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CEFRES Seminar #2

When: Friday, October 7th, 16:30
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague and online (please contact cefres[@]cefres.cz
Language: English

The second session of CEFRES seminar will be hosted by two researchers:

Ronan Hervouet (Professor of sociology, CEFRES / University of Bordeaux):
Belarusian exiles in Central and Eastern Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Research project presentation

Abstract
The research project, called BIELEXIL, aims to understand the consequences of the outbreak of war in Ukraine on Belarusian exiles, who fled their country after 2020 and found refuge in Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. It focuses on circulations, experiences and forms of politicization. Funded by the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), it is hosted by the CEFRES and is coordinated by Michèle Baussant and Ronan Hervouet. This talk will retrace the different steps that led from conceiving the project to submitting a proposal, discuss the aims of the project, and question possible developments of the research beyond the funding period (2022-2023).

Emina Zoletić (PhD candidate CEFRES / University of Warsaw) :
Intergenerational transmission of the family memory of the war: Displacement and the Bosnian diaspora in Europe 

Abstract
The study of wartime memory transmission has great social and political significance. The past does not simply disappear; lived experience eventually becomes a narrative curated among one generation and passed on to another. Moreover, even when a story appears to die, it may only lie dormant, ready to emerge generations or even centuries, later.

The proposed discussion focuses on the specific case of the intergenerational transmission of memory among families of those who lived through the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and among Bosnian families living abroad in the EU. The proposed discussion offers an interdisciplinary approach (sociology combined with social psychology and memory studies ) in a multidisciplinary context, with a methodological focus.  It will also focus on how the past is played out in a wider social, political, and cultural context.

“The Trial. Prague, 1952”. Open debate with Ruth Zylberman

On the occasion of Ruth Zylberman’s The Trial. Prague, 1952 documentary devoted to the Slanský trial premiere, at the French Institute in Prague, CEFRES proposes an open debate on history and memory, testimony and transmission, bringing together the film director, historians and sociologists Muriel Blaive, Kateřina Čapková and Françoise Mayer, and the public.

Where: CEFRES library
When : Friday, September 27, 2022, at 10:00 am
Language: English

The discussion will be driven by
Muriel Blaive, film’s historical advisor,
Kateřina Čapková, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and
Françoise Mayer, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier

Ruth Zylberman is a filmmaker and author.
Among her latest films:
– Le dernier été (France Télévisions, Zadig Productions, 2019, 60’)
– Les Enfants du 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe (2017, Arte-Zadig Productions, 110’)
– Maurice Nadeau, Le chemin de la vie (2011, Arte-Zadig Productions, 52’)
– Dissidents, les Artisans de la Liberté (2009, Arte-Zadig Productions, 100’)

She is also the author of La direction de l’Absent, (Christian Bourgois, 2015) and the narrative 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe, Autobiography d’un immeuble (Le Seuil/Arte Editions, 2020).

The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions of Art

The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions of Art. Research Project Presentation

CEFRES Seminar #1

Fedora Parkmann (post-doctoral researcher, CEFRES)
Hana Buddeus (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Location: CEFRES Library and online
Dates: Friday 23 September 2022, 16:30–18:30
Language: English
Contact: cefres[@]cefres.cz

Abstract

Funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences, the project The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art examines the rise and spread of photo-reproductions in Czech, French, German and Russian art journals from 1900 to 1950. Combining digital humanities with archival research, the goal is to expand our historical knowledge, from local to transnational, and from empirical to big data, thereby opening new insights into the use of remote access to art in the digital age. This talk will retrace the different steps that led from conceiving the project to submitting a proposal and discuss the methodology and aims of the project.

See the complete program of CEFRES Seminar 2022–2033 here.

Image : Advertisement for the journal Hollar, published in Umění, n°9-10, 1936.

Landscapes with Shadows

Landscapes with Shadows. Presentation of Luba Jurgenson’s research project

In June, July and August 2022, the researcher, writer and translator Luba Jurgenson, professor at Sorbonne University and director of Eur’ORBEM, will be at CEFRES as a guest researcher. For further information, click here to see her CV.

When: Thursday, June 30th, 10:30 – 12:00 a.m.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague & also “online” – link to ZOOM meeting on request (cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

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Special Book Review – June 2022

CEFRES Book Review

For this special edition of the CEFRES Book Review, we will meet Luba Jurgenson, professor of Russian literature at Sorbonne University, director of Eur’ORBEM, translator, author of fiction, essayist and editor-in-chief of various book series, and we will discuss her latest book.

When: Tuesday, June 28th, at 3:30 p.m.
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague (link to online meeting on request – cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: French

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In the interstices of European citizenship (2)

In the interstices of European citizenship. The transnational political mobilization of intra-European migrants in the European Union. II.

The multidisciplinary research workshop is organised in partnership between the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin and CEFRES in Prague. It aims to bring together specialists in migration, European citizenship and transnational political practices to discuss the question of the ordinary relations of intra-European migrants to the policies of diaspora implemented, according to very different modalities, by their country of origin.

Session 2 (22.06.2022): CEFRES, Na Florenci 3 – Prague

When: Wednesday 22nd June, 14:30–18:30
Where: CEFRES Library, Prague & online on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85421454854
Language: English
Organised by:
CEFRES, Prague                                                                                                                     Cédric Pellen (University of Strasbourg/Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin)

You can download the updated program here.
See the description & program below.

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