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“Grand entretien” with Xavier Galmiche

Interview with Xavier Galmiche on the publication of two books in Czech: Le Poulailler métaphysique (Revolver Revue, 2023) and Znaky a přízraky (Karolinum, 2023).

Date: 6th December, 2023, from 6.p.m.
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 644/35, 110 00 Nové Město, Prague.
Language: French and Czech (simultaneous translation)

Partners of the event: CEFRES, French Institute in Prague, Charles University and Karolinum Press

Chair: Mateusz Chmurski, director of CEFRES, associate professor in Polish & Central European literature at Sorbonne University.

Discussant: Xavier Galmiche, Professor of Czech and Central European Literature and History at Sorbonne University.

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“Heartfelt Sympathies” – André Spire & Otokar Fischer’s Correspondence

Book launch:
“À vous de cœur” André Spire et Otokar Fischer 1922-1938
a collection of texts edited and presented by Marie-Odile Thirouin,
Prague: Museum of Czech Literature (Depozitář/Dokumenty), 2016.
For French and Czech readers.

The book will be presented by Marie-Odile Thirouin (University of Lyon 2) and Marie-Brunette Spire.

An odd story of friendship between two poets that everything seemed to separate: borders, political commitments, and poetic conceptions. Yet, André Spire (1868-1966) and Otokar Fischer (1883-1938) developed in the course of their 16 year-old epistolary correspondence an almost brotherly relationship. Their differences opened up a dialogue that fed their friendship and their reflection on the most pressing issues. Through these warmly felt letters a more unknown dimension of the interwar relationship between Czech and French culture can be uncovered.

Organizers: Museum of Czech Literature (PNP) in cooperation with the French Institute of Prague and CEFRES
Time and Venue: 12.1.2016 at 7:00 pm at the French Institute, Štěpánská 35, 5th floor
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech

Read more on the French Institute website.

“Imagined territory” and community: the construction and uses of the nation in 14th-century Bohemia and Brabant

Second session of the CEFRES 2023 Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar. The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by questionning 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, May 12th, 10 am – 11.30 am.
Language: french

Eloïse ADDE (CEU), discussant Jan ZDICHYNEC (Charles University)

Territory is one of the fundamental markers defining a nation; it is even an essential support of it, alongside the State and the population to which it is attached. Often corresponding to natural phenomena that can be identified spatially, such as mountain ridges or river lines, the territory is generally taken for granted and is therefore rarely questioned. Nevertheless, like the nation it materialises, it is a construction, a production that is fluid and changing depending on the uses that are made of it, and its display is much more contingent than it seems. Territory is closely linked to political practice; it is what unifies a “political community”, but the latter also gives it its shape. In this communication, Eloïse Adde will decipher the function of territory and the way it was perceived and constructed within two projects aimed at founding and consolidating the nation in Bohemia and Brabant in the early 14th century.

 

See the complete program of the seminar here.

“La Fabrique de l’Histoire”—A Radio Show on Central Europe at CEFRES

CEFRES is thrilled to welcome the team of the French radio show devoted to history La Fabrique de l’Histoire for a series of four shows (to be broadcast in December 2017 on France Culture radio station) dedicated to East-Central Europe. A roundtable led by radio host Emmanuel Laurentin gathering four historians will tackle East-Central Europe relationship to nostalgia, the past and the future of Europe. The roundtable will follow a workshop on “The Political Uses of the Past and Collective Memory in Central Europe”.

Both the workshop and the roundtable of the Fabrique de l’Histoire are open to the public! 

Where: Kino 35, IFP, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Times: 3 pm-6:30 pm for the workshop, 7-8 pm for the roundtable of the Fabrique de l’Histoire
Organizer: CEFRES, with the support of French Institute in Paris (programme “New intellectual scenes”) and of the French Institute in Prague
Language: French

7 pm–8 pm
ROUND TABLE HOSTED BY EMMANNUEL LAURENTIN (France Culture)  

  • Balázs Ablonczy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Pauli Bauer (Charles University)
  • Paul Gradvohl (University of Lorraine)
  • Barbora Spalová (Charles University)

3 pm—6:30 pm
WORKSHOP — Utilisations politiques du passé et mémoire collective

Éloïse Adde (Luxemburg University) : Mythe et actualité de Charles IV

Eszter Balázs (János Kodolányi & Kassák Museum) : La révolution de 1956 soixante ans après : comment la politique mémorielle veut façonner à son image la mémoire collective 

Andrzej Leder (Polish Academy of Sciences) : La révolution des somnambules. Les années 1939-1956 en Pologne

Barbora Spalová (Charles University) : L’économie morale des mémoires religieuses en République tchèque

Balázs Ablonczy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) : Mémoires superposées : guerre, sortie de guerre, paix

Paul Bauer (Charles University) : Nostalgie et mémoires allemandes dans les Pays tchèques

Paul Gradvohl (University of Lorraine) : Nostalgies socialistes, nostalgies du socialisme (Hongrie, Pologne)

“Old” vs. “New” Towns. Memories, Histories and Heritage after Population Transfers and Border Changes

International academic conference

Location: Faculty of Humanities University of Primorska, Koper/Capodistria
Date: Monday, October 11th 2021
Language: English
Organizers: Katja Hrobat Virloget, Aleksej Kalc, and Michèle Baussant
The conference is the result of two joint research projects, the Slovenian-French bilateral Proteus project entitled “Pasts without history and displaced histories of people without traces” (Baussant, Hrobat Virloget) and the Slovenian SRA project “Migrations and social changes in a comparative perspective: the case of Western Slovenia after WW II” (Kalc) from University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria, ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Migration Institute, Ljubljana and CNRS, CEFRES, Prague

You can download the program and the abstracts of the conference here.

Program

09:00 ‒ 10:50

Opening and welcome addresses

MIRJAM MILHARČIČ HLADNIK (ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Migration Institute, Ljubljana): The new town Nova Gorica on the new border and the old routes of migration – Memories of defection and the imaginings of “new” life.

ALEKSEJ KALC (ZRC SAZU, Slovenian Migration Institute, Ljubljana, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria): Society and immigration in Slovenian coastal towns in the 1950s. Some reflections on research approaches.

KATJA HROBAT VIRLOGET (University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria): The discourse of urban vs. rural, social relations and heritage in Istrian urban society before and after »exodus«.

Discussion

11:10 ‒ 12.50

MICHÈLE BAUSSANT (CNRS, CEFRES, Prague, ICM Fellow): A place that changes its place: Alexandria, between place and milieu of memory

ŠPELA LEDINEK LOZEJ (ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Nova Gorica): Under the Campanilles of Saint Marco vs. Town withou Bell Towers.

MARIA KOKKINOU (CEFRES, Charles University, Prague, postdoctoral fellow): Persistent memories of transformed spaces.

Discussion

14:30 ‒ 16:00

JANJA SEDLAČEK: The role of the Port of Koper in economic and social transformations of the city of Koper after the second world war.

NEŽA ČEBRON LIPOVEC (University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper-Capodistria, postdoctoral fellow): The bathtub quest: The living standard and ideological discourses in the modernisation process of housing in post-war Koper/Capodistria

Discussion / Conclusions

“Slowing down” Modernity: Risky, Futile or Progressive?

The IMS-CEFRES seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines” will host post-doctoral researcher
Filip Vostal (CEFRES & FLÚ AV ČR)
 who will present his work on
“Slowing down” Modernity: Risky, Futile or Progressive?

Photo Marc BessinHis presentation will be discussed by French sociologist Marc Bessin  (director of IRIS-EHESS, editor-in-chief of the scholarly review Temporalités).

The seminar will be held in English.

Venue:  Carolinum – Small conference room (2nd floor), Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1.

Contact:  Paul Bauer paul.bauer@fsv.cuni.cz & Clara Royer clararoyer@cefres.cz