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Rethinking knowledge, questioning scientific approaches?

Rethinking knowledge, questioning scientific approaches? The Baltic States, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldavia Between Central Europe and the Former Soviet Space

Conference organized by Lab Research Clusters Central Europe and East (GDR CEM & GDR EST) of the French National Center for Scientific Research Humanities & Social Sciences Institute (CNRS SHS) with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. 

Date: February 12-13, 2025
Location: INALCO  and Institute of slavic studies (Paris) or on-line (to receive the link, please email us at cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: French & English

Scientific Committee: Olga Bronnikova, Mateusz Chmurski, Anna Colin-Lebedev, Iryna Dmytrychyn, Galyna Dranenko, Catherine Géry, Alexandra Goujon, Catherine Gousseff, Paul Gradvohl, Luba Jurgenson, Emilia Koustova, Éric Le Bourhis, Anne Le Huérou, Florent Parmentier, Ioana Popa, Nadège Ragaru, Kathy Rousselet, Clara Royer, Laurent Tatarenko.

Organizing Committee: Olga Bronnikova, Françoise Daucé, Paul Gradvohl, Valéry Kossov, Emilia Koustova, Nadège Ragaru, Kathy Rousselet, Clara Royer, Tatyana Shukan.

CEFRES will be represented by: Pavlo Khudish, Valeriia Korablyova

Program

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(Non-)presence of Jews in Middle Age Urban Space

(Non-)Presence of Jews in Urban Space: Cheb (Eger) in the High Middle Ages

5th 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 register and get the text, please write to cefres@cefres.cz
Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English

It wll be hosted by:
Kajetán HOLEČEK (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
and chaired by Petr GIBAS (Masaryk University, Brno/Institute of Sociologyy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Text to be commented: Lars Frers, “The Matter of Absence”, Cultural Geographies 20/4 (2013), p. 431–445.

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CEFRES Review of Books – December 2024

The next edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Wednesday, December 18, at 4:30 pm at CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1

This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in French and in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.

So far, the following presentations are announced:

  • Luz Ascarate : Imaginer selon Paul Ricoeur. La phénoménologie à la rencontre de l’ontologie sociale (Paris : Hermann, 2022) by Josefína Formanová
  • Lise Foisneau : Kumpania. Vivre et résister en pays gadjo (Marseille : Wildproject, 2023) by Yasar Abu Ghosh
  • Jean-Baptiste Fressoz : Sans transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l’énergie (Paris : Seuil, 2023) by Gilles Lepesant
  • Jacques Rancière : Les voyages de l’art (Paris : Seuil, 2023) by Hélène Martinelli
  • Ioana Cîrstocea : La fin de la femme rouge ? Fabrique transnationale du genre après la chute du Mur (Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019) by Anemona Constantin who will hold a dialogue with the author

The Borders of Mountains or Rocks

Borders of Mountains or Rocks

Fourth 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 13th December, 2024, from 10 am to 12 pm
Language: French

Speaker: Alžbeta KUCHTOVÁ (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Discussant:  Iwona Janicka (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

In the book “Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism”, anthropologist Elisabeth Povinelli explains the concept of entanglement and its role in the indigenous cultures of Australia. In our talk, we will analyze the concept of proper and its relationship to entanglement. The concept of proper is linked to the separation of identities by boundaries. It can refer to what is proper to humans, but also to what is proper to rocks. The concept of proper implies the creation of limits and boundaries between different identities: subjects, objects, nations, races and genders.  The questions we’ll be reflecting on concern the possibility of creating boundaries between sacred rocks or mountains, and how these boundaries facilitate the capitalist exploitation of (indigenous) land today. This implies that the European concept of the proper cannot be applied in a reflection on indigenous territories, simply because it is not universal. The concept of “proper” creates the foundation of colonialism and capitalism.

See the complete program of the 2024-2025 seminar here.

The European climate policy after the COP29

From Baku to Brussels:
The European Climate Policy after the COP29

This roundtable discussion is organized within the Tandem project “Contested Energy Transitions” led by Martin Ďurďovič (CEFRES – Czech Academy of Sciences) and Gilles Lepesant (CEFRES – CNRS) with the participation of Krzysztof Tarkowski (CEFRES – Charles University).

Date: Thursday 12 December 2024, 9–11 am
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Audience: on invitation only (Chatham House Rule)

The seminar will highlight the key outcomes from COP29 (Baku, Azerbaijan from 11–22 November 2024), examining the contrasting climate stances of major stakeholders. Continue reading The European climate policy after the COP29 →

Histoire(s) d’archives

Histoire(s) d’archives: Imagining Thinking and Writing Practices Through Intellectual Manuscripts

The conference aims at fostering a collective reflection about methodologies and digital tools that could enable us to better perceive, beyond and through the manuscripts, the intellectual figures and their transcultural trajectories, the stories and their roots in cultural contexts, the networks and the collective practices they have been grounded in. Besides giving a different image of the history of ideas, such approach could also produce more intuitive narrations, enabling these materials to reach – thanks to their digital representation – a broader public and a non-scholar audience. The event will gather the major actors of the network « AITIA – Archives of International Theory, an Intercultural Approach ».

Date: December 5-6, 2024, from 9:30 a.m.
Location:
5/12 : CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague
6/12: Muzeum Literatury, Pelléova 44/22, Prague
and online
Language: English

Organizers: IRN AITIA, CNRS, CEFRES, Museum of Literature Prague, and the Jan Patočka Archives Prague

Program

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