the French Alps: between “objectivation” and “subjectivation” of animals
Coralie Mounet (University of Grenoble)

Coffee break

10.55 – 12.35 Session 2 (chair: A. Arregui)

10.55 – 11.20 Ça c’est pas d’la chasse ! – That’s not hunting!” Perspectives on wild boar hunting in Southern Champagne and Northern Burgundy
Virginie Vaté (CNRS, CEFRES)

11.20 – 11.45 Wild boar hunting and population control in France. An analysis of public policies and their consequences for the relationship between hunters and wildlife
Alain Gigounoux  (Departmental Federation of hunters of Lot and Garonne)

11.45 – 12.10 Transgressing the ‘wild’:  duck trapping machines and wild boar spaces in the Netherlands
Eugenie van Heijgen (Wageningen University)

12.10 – 12.35 Hunting of wild boar in Uruguay: global discourses and local conflicts
Juan Martin Dabezies (Universidad de la Républica, Montevido)

Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Session 3 (chair: P. Du Plessis)

13.45 – 14.10 How Wild Boar Hunting is Becoming a Battleground
Erica von Essen (Swedish Biodiversity Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala

14.10 – 14.35 Animal Welfare Evaluation of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Trapping
Åsa Fahlman (Johan Lindsjö, Therese Arvén Norling, Odd Höglund, Petter Kjellander, Erik O. Ågren, Mats Stridsberg, and Ulrika A. Bergvall

14.35 – 15.00 Adapting Hunting and its Conservation
KAVBH Avi (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent)

Coffee break

15.30 – 17.00 Discussion 1 (chair: L. Broz)

(coffee available, stretching pauses will be made ad hoc)

19.30 The evening programme

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2018

9.15 – 10.45 Session 4 (chair: M. Szczygielska)

9.15 – 9.40 Climatic effects on wild boar population dynamics
Sebastian G. Vetter (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna), Thomas Ruf, Claudia Bieber, Walter Arnold

9.40 – 10.05 Editorial Boar. Animal Amendements on Barcelona Urban Relationality
Anibal G. Arregui (CEFRES-Charles University)

10.05 – 10.30 Urban Wild Boar Conflict in Barcelona
López-Olvera Jorge R. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animal), Castillo-Contreras Raquel, Mentaberre Gregorio, González-Crespo Carlos, Conejero Carles, Fernández-Aguilar Xavier, Colom-Cadena Andreu, Lavín Santiago

Coffee break

10.50 – 12.30 Session 5 (chair: KAVBH Avi)  

10.50 – 11.15 A Tale of Two Boars: Ungulate Management in Italy and Germany
Michael Gibbert (University of Lugano), Stefano Giacomelli, Roberto Viganò

11.15 – 11.40 Mess, Risk and Enchantment: disturbing place with reintroduced wild boar
Kieran O’Mahony (Cardiff University)

11.40 – 12.05 Boar(der) Control. Governing Mobile Wild Boars in the European Border Regime
Larissa Fleischmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

12.05 – 12.30 Fences of “Self-Devouring Growth”: Infrastructures of Containment and their Unintended Effects
Pierre Du Plessis (Aarhus University)

LunchLunchtime address (J. Heurtaux) 

14.00 – 15.15 Session 6 (chair: L. Fleischmann) 

14.00 – 14.25 Wild Thing: Lessons from Wild Boars Featured in Polish and Czechoslovak Cinema
Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

14.25 – 14.50 Of past and present pig slaughters: changing consumption trajectories and reconfiguring the future in a Romanian mountainous commune
Teodora Goea (University of Manchester)

14.50 – 15.15 Facing the Pig Multiple: Knowledge Drift Towards Porcine Futures
Ludek Broz (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, CEFRES)

Coffee break

15.45 – 18.00 Discussion 2 (chair: V. Vaté)

(coffee available, stretching pauses will be made ad hoc)

19.00 Dinner