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Affects, Everyday Writing Practices, and the Origins of Self-Analysis

Affects, Everyday Writing Practices, and the Origins of Self-Analysis. The Case of Julian Ochorowicz and Sigmund Freud.

4th 2022 Session of CEFRES Seminar 

When: Wednesday 30 March 2022, 4:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Host: Agnieszka Sobolewska (Warsaw University/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)

Abstract:

In what ways everyday writing practices (such as keeping a journal or writing letters) are related to science in the second half of the nineteenth century? How the differences between self-reflective techniques (such as introspection and self-analysis) are reflected in the generic divergencies between journal and epistolary practices? During this presentation, I will take a closer look at the important shift in the nineteenth century psycho-medical literature which was closely related to the question of psychological introspection and the emergence of psychoanalytic self-analysis in the late 1890s. This shift can be closely observed in life writing of the nineteenth-century psychologists, physicians, and future psychoanalysts, and was crucial for future understanding of the self in the twentieth century.

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The place of absence and the spaces of the absent

The place of absence and the spaces of the absent:
the legacies of the 20th century (de)population movements in Europe and beyond

Seminar

Date: Thursday 24th and Friday 25th March 2022
Location: Paris (CERI, 56 rue Jacob, 75006) and online (ask for the link by e-mail at cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

Organisators:
Catherine Perron, FNSP/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
Michèle Baussant, CNRS/ CEFRES
Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska

Thursday 24th March

12.30 – 14.30

This panel is organised as a session of the seminar “Mémoires et patrimonialisations des migrations” of the EHESS

Neža Čebron Lipovec,University of Primorska – Koper/Capodistria
Intertwined metamorphoses: modern architecture and population change in postwar northern Istria

Petra Kavrečič, Universty of Primorska – Koper/Capodistria
The absence of the “other side” of the territory. The territorial discontinuity with the new Yugoslavian-Italian border

14.30 – 15.00 : Coffee-break

15.00 – 16.30

Maria Kokkinou, CEFRES – Prague
Before and after them: spaces of refuge, spaces of expulsion in Eastern Europe through the example of the refugees of Greek civil war 

Ewa Tartakowsky, CNRS, Institut des sciences sociales du politique – Nanterre
Auschwitz: A research in times of pandemic

17.00 – 18.30

Cornelia Eisler, BKGE – Oldenburg
A present absence. Germans from Eastern Europe and the expellee museums in West Germany

Olga Sezneva, Universiteit van Amsterdam – Amsterdam
 Lost-And-Found: The poiesis of home in a dispossessed land. Tales from Königsberg-Kaliningrad

Friday 25th March

9.30 – 11.15

Elena Soler, Charles University – Prague
Long-lasting ethnicized silences and the imagined (national) community: reflections on a new theoretical approach

Nadège Ragaru, CNRS/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
Seeking Jewish survivors from Northern Greece in the 1960s: West German magistrates and the transnational story of a quest for traces

Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska – Koper/Capodistria
The silence as absence in Istria. Memory and forgetting of the Istrian exodus, the past and future

11.15 – 11.30 :  Coffee-break

11.30 – 12.45

Michèle Baussant, CNRS/ CEFRES – Prague
What absences shape memories of the colonial displaced?

Catherine Perron, FNSP/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
The place of the loss. Expulsions and lost homelands in the German memorial landscape.

14.30 : Round table

Yael Navaro, University of Cambridge – Cambrigde
Antonela Capelle-Pogacean, FNSP/CERI – Sciences Po Paris
Evelyne Ribert, CNRS – IIAC – Paris

Illustration: ©Michèle Baussant

CEFRES webinars for Ukraine

CEFRES webinars for Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks the return of war to Europe. Although the war dates back to the 2014 armed conflict in Donbas, with the war of aggression against Ukraine, it is now taking on an unprecedented scale. This war is also fought in the field of information and interpretation, posing major challenges for the humanities and social sciences. Located in the heart of Central Europe directly affected by the war, CEFRES is hosting a series of webinars dedicated to the analysis of the war and its effects in the region from the position of humanistic and social scientific inquiry. 

Coordination: Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES), Michèle Baussant (CNRS-CEFRES), Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES).

Webinar 1

The challenges of hosting refugees from Ukraine in Central Europe

Date: Tuesday, 22nd March 2022, 12:00 – 13:30 (CET)
Location: online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83104476667 (in case of any problems, write to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

A Webinar organized in partnership with the GDR “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane”.

On the front line in hosting refugees from the war in Ukraine, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are facing major challenges. How are they responding to this unprecedented demand for hospitality? Which actors (governments, local authorities, NGOs, etc.) are involved, and what are their resources and capacities? How does this new wave of Ukrainian migration differ from the previous ones? What are the contours of the solidarity shown by Central European societies? This webinar offers a comparative perspective by bringing together different experts to discuss the situation of Ukrainian refugees in Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania).

With :

  • Dr. Olena Babakova, freelance journalist, an expert on Ukrainian migration to Poland.
  • Prof. MUDr. Vladimir Krčméry DrSc. academic, physicist, founder of St. Elisabeth Private University of Health and Social Work in Bratislava
  • Dr Ondřej Kopečný, analyst, STEM – Institute of Empirical Research (Prague).
  • Dr. Anemona Constantin, political scientist, a post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES.

Moderated by: Michèle Baussant (CNRS-CEFRES)

Illustration photograph by Martin Mádl (6/3/2022)

 

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: How Eastern Europe and Latin America Transformed International Law

3rd 2022 Session of CEFRES Seminar

When: Wednesday 16th March 2022, 4:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Discussants: Raluca Grosescu (SNSPA, Bucarest), Eva-Clarita Pettai (Imre-Kertész Kolleg)
Moderation: Anemona Constantin (CEFRES)

Abstract:

This research investigates how national courts from Latin America and Central Eastern Europe (CEE) have challenged and transformed international criminal law (ICL) in trials held against former authoritarian officials after the “third wave” of democratization. In contrast to the UN-centric approaches that have dominated the scholarship on ICL, I explore the role of two so-called “semi-peripheries” of the international system in shaping global norms. I show how legal actors from the two regions created novel readings of ICL and contested an existing international law order which they considered unable to address their violent pasts. Continue reading Justice and Memory after Dictatorship →

Pan-Slavism or Romantic Nationalism?

Pan-Slavism or Romantic Nationalism? The case of the Pest-Buda Serbs in the first half of the nineteenth century

2nd 2022 Session of CEFRES Seminar

When: Wednesday 2 March 2022, 4:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Host: Dušan Ljuboja (ELTE University, Budapest, associated at CEFRES)

Abstract:

The nationalism studies are a broad field, with several different schools of thought, usually divided between the modernists and primordialists. The phenomenon of nation building is generally viewed as a modern concept, characterized by the age of changing social orders, rise of industrial capitalism, new technologies, and information age. Whether the emerging nations had a right to claim that their existence reached far beyond this modern era, does not truly matter. The nationalist movements abide by a certain set of rules. Researchers devised methodological tools which would act as a lens through which we could determine the stage of development of a certain national movement. One of these tools is the framework by Joep Leerssen, a Dutch historian, who proposed the idea of “cultural nationalism.” This theory, among others, would be the basis of my attempt to determine whether a certain movement, regardless of its developmental stage, would qualify as a national one, and if not, what were the reasons for it? Continue reading Pan-Slavism or Romantic Nationalism? →

Ritualization of transgressions and normativities in the European Mediterranean public space

Workshop : Ritualization of transgressions and normativities in the European Mediterranean public space

When: Monday 28 February 2022, 10:30–17:00
Where: CEFRES and online (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87924365313)
Languages: French and English
Convenors: Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES), Yoann Morvan (CNRS, MESPOLHIS) and Alessandro Testa (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, associated at CEFRES),

This workshop focuses on the ritualization of transgressions and ‘normativities’ in Euro-Mediterranean public spaces. It aims to adopt an anthropological approach to contemporary European religious phenomena and rituals, both as factors of cultural, symbolic, and spatial sharing and division in Euro-Mediterranean spaces. In particular, the discussions will question the processes of secularism and secularization, of “de-secularization” or “re-enchantment,” or of political and/or social maintaining of the religious. The focus will also encompass the logics of encounters, hybridizations, tensions, and transgressions between different religious actors and practices, both in the case of majority groups and those in minorities, within public spaces that are often pluralistic and pluricultural, in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe.

Program

10:30–12:00 – Roundtable (in French)
Ritualization of transgressions and forms of normativities in Euro-Mediterranean public spaces: anthropological approaches
With:

  • Dionigi Albera (CNRS, IDEMEC)
  • Alessandro Testa (Charles University)
  • Yoann Morvan (CNRS, MESPOLHIS)
  • Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES / University of Bordeaux)
  • Viola Teisenhoffer (Charles University / Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

Moderators:

  • Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES)
  • Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES / Paris Dauphine University)

14:00–15:30 – (in English)
Ritualization of transgressions and forms of normativities in public spaces in Central Europe
With:

  • Martin Pehal (Charles University)
  • Viola Teisenhoffer (Charles University / Eötvös Loránd University)
  • Agata Ładykowska (Charles University / Polish Academy of Sciences)

Discussant:

  • Dionigi Albera (CNRS, IDEMEC)

16:00–17:00 – (in English)
Presentation of Alessandro Testa’s book,
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Routledge, 2020)
Discussants:

  • Alessandro Testa (Charles University)
  • Dionigi Albera (CNRS, IDEMEC)
  • Martin Pehal (Charles University)

Illustration: Martin Pehal