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CEFRES IS HIRING A COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

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.

CEFRES IS HIRING AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

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

  • entering and archiving invoices, checking supporting documents, entering suppliers and recording payment requests via Elap (AGE) tool
  • follow-up of administrative and scientific team trip requests: preparation of requests, purchase of tickets and hotel reservations, calculation of expense statements and post-trip data entry
  • preparation of salary documents of 5 Czech employees, in direct contact with the firm in charge of payroll management and the accounting agency
  • placing orders with suppliers and monitoring of the cash register for the Center’s small expenses (including issuing appropriate administrative certificates)
  • follow-up of CEFRES invitations: drafting of invitation agreements, purchase of tickets
    and hotel reservations
  • logistical support for CEFRES events (setting up & preparing receptions)
  • ad hoc tasks on request (proofreading of administrative documents, minor translations)

Expected skills

  • Good command of French (spoken and written), English (read, written, spoken)
  • Proficiency in office automation tools (in particular Outlook, Excel)
  • Versatility and ability to handle several tasks simultaneously

Required qualities

  • Autonomy, precision, punctuality
  • Thoroughness and exactitude in administrative tasks
  • Communication skills, responsiveness and ability to work as part of a team
  • Respect for confidentiality and good presentation

Qualification

  • Studies in administrative management / economics or business / humanities or social sciences / OR experience in a similar position
  • Appetence for human resources, accounting and administrative management
  • Knowledge of Czech labor law and tax administration is a plus.

Conditions & benefits

  • 1-year fixed-term Czech law contract, with possibility of extension
  • part-time job according to candidate’s profile and needs: 28 to 36 h attendance / week
  • Flexible working hours
  • Gross salary 28 to 36k CZK / month
  • 21 to 25 days paid vacation
  • Long summer break with no scientific events
  • Professional training offered by the employer according to the candidate’s profile and needs
  • French language courses at all levels at the Institut français de Prague offered by CEFRES
  • Office in the center of Prague, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
  • Free access to the Kino 35 cinema at the Institut français de 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.

An invisible empire? Austro-Hungarian economic space in Central and Southeastern Europe 1890–1930

An invisible empire?
Austro-Hungarian economic space in Central and Southeastern Europe 1890–1930:
actors, structures, embeddedness, factors of resilience

A roundtable discussion around the research project led by Gábor Egry, invited researcher at CEFRES in June 2024, thanks to a support granted by CNRS (SMI program).

Date: Thursday June 27, 2024, at 5 pm
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci, Prague 1
Language: English

Gábor Egry is PI of the ERC NEPOSTRANS, Director General of the Institute of Political History in Budapest and member of the COST Action Women on the Move project, Gábor Egry studies post-imperial transitions on the example of Austria-Hungary.
Please find a presentation of his research work here.

In 2017, he received an ERC Consolidator grant for the project NEPOSTRANS – Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation, a comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe.

 

Civil Union, Equal Marriage

Civil union, equal marriage: what prospects for Europe?

On the occasion of the International Pride Month and as part of the Queer 24 cycle, the French Institute in Prague, the Goethe-Institut and CEFRES invite you to the roundtable “Civil union, equal marriage: what prospects for Europe?”

Date: Monday June 17, 2024 at 5 p.m
Location: Institut Français de Prague, Štěpánská 35,
Languages: In English, translated in Czech

Abstract

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Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of WWII

Launch of the TANDEM incubator program CNRS-Slovak Academy of Sciences

Where: French Institute in Slovakia, Bratislava
When: June 26th, 4–6 pm

PROGRAM

4 pm – Opening Keynote

 Jacques JOUSLIN DE NORAY, First Counselor of the French Embassy in Slovakia
Pavol ŠAJGALÍK, President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
William BERTHOMIÈRE, Deputy Scientific Director Europe and International, CNRS SHS

 4:20 pm – Signature of the convention for Tandem CNRS-Charles University 2024–2029 program

For MEAE: Mr. Pascal Le DEUNFF, Ambassador of France to Slovakia or his representative
For the Slovak Academy of Sciences: Mr. Pavol ŠAJGALÍK, President
For CNRS: Mme Isabelle LONGIN, Regiona Delegate Paris-Normandie, represented by Mr William BERTHOMIÈRE

 4:30 pm – Presentation of the first selected project by Tandem CNRS-Charles University program

« VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS, MEMORIALS AND COMMEMORATIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN CENTRAL EUROPE »

Laureates of the first Tandem CNRS-Slovak Academy of Science program, Petra HUDEK et Thomas CHOPARD will present their project which focus on historical narratives, memorials and commemorations in Slovakia, Czechia and Poland. Their research aims to analyze evolutions and re-elaboration of museums and monuments since the fall of communist regime until nowadays, to different scales : from great national museums from the Second World War to the local emblematic museums, and also museums dealing with the Shoah memory. The project aims to take into account the specific context of Central and Eastern Europe, and to analyze the impact of the war in Ukraine on the development of national movements in museums, monuments and during commemorations. Starting in 2024 and covering the intense phase of 2025 commemorations, this project will analyze visual static elements in exhibitions, catalogs and public history discourses, as well as more dynamic elements connected to the memorial schedule.

Petra HUDEK  is a historian at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Contemporary History. In 2022-2023, she carried out her research project “Iconoclasm in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. The heritage of socialism in historical perspective” as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is currently preparing a monograph on Soviet war memorials in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. Her research focuses on the politics of memory, museums, and the processes of museification of public space, as well as the instrumentalization of history.

Thomas CHOPARD is a historian and assistant professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Centre of Historical Research (EHESS/CRH). His research focuses on the history of anti-Jewish persecution and Jewish migration in Central and Eastern Europe. His early work focused on the pogroms and anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine during the revolutionary period, before contributing to the ERC project Lubartworld retracing the trajectories of the Jews of the Polish town of Lubartów. His current research is at the intersection of the study of forced displacement suffered by Jews during the Second World War and the history of Stalinist repression.

5:30 pm – Questions from the public                                                           

6 pm – Toast to friendship

Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions

Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions:
European Currents and Local Appropriations

A Workshop organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IAH CAS, Prague), within the program Strategie AV 21 of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and CEFRES (Prague) with the support of the École pratique des hautes études  (EPHE – PSL, Paris), Julius-Maximilians-Universität (Würzburg), Bayrisch-Tschechische Hochschulagentur (Regensburg), Politecnico di Torino, Universidad de Jaén, Charles University (Prague), National Gallery Prague.

Date: June 11-12, 2024
Locations: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, June 11, 2024, Institute of Art History, Husova 4, June 12, 2024, National Gallery, Prague, Waldstein Riding School; Prague Castle
Language: English

 

Tuesday, June 11 (at CEFRES)

9.30 – 9.45 – Introduction

  • Claire Madl (CEFRES Prague)
  • Sabine Frommel (EPHE – PSL, Paris)
  • Eckhard Leuschner (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
  • Taťána Petrasová (IAH CAS, Prague)

9.45 – 11.45 – 1st panel

  • Chair: Sabine Frommel (EPHE – PSL, Paris)
  • Miguel Ángel Carrasco Sánchez (University of Jaén), The Benavides Family as Promoters of Renaissance Architectural Language in the Old Kingdom of Jaén
  • Gabriel Pereira (University of Coimbra), The Different Stages of Renaissance Architecture: João de Castilho’s Work in Tomar
  • Jakub Kříž (Masaryk University, Brno), The Renaissance Portal of the Olomouc Town Hall and the Problem of the Antique Mode in Moravia in the 1530s
  • Pablo Ferri (EPHE – PSL, Paris), Medicean Villas in the Annunciation During the Italian Renaissance

11.45 – 12.00 – Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30 – 2rd panel

  • Chair: Valentina Burgassi
  • Felix Schmieder (PALAMUSTO, University of Warsaw), Living Between Cultures: Renaissance Residences of Catherine Jagiellon in Poland and Sweden
  • Lucía Pérez (EPHE – PSL, Paris), Diego Siloé and His Contemporaries: Some Thoughts on Funeral Chapels
  • Mariia Ovsianikova (EPHE – PSL, Paris), The Imaginary Temple: Constructing the Identity of the Christian Temple in Italian Painting of the 15th–16th centuries

13.30 – 14.30 – Lunch break

14.30 – 16.00 – 3nd panel

  • Chair: Eckhard Leuschner (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg)
  • Clara Léoni (EPHE – PSL, Paris), The Hanged Man: A Visual and Discourse Exploration of Capital Punishment
  • Christina Hablik (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg), Transfer and Transformation of Pictorial Ideas: the Likeness of Julius II as a Means of Propaganda in the Conflict Between the Papacy and France (1510–1513)
  • Annemarie Graf (Julius-Maxmilians-Universität, Würzburg), The Prints of Previous Centuries: Collecting Renaissance Prints in the Second Half of the 17th Century

16.00 – 16.15 – Coffee break

16:15 – 18.15 – 4th panel

  • Chair: Taťána Petrasová (IAH CAS, Prague)
  • Corinna Gannon (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main), Material Hybridity of Rudolfine Kunstkammer Objects and the Notion of Universality
  • Tadeáš Kadlec (Charles University – IAH CAS, Prague), Count Michna’s Palace in Prague: Its Origins and Meanings
  • Robert Seegert (Julius-Maxmilians-Universität, Würzburg), Renaissance Paintings Collected by High-Ranking Clerics in Southern Germany during the 18th Century: The Example of the Würzburg Prince-Bishops
  • Adéla Bricínová (Charles University, Prague and EPHE – PSL, Paris). Projects for the Reconstruction of the Castle Bečov nad Teplou: Castles in the sky of Duke Alfred Beaufort-Spontin

18.15 – 18.30 – Closing remarks

 

Wednesday, June 12

9.30 – 10.15 – Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, collection of historical photography of Renaissance architecture, with its curator Petra Trnková, IAH CAS

10.30 – 12:00 – At CEFRES, 5th panel

  • Chair: Pedro Antonio Galera Andreu
  • Tomáš Murár (IAH CAS, Prague), Weltgeist or Weltanschauung? Search for the Meaning of Italian Renaissance in the Late 19th Century Art History
  • Lorenzo Fecchio (Politecnico di Torino), The Anglo-American Rediscovery of Italian Renaissance Gardens
  • Valeria Sedlerjonok (The Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice), The Art of Reception: Venetian Renaissance Painting as Seen in Early 19th Century Venice

12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch break

13:45 – 15:00 – Exhibition From Michelangelo to Callot. The Art of Mannerist Printmaking, Waldstein Riding School, Malá Strana, metro Malostranská stop; guided tour with the main curator Alena Volrábová, National Gallery Prague and co-author Sylva Dobalová (IAH CAS).

15:30 – 18:00 – Prague Castle, Summer House Belvedere, Ballroom and the context of Emperor’s gardens, with Richard Biegel (Charles University, Prague), Sylva Dobalová (IAH CAS).

18:00 – 18:15 – Closing remarks

 

You can download the program here.