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Displaced Histories Without Traces and Traces of Past Without History

CEFRES and Primorska University organize the first Proteus Webinar as part of the bilateral program PHC Proteus.

When: Wednesday April 14, 2021, 2 p.m.- 6 p.m.
Where: Online (see below fo the link) 
Language: English
Organisators: CEFRES and Primorska University
Funding and Evaluation: Campus France, French Institute in Slovenia, MEAE, MESRI (France) Slovenian Research Agency,  Slovenian ministry of science (Slovenia)

This webinar focuses on the current representations of the “dismantling” and “re-membering” of intra- and extra-European empires, following the First and then the Second World Wars, that recast populations, landscapes, borders, historiographies, belongings and memories. Today, while European countries work to form a common world, space and history, they remain reluctant to address these ghostly legacies of empires and wars that led to the forced displacement and loss of millions of people, such as ethnic minorities expelled from East Prussia and Silesia, Germans from the Sudetenland and Bukovina, Italians from ex-Yugoslavia, Portuguese from Angola and Mozambique, among others. 

 How and why have some of the memories of displacements been erased, ignored, forgotten, and others memorized and commemorated? In what ways do they still matter in Europe and beyond today? Under what circumstances, some of the features of the past have remained so persistent and resilient?

The proposed webinar objective is to answer these questions by exploring parallel collective memories, offering mirror images of each other: the memories of the displaced, and the memories of those who remained and/or (re)populated the cultural and physical spaces after them. From specific case studies of depopulation and repopulation movements linked to the troubled European History of the 20th Century and in the remnants of empires and wars, we intend to explore what memories and silences do to places and what places do to memories and silences.

Program

2.00 -2.20 pm

Short presentation of the Proteus Program by Valentine Morel, Attaché for Scientific and Academic cooperation at Ministère des Affaires étrangères français Slovenia, and of the project by Michèle Baussant and Katja Hrobat-Virloget

Divided and uprooted

2.20-2.35 pm

Aleksej Kalc, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenian Migration Institute (Ljubljana), University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities (Koper)
Population transfers and ethnic transformations in Koper and Trieste after WWII: some aspects

2.35-2.50 pm

Neža Čebron Lipovec, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
“Visual continuity” of the landscape« in a contested city: The role of architecture in the process of (up)rooting a community

2.50-3.05 pm

Petra Kavrečič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
Living on the border. Everyday life in the border region of Istria after WWII

Short Discussion 3.05- 3.20 pm, Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes, Head of Project Labex Pasts in the Present, Université Paris Nanterre

Break 3.20-3.30 pm

Remade, remained and planted

3.30-3.45 pm

Felipe Kaiser-Fernandes, CEFRES/ IIAC
When torn apart landscapes are remade: the politics of post-socialist bazaars in the Czech Republic.

3.45-4.00 pm

Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
About the ones who came. Symbolic boundaries and questions of  “home” after “exodus” in Istria

4.00-4.15 pm

Irene Dos Santos, CNRS/URMIS, ICM Fellow
Imperial Debris in post-colonial Angola: the silence of those who remained after 1975

Short Discussion 4.15- 4.30 pm, Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes, Head of Project Labex Pasts in the Present, Université Paris Nanterre

Break 4.30-4.40 pm

Traces and in-between spaces

4.40-4.55 pm

Maria Kokkinou, CEFRES and Charles University
Tiehonin: Persistent memories of transformed spaces

4.55-5.10 pm

Johana Wyss, Czech Academy of Sciences/CEFRES and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Silesian identity: caught in between hegemonic and counter-narratives

5.10-5.25 pm

Michèle Baussant, CNRS, CEFRES (USR3138, CNRS, Mae), ICM Fellow
Displaced histories without traces and traces of past without history:  Egyptian Jews in and out Egypt

Discussion 5.25-6.pm, Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes, Head of Project Labex Pasts in the Present, Université Paris Nanterre

To join the  meeting, click on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87114991116 

                      

         

Humanities and Social Sciences Facing the Unexpected

PhD Students Workshop organized by EHESS and CEFRES will be held on the theme of  Humanities and Social Sciences Facing the Unexpected.

Date: April 12, 2021 (9 a.m. – 7 p.m.)
Location: online and at CEFRES (see the link below)
Language: English
Coordination: Falk Bretschneider (EHESS), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)

Supervisors: Michèle Baussant (CEFRES, CNRS), Falk Bretschneider (EHESS), Emmanuel Désveaux (EHESS), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Pavel Himl (FHS UK), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS)

The sanitary crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the whole world into deep uncertainty and radically shaken almost all our habits. This also applies to the research community. Lockdowns, travel restrictions, curfews, closures of libraries or archives and other measures of distance and protection have a direct and sometimes brutal impact on many scientific projects, especially those of many young researchers on fixed-term contracts. This context therefore leads us to question the ways in which humanities and social sciences can deal with uncertainty, the unexpected and the unforeseen, and this in two directions: read more about the workshop here.

Program

9 a.m.  Opening by Falk Bretschneider (EHESS) / Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)

9.30 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Introduction:   Pavel Himl (FHS UK)

  • Arthur Pérodeau (EHESS / UK, associated at CEFRES): Marc Bloch and His Book L’étrange défaite. A Historian Facing the Fall of France
  • Tomáš Razím (FHS UK): Oral History in the Time of COVID

11.30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Introduction:   Emmanuel Désveaux (EHESS)

  • Miroslav Sedláček (PRF UK): Are Humanities and Social Sciences Strong Enough to Deal with the Unexpected if They Are Overspecialized?
  • Zuzana Terry (FHS UK): Facing Unexpected in School Ethnography

Lunch Break

2 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.

Introduction: Silvia Sébastiani (EHESS)

  • Maeva Carla Chargros (‎Palacký University, Olomouc): Rethinking Opportunities & Challenges within an International Context: Networking & Planning
  • Elizaveta Getta (FF UK): Challenging Archival Research in Translation Studies

4 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.

Introduction:   Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES)

  • Rose Smith (FSV UK / University of Groningen): Wider Acknowledgement of Cyberspace as a Valid Milieu to Do Academic Work in as Well as a Valid Research Context
  • Mert Koçak (CEU): Doing “Forced” Digital Ethnography on Forced Displacement: How Does Hyper Visibility/Accessibility of Digital Platforms Affect Ethnography?

6 – 7 p.m.  General Discussion

With an intervention of:

  • Felipe Kaiser Fernandes (EHESS / CEFRES)
  • Tereza Havelková (FF UK)
  • Igor Zavorotchenko (FHS UK)
  • Ekatarina Zheltova (FSV UK / CEFRES)

To join the meeting:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83259649736?pwd=RG95RzhyMFlLdjNhUXUzamQzSkhFZz09   

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Inequality

The 9th session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Barbora Chaloupková (PhD candidate at FSV UK)
Topic: Inequality

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, April 7th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Milanovic, Branko: Global Inequality. A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.  – for reading: Introduction + pages 155-161 from Chapter 4

Covid 19, management and industrial organisations: perception of the crisis by Central European managers and executives

Vincent Montenero, MIAS (Prague)

will be taking part in the seminar called Current Issues. Reflection on Crises organised by CEFRES.

Date: Wednesday, April 7th 2021, 12h30 – 13h50
Where: Online on Zoom.
Organisators:  Maria Kokkinou (post-doc at CEFRES / Charles University), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Language: French

Link to join the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84097191940 

For more information about the programme and the seminar,  see the website: http://cefres.cz/fr/seminaires/penser-les-crises.

To be in the steppes in times of crisis: back to the experience of shared confinement with a Buryat family

Veronique Gruca (CEFRES)

will be taking part in the seminar called Current Issues. Reflection on Crises organised by CEFRES.

Date: Wednesday, March 31th 2021, 12h30 – 13h50
Where: Online on Zoom.
Organisators:  Maria Kokkinou (post-doc at CEFRES / Charles University), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Language: French

Link to join the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84097191940 

For more information about the programme and the seminar,  see the website: http://cefres.cz/fr/seminaires/penser-les-crises.

Covid-19: Teleworking and Management

CEFRES invites you to its international roundtable on this topic:

What does the sanitary crisis tell about the changes in corporations and work organization?

Date: Thursday, March 25th, 2021, at 5.30PM
Place: Online (Zoom, see the link below)
Language: English

Organized by:

Vincent Montenero, Ph.D. in Management, Associate Researcher CEFRES / MIAS-CVUT

With a participation of these experts:

Cristina Cazorzi, Ph.D. in Management, EMEA Dispute Manager, Whirlpool
Daniel Prokop, Ph.D. in Sociology, Head of PAQ Research
Julie Landour, Ph.D. in Sociology, Associate Professor, Paris Dauphine
Jean-François Chanlat, PhD in Sociology, Emeritus Professor, Paris Dauphine

The emergence of the COVID-19 crisis has deeply affected corporations in terms of management and labour relations. After a period of adaptation, most companies have put up several measures that have enabled them to meet their customers’ expectations. According to many managers, this unprecedented situation has been an accelerator of different trends, such as a rapid and sudden teleworking increase. It has also been a challenge making several necessary improvements: be more agile, question the frequency of business trips, change management methods, improve newcomers’ integration, etc.

Many questions arise:

– What will remain of these changes in the functioning of the companies after the crisis is over?

– How do employees adapt to these evolutions?

– What does the crisis do in terms of team cohesion, psychosocial risks, division of the employed population, poor integration of newcomers?

To answer these questions, this roundtable will gather experts from France and the Czech Republic who will present and discuss original data and analysis on corporations and labour relations in the present and the future.

Find the event on Facebook : https://fb.me/e/DwO2jTlW

Access the live conference on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84711376944