The third edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Wednesday 5 December at 5:30 at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.

This informal meeting, which gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing, will give an opportunity for celebrating the beginning of the year. 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 no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.

The following books will be presented:
Jacques BOUVERESSE: Nietzsche contre Foucault (Argone éd.) by Petr Horák
Catherine KLEIN-GOUSSEF: Échanger les peuples (Fayard) by Florence Vychytil
Jean-Jacques NATTIEZ: Wagner antisémite (Bourgois) by Josef Fulk
M. RIOT-SARCEY: Le procès de la liberté. Histoire souterraine du XIXe   (La Découverte) by Hana Fořtová
Gisèle SAPIRO: Les contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale  (Nouveau Monde éd.) by Chiara Mengozzi
Christian TOPALOV: Histoires d’enquêtes (Classiques Garnier) by Mátyás Erdélyi

You can peruse and download the list of the library’s latest acquisitions and book a book at the following address: claire@cefres.cz.

Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3
Language: French

To celebrate the end of the year and gather our readers in the brand new library of CEFRES at Na Florenci 3, we are happy to offer a last encounter around some of the

newest publications in France in the social sciences and humanities!

It will give us the opportunity to better present and discuss the current French editorial landscape through this new review of books, which will be from now on held twice a year, before Winter and Summer holidays.

Reviews (preferably in English or Czech) will be published on CEFRES blog www.cefres.hypotheses.org.

The following books will be presented (in French):

• Jean-Hugues BARTHELEMY: Simondon (Belles Lettres) – by Lara Bonneau
• Patrick BOUCHERON : L’entretemps (Verdier) – by Eloïse Adde
• Luc BOLTANSKI : Enigmes et complots (Gallimard) – by Gwendal Piégais
• Marc FUMAROLI : La République des lettres (Gallimard) – by Edita Wolf
• Emmanuel FUREIX, François JARRIGE : Modernité désenchantée (La Découverte) – by Mátyás Erdelyi
• Albert OGIEN, Sandra LAUGIER : Le principe démocratie (La Découverte) – by Jana Vargovčíková
• Michel WIEVIORKA, Retour au sens (R. Laffont) by Nicolas Maslowski
• Caroline ZUM KOLK (dir.) et al. : Voyageurs étrangers à la cour de France (Presses U. de Rennes) – by Zdeněk Hojda

See the latest acquisitions of the library.

Please confirm in advance your participation in this latest meeting of CEFRES before the end of the year! Contact the organizers: Lara Bonneau or Claire Madl.

The new edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 14 December at 5 pm at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.

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 no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.

So far, the following presentations are announced:

– Luc BOLTANSKI, Arnaud ESQUERRE : Enrichissement. une critique de la marchandise (Gallimard), by Mihai-Dan Cîrjan
– Christophe CHARLE, Laurent JEANPIERRE : La vie intellectuelle en France (Seuil), by Tomáš Nakladal
– Christian INGRAO : La promesse de l’Est (Seuil), by David Emler
– Sarah MAZOUZ : La république et ses autres (ENS Editions), by Florence Vychytil-Baudoux
– Michel OFFERLÉ : La profession politique (Belin), by Michel Perottino
– Jean-Claude SCHMITT : Les rythmes au Moyen Age, by Paul-Antoine Méteier
– Catherine SERVANT (dir.) : Les héritages culturels du XIXe siècle sous les régimes communistes. (Publications des Langues O éd.), by Petr Kyloušek

You can peruse and download the list of the library’s latest acquisitions and book a book at the following address: claire@cefres.cz.

Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3
Language: French

The new edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 13 December at 5 pm at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.

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 no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.

So far, the following presentations are announced : Continue reading CEFRES Review of Books – December 2018 →

The new edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 12th June at 5 pm at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.

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 no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.

So far, the following presentations are announced:

• Patrick BOUCHERON : La trace et l’aura (Paris : Seuil, 2019), by Arthur Perodeau
• Sonia COMBE : La loyauté à tout prix. Les floués du “socialisme réel” (Le Bord de l’eau, 2019), by Jérôme Heurtaux
• Octave DEBARY : De la poubelle au musée. Une anthropologie des restes (Créaphis, 2019) by Fedora Parkmann
• Alexandre GEFEN : Réparer le monde. La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (Corti, 2017), by Radek Karkovský
• Catherine MALABOU : Métamorphoses de l’intelligence (PUF 2017) by Thomas C. Mercier
• Michel PASTOUREAU : Le Loup (Seuil, 2018), by Adéla Klinerová