Who is afraid of Gender Studies?

Roundtable discussion with professors and young researchers in humanities and social sciences open to public

In the frame of the Night of Ideas 2019 (Nuit des idées) entitled “Facing the Present: Being or Not Being Feminist Today?” the French Institute in Prague and CEFRES are organizing a roundtable on the contemporary issues of feminism.

Venue: CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Time: 2-4pm
Organizers: Felipe Fernandes (PhD student at EHESS and associated PhD student at CEFRES) and Olga Slowik (PhD student at the Charles University and associated PhD student at CEFRES)
Language: English

Roundtable: Who is afraid of Gender Studies?

The already complex situation of gender studies in Central Europe has gotten even more complicated by the recent political changes, which consequences are the most visible in Poland and Hungary. On the other hand, the situation of this field in the Western world, including France, its academic recognition are often idealized by scholars from Czechia, Poland and Hungary. Is this really the case? What is the current place of gender studies in different countries? What are the challenges, obstacles, and controversies that they are facing nowadays?

Speakers:

  • Réjane Sénac (France)
  • Blanka Knotková-Čapková (Czech Republic)
  • Anikó Gregor (Hungary)

Moderated by Olga Slowik and Felipe Fernandes

Who is “the Other“? Reflections from an anthropological perspective

The 6th session of the Franco-Czech Historical Seminar, organized by the Institute for Czech History of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (FF UK) in collaboration with CEFRES, will be hosted by:

Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / Université Charles)

Topic: Who is „the other“? Reflections from an anthropological perspective

Where: Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Online.
To register, please contact: jaroslav.svatek(@)ff.cuni.cz
When: Thursday 10th December, 9:00 – 12:30
Language: French

This session is part of the Franco-Czech Historical Seminar, organized by Jaroslav Svátek and Martin Nejedlý.
For more information, visit the website of the seminar at the Faculty of Arts

When All Roads Led to Paris. Artistic Exchanges Between France and Central Europe in the 19th Century

Workshop

OrganizersKristýna Hochmuth (ÚDU FF UK, NG) and Adéla Klinerová (ÚDU FF UK, EPHE, CEFRES)
Partners: CEFRES, ÚDU FF UK, ÚDU AV ČR, NG
When & Where: 26-27 June 2018, AV ČR, Národní 3, Prague 1
Languages: French and English

This workshop, organized by CEFRES, the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR), the National Gallery in Prague (NG) and the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University (ÚDU FF UK) is open to PhD students, post doctoral students and young researchers. Our discussions will be initiated by a keynote speech by professor Marek Zgórniak, Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. A complementary program will be open to active participants and public.
The goal of the workshop is to look at French art history from the viewpoint of the cultural transfer theory. It will touch upon various aspects of the spreading of French culture and art (painting, sculpture, architecture, applied arts) but also the fields of museology and cultural heritage protection.

Call for papers.

Opening conference by Marek Zgórniak : “Artistic Exchanges with France During the XIXth Century : The Polish Case”

Marek Zgórniak is a art historian, professor at the Jagellone University of Krakow. The XIXth century architecture – in particular the neo-Renaissance architecture – is one of his main interests, as much as the pre-impressionist French art – his PhD thesis was about the Venitian designs in French painting. Marek Zgórniak worked later on the Polnish painter Jan Matejko, whose paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon. He also worked on the reasons why gorillas kidnap women in French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet art.

  • Wokół neorenesansu w architekturze XIX wieku, Kraków 1987 (nouvelle édition: Kraków 2013).
  • Autour du Salon de 1887. Matejko et les Français, in: L. Salomé (éd.), Jeanne d’Arc, les tableaux de l’histoire, Paris 2003, 65–79.
  • Fremiet’s Gorillas: Why Do They Carry off Women?, Artibus et Historiae 27, no 54, 2006, 219–237.
  • Polish students at the Académie Julian until 1919, RIHA Journal, August 2012, nepag.

Invited by the organisers to present the Polish case, Marek Zgórniak will attempt to give an overview of the developments in French-Polish artistic exchange from the late 18th till the early 20th centuries in the country partitioned between three neighbouring powers. The political situation of Polish lands, as well as complex and changing social and ethnic factors make the task difficult, and instead of one “case” one has to deal with cases of several (at least three) fairly distinct regions. The speaker will discuss in brief the state of research, which is patchy and does not always permit to draw conclusions about certain phenomena.

 Program

Tuesday 26 June 2018, room 205 (2nd floor)

9h – 9h30 Registration of participants

9h30 – 10h Opening and introduction

10h – 11h
Keynote lecture by Marek Zgórniak (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Artistic Exchanges with France During the 19th Century: The Polish Case

Coffee break

11h30 – 13h30
I. Transmission of style, models, ideas
Chair: Richard Biegel (Charles University, Prague)

Karolina Stefanski (Technical University of Berlin)
Transformation of French Empire Style in Silver from Berlin, Warsaw and Vienna, 1797-1848

Emeline Houssard (Sorbonne University, Paris / Centre André Chastel, Paris)
Paris-Berlin-Vienne, nouveau regard sur les marchés couverts de quartier (1838-1884)

Adéla Klinerová (Charles University, Prague / École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris / CEFRES)
La référence française dans les revues d’architecture du XIXe siècle : le cas des revues publiées par la Société des architectes et ingénieurs du Royaume de Bohême

Lunch break

15h – 18h
II. Experience of the Parisian milieu: Art education, salons, artists’ colonies
Chair: Michael Werner (CNRS / École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales, Paris)

Konrad Niemira (École normale supérieure, Paris / University of Warsaw)
Shopping in Paris? Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and French Art Market 1788-1802

Kristýna Hochmuth (Charles University, Prague / National Gallery in Prague)
Couture ou Cogniet? La première vague d’artistes tchèques en France

Coffee break

Stéphanie Baumewerd (Technical university of Berlin)
« Steffeck et son école d’après le modèle parisien ». L’atelier de Carl Steffeck (1818-1890) comme exemple de la formation artistique transnationale au XIXe siècle

Stéphane Paccoud (Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon)
« L’école de Paul Delaroche ». Un modèle français pour une peinture d’histoire nationale en Europe centrale

Wednesday 27 June 2018, room 108 (1st floor)

9h – 11h
III. Network: Individual mediators
Chair: Taťána Petrasová (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Réka Krasznai (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest / Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)
Réseaux et médiateurs – de Gautier à Munkácsy – et leur rôle dans les stratégies d’émergence et de carrière des peintres hongrois à Paris 

Kati Renner (Technical University of Dresden / Berlinische Galerie)
Bringing Paris to Florence. Otto Hettner (1875-1931) and the Dissemination of Modern Artistic Ideas around 1900

Barbara Vujanović (University of Zagreb / Museums of Ivan Meštrović – Meštrović Atelier, Zagreb)
Ivan Meštrović. Exemples de diplomatie culturelle entre Paris et Prague

Coffee break

11h30 – 13h
IV. Network: Transmission of savoir-faire 
Chair: Taťána Petrasová (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Anežka Mikulcová (Charles University, Prague)
French “silhouette” versus Czech “shadow image”

Małgorzata Grąbczewska (University of Gdańsk / Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw)
La diffusion de la pensée et du savoir-faire photographique entre la France et la Pologne au XIXe siècle

13h Conclusion

15h
Guided visit of the National Gallery in Prague – Veletržní palace with Kristýna Hochmuth
Including part of the permanent collection as well as the temporary exhibition The End of the Golden Times. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and the Viennese modernism.
Meeting point: Entrance hall of the museum, Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7

18h – 19h30
Lecture by Michael Werner (CNRS-EHESS)
Music as a Universal Form of Art? Internationalization of Musical Life and Forming of National Identity in 19th Century Europe

Venue: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1, 5th floor
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech

Abstract (FR)
The lecture elaborates on the transformations of European 19th century musical life, with special focus on concerts. Paradoxically, along the internationalisation of this musical life, due to the mobility of the musicians, the constitution of a repertoire, the rise of specific market and press, and the professionalization of musical trades, the interpretative patterns and reception phenomena grew increasingly national. One can even speak of the appropriation of music by national movements. The lecture will call forth a few analytical tools that allow to cast a light on such evolutions and to ground them in a histoire croisée of European cultures.

What is Hasidism?

A lecture by Marcin Wodziński (Wroclaw University) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Masaryk Institute (AV ČR).

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: from 5:30 pm to 7 pm
Language: English

Abstract

What is Hasidism? Why do we know so little about one of the most intensively- researched phenomena in  Jewish history? Which historiographical presumptions hinder the development of our knowledge about Hasidism? How is it related to the basis of sources and methodological approaches? What would Hasidism look like if approached from a different, anti-elitist perspective, from a provincial shtibl and not a tsadik’s court?

These questions will build the core of the talk by Professor  Wodziński, key expert on Hasidism, author of Hasidism. Key Questions (Oxford University Press, 2018) and editor of the Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton University Press, 2017).

What Is an Archive in India and Europe?

International Workshop

Organizers: Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES) & Kannan Muthukrishnan (French Institute in Pondicherry)
Partners: CEFRES & French Institute in Pondicherry
Where
: French Institute in Pondicherry, India
When: 7 & 8 March 2019                                                                                    Language: English

Programme

March 7th, 2019

9:30 AM Opening remarks

Prof. Frédéric Landy, director, IFP

Session 1: Methodological, historical and theoretical standpoints
  • Dr. Benedetta Zaccarello, CEFRES (CNRS-MEAE, Prague) and Mr. Kannan M. (IFP), introductory remarks

11 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM

  • Dr. Jayanta Sengupta (secretary and curator at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata), on the intercultural issues related to archival practices
  • Prof. Subbarayalu (IFP), on archives and inscriptions: an historical overview

1 PM Lunch

2 PM

Living memories: past and present of some Indian archives

  • Mr. Peter Heehs (historian, former archiviste, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives), on the history of Sri Aurobindo’s Archives
  • Mr. Rengaiyah Murugan (Librarian, MIDS, Chennai), on Tamil manuscripts and archives
  • Dr.  Roland  Wittje  (IIT,  Chennai),  collections  and  archives: history of science and technology

4 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM

  • Dr. Anupama K. (IFP), on interrelated collections at the Ecology Department of IFP
  • Mr. Venkat Srinivasan (Archiviste, IIS, Bangalore), on the digital representation of the archives at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Visit of the IFP collections (palm leaf manuscripts with Dr. Devi Prasad, collections of photographs with Mr. Ramesh Kumar and collections of Ecology with Dr. Anupama K.)

7.30 PM Dinner at IFP

March 8th, 2019

Session 2: Archives beyond borders and mindsets

Archives: trans-cultures and post colonialisms

9:30 AM

  • Prof. Albert Dichy, IMEC, Caen, France, head of literary collections
  • Dr. Chandramohan (Curator, GOML, Chennai), on the colonial period and the palm leaf and paper manuscripts from the “McKenzie” collection

11 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM

  • Mr. Richard Hartz (Researcher, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives), on the intercultural aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s manuscripts
  • Dr. G. Sundar (Director, Roja Muthaiah Research Library, Chennai), on archiving 20th century Tamil

1 PM Lunch

2 PM

Oral traditions and visual heritage in the age of digital archives

  • Dr. C.S Lakshmi (director, SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, Mumbai), on archiving women’s testimonies and archives of orality
  • Mr. Prashant Parvatneni (Kabir Project, Bangalore), on building the “Kabir Project” Archive
  • Ms. Ranjani and Mr. Faizal (Keystone Foundation), on the creation of the Keystone Foundation Resource Centre, Nilgiris

4 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM

  • Dr. Alexandra De Heering (IFP), on accessibility to visual archives
  • Mr. Gopinath Sricandane (IFP), on the visual medium of archives
  • Dr. Pierre Triomphe (Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris), on heritage and archives

5:30 PM Roundtable discussion

What Is A Witness? A Lecture by Annette Wieviorka

Annette Wieviorka is probably one of the famous French historians on the Holocaust and a specialist of the history of Jews in France. A distinguished researcher of French National Research Center (CNRS), she just published 1945, la découverte (Le Seuil, 2017), dealing with the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps in April and May 1945 by the Allies through the testimonies of two war reporters. Among her books translated into English, one will read her groundbreaking The Era of the Witness (Cornell, 2006), along with Auschwitz Explained to My Child (Marlowe & Co, 2002). She talks about her personal trajectory in a series of interviews conducted by Séverine Nikel published in French under the title L’heure d’exactitude (2011). Annette Wieviorka will give her insight on the figure of the witness at the time of WWII during her lecture in Prague.

Find out more about Annette Wieviorka here.

Venue: Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Nám. J. Palacha, room 200
Horaires : 5:30-7:30
Organizers: Kateřina Čapková, Clara Royer and Milan Žonca
Partners: CEFRES, Prague Center for Jewish Studies (FF UK) and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. With the support of the French Institute of Prague
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech

Illustration: “Taking photos of the victims in the ghetto (Budapest, 19. January 1945)”. Source: http://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-history.org/hungarian-photos/