Belarus and the Russian Invasion in Ukraine
2nd session of “CEFRES Webinars for Ukraine” organized in partnership with the GDR Connaissance de l’Europe médiane
Date: Wednesday 20th April 2022, 12:00-13:30
Location: online (to register, write at the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English
Convenor and moderation: Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES / University of Bordeaux)
With the participation of
- Milàn Czerny, Belarus Observatory, Oxford University
Belarus, Still a Sovereign State?
- Yauheni Kryzhanouski, Sciences Po Strasbourg
The Ukrainian Conflict Seen by the Belarusian Society
- Anna Talarionok, Charles University
Belarusian Exiles Caught in the Ukrainian Conflict
A complete presentation of the seminar is available and downloadable here.
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Psychoanalysis in Czechoslovakia (1918-1939):
Freud’s Theories Between Czech and Slovak Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Politics
1st session of the Seminar “Rethinking Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives“
When: Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 4:00–6:00 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register, please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Coordinator: Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)
Guest-speaker : Adam Bzoch (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Discussants:
- Paweł Rodak (University of Warsaw)
- Jean-François Laplénie (Sorbonne University)
Home beyond species. More-than-human dwelling in the age of crises
Launch of the 2022–2024 Tandem project, supported by CEFRES, CNRS and the Czech Academy of Sciences
When: Tuesday 19 April 2022, 1–3 pm
Where: CEFRES and online (ask for the link at claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Convenors: The 2022–2024 Tandem team
Petr Gibas (CEFRES / Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences) and
Chloé Mondémé (CEFRES / Triangle, CNRS)
With a key-note lecture delivered by :
Birgit Müller (EHESS)
Toxic Worlds and the Power of Denial
Abstract
Bureaucrats and politicians have long turned a blind eye to the accumulation of small toxic doses in soils, groundwater, oceans and in bodies. Toxic waste from industrial processes have been tolerated as a price to pay for living “progress” and “growth”. Anthropologists are interested in the capacity of humans to render invisible and deny the toxic evidence, and in the stubborn refusal to observe and understand the real material consequences of our economic and technical system. Denial makes the invisible traces and effects of the catastrophe disappear. A powerful weapon, it allows to normalize a situation in a way that reproduces rational logic while producing a deep abandonment to the evil of non-reflection. To speak of pollution is to recognize its immense power to render a hitherto familiar space uninhabitable. Continue reading Tandem Kick-off: Home beyond species →
Towards a Common History of Europe?
Crossed Perspectives in the Context of the War in Ukraine
An international conference organized by the French Embassy in the Czech Republic and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), within the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
When: Thursday, April 14, 2022, 2:30-6 pm
Where: French Embassy in the Czech Republic, Velkopřevorské nám. 2, 118 01 Malá Strana, Prague
Language: English
To assist in person: admission on registration, subject to availability of places: biblio.cefres@gmail.com
To assist online: us02web.zoom.us/j/85072557320
Information: jerome.heurtaux@cefres.cz
Abstract:
In his press conference on December 9, 2021, on the occasion of the presentation of the priorities of the French Presidency of the European Union in 2022, the French President Emmanuel Macron proposed to “resume (…) major work on Europe’s history. (…),” further specifying that ” European history is not simply the sum of 27 national histories. There is a coherence, links that everyone feels, but which cannot be fully apprehended yet.” It is therefore a question of “an independent historiographical framework”, which could allow to ” build an academic framework where historians from across Europe can continue to carry out independent historical work, based on traces, evidence and controversies (…) and to forge a history and historiography of our Europe and a global history of Europe”. Continue reading Towards a Common History of Europe? Crossed Perspectives in the Context of the War in Ukraine →
Transcultural Europe Narrated: Testimonies, Interviews, Life narratives in Humanities, Social and Political Sciences
Workshop
Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2022
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 1420, Praha 1
Language: English and French
Organizers:
- Chiara Mengozzi, Charles University
- Ondřej Švec, Charles University
Workshop organized by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, with the collaboration of CEFRES.
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How to study Romanian conservative intellectuals in transnational perspective?
5th session of CEFRES Seminar
When: Wednesday 6 April 2022, 4:30 pm
Where: CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Host: Anemona Constantin (CEFRES/Charles University)
Abstract:
“Populist,” “illiberal,” “nationalist,” or “conservative”: these are some common ways to refer nowadays to political actors, social movements, or intellectuals who criticize liberalism. These overused, worn-out, and often abused labels have been reinvented despite some obvious theoretical flaws and methodological biases. Perhaps, because these terms are fulfilling a vital social and political function – naming and shaming what appears to be at the climax of the ideological undesirability – they continue to be widely used in the media and by social scientists. A few questions emerge naturally: how to engage with a research field undermined by so many negative preconceptions? How to study an object labeled in such a derogatory way? Which research methods would allow us to break with the common beliefs and approach the conservative mobilizations more reflexively?
To answer these questions, the presentation examines a specific case: the Romanian conservative intellectuals and their contribution to the political debates that have challenged since 2007 the “liberal consensus” established in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after the demise of state- socialism. By “liberal consensus,” I understand discourses that have accepted and promoted human rights (including minority rights and tolerance towards cultural, religious, and gender diversity), the market economy, the rule of law, and the European integration. By “conservative” intellectuals, I understand public figures who define themselves as such.
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