A session led by Mátyás Erdélyi
The present seminar session investigates how social statistics were created, comprehended, and used for commercial and public purposes in Dualist Hungary. It explores different modes of quantification, the inter- or pre-disciplinary sights of scientific production, and power relations between competing expert and nascent professions. Central to this line of inquiry is the investigation of relations between statisticians and other notables (i.e. every person worth of attention and involved in the debate, be it a politician, businessman, any type of scholar) inclined to claim authority over the creation and political/economic use of social statistics. This session contributes to the overall discussions on the nature of interdisciplinarity by describing primeval workshops on interdisciplinarity and by showing how the search for timeless truths and objectivity can be deviated by political and economic interests amidst disciplinary competition.
Readings:
- Theodore M. Porter. ‘Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality.’ In Lorraine Daston (ed). Biographies of Scientific Objects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 226-246.
- Alain Desrosières. La Politique des Grands Nombres: Histoire de la Raison Statistique. Paris: La Découverte, 1993.
An intern seminar of CEFRES as the center welcomes its new members, post-doctoral researchers Aníbal Arregui, Thomas Mercier (CEFRES & Charles University) and Marianna Szczygielska (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Venue: conference room, Na Florenci, building A, 3rd floor
Language: English
2:15-3:30 Archives and Interculturality
- Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES/CNRS), PI: an introduction of the research project and a footnote on a mission in an Indian philosopher’s archives
- Thomas Mercier (CEFRES-UK): Studying the philosophical text from the standpoint of its archive: Derrida’s readings of Marxist texts in unpublished materials
- Discussion
3:45-5:15 Bewildering Boar Project
- Ludĕk Brož (Institute of Ethnology AV ČR & CEFRES) and Virginie Vaté (CNRS), PIs: an introduction of the TANDEM research project
- Aníbal Arregui: Animating the Wild Pig: Bows and Arrows in European Ecopolitics
- Marianna Szczygielska: Wild Pigs and Proud Elephants: Engendering Wildlife in Central Eastern Europe
- Discussion
CEFRES is glad to participate to a special session of the FF UK Phd seminar of the Institute of Romance studies. It will be hosted by:
Astrid Greve Kristensen (PhD candidate at Paris-Sorbonne University & associated fellow at CEFRES)
Topic: Intertextuality: A Mesh of Fiction and History
Organiser: Chiara MENGOZZI (Institute of Romance studies, FF UK & associated fellow at CEFRES)
Where: online
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Tuesday, May 4th, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Language: English
Reading:
Hutcheons Linda, “Historiographical Metafiction: Parody and the Intertextuality of History” in Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. O’Donnell, P., and Robert Con Davis. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. 3-32.
SILF 2024
45th International Colloquium of Functional Linguistics
The colloquium will focus on three main themes: Language and the Media, Europe as a Mosaic of Languages, and Grammaticalization and Dynamic Synchrony. The organizers have also prepared another specific theme, namely a workshop on semiology.
Date: Octobre 2-5, 2024
Location: Faculty of Arts, UP Olomouc, Křížkovského 512/10
Languagee: French, English, Czech
Organizers: SILF (International Society for Functional Linguistics), CEFRES, Olomouc Section of the Linguistic Association of the Czech Republic
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International 4EU+ conference: “Facing familiar violence”, Women’s Creative and Literary Practices in Central and Southeastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Century
The conference is part of the project “Displacements: Gendered-based Violence, Women’s Writing and Creative Practices in Modern Central and Southeastern Europe” (4EU+ mini grant).
Date: 9-10 November, 2023
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague
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Languages: French and English
Organizers: Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne), Eva Krásová (FF UK), Iwona Kurz (IKP WP UW) and Clara Royer (Sorbonne).
Partners: CEFRES (CNRS-MEAE), Eur’ORBEM (CNRS, Sorbonne University), Centrum genderových studíi a Ústav české literatury a komparatistiky (FF UK), Instytut Kultury Polskiej (WP UW).
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Lecture by Pr. Dmitry Anatolyevich FUNK (Head of the Department of Ethnology, Moscow State University)
in the frame of the PhD program in Anthropology of the Pécs University, as part of the lecture cycle supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme and CEFRES.
Where: PTE BTK, Ifjúság útja 6. D épület D/425 terem, in Pécs, Hungary.
