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”Here is a place that has left its place”: Memories of the Vanquished, Traces of Crises and Decolonial Wars

The 9th session of FSV / CEFRES seminar “Reflecting on Crises” will be hosted by:

Michèle Baussant (CNRS, CEFRES)
Topic: “Here is a place that has left its place”: Memories of the Vanquished, Traces of Crises and Decolonial Wars

Where: online.
To register, please contact the organizers: maria.kokkinou@cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, December 2nd, 12:30-1:50pm
Language: French

As part of the seminar:
“Enjeux contemporains. Penser les crises” / Current Issues. Reflecting on Crises
organized by Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / UK) and Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)

Presentation of the seminar:

The crisis has the wind in its sails: due to the appearance and extensive spread of Covid-19 in 2020, this concept has regained a world-wide attention, last observed during the financial crisis of 2009. Apart from these spectacular moments of global turmoil, we can no longer count the events or phenomena that are described as crises.

A concept inextricably linked to modernity, a “crisis” (pre)occupies our societies in all its dimensions. The polysemic uses of the term and its very topicality prompt us to revisit this concept, its different meanings and uses. This seminar course is devoted to this task. It will involve the intervention of researchers from various disciplines – political sociology, history, art history, anthropology, philosophy, etc.

What realities are qualified as “crises” and in which ways are they critical? What is a crisis and how to explain its emergence? How does a crisis unfold, what are its effects and consequences? Why do crises give rise to conflicts of interpretation over their meaning? Is the notion of crisis a central operator of our modernity and a key to understanding the challenges that contemporary societies face?

 

 

Did Prussia have an Atlantic history or how to write a global history of 1772?

The 4th session of the Franco-Czech Historical Seminar organized by Institute for Czech History of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (FFUK), in collaboration with CEFRES will be hosted by:

Bernhard Struck (CEFRES, University of St Andrews)
Topic: Did Prussia Have an Atlantic History or How to Write a Global History of 1772? Reflections on Modern Europe in a Transnational Perspective

Where: Faculty of Arts of Charles University, nám. J. Palacha 2, Prague 1, room 201
To register, contact: jaroslav.svatek(@)ff.cuni.cz
When: November 26, Thursday 9:00-10:30
Language: French

This session is organised by Jaroslav Svatek et Martin Nejedly in the frame of the Franco-czech historical seminar. To see more information, visit the website of the Faculty of Arts.

 

Deservingness as a Means of Transnational Governance of Displacement, Sexuality and Gender Identity

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

Mert Koçak (PhD candidate at CEU / associate at CEFRES)
Topic: Deservingness as a Means of Transnational Governance of Displacement, Sexuality and Gender Identity: Queer Refugees in Turkey

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, October 25th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Sébastien Chauvin & Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas : Becoming Less Illegal: Deservingness Frames and Undocumented Migrant Incorporation” Sociology Compass 8/4 (2014): 422–432.

The Making of Crises in History: The Case of Inflation

The 8th session of FSV / CEFRES seminar “Reflecting on Crises” will be hosted by:

Mátyás Erdélyi (CEFRES / Charles University)
Topic: The Making of Crises in History: The Case of Inflation

Where: online.
To register, please contact the organizers: maria.kokkinou(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, November 25th, 12:30-1:50pm
Language: French

As part of the seminar:
“Enjeux contemporains. Penser les crises” / Current Issues. Reflecting on Crises
organized by Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / UK) and Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)

Presentation of the seminar:

The crisis has the wind in its sails: due to the appearance and extensive spread of Covid-19 in 2020, this concept has regained a world-wide attention, last observed during the financial crisis of 2009. Apart from these spectacular moments of global turmoil, we can no longer count the events or phenomena that are described as crises.

A concept inextricably linked to modernity, a “crisis” (pre)occupies our societies in all its dimensions. The polysemic uses of the term and its very topicality prompt us to revisit this concept, its different meanings and uses. This seminar course is devoted to this task. It will involve the intervention of researchers from various disciplines – political sociology, history, art history, anthropology, philosophy, etc.

What realities are qualified as “crises” and in which ways are they critical? What is a crisis and how to explain its emergence? How does a crisis unfold, what are its effects and consequences? Why do crises give rise to conflicts of interpretation over their meaning? Is the notion of crisis a central operator of our modernity and a key to understanding the challenges that contemporary societies face?

 

 

Defeated Memories – Launch of the Tandem Project

Launch of the TANDEM Project led by

Michèle Baussant (CNRS/CEFRES),
 Johana Wyss (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / Charles University)

Defeated Memories. De-imperial Europe: A Resentful Confederation of Vanquished Peoples?

When: Friday 20th November, 9 am – 11 am
Where: Online
Please, access the zoom conference by following this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054592971?pwd=UkJjZW90T0lDK0MwNm5PZit2S2U3QT09
Language: English

With the participation of:
Sylvie Démurger, Deputy Scientific Director, Europe and International Affairs (CNRS)
Jérôme Heurtaux, Director of CEFRES
Tat̕ána Petrasová, member of the Academy Council and coordinator of Czech Academy of Sciences  for the TANDEM program

Discussants:
Catherine Perron, Research Fellow, CERI, Sciences Po Paris
Valérie Rosoux, Director of Research-Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain
Thomas Van de Putte, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Trento

Abstract:

This online launch of the new Tandem project is dedicated to the ghostly, material and symbolic memorial landscapes of defeated minorities, who have been displaced and dispersed after the successive collapse of imperial and multinational entities during the 20th century. The aim of the project is to offer a new critical perspective on the multiple, persistent, and sometimes connected forms of European (post)imperial pasts along the old extra- and intra-European borders and on their diverse and entangled uses. 

The project is based on a choice of different cases – Germans expelled from East Prussia and Silesia, Europeans of Algeria, “foreign” or “local” minorities of Egypt, Portuguese of Angola and Mozambique-, and deeply rooted in ethnographic fieldwork. It will cross the memories of the displaced peoples, and of those who have repopulated or continued to live in the physical spaces after them, in an unprecedented way, offering mirror images or images that are shifted, distorted or blind. 

Initiated by Michèle Baussant, anthropologist and research director at CNRS, this Tandem project is also carried out, on the Czech side, by Johana Wyss, anthropologist and researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Maria Kokkinou, anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at CEFRES and Charles University is a member of the Tandem team as well. 

Denouncing the economic crisis through photography

The 7th session of FSV / CEFRES seminar “Reflecting on Crises” will be hosted by:

Fedora Parkmann (Insitute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences / CEFRES)
Topic: Denouncing the Economic Crisis through Photography

Where: online.
To register, please contact the organizers: maria.kokkinou@cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, November 18th, 12:30-1:50pm
Language: French

As part of the seminar:
“Enjeux contemporains : Penser les crises” / Current Issues. Reflecting on Crises
organized by Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / UK) and Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)

Presentation of the seminar:

The crisis has the wind in its sails: due to the appearance and extensive spread of Covid-19 in 2020, this concept has regained a world-wide attention, last observed during the financial crisis of 2009. Apart from these spectacular moments of global turmoil, we can no longer count the events or phenomena that are described as crises.

A concept inextricably linked to modernity, a “crisis” (pre)occupies our societies in all its dimensions. The polysemic uses of the term and its very topicality prompt us to revisit this concept, its different meanings and uses. This seminar course is devoted to this task. It will involve the intervention of researchers from various disciplines – political sociology, history, art history, anthropology, philosophy, etc.

What realities are qualified as “crises” and in which ways are they critical? What is a crisis and how to explain its emergence? How does a crisis unfold, what are its effects and consequences? Why do crises give rise to conflicts of interpretation over their meaning? Is the notion of crisis a central operator of our modernity and a key to understanding the challenges that contemporary societies face?