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The naming conflicts “revolution” and “civil war” in Greece

A lecture by Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES)  in the frame of the Franco-czech historical seminar organized by Institute for Czech History of the Faculty of arts, Charles University (FFUK), in collaboration with CEFRES.

Venue: Faculty of Arts of Charles University, nám. J. Palacha 2, Prague 1, room 201
Time: 9:10-12:30
Language: French

Summary

This seminar aims to question the concept of (lost) revolution through a contemporary historical moment: the Greek Civil War (1946-49).  In order to achieve it, we will first present the balance of power of different actors (national and international) during a period that begins with the Occupation (1941) and extends until the outbreak of armed conflict.  In the second part we will try to provide some answers to the following questions: What was the political project of the Resistance movement for the day after the Liberation? “Was it possible, for a country in the camp of the West, for a social revolution or a Civil War guided by communists to succeed at that time? Was it possible for such a strong social movement to overturn the geopolitical relations that the Allies had accepted during World War II? ».

Worker Photography in Museums: History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe

International Workshop 

Date & Venue: 26th -27th February 2020, Institute of  Art History, CEFRES, Lower Hall, Prague
Organizers: Institute of Art History (CAS) & CEFRES
In partnership with: Institute of Contemporary History (CAS), Université Paris-Nanterre, within the Strategy AV21 framework
Language: English

This international workshop examines the legacy of worker photography as museum object, cultural heritage and history in East-Central Europe from 1945 until today. How was worker photography preserved, historized, and mediated in East- Central European museums?

Program

Wednesday 26 February 2020
Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1

16.30-17.30 Keynote Lecture
Christian Joschke (Université Paris-Nanterre, Paris)
“How German Communists Invented French Radical Photography. Regards and Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (1928-1936)”

17.30 Discussion

Thursday 27 February 2020
CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1

9.45-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.30 Welcome and Introduction
Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES, Prague)
Petra Trnková (PHRC, De Montfort University, Leicester / Photography Research Centre, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Fedora Parkmann (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences / CEFRES, Prague)

Panel 1: Photographs in Changing Contexts
Chair: Christian Joschke (Université Paris-Nanterre)

10.30-11.00
 Lucia Almášiová (Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava).
“From Amateur Social Criticism to Institutional Art” 

11.00-11.30
Katalin Bognár (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest)
“Uses of Interwar Worker Photographs in post-1945 Hungarian Public Collections”

11.30-11.45 Coffee break

11.45-12.15
Fedora Parkmann (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences / CEFRES, Prague)
“The Family Photographs of Antonín Zápotocký: between Private and Public Memory”

12.15-12.45
Anna Hejmová (Arts and Theatre Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences / Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague)
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Iconology of Physical Culture Photography in the Interwar and Postwar Period

12.45-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.30 Lunch break

Panel 2: Institutional Practices
Chair: Petra Trnková (PHRC, De Montfort University, Leicester / Photography Research Centre, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

14.30-15.00
Andreas Ludwig (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam)
“Contemporary Collecting in History Museums: Material Evidence or Cultural Memory as Concurring Conceptions – GDR, Sweden, West-Germany”

15.00-15.30
Tomáš Kavka (National Museum, Prague) – Čeněk Pýcha (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague)
“Museum of the Working Class Movement for the 21st Century”

15.30-16.00
Françoise Mayer (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier).
“Communism in Museum: What Kind of Challenge?”

16.00-16.15 Discussion and Conclusion

The workshop is supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences within the Strategy AV21 framework, the CEFRES in Prague and Université Paris-Nanterre (HAR EA 4414).

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)

To live on the margins of the city

Roundtable

On behalf of the 2020 Night of ideas and its theme: “Living the City”, CEFRES and the French Institute in Prague are organizing a roundtable on what it means to live and act in the context of the city nowadays.

Venue: CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Time: 3 pm
Organizers: CEFRES, French Institute in Prague
Language: English

Speakers:

  • Marianne Blidon, geographer, specialist in geography of sexualities and gay migrations
  • Eszter Gyorgy, sociologist, specialist in Roma minorities in Hungary
  • Yuliya Moskvina, PhD student in sociology, specialist in radical urban critique
  • Felipe K. Fernandes, PhD student in anthropology, specialist in Vietnamese migrations in the Czech Republic

Moderated by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES Director)

CEFRES review of books – December 2019

The new edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 12th June at 5 pm at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.

This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.

So far, the following presentations are announced:

  • Patrick BOUCHERON : La trace et l’aura (Paris : Seuil, 2019), by Arthur Perodeau
  • Sonia COMBE : La loyauté à tout prix. Les floués du “socialisme réel” (Le Bord de l’eau, 2019), by Jérôme Heurtaux
  • Octave DEBARY : De la poubelle au musée. Une anthropologie des restes (Créaphis, 2019) by Fedora Parkmann
  • Alexandre GEFEN : Réparer le monde. La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (Corti, 2017), by Radek Karkovský
  • Catherine MALABOU : Métamorphoses de l’intelligence (PUF 2017) by Thomas C. Mercier
  • Michel PASTOUREAU : Le Loup (Seuil, 2018), by Adéla Klinerová

Postcolonial issues / decolonizing theory

Fifth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by:

Vojtěch Šarše (FF UK / associated to CEFRES)
Benedetta Zaccarello (CNRS / CEFRES)
Topic: Postcolonial issues / decolonizing theory

Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 11 December 2019, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English

Texts to be read:

  • Enrique Dussel : “A new age in the history of philosophy: The world dialogue between philosophical traditions”. Philosphy and Criticism, 2009, May 15, p. 499-515. DOI: 10.1177/0191453709103424
  • Aurobindo Ghose, “A Misunderstanding of Continents” & “Towards Unification”. In: Complete Works, Vol. 12.”Essays Divine and Human”, p. 389-393.
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah: “Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?”. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter, 1991), pp. 336-357