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Literature as a Tool for Understanding History and Society

Blurring Boundaries: Literature as a Tool for
Understanding History and Society.
Meaningful work during normalized Czechoslovakia

7th session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library and online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English

Valentin Auger (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, associated at CEFRES)

Chair: Jan Váňa (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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CANCELED – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès

Decolonizing Feminism – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès

On the occasion of the publication in the Czech edition of Un féminisme décolonial (La Fabrique, 2019) by Karolinum, CEFRES, the French Institute in Prague and Charles University invite you to a Great Interview with the author Françoise Vergès.

When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6 pm
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language: French with simultaneous Czech interpretation
Moderator: Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

Who cleans up the world? With this question, Françoise Vergès introduces a Decolonial feminism, taking as her starting point the underpaid, underestimated work that women, the majority of them racialised, do everyday all over the world, to make a society work. This feminism sees itself as the only one with a true understanding of women’s rights. Françoise Vergès defends an anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism. Continue reading CANCELED – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès →

Book Talk with Balázs Trencsényi

Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond: A Transnational History

Balázs Trencsényi — Professor, Department of Historical Studies, CEU, Director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Studies Budapest

A debate organised on the occasion of the publication of Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond. A transnational history (Oxford University Press, 2025) by the ERC ‘Memory and Populism from Below’ (MEMPOP) #101076092 with the participation of CEFRES (MEAE / CNRS).

When: March 11, 2025 at 15:00
Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 and online (to get the link, please mail us to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

 Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond maps the range of meanings the term ‘crisis’ has borne and the roles it has performed across disciplines and countries, de-centering the dominant narrative that takes Western European positions and developments as normative.

It especially focuses on the historical roots of two key contemporary contesters of liberal democracy: neoliberalism and populism and presents an innovative analysis of the roots of contemporary illiberalism in Europe. Bringing these ideas into the present day, Balázs Trencsényi offers ideas on how a reflective and self-critical liberal democratic political position could be defined and defended in our current predicament, which is increasingly compared to the interwar period and is often described as a “polycrisis”.

The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

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)

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École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

A conference organized in partnership with the National Gallery in Prague and the French Institute in Prague, within the joint series Rezonance/Résonnance.

Date: 20 February, 2025, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Location: Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1 ; French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Languages: French & English

Program
I. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

9:30 Registration, coffee

10:00 Introduction

Jacek Gajewski, Ambassador of Poland in Czech Republic
Stéphane Crouzat, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic
Alicja Knast, General Director, National Gallery in Prague

10:15 – 11:30  Visual Arts

L´École de Paris entre les deux guerres et les artistes tchécoslovaques / École de Paris Between the Wars and Artists from Czechoslovakia
Anna Pravdová, Curator NGP and Curator of the Exhibition École de Paris: Artists from Bohemia and Interwar Paris

Les artistes juifs de l’École de Paris / Jewish Artists of the École de Paris
Pascale Samuel, Curator, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

École de Paris and Its Polish Connection
Artur Tanikowski, National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Warszawa

11:30-11:50 COFFEE BREAK

11:50 – 13:00 Visual Art and Music

The Ukrainian Branch of the School of Paris. From Ukraine to Paris via Prague
Vita Susak, member of the Swiss Academic Society for East European Studies, Bern

Le groupe artistique polonais “Comité de Paris” (Kapistes) dans la Ville des Lumières / Polish artistic group “Paris Committee” (Kapists) in the “City of Lights”
Anna Baranowa, Association of Art Historians, Krakow Branch

 A Musical School of Paris? Between Ghost and Opportunity
Federico Lazzaro, University of Fribourg

13:10 – 14:10 LUNCH BREAK

II. LECTURE–CONCERT

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

14:30 – 16:00
Paris, capitale musicale polonaise dans l’entre-deux-guerres / Paris, the Polish Musical Capital in the Interwar Period 
Performers: Renata Suchowiejko (lecture in French), Joanna Maklakiewicz (piano), Marek Bugajski (viola).

Revisiting “La pensée de midi”. Albert Camus & Mikhail Bakunin

Revisiting “La pensée de midi” – Albert Camus and the Legacy of Mikhail Bakunin

6th session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library and online, to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz
Date: Tuesday, 18th February, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English

It wll be hosted by:
Dominik Kulcsár (CEFRES / Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Chair: Dan SWAIN (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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