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Household, kinship, intimacy: the reconfiguration of living together

Household, kinship, intimacy: the reconfiguration of living together

Ph students’ workshop, EHESS-CEFRES, CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague

When: May 3, 2022, 9:30 am-6:00 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online
Language: English

Coordinators: Emmanuel Desveaux (EHESS), Falk Bretschneider (coordinator of the EHESS-CEFRES cooperation), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Petr Gibas (CAS)

Supervisors: Valeria Siniscalchi (EHESS, centre Norbert Elias, Marseille), Chloé Mondémé (CNRS), Michèle Baussant (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES)

The conference will be at CEFRES and simultaneously on zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83512848136?pwd=RFZYMWhTTkNUZ2p5RmdNZmRVRVF3dz09

Meeting ID: 835 1284 8136

Passcode: 975084

See the program below.

9h30 | Welcoming and presentation of the participants (Jérôme Heurtaux, Falk Breitschneider, Valeria Siniscalchi, Emmanuel Désveaux)

9h45 | Emmanuel Désveaux, What is a house ? An anthropological point of view.

10h45 | First general discussion

11h | Coffee break

11h15 | Barbora Kyereko, Cocoa and kinship among the matrilinear Akans of Ghana

12h | Véronique Gruca, Restoring balance after disruption. The organisation and reorganisation of daily life within a household of nomadic pastoralists in rural Mongolia

13h | Lunch

14h | Tuğba Gökduman, The (De)Sacralization of the Household: On Intimate Autonomy of Young Women in Contemporary Turkey

14h45 | Astrid Greve Kristensen, The Bosom of the House: Orphans’ Homes in Post-war Literature

15h30 | Coffee Break

15h45 | Vojtěch Pojar, Between “Reducing the Rural Overpopulation” and “Boosting the Aggregate Demand”: Great Depression and the Reconfiguration of Expert Debates about Rural Families and Their Reproductive Choices in Interwar Czechoslovakia

16h30 | Second general discussion

Houses for the Gods “For Sale”. The Journey of Sora paintings (India)

Cécile Guillaume-Pey (CEFRES-FMSH) will give a lecture within the Gellner seminar organized by the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA– Česká Asociace pro Sociální Antropologii), the Masaryk Czech Society of Sociology, in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Where: New York University, Malé náměstí 11, Praha 1 – Staré Město (1st floor, entry from the passage), Prague.

Abstract: Among the Sora tribe (Odisha-Andhra Pradesh) one finds mural paintings in front of which sacrifices are performed. These images are considered to be houses for deities whose presence is thus materialized in the domestic space. Their designing is part of a ritual which requires close collaboration between a painter and other religious specialists who, through songs, invite local deities to inhabit the pictures. But these “altar-paintings” may be disconnected from the converging agencies set in motion by the ritual. As cultural emblems displayed in regional museums or as articles for sale in “tribal markets,’’ or even as animated movies used as political instruments denouncing the abuses perpetrated against Adivasi/Tribal groups, Sora paintings inspire a large range of modern-day media. We will follow the journey of these images which traverse cultural, ethnic, and national boundaries.

How to Address the Loss – Book Presentation

Presentation of the book: How to address the Loss ? Forced Migrations, Lost Territories and the Politics of History. A Comparative Approach in Europe and at its Margins in the XXth Century, Bruxelles (et al.), Peter Lang, 2018.

A Tandem Webinar
organized by Michèle Baussant (CEFRES, CNRS), with the collaboration of Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / Charles University) and Johana Wyss (Czech Academy of Sciences / CEFRES) and led by Florence Vychytil-Baudoux,  associated membre of CEFRES and doctoral student at EHESS Paris

Lecturers 

  • Anne Bazin (Sciences po/Ceraps), Lille
  • Catherine Perron (CERI, Sciences po), Paris

Discussants

  • Catherine Klein Gousseff (CERCEC, CNRS), Paris
  • Katja Hrobat Virloget (University of Primorska), Koper

Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83904186941
Meeting ID: 839 0418 6941

How to build a Republic?

Date & Venue: 25 February 2020, 17h, Academic Conference Center (Husova 4a Prague 1)
Organizers:  Polish Institute in Prague, CEFRES & OIKOYMENH
Language: English (Czech translation)

Debate around the Czech translation and publication (2019) of the book Considerations on the Government of Poland of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782).

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Considerations on the government of Poland (1771) is the last political work of the philosopher, and the only one that had not yet been translated in Czech. It is an unique reflection on the republican regime of the Polish-Lithuanian state, which statements will be used again a few years later, during the American federalists talks on the means to create a liberal republic. 

With Polish, Czech and  French specialists of Rousseau:

  • Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (European Centre of Natolin, Varsovie)
  • Hana Fořtová (FLÚ AV ČR)
  • Gabrielle Radica (University of Lille)

Moderator: Jan Květina (Institute of History of the CAS)

How to Make Sense of Class, Status, and Power: The Example of the Bürgertum

Mátyás Erdélyi (CEFRES / CEU) will host CEFRES/IMS FSV Seminar on Thursday November 10th (15:30) at CEFRES Library.

How to Make Sense of Class, Status, and Power: The Example of the Bürgertum

Texts to be read are:

  • Jürgen Kocka, « The middle classes in Europe », The Journal of Modern History, vol. 67, n° 4, 1995, p. 783-806.
  • Max Weber, « The distribution of power within the community : Classes, Stände, Parties », Journal of Classical Sociology, vol. 10, n° 2, 2010, p. 137-152.

Texts:

How to study Romanian conservative intellectuals?

How to study Romanian conservative intellectuals in transnational perspective?

5th session of CEFRES Seminar

When: Wednesday 6 April 2022, 4:30 pm
Where: CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
Host: Anemona Constantin (CEFRES/Charles University)

Abstract:

“Populist,” “illiberal,” “nationalist,” or “conservative”: these are some common ways to refer nowadays to political actors, social movements, or intellectuals who criticize liberalism. These overused, worn-out, and often abused labels have been reinvented despite some obvious theoretical flaws and methodological biases. Perhaps, because these terms are fulfilling a vital social and political function – naming and shaming what appears to be at the climax of the ideological undesirability – they continue to be widely used in the media and by social scientists. A few questions emerge naturally: how to engage with a research field undermined by so many negative preconceptions? How to study an object labeled in such a derogatory way? Which research methods would allow us to break with the common beliefs and approach the conservative mobilizations more reflexively?

To answer these questions, the presentation examines a specific case: the Romanian conservative intellectuals and their contribution to the political debates that have challenged since 2007 the “liberal consensus” established in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after the demise of state- socialism. By “liberal consensus,” I understand discourses that have accepted and promoted human rights (including minority rights and tolerance towards cultural, religious, and gender diversity), the market economy, the rule of law, and the European integration. By “conservative” intellectuals, I understand public figures who define themselves as such.

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