First meeting of the cycle Produce and share knowledge in the digital era, with:
A lecture by Justyna Majewska (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw), in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History organized by the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University CEFRES and the Prague Center for Jewish Studies.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: from 5:30 pm to 7 pm
Language: English
Abstract
Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto pondered not only how to survive the present but also in the days to come. The day of liberation was calculated on the basis of rumours, interpretations of wartime developments and Kabbalistic prophecies. In this paper, among different notions of the future expressed by the inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto, I especially focus on the perspective of Jews active in various parties and youth movements. I approach the question of what Jews thought about the future, when it would start and what would lead to it within the broader context of the sociology of time. The primary source used in this paper is the Jewish underground press published in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Third session of the 2023–2024 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The map and the border.
In 2023, we would like to start by questioning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, December 8th, 10 am
Language: French
Speaker: Jan ZDICHYNEC, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Discussant: Václav ŽŮREK, Centre for Medieval Studies at the Institute of philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
The presentation, based on the author’s own research and on several recent discoveries of unprocessed archival sources, will first present the Crown of Bohemia as a whole and ask whether it can be considered a functional state or not. These reflections will be placed in the context of writing about the lands of the Crown from the Middle Ages to the premodern period.
How did early modern intellectuals perceive the Crown of Bohemia and one of its parts, the margraviate of Upper Lusatia? It is clear that the historians who adopted the point of view of the Kingdom of Bohemia tended to write in more Bohemian-centric manner. Melchior Goldast and Pavel Stránský offer a more complex view despite its gaps and ambiguities. The historiography of one of the countries of the Crown, the Upper Lusatia, focuses more on the margraviate itself and its towns, and its perspective is rather local. None of the studied authors questioned the Bohemian crown as a whole, nor the subordination of its various countries to the Bohemian king, however the principles of these questions as a whole were not reflected in depth.
Fifth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
In 2023 we started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday February 28, 2025, from 10 am
Language: French
Speaker: Eva KRÁSOVÁ (Institute of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Discussant: Chiara MENGOZZI (Faculty of Arts, Charles Unversity)
Abstract Continue reading The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises
Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Magdalena Cabaj (CEFRES-ENS Ulm-Warsaw University)
Texts to read
Sixth session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological Seminar, led by:
Tomáš Mareš (IMS FSV UK)
The Concept of Propaganda. Positive and Negative Connotations
Readings:
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
