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When All Roads Led to Paris. Artistic Exchanges Between France and Central Europe in the 19th Century

Workshop

Organizers: Kristýna Hochmuth (ÚDU FF UK, NG) and Adéla Klinerová (ÚDU FF UK, EPHE, CEFRES)
Partners: CEFRES, ÚDU FF UK, ÚDU AV ČR, NG
When & Where: 26-27 June 2018, AV ČR, Národní 3, Prague 1
Languages: French and English

This workshop, organized by CEFRES, the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR), the National Gallery in Prague (NG) and the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University (ÚDU FF UK) is open to PhD students, post doctoral students and young researchers. Our discussions will be initiated by a keynote speech by professor Marek Zgórniak, Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. A complementary program will be open to active participants and public.
The goal of the workshop is to look at French art history from the viewpoint of the cultural transfer theory. It will touch upon various aspects of the spreading of French culture and art (painting, sculpture, architecture, applied arts) but also the fields of museology and cultural heritage protection.

Call for papers.

Opening conference by Marek Zgórniak : “Artistic Exchanges with France During the XIXth Century : The Polish Case”

Marek Zgórniak is a art historian, professor at the Jagellone University of Krakow. The XIXth century architecture – in particular the neo-Renaissance architecture – is one of his main interests, as much as the pre-impressionist French art – his PhD thesis was about the Venitian designs in French painting. Marek Zgórniak worked later on the Polnish painter Jan Matejko, whose paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon. He also worked on the reasons why gorillas kidnap women in French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet art.

  • Wokół neorenesansu w architekturze XIX wieku, Kraków 1987 (nouvelle édition: Kraków 2013).
  • Autour du Salon de 1887. Matejko et les Français, in: L. Salomé (éd.), Jeanne d’Arc, les tableaux de l’histoire, Paris 2003, 65–79.
  • Fremiet’s Gorillas: Why Do They Carry off Women?, Artibus et Historiae 27, no 54, 2006, 219–237.
  • Polish students at the Académie Julian until 1919, RIHA Journal, August 2012, nepag.

Invited by the organisers to present the Polish case, Marek Zgórniak will attempt to give an overview of the developments in French-Polish artistic exchange from the late 18th till the early 20th centuries in the country partitioned between three neighbouring powers. The political situation of Polish lands, as well as complex and changing social and ethnic factors make the task difficult, and instead of one “case” one has to deal with cases of several (at least three) fairly distinct regions. The speaker will discuss in brief the state of research, which is patchy and does not always permit to draw conclusions about certain phenomena.

 Program

Tuesday 26 June 2018, room 205 (2nd floor)

9h – 9h30 Registration of participants

9h30 – 10h Opening and introduction

10h – 11h
Keynote lecture by Marek Zgórniak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Artistic Exchanges with France During the 19th Century: The Polish Case

Coffee break

11h30 – 13h30
I. Transmission of style, models, ideas
Chair: Richard Biegel (Charles University, Prague)

Karolina Stefanski (Technical University of Berlin)
Transformation of French Empire Style in Silver from Berlin, Warsaw and Vienna, 1797-1848

Emeline Houssard (Sorbonne University, Paris / Centre André Chastel, Paris)
Paris-Berlin-Vienne, nouveau regard sur les marchés couverts de quartier (1838-1884)

Adéla Klinerová (Charles University, Prague / École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris / CEFRES)
La référence française dans les revues d’architecture du XIXe siècle : le cas des revues publiées par la Société des architectes et ingénieurs du Royaume de Bohême

Lunch break

15h – 18h
II. Experience of the Parisian milieu: Art education, salons, artists’ colonies
Chair: Michael Werner (CNRS / École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales, Paris)

Konrad Niemira (École normale supérieure, Paris / University of Warsaw)
Shopping in Paris? Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and French Art Market 1788-1802

Kristýna Hochmuth (Charles University, Prague / National Gallery in Prague)
Couture ou Cogniet? La première vague d’artistes tchèques en France

Coffee break

Stéphanie Baumewerd (Technical university of Berlin)
« Steffeck et son école d’après le modèle parisien ». L’atelier de Carl Steffeck (1818-1890) comme exemple de la formation artistique transnationale au XIXe siècle

Stéphane Paccoud (Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon)
« L’école de Paul Delaroche ». Un modèle français pour une peinture d’histoire nationale en Europe centrale

Wednesday 27 June 2018, room 108 (1st floor)

9h – 11h
III. Network: Individual mediators
Chair: Taťána Petrasová (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Réka Krasznai (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)
Réseaux et médiateurs – de Gautier à Munkácsy – et leur rôle dans les stratégies d’émergence et de carrière des peintres hongrois à Paris 

Kati Renner (Technical University of Dresden / Berlinische Galerie)
Bringing Paris to Florence. Otto Hettner (1875-1931) and the Dissemination of Modern Artistic Ideas around 1900

Barbara Vujanović (University of Zagreb / Museums of Ivan Meštrović – Meštrović Atelier, Zagreb)
Ivan Meštrović. Exemples de diplomatie culturelle entre Paris et Prague

Coffee break

11h30 – 13h
IV. Network: Transmission of savoir-faire 
Chair: Taťána Petrasová (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Anežka Mikulcová (Charles University, Prague)
French “silhouette” versus Czech “shadow image”

Małgorzata Grąbczewska (University of Gdańsk / Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw)
La diffusion de la pensée et du savoir-faire photographique entre la France et la Pologne au XIXe siècle

13h Conclusion

15h
Guided visit of the National Gallery in Prague – Veletržní palace with Kristýna Hochmuth
Including part of the permanent collection as well as the temporary exhibition The End of the Golden Times. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and the Viennese modernism.
Meeting point: Entrance hall of the museum, Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7

18h – 19h30
Lecture by Michael Werner (CNRS-EHESS)
Music as a Universal Form of Art? Internationalization of Musical Life and Forming of National Identity in 19th Century Europe

Venue: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1, 5th floor
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech

Abstract (FR)
The lecture elaborates on the transformations of European 19th century musical life, with special focus on concerts. Paradoxically, along the internationalisation of this musical life, due to the mobility of the musicians, the constitution of a repertoire, the rise of specific market and press, and the professionalization of musical trades, the interpretative patterns and reception phenomena grew increasingly national. One can even speak of the appropriation of music by national movements. The lecture will call forth a few analytical tools that allow to cast a light on such evolutions and to ground them in a histoire croisée of European cultures.

Debating the Norms of Scientific Writing

International Interdisciplinary Workshop for Young Researchers

Organizer: Julien Wacquez (EHESS, CESPRA, CEFRES)
Partners: CEFRES, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, EHESS (Paris)
When & Where: 23rd of May 2018, FLÚ AV ČR, conference room (Jilská 1, Prague 1 110 00)
Language: English

See the call for papers here

See the abstracts of the lectures here: Abstracts.

Since their foundation, social sciences have been questioning the practice of scientific writing as well as its limits and effects. To what extent does writing in itself affect the production of knowledge? How are the norms of scientific writing constantly negotiated? How are scientific texts convincing their readership?

Professors and young researchers are invited, not only to explore such questions, but also to share their own experiences as scientific writers. What kinds of problems do we face when striving to transform our investigations into a text? What kinds of narrative and rhetoric strategies do we implement in order to tackle such problems?

Because writing scientific texts is both a lonely and a collective activity, this workshop aims to develop a better understanding of the writing choices that we can make (between following or transgressing the “accepted” norms of writing of our discipline). 

Program

9:30-10:00 – Welcome

10:00-10:30 – Introduction

Jan Balon (FLÚ AV ČR)

10:30-12:00
Panel 1. (re)Producing new norms of writing
  • Julien Wacquez (EHESS-CESPRA & CEFRES)
    The Ways of Science Fiction in the Study of the Anthropocene
  • Annibal Arregui (CEFRES-FSV UK)
    Straw-Men of Science: “Hologrammatic” Dichotomies as Academic Sparring

Chair: Jan Balon (FLÚ AV ČR)

Lunch break

13:30-15:30
Panel 2. Writing Science and/or Writing Politics

  • John Holmwood (University of Nottingham)
    Writing for Justice. When Other Lives Are at Stake
  • Jitka Wirthová (ISS FSV UK)
    How to Write the Proof: Creating Expertise in Strategic Documents for Educational Reform
  • Abdul Qadar (EHESS-LAS)
    Writing as a Punjabi Native Anthropologist: Understanding the Relationship between Ethnographic Text, Self of an Anthropologist and Representation

Break

16:00-18:00
Panel 3. The Social Scientist as a Writer

  • Jean-Louis Fabiani (EHESS & CEU)
    The Impossible Novelist: Portrait of the Sociologist as a Frustrated Writer
  • Fanny Charrasse (EHESS-LIER)
    Literary but Not Fictional
  • Edouard Chalamet-Denis (EHESS-CESPRA)
    Via Hayden White: Questionning Narrative and Opening Possibles in the Writing of History

Illustration: Edgar Degas, Portrait of Edmond Duranty (1879)

(In)Capacity, Health, Disability and Handicap in Humanities and Social Sciences

Interdisciplinary Workshop

Organizers: Kateřina Kolářová (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague – FHS UK), Martina Winkler (Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel), Filip Herza (FHS UK), Kamila Šimandlová (FHS UK)
When: 17. 2. 2018
Where: Akademické Centrum, Husova 4a, Prague 1
Language: Czech/English

Workshop is organized within the project “(Post)Socialist Modernity and social and cultural politics of disability” jointly funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), held by the Faculty of Humanities Charles University. The event is co-hosted by CEFRES and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Programme

9–9:30 am Welcome

9:30–10 am : Opening of the symposium, Kateřina Kolářová.

10–11:45 am Panel I

  • Martina Winkler: Disability and Childhood in Czechoslovak Media, 1960s-1989 (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) (in English)
  • Marek Fapšo, Jan Randák: To What Extent Was the So-Called  “Special” Socialist Teaching Really Socialist? (Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Literature UK)
  • Šimon Charvát: “Mental Disability Is a Time Bomb.” The Discursive Approach to “Mental Disability” in the Czech Lands During the Second Half of the XIXth Century (Chair of General Anthropology, FHS UK)
  • Maria-Lena Fassig: First Thoughts on Definition of Disability in the Historical Context of Socialist Czechoslovakia (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) (in English)

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 2:30 pm Panel II

  • Radek Carboch, Dana Hradcová, Dita Jahodová, Michal Synek: Between Silence and Translation. Ethnography of Cognitive Disability (Research center for longevity and long-terme care, FHS UK; Chair of Sociology, FSV MUNI Brno).
  • Daniela Komanická: Reconceptualizing Labor and Care Through the Active Participation of the User of Self-Determined Personal Assistance in the Service (Chair of Anthropology, FHS UK).
  • Ľubica Kobová: Vulnerability as an Ontological Condition and its Critical Reception (Chair of Gender Studies, FHS UK).
  • Hana Porkertová: Disability as an Amalgam at the Crossroads Between Rhetorics and Materiality (Chair of Sociology, FSS MU).

2: 30 – 3:00 pm Coffee break

3:00 – 4:30 pm Panel III

  • Petra Honová, Lucie Kondrátová, Dino Numerato: The Experience of the Patients and their Family Scrutinised by the Expertise of a Knowledge Society. The Case of the Psychiatric Care Reform (Chair of sociology, FSV UK; National Institute of Mental Health).
  • Martin Fafejta: The Czech Community on Pedophilia (ČEPEK) and its Emancipatory Rhetorics (Chair of Sociology, Anthropology and Adult Learning, FF UP).
  •  Jiří Mertl: “I Never Tried That Before” … Psychological Assistance, Individual Responsibility and People Dismissed from Work (Research center for New Technologies, ZČU).

4:30 – 5 pm Conclusion of the symposium by Filip Herza

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

See th argument of the conference.

For any question, please contact Kamila Šimandlová, simandlova[at]outlook.com

Consequences of Ethnography: Knowing Violence via the Self and Its Aftermath

Organizers: Michal Šípoš and Luděk Brož (Institute of Ethnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences)
with the support of  Strategy AV21, programme: Global Con icts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges
Venue: Villa Lana, Prague
Click here to register to the workshop!
See the pdf of the event Consequences of Ethnography_colloquium.

Outline

As Sherry Ortner famously argued, ethnography in its minimal de nition is “the attempt to understand another life world using the self—as much of it as possible—as the instrument of knowing.” It is hardly surprising that conducting ethnographic research among/with survivors of violence—be it military, community, domestic, sexual, self-in icted or another form of violence— has a strong impact on the researcher. That impact, given the nature of ethnography, then directly translates into issues that are simultaneously personal and epistemological. Implications for the ethnographically knowing subject stretch well beyond feelings of empathy with research participants, as well as beyond the space-time of the eldwork. In this colloquium, we want to address methodological questions connected to knowing violence ethnographically, such as—but not limited to—the following:

  • When conducting ethnographic eldwork, researchers are often confronted with survivors’ silence or with an urgent need to tell what survivors witnessed and endured. Does that translate into an equally polarised reaction on the side of the researcher?
    In other words, can we see increased academic productivity in some cases among ethnographers, but inhibition of speaking-writing in other cases?
  • How can we speak of trauma of research without inappropriately shifting attention from research subjects to the researcher him- or herself?
  • The needs of research subjects may significantly shape a researcher’s own trajectory in the eld. Should the researcher let research subjects take control over the project?
  • Some ethnographers who publicly voice their research agendas are targeted by various actors, including authorities, hate groups or even the perpetrators behind the violence sufered by their research subjects. How can we methodologically conceptualise such encounters as part of ethnographic endeavour? What is the epistemic role of fear in such cases?

Program

9:20 Registration

9:50 Welcome address

10:00-11:00—Keynote speech no. 1
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University): The Character of the Possible: Modality and Mood in the Genre of Ethnography

11:00-12:00—Keynote speech no. 2
David Mosse (SOAS, University of London): Trauma and Ethical Self-Making after Suicide: The Existential Imperative to Respond

12:00-13:00 Lunch break

13:00-14:00—Keynote speech no. 3
Jonathan Stillo (Wayne State University): “No One Leaves This Place Except the Dead”: Tuberculosis as a Socially Incurable Disease

14:00-14:15 Coffee break

14:15-16:15—Roundtable discussion
with: Petra Ezzeddine (Charles University), Jaroslav Klepal, Michal Šípoš and Václav Walach (The Czech Academy of Sciences)

(Trans)Missions: Monasteries As Sites of Cultural Transfers

A workshop organized by the Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (SIAS FF UK), CEFRES and the Institute of Art History of Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR). The collaboration is realized within the Research project “Cataloging and study of the translations of Spanish and Ibero-American Dominicans”.

Venue: Špork Palace, Hybernská 3, Prague 1, room nr. 303
Scientific organizers: Monika Brenišínová (SIAS FF UK), Katalin Pataki (CEFRES) and Lenka Panušková (IAH CAS)
Language: English

Read more information about the workshop here

Read the call for papers here

Read the abstracts of the workshop here

Program

25 September, 2017 Monday

9.30–10.00            Registration
10.00–10.40         Opening Ceremony and introduction (organisers)

  • Markéta Křížová (Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University)
  • Clara Royer (French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences)
  • Tomáš Winter (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

10.40–12.10
Interpretation and Context
Chair: Veronika Čapská (Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)

  • Martin Lešák, Monasteries on the Horizon: The Sacral Landscape Through the Senses of Medieval Pilgrims
  • Jana Králová, The Monastery Translation From the Contemporary Perspective
  • Jan Tesárek and Barbora Spálová, Other time: Construction of Temporality in Benedictine Monasteries

12.10–14.00 Lunchbreak

14.00–15.00
Monastic Networks: Technology and Society
Chair: Jan Zdichynec (Department of the Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

  • Barnabás Szekér, Whose Instructions? – Educational Orders, Administration, and Rules of Higher Schools in the 18th Century Kingdom of Hungary
  • Katalin Pataki, The Monasteries as Mediators of Medical Knowledge – Camaldolese Pharmacies of the Hungarian Kingdom and Austria

15.00–15.30 Coffee break

15.30–17.00
Devotion and Vocation: The Transition of Ideas
Chair: Markéta Křížová (Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University)

  • Antonio Bueno, To whom may read this. The Prologue of Linguistic Works and Translations of the Dominicans as the Main Ideas for Reflection on Translation Theory
  • Monika Brenišínová, Mexican Monasteries and Processions. The transmission of ideas, space and time
  • Marcin F. Rdzak, Books of Enrollment to the Fraternity of the Scapular (1911-1946) from the Convent of Carmelite Fathers in Lwow. The Transition of Devotional Patterns

17.00–17.30 Coffee break

17.30
Keynote Lecture
József Laszlovszky (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University)
Transfer, Translation and Transmission of Knowledge in Monastic Networks — Research Directions and Approaches in the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Patterns

26 September, 2017 Tuesday

9.00–10.00
Arts and Architecture: Transferring the Forms
Chair: Lenka Panušková (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Pavel Štěpánek, El Escorial jako duchovní model českých a
    moravských klášterů ve světle současné interpretace
    (Hradisko, Kuks, Plasy) [El Escorial as Spiritual Model of Czech and Moravian Monasteries in the Light of the Contemporary Interpretation (Hradisko, Kuks, Plasy)]
  • Jana Povolná, Sázava monastery: St Procop, Scriptorium and the Church

10.00–10.30 Coffee break

10.30–12.00
Writing Monastery
Chair: Kateřina Bobková (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Renata Modráková, Benedictine St. George’s Cloister at the Prague Castle as a Crossroad of Medieval Cultural Trend and Ideas
  • Jan Kremer: Religious Identity and Order Discipline – Early Thirteenth-Century Bohemian Premonstratensians
  • Kristian Bertović, Glagolitic monks—Monastic Continuity and Glagolitic Script in the Medieval Croatia and the Istrian Peninsula

12.00–13.00 Lunchbreak

13.00–14.30
Presentations of ongoing projects

  • Klášterní stezky (project of the Department of History and History Didactics, Faculty of Education, Charles University); http://www.klasterni-stezky.cz/
  • Visions of Community (VISCOM, University of Vienna); https://viscom.ac.at/home/
  • Szerzetesség a kora újkori Magyarországon – Religious Orders of Early Modern Hungary http://szerzetes.hypotheses.org/
  • Sources, Forms, and Functions of the Monastic Historiography
    in Early Modern Ages in the Czech Lands

Closing remarks
Lenka Panušková (IAH CAS), Katalin Pataki (CEFRES), Monika Brenišínová (SIAS FF UK)

15.30
The Emmaus Monastery
Guided tour by Kateřina Kubínová

Norms and Transgressions in Central Europe

A workshop organized by CEFRES and the CNRS research group “Knowledge on Central Europe” (GDR CEM)

Venue: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, 3rd floor, conference room
Language: French (English)
Organizers: Clara Royer (CEFRES), Nadège Ragaru (CERI-Science Po) & Antoine Marès (Panthéon-Sorbonne University)

Read the call for papers in French or in Czech

Temporary Program
Thursday 15 June

1:30 Welcome by Clara Royer, director of CEFRES
Antoine Marès : Présentation du GDR Connaissance de l’Europe médiane

Panel I. Literary Creation: Canonic or Transgressive (P)Act?
Discussants: Eva Beránková & Paweł Rodak

2.00 Dimitri Garncarzyk (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 / CERC) : La norme comme idéal : éloge et apologie des règles dans le classicisme polonais, de Dmochowski à Śniadecki
2.20 Lucia Bonora (UČL AV ČR) : La transgression comme modus vivendi : le décadentisme tchèque et le dépassement des règles
2.40 Discussion

3.00 Clara Royer (CEFRES) : Littérature des camps et écriture iconoclaste : Imre Kertész contre Jorge Semprun
3.20 Kinga Callebat (Université Paris-Sorbonne / EUR’ORBEM) : La transgression comme norme ? La re-lecture de textes canoniques de la culture polonaise par les prosateurs de la fin du XXe et du début du XXIe siècle
3.40 Discussion

—- Break —-

Panel II. Intimacy and Writing: Asserting the Self Against Which Norms?
Discussant: Clara Royer

4.30 Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg (Paris-Sorbonne University / EURORBEM) : Exhiber l’ossature du temps ou des usages transgressifs de la succession dans les écrits intimes : Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz
4.50 Paweł Rodak (Centre de Civilisation polonaise – Paris-Sorbonne University) – Transgression et résignation dans les journaux d’Edward Stachura : à la frontière de la vie, à la frontière de la littérature
5.10 Discussion

Friday 16 June

Panel III. Bodies and Souls
Discussants: Marie-Élizabeth Ducreux

9.00 Daniela Tinková (FF UK): Le suicide entre la norme religieuse, pénale et médicale dans la monarchie des Habsbourg et en France entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle
9.20 Filip Herza (CEFRES / FHS UK): Staging Transgressions: Freak Shows in the 19th-Century Prague
9.40 Mateusz Chmurski (Université Libre de Bruxelles / EUR’ORBEM): Une trop bruyante intimité ? Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz et sa réception polonaise
10.00 Discussion

—- Break —-

Panel IV. Between Defiance and (Re-)Negociations
Discussants: Antoine Marès and (to be confirmed)

10.45 Étienne Boisserie (Inalco): Contestation et stratégies d’évitement de la contrainte morale et matérielle dans l’Autriche-Hongrie en guerre : outils et temporalités
11.05 Alessandro Milani (EPHE / CEFRES-FMSH / Centre Marc Bloch): La gestion des minorités dans la Seconde République de Pologne entre normes et désobéissance civile : le cas galicien
11h25 Discussion

—- Break —-

Discussant: Jiří Hnilica (PedF UK)

12.10 Paul Gradvohl (Lorraine University): Les discours sur l’histoire en Europe centrale : du national comme norme
12.30 Jana Vargovčíková (FF UK / Paris-Nanterre University): Le scandale comme fabrique de sens et arène de politisation : le lobbying polonais dénoncé et défini à travers les récits de transgression
12.50 Discussion