First session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Clara Royer (CEFRES) and Tomáš Weiss (IMS)
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The 11th session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:
Véronique Gruca (PhD candidate at Université Paris-Nanterre & CEFRES)
Topic: Nutag: A Mongolian conception of Homeland
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, May 5th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English
Reading:
“La Nuit des idées 2025 – Acting for a Resilient City” is organized by the Institut français de Prague and the French Embassy in the Czech Republic, in partnership with CEFRES, AMO and the festival Les 48h pour l’agriculture urbaine. The project is supported by the Institut français de Paris.
Date: April 14, 2025, 6 PM
Location: Cinema Kino 35, Institut français de Prague,
Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language of the workshop: English
How can we build cities that are both sustainable and inclusive in the face of growing environmental and social challenges? What will tomorrow’s city look like? What innovative solutions exist for sustainable urban planning? What tools can help create more inclusive and greener cities?
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the future of urban resilience and innovation.
Moderator: Gilles LEPESANT (Geographer, CNRS / CEFRES)
Find more informations about all the events here.
Perin Emel Yavuz (CEFRES & FMSH) will challenge the notions of center and periphery in her lecture on the turn of art which occured in the 60-80s avant-garde in Bratislava in the frame of the seminar of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Language: English
Where: Jilská 1, Prague 1
The remarkable turn of art which occured in the 1960s-1980s has been under the scrutiny of researchers in Western Europe and United States since the early 2000s. Yet, most of their investigations focus on this geographical area assumed to be the center of the avant-garde. Attention given to “margins” and other “peripheries” offers a different perspective to what is an obvious Western ethnocentric myth. Through the study of the microcosm of Bratislava neo-avant-garde, this lecture aims to highlight the chronological parallelisms known between “center” and “periphery” art. The study of artworks and artists’ careers will help understanding the origins of this turn of art, between transfers and local context.
Venue: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, 3rd floor, conference room
Language: French (English)
Organizers: Clara Royer (CEFRES), Nadège Ragaru (CERI-Science Po) & Antoine Marès (Panthéon-Sorbonne University)
Read the call for papers in French or in Czech
1:30 Welcome by Clara Royer, director of CEFRES
Antoine Marès : Présentation du GDR Connaissance de l’Europe médiane
Panel I. Literary Creation: Canonic or Transgressive (P)Act?
Discussants: Eva Beránková & Paweł Rodak
2.00 Dimitri Garncarzyk (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 / CERC) : La norme comme idéal : éloge et apologie des règles dans le classicisme polonais, de Dmochowski à Śniadecki
2.20 Lucia Bonora (UČL AV ČR) : La transgression comme modus vivendi : le décadentisme tchèque et le dépassement des règles
2.40 Discussion
3.00 Clara Royer (CEFRES) : Littérature des camps et écriture iconoclaste : Imre Kertész contre Jorge Semprun
3.20 Kinga Callebat (Université Paris-Sorbonne / EUR’ORBEM) : La transgression comme norme ? La re-lecture de textes canoniques de la culture polonaise par les prosateurs de la fin du XXe et du début du XXIe siècle
3.40 Discussion
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Panel II. Intimacy and Writing: Asserting the Self Against Which Norms?
Discussant: Clara Royer
4.30 Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg (Paris-Sorbonne University / EURORBEM) : Exhiber l’ossature du temps ou des usages transgressifs de la succession dans les écrits intimes : Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz
4.50 Paweł Rodak (Centre de Civilisation polonaise – Paris-Sorbonne University) – Transgression et résignation dans les journaux d’Edward Stachura : à la frontière de la vie, à la frontière de la littérature
5.10 Discussion
Panel III. Bodies and Souls
Discussants: Marie-Élizabeth Ducreux
9.00 Daniela Tinková (FF UK): Le suicide entre la norme religieuse, pénale et médicale dans la monarchie des Habsbourg et en France entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle
9.20 Filip Herza (CEFRES / FHS UK): Staging Transgressions: Freak Shows in the 19th-Century Prague
9.40 Mateusz Chmurski (Université Libre de Bruxelles / EUR’ORBEM): Une trop bruyante intimité ? Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz et sa réception polonaise
10.00 Discussion
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Panel IV. Between Defiance and (Re-)Negociations
Discussants: Antoine Marès and (to be confirmed)
10.45 Étienne Boisserie (Inalco): Contestation et stratégies d’évitement de la contrainte morale et matérielle dans l’Autriche-Hongrie en guerre : outils et temporalités
11.05 Alessandro Milani (EPHE / CEFRES-FMSH / Centre Marc Bloch): La gestion des minorités dans la Seconde République de Pologne entre normes et désobéissance civile : le cas galicien
11h25 Discussion
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Discussant: Jiří Hnilica (PedF UK)
12.10 Paul Gradvohl (Lorraine University): Les discours sur l’histoire en Europe centrale : du national comme norme
12.30 Jana Vargovčíková (FF UK / Paris-Nanterre University): Le scandale comme fabrique de sens et arène de politisation : le lobbying polonais dénoncé et défini à travers les récits de transgression
12.50 Discussion
Time & Venue: 5 pm, CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Organizer: CEFRES, Prague Forum for Romani Histories at the Institute of Contemporary History AV CR
Language: English
This paper explores the effects of Brexit on the lives of Slovak and Czech Roma migrants in Great Britain through what can be called ‘normalizing uncertainty’. Coming alongside other East European migrants, some Roma networks started to move in search of more viable lives following the EU enlargement in 2004. Various studies have documented negative impacts the Brexit debates had on the lives of migrants, ranging from increased sense of uncertainty and rupture to the intensified modes of racialisation and xenophobic discrimination. Drawing on a long-term ethnographic research in the UK and in Slovakia, the present paper focuses not just on the level of discourses and narratives recorded in the aftermath of Brexit vote (elicited by researchers’ efforts and interviews) but rather tries to situate these within a long-term practices and relations vis-a-vis dominant societies and forms of being exposed to oppressive social forces and forms of violence and stigmatization. Drawing on relational sociological and anthropological perspectives, this paper examines different ways of coping with and responding to the pre/post-Brexit depending on social positions various migrants’ occupy within different social fields and the durable dispositions acquired against the backdrop of different modes of domination experienced in Central Eastern Europe and in Great Britain.
Jan Grill is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Valle, Colombia. He is also Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He has conducted extensive ethnographic research among Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Roma/Gypsy groups, exploring issues related to different forms of migration from Central Eastern Europe to the United Kingdom and Canada. He has also carried out research on uneven mobilities in the city of Cali, Colombia. His central research interests are migration, ethnicity, racialization, marginality, labour, and the ethnography of the state. His recent publications include ‘Re‐learning to labour? ‘Activation Works’ and new politics of social assistance in the case of Slovak Roma’, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute (2018); ‘“In England, they don’t call you black!” Migrating racialisations and the production of Roma difference across Europe’, Journal of Ethic and Migration Studies (2017); and ‘Struggles for the folk: politics of culture in Czechoslovak ethnography, 1940s-1950s’, History and Anthropology (2015).
