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Populism in East-Central Europe

Debate around a book by
Roman Krakovský
“Populism in East-Central Europe”

With the participation of the author and, as discussants:
Pavel Barša (FF UK) and
Michel Perottino (FSV UK)
Introduction: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Moderation: Zora Hesová (FF UK)

Where: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, nám. Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1, room P104
When: 5 November 2019, 6:30 pm
Organizers: CEFRES, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, with the French Institute in Prague
Language: English

Whereas the fall of communism in 1989 was considered as a victory of democracy on authoritarism, thirty years later, the region is facing a wave of populist movements among the most virulent in Europe. How can we understand this paradox? In his book, Roman Krakovský offers a historical insight into east-central European populism.

Roman Krakovský is historian, lecturer at Geneva University, specialized on east-central Europe. Author of:
– Réinventer le monde. Le temps et l’espace en Tchécoslovaquie communiste (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2014)
– L’Europe centrale et orientale de 1918 à la chute du mur de Berlin (Armand Colin, 2018)
He has just published: Le populisme en Europe centrale. Un avertissement pour le monde ? (Fayard, 2019)

This debate is part of CEFRES Visegrad Forum and follows a book presentation in Bratislava, 4.11.2019.

GODTalks

Workshop with Tanya Luhrmann

Date: 1st November 2019, 9:00-18:30
Venue: CEFRES Library
Organizers: Charles University (Institute of sociological studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences), Barbora Spalová in collaboration with CEFRES
Language: English

The workshop “GODTalks” is intended for researchers and students who would like to consult their work with Tanya Luhrmann.

Program

10:00-11:00: Zdeněk Konopásek, Charles University Prague
Religion in action: How private apparitions may become true/real

11:15-12:15: Marek Liška, Charles University Prague
How does the Relationship with God come to being in the Christian Community?

12:30-13:30: Samuel Dolbeau, UC Louwain / EHESS Paris
Translating God´s closeness into a catholic language: The case study of a French catholic charismaic community

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:00: Taťána Bužeková, Comenius University in Bratislava
Spirituality, purity and health: What is “right” and what is “wrong” about altered states of consciousness

16:15-17:15: Jan Tesárek, Charles university of Prague
Messengers of Light: Semiotics of Multiple Subjectivities in Czech Angelic Spirituality

17:30-18:30: Joanna Lipinska, University of Warsaw
Transplanting Wicca – an anthropological perspective on how the Polish Wicca develops and does it differ from its British origin?

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Tanya Marie Luhrmann (Watkins Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University). Her work focuses on the edge experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the phenomenology of unusual sensory experiences. Her very appreciated books are Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (1989); When God Talks Back: Understanding the American evangelical relationship with God (2012); Our Most Troubling Madness: Schizophrenia and Culture (2016) and others.

During her stay in Prague, she will also deliver a lecture “How Gods (and God) Become Real for Men: Drives a Feeling of Presence”, on 31st October 2019 at 18:30 at Hollar, FSV UK (Smetanovo nábřeží. 6, room 4).

Noble Elites and Promotion of the Industry in the 18th and 20th Century Europe

Preparatory Roundtable for the 23e International Congress of  Historical Sciences in Poznań 2020

Date & Venue: 31 October 2019, 13:00-17:00, CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Organizers: (Electro)technic History Laboratory (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, ČVUT, Prague), CEFRES, Association of Historians of the Czech Republic, Association for Economic and Social History of the Czech Republic, Université Bordeaux Montaigne & École polytechnique, Paris
Language: French

Programme
I. Opening
  • Mathieu Wellhoff, Attaché of Scientific and University Cooperation (French Embassy, Czech Republic)
  • Jiří Kocian, Director of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic & Deputy Director of the National Committee of Historical Sciences
  • Mme Marcela Efmertová, Director of the Association for Economic and Social History of the Czech Republic

II. Roundtable

  • Prof. Michel Figeac (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : Noblesse et innovation économique au siècle des Lumières
  • Prof. Éric Godelier (École polytechnique de Paris) : Comment traiter de la nationalité en histoire des entreprises : quelques pistes de réflexion
  • Prof. Milan Hlavačka (Institut d’histoire de l’Académie tchèque des sciences, Prague) : Les Ringhoffer, une famille d’entrepreneurs anoblis (en anglais)
  • Prof. Marcela Efmertová (Université polytechnique de Prague) : František Křižík – membre de la Chambre haute du Parlement (Panská sněmovna), et l’électrification des Pays tchèques

 III. Discussion

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This Preparatory Roundtable for the 23rd International Congress of  Historical Sciences in Poznań 2020 continues on Friday 1st of November 2019, from 10:00am, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Prague (room 80). See the full program (in French): Electrification and computer sciences in Czechoslovakia.

“Domination” under the Third Reich

The second session of the Epistemological seminar organized by CEFRES (Jérôme Heurtaux) and the Institute for International studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (IMS FSV UK) (Tomáš Weiss and Mitchell Young) will be hosted by:

Pascal Schneider (PhD student at Paris-Sorbonne University, associated to CEFRES), who will introduce

The notion of “domination” under the Third Reich, taking the example of the annexed territories.

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Refugee camps in Bohemia and Moravia in the WWI

A lecture by Alena Jindrová (Museum of Vysočina Region, Havlíčkův Brod – CZ) in the frame of the Seminar on contemporary Jewish History organized by the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CEFRES and the Prague Center for Jewish Studies

Where: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: from 5:30 pm to 7 pm
Language: English

Abstract

During the WWI, refugees came mainly to the central parts of monarchy – Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian lands (Carinthia, Carniola, Lower Austria, Upper Austria).  As the war broke out, the first camps were hastily built and transports of refugees were organized by the authorities. But many people fled their houses in chaos and were unable to support themselves. My research project focuses on the refugee camps in the Czech lands and the institutions that were in charge of refugees. So far, no summarizing study deals with the history of refugee camps in the area of the present Czech Republic, such as the large camps in Havlíčkův Brod, Choceň, Kyjov, Mikulov, Pohořelice, Moravská Třebová and Uherské Hradiště. Especially the history of the Moravian camps remains undocumented and we miss even basic a knowledge about when and how they were founded, built, and administrated, and for how many refugees they were intended. I also examine state attempts to control and support refugees and the organization of the aid. Baron Hirsch Fund, Israelitische Alliance in Wien and some regional societies played an important role in providing for the refugees. But in spite of efforts of government and activists, many difficulties remained: research project also focuses on the problematic aspects of the refugee relief, including the history of camps and fates of refugees towards the end of the war.

In cooperation with the “Unlikely refuge?” project.

CEFRES Epistemological Seminar – introductive session

The first introductive session will be hosted by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES’ director), Tomáš Weiss (IMS FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK) who will introduce the seminar and present general remarks about concepts and their uses in humanities and social sciences.

To introduce this session, we shall base our discussion on the following texts:

  • John Gerring, “What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences”, Polity 31-3, 1999, p. 357-393.
  • Giovanni SARTORI, „ Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics“, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 64, No. 4. (Dec., 1970), pp. 1033-1053.

During this session, the program of the winter semester will be set up.