The fourth edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 1 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.

The following books will be presented:

– Barbara CASSIN : Eloge de la traduction. Compliquer l’universel (Fayard) , by Edita Wolf
– Alain CORBIN, Georges VIGARELLO (dir.) : Histoire des émotions. 2 vol. (Seuil), by Ondřej Švec
– Kaoutar HARCHI : Je n’ai qu’une langue, ce n’est pas la mienne (Pauvert), by Alžběta Stančáková
– Dominique LESTEL : À quoi sert l’homme ? (Fayard), by Marc Palenicek
– Olivier REY : Quand le monde s’est fait nombre (Stock), by Mátyás Erdélyi
– Ayse YUVA : Transformer le monde ? (la Maison des sciences de l’homme), by Hana Fořtová
– Claire ZALC : Dénaturalisés. Les retraits de nationalité sous Vichy (Seuil), by Florence Vychytil

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 Tuesday 25 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:

• Diane AFOUMADO : Indésirables (Calmann-Lévy, 2018), par Florence Vychytil Baudoux
• Franz FANON : Oeuvres. N° 2 (La Découverte, 2018), par Thomas C. Mercier
• Marc JOLY : La révolution sociologique (La Découverte, 2017) par Jan Maršálek
• Claudia MOATTI : Res Publica. Histoire romaine de la chose publique (Fayard, 2018), par Hana Fořtová
• Gérard NOIRIEL : Une histoire populaire de la France, De la guerre de Cent ans à nos jours (AGONE, 2018) par Michel Perottino

The new edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Tuesday 15 December at 3 pm, online,
at the following link :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88409623977?pwd=RmxybGovUWhqbC9sK21uOEZPL3FoZz09

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:

• Romain Bertrand : Qui a fait le tour de quoi ? l’affaire Magellan (Verdier 2020) by Florence Vychytil
• Pierre Charbonnier : Abondance et liberté (Paris : La Découverte, 2020) by Hana Dohnálková
• Francis Kaplan :  Propos sur Alain (Gallimard, 2020) by Petr Horák
• M. Ksinan : L’homme qui parlait avec les étoiles (Eur’ORBEM éditions, 2019) by Mátyás Erdélyi
• Pierre Rosanvallon : Le siècle populisme (Seuil, 2020) by Felipe Fernandes
• Adèle Van Reeth : La vie ordinaire (Gallimard 2020) by Petr Horák