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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.

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.

 

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

CEFRES Review of books – June 2024

The next edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Friday, June 21st, at 3:00 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:

  • Luz Ascarate : Imaginer selon Paul Ricoeur. La phénoménologie à la rencontre de l’ontologie sociale (Paris : Hermann, 2022) by Petr Horák
  • Lise Foisneau : Kumpania. Vivre et résister en pays gadjo (Marseille : Wildproject, 2023) by Yasar Abu Ghosh
  • Baptiste Morizot : L’inexploré (Marseilles : Wildproject, 2023) by Hana Fořtová
  • Hyacinthe Ravet : Musiciennes. Enquête sur les femmes et la musique (Paris : Autrement, 2011) by Louisa Martin-Chevalier
  • Christelle Taraud (dir.) : Feminicides. Une histoire mondiale (Paris : La Découverte, 2022) by Hélène Martinelli

Central-European Masculinities

Central-European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective: International Symposium

International symposium organized by CEFRES in the frame of the Central European Masculinities research project, with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR, PARCECO Program), in collaboration with the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚČL AVČR) & the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University (ÚČLK FF UK).

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: June 19 – 20th, 2024
Languages: English, French
Organizers: Wojciech Śmieja (IL WNH UŚ), Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne), Iwona Kurz (IKP WP UW), Richard Müller (ÚČL AV ČR), Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK), Ivana Taranenková (ÚSL SAV).

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87287534658?pwd=76IKqZc2qhThHlfLedvvxFbpNbe1iM.1 

Meeting ID: 872 8753 4658
Passcode: 451680

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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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