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Ancient Kings – Contemporary Politics

Ancient Kings – Contemporary Politics. Medievalism in Central and Eastern Europe

A workshop organized and supported by CEFRES, in collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO).

Convenors : Olga Kalashnikova (CEU / CEFRES), Jan Kremer  (PedF UK, CEFRES associate)

Date : March 20, 2024
Location  : CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1, and online. To register
Language : English
Contacts : Olga Kalashnikova, kalashnikova_olga@phd.ceu.edu; Jan Kremer, kremer@flu.cas.cz

Program

9:00 – 9:10 Greeting word by Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES) and Václav Žůrek (GWZO Prague)

9:10 – 9:20 Introduction by the organizers (Jan Kremer, Olga Kalashnikova)

9:30 – 10:20 Keynote lecture: Dina Khapaeva, Political Neomedievalism in Putin’s Russia and Beyond

10:20 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:50 First Session

Cordelia Heß, Are Vikings Still a Thing? Popular and Far Right Use of the Nordic Middle Ages

Christoph Dartmann, Uses of the Middle Ages by the German ‘Alt Right’ in the 21st c.

Karin Reichenbach, Popular Paganism and Malicious Medievalism. Early Medieval Reenactment as Part of Radical Right-Wing Subculture in Central Europe

11:50 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:20 Second Session

Ferenc Kanyó, Pseudohistorical Theories about Medieval Hungary in the Services of the goverment

Tatyjana Szafonova, The Hungarian Big Kurultaj: Diplomatic Negotiations amid Medieval Reenactments

Gábor Klaniczay, Orbán Descendant of Attila? The Theory of Hun-Hungarian Kinship Reloaded

13:20 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00 Third Session

Martin Šorm, “New Neutral”? Political Medievalism in Contemporary Czechia

Matej Harvát, Great-Moravian Tradition as an Anti-Progressive Banal Medievalism in Slovak Contemporary Public Discourse

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 – 16:40 Fourth Session

Cristian-Nicolae Gaspar, In the Long Shadow of National Communism: Traditions of Officially-sponsored Political Medievalism in Romania

Gustavs Strenga, Is There no Contemporary Political Medievalism in the Baltics? Baltic Medieval Legacy between Oblivion, Consumerism and Geopolitics

Nikita Bogachev, Neo-medievalism, Fantasy Literature, and Chronopolitics in Modern Russia

16:40 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 Conclusion

Abstract

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The Transformations of the Book Publishing in Post-Socialist Spaces

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)

Language: English

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

History serves the Motherland. Medievalisms in public discourse in Russia

History serves the Motherland:
Medievalisms in contemporary public discourse in Russia (2018–2023)

4th 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, March 5, 2024 at 4:30 pm
Language: English
Contact / To register: cefres[@]cefres.cz
Discussant: Martin ŠORM, Center for Medieval Studies, FLÚ, Czech Academy of Sciences

Olga Kalashnikova (CEFRES / CEU)

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Geopolitics of sisterhood

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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Chisinau: The Making of a Neoliberal City

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)

Kateřina Fuksová (CEFRES / Charles University)

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CEFRES Review of books – December 2023

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