Geopolitics of sisterhood.
Framing global feminism within the UN women’s conferences (1975–1995)
Fourth session of the 2023–2024 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The map and the border
This year, we would like to start by questioning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, through the interdisciplinarity of our perspectives, to question the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, February 23rd, 10–11.30 am
Language: French
Speaker: Ioana CÎRSTOCEA, CNRS / CEFRES
Discussant: Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)
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The Transformations of the Book Publishing in Post-Socialist Spaces (ex-USSR, post-Yugoslav space, Czech Republic and Slovakia)
A workshop organized by the Research Center Europe-Eurasia, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris, France with the collaboration of the CEFRES.
Dates: Wednesday February 7 2024, from 10 am to 5 pm
Location: INALCO – Maison de la Recherche – Salle de Sacy – 2e étage (2, rue de Lille – Paris 7e)
Convenors
- Anne Madelain (CREE, Inalco, Paris)
- Daria Petushkova (CREE, Inalco / CESSP, EHESS)
Speakers
- Aglaé Achechova (BULAC, Paris),
- Dmitrii Khriakov (EHESS, Paris),
- Anne Madelain (CREE, Inalco, Paris),
- Vanda Mikšić, Mirna Sindičić Sabljo, Željka Tonković (Université de Zadar, Croatie),
- Bella Ostromooukhova (Eur’Orbem, Sorbonne Université, Paris),
- Daria Petushkova (CREE, Inalco et CESSP, EHESS),
- David Piovesan (Magellan, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3),
- Jiřina Šmejkalová (Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Université Charles, Prague)
- Anna Štičková (Masaryk University, Brno, Rep. Tchèque),
Thesis of the workshop
“The end of the socialist regimes profoundly affected the publishing industry and book distribution in the post-socialist space, including Central and Southeast Europe. Among the most visible transformations that occurred, the end of state control, the appearance of private actors (publishers, distributors, booksellers) and the influx of translations of works by Western authors can be emphasized (as substantial). These transformations have also coincided with the digital revolution that has disrupted publishing and reading practices all over the world. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought new pressure and reconfigurations.”
This workshop will bring together the authors of a multidisciplinary and comprehensive set of papers which will be published in the special issue of the open access peer-reviewed journal Connexe. Exploring Post-communist Spaces.
Contacts
anne.madelain@inalco.fr et daria.petushkova@inalco.fr
image: Karolinum Bookshop, Prague, 2019 © Anne Madelain
Chisinau: The Making of a Neoliberal City.
Identities, Memories and Aspirations after the post-Socialist Transformation
3rd session of CEFRES in-house seminar
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
Date: Tuesday, 6th of February, 2024
Language: English
Contact / To register: cefres[@]cefres.cz
Discussant: Valeriya Korablyova (CEFRES / Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)
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The next edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Monday, December 18th, at 4:30 pm at CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in French and in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.
So far, the following presentations are announced:
- Lise Foisneau : Kumpania. Vivre et résister en pays gadjo (Marseille : Wildproject) 2023 by Yasar Abu Ghosh
- Geneviève Prouvost : Quotidien politique. Féminisme, écologie, subsistance (Paris : La Découverte, 2021) by Ioana Cîrstocea
- Christelle Taraud (dir.) : Feminicides. Une histoire mondiale (Paris : La Découverte, 2022) by Hélène Martinelli
- Anne-Marie Thiesse : La fabrique de l’écrivain national (Paris : Gallimard, 2019) by Michael Wögerbauer (tbc)
- Edouard Vasseur : L’exposition universelle de 1867. L’apogée du Second Empire (Paris : Perrin, 2023) by Adéla Bricínová
Third session of the 2023–2024 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The map and the border.
In 2023, we would like to start by questioning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, December 8th, 10 am
Language: French
Speaker: Jan ZDICHYNEC, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Discussant: Václav ŽŮREK, Centre for Medieval Studies at the Institute of philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Abstract
The presentation, based on the author’s own research and on several recent discoveries of unprocessed archival sources, will first present the Crown of Bohemia as a whole and ask whether it can be considered a functional state or not. These reflections will be placed in the context of writing about the lands of the Crown from the Middle Ages to the premodern period.
How did early modern intellectuals perceive the Crown of Bohemia and one of its parts, the margraviate of Upper Lusatia? It is clear that the historians who adopted the point of view of the Kingdom of Bohemia tended to write in more Bohemian-centric manner. Melchior Goldast and Pavel Stránský offer a more complex view despite its gaps and ambiguities. The historiography of one of the countries of the Crown, the Upper Lusatia, focuses more on the margraviate itself and its towns, and its perspective is rather local. None of the studied authors questioned the Bohemian crown as a whole, nor the subordination of its various countries to the Bohemian king, however the principles of these questions as a whole were not reflected in depth.
Discussion around Paul Lenormand’s book Tchécoslovaques en guerre (Passés composés 2023)
Date: 7 December, 2023, from 4 p.m.
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3
Language: English
Organizors: CEFRES; University Paris-Nanterre / Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP); Research Center „Postwar(s). Political and Social Changes during and after the Second World War“ at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IMS FSV UK)
Chair: Jakub Štofaník, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (MÚA AVČR)
Discussant: Václav Šmidrkal, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IMS FSV UK)
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