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.
Program
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CEFRES in a nutshell
- a French public research institution with partnerships throughout Central Europe
- an international research and administrative team (12 nationalities by 2024), developing cutting edge research projects in the humanities and social sciences
- twenty in-house researchers & fifty associates
- about fifty events a year
- some twenty funding grants.
Responsibilities and tasks
- Maintaining a dynamic content calendar with the administrative team;
- Administrating CEFRES’s trilingual website, ensuring it is updated with the latest information, www.cefres.cz (WordPress);
- Writing and producing engaging content for CEFRES’s trilingual accounts on social media (FB, Instagram, LinkedIn, X);
- Producing visual contents (website, social media, posters and programs) for scientific events
- Analyzing data to gauge content performance and proposing communication strategy in accordance
Expected skills
- Exceptional written Czech skills (C2), French (C1 or B2) and English (C1 or B2),
- In-depth knowledge of social media and their monitoring tools
- Experience in translation
- Experience in updating websites using content management systems
- Experience in creating visual contents – video cuts if possible
Required qualities
- Excellent interpersonal skills, proactive
- Exacting and precise written skills,
- Esthetic visual taste,
- Reliable and autonomous,
- Collaborative team player with a positive attitude.
Qualification
- Degree in communication management / digital marketing / languages OR equivalent experience,
- Enthusiastic interest in communication and translation;
- A strong curiosity toward Humanities and Social Sciences is more than welcome.
Conditions & benefits
- 1-year fixed-term Czech law contract, with possibility of extension
- Part-time job according to candidate’s profile and needs: 12 to 20h attendance / week preferred
- Flexible working schedule apart from one fixed day at CEFRES
- 9 to 14 days’ annual leave
- long summer break with no scientific event,
- Professional training offered by CEFRES according to the profile and needs of the employee
- French language courses offered by CEFRES at the French Institute in Prague
- An office in Prague city center, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
- Free access to the cinema Kino 35 at the French Institute in Prague
How to apply
- The position is to be filled no later than on 1/10/2024 · Send your CV and motivation letter in French to: Claire.madl@cefres.cz Subject:« Candidature au poste de chargé/e de communication et de traduction »; Cc mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz.
Only selected applicants will be invited to be interviewed, in French.
“We never talked about you, but you were always there, Algeria.” Exiles and exiled memories of vanished worlds
6th session of CEFRES in-house seminar 2022-2023.
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.
Location: CEFRES Library and online
Date: 14th of March
Language: English
Contact: cefres[@]cefres.cz
Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES/ Institut Convergences Migrations)
Discussant: Emina Zoletić (CEFRES / University of Warsaw)
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Landscapes with Shadows. Presentation of Luba Jurgenson’s research project
In June, July and August 2022, the researcher, writer and translator Luba Jurgenson, professor at Sorbonne University and director of Eur’ORBEM, will be at CEFRES as a guest researcher. For further information, click here to see her CV.
When: Thursday, June 30th, 10:30 – 12:00 a.m.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague & also “online” – link to ZOOM meeting on request (cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English
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CEFRES Book Review
For this special edition of the CEFRES Book Review, we will meet Luba Jurgenson, professor of Russian literature at Sorbonne University, director of Eur’ORBEM, translator, author of fiction, essayist and editor-in-chief of various book series, and we will discuss her latest book.
When: Tuesday, June 28th, at 3:30 p.m.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague (link to online meeting on request – cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: French
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In the interstices of European citizenship. The transnational political mobilization of intra-European migrants in the European Union. II.
The multidisciplinary research workshop is organised in partnership between the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin and CEFRES in Prague. It aims to bring together specialists in migration, European citizenship and transnational political practices to discuss the question of the ordinary relations of intra-European migrants to the policies of diaspora implemented, according to very different modalities, by their country of origin.
Session 2 (22.06.2022): CEFRES, Na Florenci 3 – Prague
When: Wednesday 22nd June, 14:30–18:30
Where: CEFRES Library, Prague & online on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85421454854
Language: English
Organised by:
CEFRES, Prague Cédric Pellen (University of Strasbourg/Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin)
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See the description & program below.
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