Body as a Medium
Action two : Cercles
a Charles University international interdisciplinary program.
in collaboration with :
the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences
CEFRES and DRUNA
and under the responsibility of
Benedetta ZaACCARELLO (Charles University Prague, EKS Departement / CNRS, Lyon, France)
When & Where: 30 November 2018, 4 pm, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (Upper Hall)
Organizers: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CEFRES
Language: English
Tomasz Rakowski (Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw)
Helena Patzer (Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Ewa Klekot (University of Warsaw/Poznan School of Form)
Daniel Sosna (University of West Bohemia, Pilsen)
Moderated by Luděk Brož (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague)
Anthropologists often have fieldwork experiences that are not explicitly analysed in their writings, though they nevertheless contribute to and shape their ethnographic understandings, and can resonate throughout their work for many years . The task of this volume is precisely to uncover these layers of anthropological knowledge-making. Contributors take on the challenge of reconstructing the ways in which they originally entered the worlds of research subjects – their anthropological Others – by focusing on pretextual and deeply phenomenological processes of perceiving, noting, listening and sensing. Drawing on a wide range of research experiences – with the Dogon in Mali, immigrant football players in Spain, the Inuit of the Far North, Filipino transnational families, miners in Poland and students in Scotland – this book goes beyond an exploration of the development of increased ethnographic sensitivity towards words or actions. It also commences the foundational project of developing a new language for building anthropological works, one stemming from recurring acts of participation, and rooted primarily in the pre-textual worlds of the tacit, often non-visible, and intense experiences that exceed the limitations of conventional textual accounts.
“These edifying essays lay the groundwork for an
anthropology that not only overcomes old antinomies
of body-mind, text-context, representation-reality, but
encourages us to see how participatory method, social
attentiveness, and new forms of ethnographic writing can
enhance our understanding of the affective, intersubjective,
and conceptual complexities of life as lived,” Michael Jackson, Distinguished Professor of World Religions, Harvard University.
Balázs Trencsényi — Professor, Department of Historical Studies, CEU, Director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Studies Budapest
A debate organised on the occasion of the publication of Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond. A transnational history (Oxford University Press, 2025) by the ERC ‘Memory and Populism from Below’ (MEMPOP) #101076092 with the participation of CEFRES (MEAE / CNRS).
When: March 11, 2025 at 15:00
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 and online (to get the link, please mail us to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English
Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond maps the range of meanings the term ‘crisis’ has borne and the roles it has performed across disciplines and countries, de-centering the dominant narrative that takes Western European positions and developments as normative.
It especially focuses on the historical roots of two key contemporary contesters of liberal democracy: neoliberalism and populism and presents an innovative analysis of the roots of contemporary illiberalism in Europe. Bringing these ideas into the present day, Balázs Trencsényi offers ideas on how a reflective and self-critical liberal democratic political position could be defined and defended in our current predicament, which is increasingly compared to the interwar period and is often described as a “polycrisis”.
When: May 17, 2025, 4 PM
Where: Milan Kunderas’ Hall, Výstaviště Praha Holešovice, Křižíkovy pavilony
A workshop organized by CEFRES PhD Students Filip Herza, Magdalena Cabaj and Katalin Pataki
Time & Venue: from 2 to 5 pm at CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3
Language: English
Discussant: Sabine ARNAUD (Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS)
2.00: Filip Herza (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University – CEFRES): Faces of Normative Masculinity: Shaving Practices and the Popular Exhibitions of “Hairy Wonders” in the early 20th Century Prague
2:25: Magdalena Cabaj (Warsaw University / ENS Ulm – CEFRES): Dear Herculine, Dear Aaron: From the Angel to the Beast. On Two Cases of Hermaphroditic Writing
2:50: Discussion
— Coffee Break —
Discussants:
3.30: Katalin Pataki (Central European University – CEFRES): Medical Expertise in Service of Joseph II’s Monastic Reforms’
3:55: Adam Mézes (Central European University): ‘Seen and Discovered’ – the Diagnosis of Vampirism in 1730-1750’s Habsburg Empire
4.20: Discussion
This international workshop is conceived as a preparatory event for the ICLA Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series’ Topic Volume Representing Same-Sex Desire. Local Contexts, Global Circulations in European Literary Cultures. (CHLEL : https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/chlel/).
Date: September 19-20, 2024
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague and online (to register, please write to the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English
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