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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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(Trans)Missions: Monasteries As Sites of Cultural Transfers

A workshop organized by the Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (SIAS FF UK), CEFRES and the Institute of Art History of Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR). The collaboration is realized within the Research project “Cataloging and study of the translations of Spanish and Ibero-American Dominicans”.

Venue: Špork Palace, Hybernská 3, Prague 1, room nr. 303
Scientific organizers: Monika Brenišínová (SIAS FF UK), Katalin Pataki (CEFRES) and Lenka Panušková (IAH CAS)
Language: English

Read more information about the workshop here

Read the call for papers here

Read the abstracts of the workshop here

Program

25 September, 2017 Monday

9.30–10.00            Registration
10.00–10.40         Opening Ceremony and introduction (organisers)

  • Markéta Křížová (Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University)
  • Clara Royer (French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences)
  • Tomáš Winter (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

10.40–12.10
Interpretation and Context
Chair: Veronika Čapská (Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)

  • Martin Lešák, Monasteries on the Horizon: The Sacral Landscape Through the Senses of Medieval Pilgrims
  • Jana Králová, The Monastery Translation From the Contemporary Perspective
  • Jan Tesárek and Barbora Spálová, Other time: Construction of Temporality in Benedictine Monasteries

12.10–14.00 Lunchbreak

14.00–15.00
Monastic Networks: Technology and Society
Chair: Jan Zdichynec (Department of the Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

  • Barnabás Szekér, Whose Instructions? – Educational Orders, Administration, and Rules of Higher Schools in the 18th Century Kingdom of Hungary
  • Katalin Pataki, The Monasteries as Mediators of Medical Knowledge – Camaldolese Pharmacies of the Hungarian Kingdom and Austria

15.00–15.30 Coffee break

15.30–17.00
Devotion and Vocation: The Transition of Ideas
Chair: Markéta Křížová (Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University)

  • Antonio Bueno, To whom may read this. The Prologue of Linguistic Works and Translations of the Dominicans as the Main Ideas for Reflection on Translation Theory
  • Monika Brenišínová, Mexican Monasteries and Processions. The transmission of ideas, space and time
  • Marcin F. Rdzak, Books of Enrollment to the Fraternity of the Scapular (1911-1946) from the Convent of Carmelite Fathers in Lwow. The Transition of Devotional Patterns

17.00–17.30 Coffee break

17.30
Keynote Lecture
József Laszlovszky (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University)
Transfer, Translation and Transmission of Knowledge in Monastic Networks — Research Directions and Approaches in the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Patterns

26 September, 2017 Tuesday

9.00–10.00
Arts and Architecture: Transferring the Forms
Chair: Lenka Panušková (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Pavel Štěpánek, El Escorial jako duchovní model českých a
    moravských klášterů ve světle současné interpretace
    (Hradisko, Kuks, Plasy) [El Escorial as Spiritual Model of Czech and Moravian Monasteries in the Light of the Contemporary Interpretation (Hradisko, Kuks, Plasy)]
  • Jana Povolná, Sázava monastery: St Procop, Scriptorium and the Church

10.00–10.30 Coffee break

10.30–12.00
Writing Monastery
Chair: Kateřina Bobková (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Renata Modráková, Benedictine St. George’s Cloister at the Prague Castle as a Crossroad of Medieval Cultural Trend and Ideas
  • Jan Kremer: Religious Identity and Order Discipline – Early Thirteenth-Century Bohemian Premonstratensians
  • Kristian Bertović, Glagolitic monks—Monastic Continuity and Glagolitic Script in the Medieval Croatia and the Istrian Peninsula

12.00–13.00 Lunchbreak

13.00–14.30
Presentations of ongoing projects

  • Klášterní stezky (project of the Department of History and History Didactics, Faculty of Education, Charles University); http://www.klasterni-stezky.cz/
  • Visions of Community (VISCOM, University of Vienna); https://viscom.ac.at/home/
  • Szerzetesség a kora újkori Magyarországon – Religious Orders of Early Modern Hungary http://szerzetes.hypotheses.org/
  • Sources, Forms, and Functions of the Monastic Historiography
    in Early Modern Ages in the Czech Lands

Closing remarks
Lenka Panušková (IAH CAS), Katalin Pataki (CEFRES), Monika Brenišínová (SIAS FF UK)

15.30
The Emmaus Monastery
Guided tour by Kateřina Kubínová

1958, 1968, 2002: Political crisis in France

The 5th session of FSV / CEFRES seminar “Reflecting on Crises” will be hosted by:

Jérôme Heurtaux (Paris-Dauphine Université, CEFRES)
Topic: 1958, 1968, 2002: Political Crisis in France

Where: online.
To register, please contact the organizers: maria.kokkinou@cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, November 4th, 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?

 

 

31st Summer School of the Jan Hus Foundation 

THE VAGUENESS.
31st Summer School of the Jan Hus Foundation 

Organizers: the Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Department of Romance and Slavic Languages of the Faculty of Applied Languages of the University of Economics of  Bratislava
With the support of: the French Embassy in Slovakia, the French Institute in Slovakia, the CEFRES, the IUFS / SFUI and FrancAvis
Date : 24th August – 28th august 2023
Location:  Krahule

Provisional program 

Jeudi 24 août

Après-midi : arrivée des participants

19h : dîner

Vendredi 25 août

8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner

9h – 9h15 : ouverture

9h15 – 10h15 : Colas DUFLO (Université Paris Nanterre) –Conférence plénière – titre à préciser

10h15 – 10h45 : pause-café

10h45 – 11h45 : Bertrand PRÉVOST (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) – Conférence plénière – titre à préciser

12h – 13h : déjeuner

13h – 14h : André SCALA (IDBL Digne-les-Bains) – Conférence plénière – titre à préciser

14h – 15h : Josef FULKA (Université Charles) – La naissance du langage selon Condillac
Petr KYLOUŠEK (Université Masaryk de Brno) – Le flou – la septième fonction du langage ?

15h – 15h30 :  pause-café

15h30 – 18h : Florence BOULERIE (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) –  Dans le vague des sentiments : l’expression du flou comme spécialité des romancières d’une période esthétiquement indéfinie, 1780-1820 ?
Katia HAYEK (Université Masaryk de Brno) –  Du flou à la société : le roman du romantisme dit noir
Vasile SPIRIDON (Université d’Économie de Bratislava / Université de Bacău) – Le flou chez Nerval
Sunil KUMAR (Université Charles) – Une image féministe floue de Gustave Flaubert en Inde
Barnabé PIRET (Université de Liège) – Le faubourg Saint-Germain : floutage et brouillage d’un lieu dans la littérature. Étude de cas chez Rutlidge, Balzac et Barbey d’Aurevilly

19h : dîner

Samedi 26 août

8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner

9h – 10h30 : Sylviane COYAULT (CELIS Université Clermont Auvergne) – Le flou générique dans Autoportrait en vert de Marie Ndiaye
Zuzana MALINOVSKÁ (Université Comenius de Bratislava) – Noëlle Revaz : du flou au précis
Eva VOLDŘICHOVÁ BERÁNKOVÁ (Université Charles) – Le flou transgressif chez Didier Eribon

10h30 – 11h : pause-café

11h – 12h30 : Jan BIERHANZL (Université Charles) – L’heure bleue et le rêve éveillé chez Ernst Bloch
Róbert KARUL (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – Archi-événement dans les écrits de Claude Romano
Alžbeta KUCHTOVÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – Le flou insaisissable et la pensée environnementale

12h30 – 13h30 : déjeuner

13h30 – 15h30 : Ján ŽIVČÁK (Université de Prešov) – Nouvelles perspectives sur les pièges d’un discours poétique flou de la fin du Moyen Âge : Jozef Felix face à François Villon
Jaroslav STANOVSKÝ (Moravská zemská knihovna) – Les écrits de Maximilian Lamberg à la frontière des genres et des styles
Dóra SZÉKESI (Université de Szeged) – Jacques le Fataliste et son maître de Denis Diderot, un flou artistique
Andrea TUREKOVÁ (Université d’Économie de Bratislava) – Le flou des sentiments dans le roman libertin

15h30 – 16h : pause-café

16h – 18h :  Anna LUŇÁKOVÁ (Université Charles) – Image rémanente
Jon STEWART (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – La technique de la caméra tremblante en cinématographie : une
exploration du flou de la perception
Tetyana SERGIENKO (Université Charles) – Le flou en musique : une rétrospective historique
Daniel VOJTEK (Université Šafárik de Košice) – Flou terminologique en grammaire : le cas du français et du slovaque

19h : dîner

Dimanche 27 août

8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner

9h – 10h30 : Erzsébet FENYVESINÉ PROHÁSZKA (Université de Szeged) – Les représentations de l’incertitude dans la peinture française au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle
Zsófia IVÁN-SZŰR (Université de Szeged) – La touche de Jean Siméon Chardin et la vision trompée
Katalin KOVÁCS (Université de Szeged) – « Les nuages qui passent » : contribution à la peinture des nuages aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
Luca RAUSCH-MOLNÁR (Université de Szeged) – Watteau : artiste mélancolique ou œuvre mélancolique ?

10h30 – 11h : pause-café

11h – 12h30 : Kateřina SEGEŠOVÁ (Université Masaryk de Brno / Université de Sorbonne) – Le flou de Bohuslav Reynek
Michaela RUMPÍKOVÁ (Université Charles) – Pour une nouvelle ontologie des corps : « gender/genre blurring » au
sein de l’espace littéraire
Silvia RYBÁROVÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – à préciser
Dalibor ŽÍLA (Université Masaryk de Brno) – Mémoire floue à travers Les Années d’Annie Ernaux

12h30 – 13h30 : déjeuner

section anglaise
13h30 – 15h30 Ivana KOMANICKÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – Negative Capability and John Keats : Thinking in writing
Katalin STEWART (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – The Ambiguity of Perception: The Turn of the Screw as an Aporetic
novel
Dagmar KUSÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – à préciser
Lukáš SIEGEL (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – The Relative Individual: Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy in the Age of Modern Technologies

15h30 – 16h : pause-café

16h – 17h30 : Michal LIPTÁK (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) –Fleeting promise of happiness: phenomenological reading of Adorno’s philosophy of avant-garde music
Marcel ŠEDO (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – French meditations on the concept of event (according to Heidegger)
Michal ZVARÍK (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – The Dead In And Among Us. Jan Patočka’s Concept of After-Life

19h : dîner

Lundi 28 août

8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner

matinée : départ des participants

A cartographic perspective on Northern Africa and Middle East

A Cartographic Perspective on Northern Africa and Middle East after Arab Revolutions

Second session of the 2023-2024 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by beginning by questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, November 3rd, 10 am
Language: French

Speaker : Maher BEN REBBAH, CNRS
Discussant : Clément Steuer, IIR, Prague; associate at CEFRES

“Plus de dix ans après les révoltes populaires dans les pays arabes, comment le printemps arabe a redessiné le “Monde Arabe” ? L’objectif de cet essai de cartographie est loin de faire un bilan des révolutions. Il s’agit tracer la nouvelle géopolitique multiscalaire de la région au prisme de ces révoltes.”

Maher Ben Rebbah is geographer, member of CNRS research institute Ladyss (UMR7533)

A European Middle Ages | Doctoral Workshop

A European Middle Ages. Circulation of Objects, Practices, and Techniques between Central and Western Europe (1000–1600)

Fourth PhD Students Workshop organized within the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Date: April 24, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online, to get the link, register at the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language of the workshop: English

Convenors:

  • Lise Saussus, Center of historical research, UMR 8558, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences
  • Jakub Sawicki, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
  • Tomasz Cymbalak, National Heritage Institute, Prague
  • Nicolas Thomas, National Institute of Preventive Archeological Research, Laboratory of Western Medieval Studies, Paris
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