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What Did the Typewriter Do to Banking? Bureaucratic Practices, Materiality, and the Logic of Capitalism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

3rd session of CEFRES Seminar 2021-2022

What Did the Typewriter Do to Banking?
Bureaucratic Practices, Materiality, and the Logic of Capitalism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy

Hosted by:
Mátyás Erdélyi, post-doctoral fellow at CEFRES and Charles University

When: November 3rd, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Where: CEFRES and online (to register please mail to claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English

Abstract
In this talk, I present my current research project that focuses on bureaucratic practices in banking at the turn of the century from the perspective of the materiality of office work. The project reconstructs the emergence of the modern bureau by relating the “grubby details” of office work to the multi-faceted identity of functionaires. Based on the case study of several savings banks in the Dual Monarchy, it studies how the logic of capitalism materialized and was embodied in different forms, how bureaucratic practices were implanted in the body and hands of clerks, and what exactly clerks did and they did it with what?

 

 

War in Ukraine and exile

The scientific workshop “War in Ukraine and exile” will bring together European researchers to present the preliminary results of their interviews and observations conducted after 24 February 2022 among exiles from three countries: Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. The presentations of papers will address the following themes: trajectories of exiles (mobilised networks, successive displacements), exile experiences (emotions, intimacy), forms of politicisation (ordinary and institutional), interactions between different exiled communities, relations between exiles and host societies/states, relations with relatives left at home, representations and imaginaries associated with the war and its consequences. The workshop is organised in the framework of the BIELEXIL research project. The latter is financed by the flash grant dedicated to Ukraine from the French Collaborative Institute on Migration (Institut Convergences Migrations, ICM).

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Walking through the spaces/traces of the past(s)

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

When: July 2nd, 2021, at 10:30 am
Where: Online
Connection link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960136043 
Language: English

Organizers:
Neža Čebron Lipovec, University of Primorska and
Maria Kokkinou, Charles University / CEFRES
Funding and Evaluation: Campus France, French Institute in Slovenia, MEAE, MESRI (France) Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenian ministry of science (Slovenia)

Speakers:
Gruia Bădescu, Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg,
University of Konstanz
Olga Sezneva, the Amsterdam Institute for Social
Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam

with the collaboration of:
Felipe Kaiser Fernandes (CEFRES / EHESS) and
Johana Wyss (CAS / CEFRES)

Voltaire Between the Rhine and the Danube (18th-19th Centuries)

Voltaire Days

Partners: CELLF, CEFRES, Voltaire Foundation (Oxford), Balassi Institute in Paris, Université d’Amiens Picardie
Venue: Amphithéâtre Michelet, 1 rue Victor Cousin, Paris
Dates: 22-23 juin 2018
Organizer: Guillaume MÉTAYER (CELLF)
Language: French

Program

Friday 22 June

9:00
Christophe MARTIN (director of CELLF) and Guillaume MÉTAYER (CELLF): Welcome

Panel I: Voltaire and the German Lands
Chair: Sylvain MENANT (CELLF)

9:15
Gérard LAUDIN (Sorbonne Université) : Les Annales de l’Empire

9:45
Myrtille MÉRICAM-BOURDET (Université Lyon II): Voltaire historien de l’Empire : sur quelques aspects de la question religieuse

10:15
Renaud BRET-VITOZ (Université de Toulouse Jean-Jaurès): L’expérience théâtrale de Voltaire à Berlin et Potsdam entre 1750 et 1753, autour du Duc d’Alençon ou les frères ennemis

10:45 Break

Panel II: Round table on the Manuscripts of Frederic II
Chair: Natalia SPERANSKAYA (Saint Petersburg)
  • Natalia SPERANSKAYA (Bibliothèque nationale de Russie, Saint Petersburg): Un manuscrit de La Poloniade de Frédéric II dans la bibliothèque de Voltaire
  • Vanessa de SENARCLENS (Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald): L’Art de la guerre de Frédéric annoté par Voltaire
  • Gillian PINK (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford): Les Œuvres du philosophe de Sans Souci annotées par Voltaire

12:00 Break

Panel III: Presence and Circulation of Voltaire’s Work in the Empires
Chair: Gérard LAUDIN

12:15
Daniele MAIRA (Université de Göttingen): La Henriade en Allemagne: traductions et réception XVIIIe-XIXe siècles

14:30
Jean BOUTAN (Sorbonne Université, Paris) : De La Pucelle à La Guerre des Femmes, la “Jungfrau in Waffen” dans la culture tchèque

15:00
Emese EGYED (Université de Cluj-Napoca) : Le double message du comte János Fekete: La Pucelle en hongrois (1799)

15:30
Olga PENKE (Université de Szeged) : L’écho hongrois des contes et des dialogues philosophiques de Voltaire

16:00 Break

Panel IV: Spreading and Publishing Voltaire’s Works
Chair: Nicholas CRONK

16:30
Linda GIL (Université de Montpellier III): Imprimer et diffuser Voltaire en Allemagne : l’édition Kehl des Œuvres complètes de Voltaire par la Société Littéraire Typographique

17:00
Claire MADL (CEFRES, Prague): Voltaire produit de librairie dans la monarchie des Habsbourg

7 pm : Lectures à haute voix par la Sorbonne sonore (Félix Libris)
Saturday 23 June
Panel V: Debating and Rewriting Voltaire
Chair: Ludolf PELIZEUS (Université de Picardie Amiens, CERCLL)

9:30
Nicholas CRONK (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford): Autour des Lettres philosophiques : la réponse de Johann Gustav Reinbeck à la lettre sur Locke

10:00
Sylvie LE MOËL (Sorbonne Université): Fécondité et apories du tropisme voltairien chez Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

10:30 Break

11:00
Ritchie ROBERTSON (Université d’Oxford) : Wieland, the German Voltaire

11:30
András KÁNYÁDI (INALCO, Paris): Casanova et Fréderic le Grand dans les lettres hongroises inconnues de Voltaire

12:00 — Final Conclusions by Christiane MERVAUD (Honorary President of the SEV)

Visual Sources in the Historian’s Studio. Solidarność through Films and Photographs

Vth Session of CEFRES Seminar 2021-2022

Visual Sources in the Historian’s Studio. Solidarność through Films and Photographs

When: Wednesday 1st December 2021, 4:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Host:

Ania Szczepanska, Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne University (lab. HICSA),  documentary filmmaker

Having been exploring the Polish archives of the communist era, Ania Szczepanska published a book on cinema as a critical response to the regime in Poland in the 1970s. Her first documentary, Nous filmons le peuple ! [We Film the People!] (Abacaris, Les films de l’Air, Ciné +), is dedicated to the conflicts between the communist power and artists, more precisely around the filmmaker Andrzej Wajda. This documentary film was selected in competition in 2013 at the International History Film Festival (Festival international du film d’Histoire) and was awarded an Étoile (star) by the Scam (Civil Society of Multimedia authors). Moreover, she also directed Solidarność, la chute du mur commence en Pologne [Sollidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe] (Looksfilm, 2019) which was broadcasted on Arte on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.

As author of numerous articles, she has also cowritten, together with Sylvie Lindeperg, a book devoted to audiovisual archives A qui appartiennent les images ? [To Whom Do the Images Belong?] (Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme, 2017). Her latest book, entitled Une histoire visuelle de Solidarność [A Visual History of Solidarność]  (Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’Homme, 2021), addresses the history of the Solidarność movement through elaborate visual traces on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Visual Representations, Memorials and Commemorations of WWII

Launch of the TANDEM incubator program CNRS-Slovak Academy of Sciences

Where: French Institute in Slovakia, Bratislava
When: June 26th, 4–6 pm

PROGRAM

4 pm – Opening Keynote

 Jacques JOUSLIN DE NORAY, First Counselor of the French Embassy in Slovakia
Pavol ŠAJGALÍK, President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
William BERTHOMIÈRE, Deputy Scientific Director Europe and International, CNRS SHS

 4:20 pm – Signature of the convention for Tandem CNRS-Charles University 2024–2029 program

For MEAE: Mr. Pascal Le DEUNFF, Ambassador of France to Slovakia or his representative
For the Slovak Academy of Sciences: Mr. Pavol ŠAJGALÍK, President
For CNRS: Mme Isabelle LONGIN, Regiona Delegate Paris-Normandie, represented by Mr William BERTHOMIÈRE

 4:30 pm – Presentation of the first selected project by Tandem CNRS-Charles University program

« VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS, MEMORIALS AND COMMEMORATIONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN CENTRAL EUROPE »

Laureates of the first Tandem CNRS-Slovak Academy of Science program, Petra HUDEK et Thomas CHOPARD will present their project which focus on historical narratives, memorials and commemorations in Slovakia, Czechia and Poland. Their research aims to analyze evolutions and re-elaboration of museums and monuments since the fall of communist regime until nowadays, to different scales : from great national museums from the Second World War to the local emblematic museums, and also museums dealing with the Shoah memory. The project aims to take into account the specific context of Central and Eastern Europe, and to analyze the impact of the war in Ukraine on the development of national movements in museums, monuments and during commemorations. Starting in 2024 and covering the intense phase of 2025 commemorations, this project will analyze visual static elements in exhibitions, catalogs and public history discourses, as well as more dynamic elements connected to the memorial schedule.

Petra HUDEK  is a historian at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Department of Contemporary History. In 2022-2023, she carried out her research project “Iconoclasm in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. The heritage of socialism in historical perspective” as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is currently preparing a monograph on Soviet war memorials in the Czechoslovak public space after 1989. Her research focuses on the politics of memory, museums, and the processes of museification of public space, as well as the instrumentalization of history.

Thomas CHOPARD is a historian and assistant professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Centre of Historical Research (EHESS/CRH). His research focuses on the history of anti-Jewish persecution and Jewish migration in Central and Eastern Europe. His early work focused on the pogroms and anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine during the revolutionary period, before contributing to the ERC project Lubartworld retracing the trajectories of the Jews of the Polish town of Lubartów. His current research is at the intersection of the study of forced displacement suffered by Jews during the Second World War and the history of Stalinist repression.

5:30 pm – Questions from the public                                                           

6 pm – Toast to friendship