A lecture by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES director) as part 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
Date & Time: 21 November 2019, 9:10-12:10
Language: French
Abstract:
As a canonical object of social sciences, the revolutionary phenomenon provoked numerous comparative approaches in sociology, history and political sciences. Which statement can we draw from the international comparison of revolutions? On the strength of the scientific literature and of his own searches about the fall of communism in Poland and about the Tunisian revolution, Jérôme Heurtaux will point out the advantages and the limits of the comparative exercise, and will make the case for a controlled and an erratic comparison.
JÉRÔME HEURTAUX is director of the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) in Prague. He is a specialist in regime change and in democratic transitions. Among his several publications belong La démocratie par le droit. Pologne 1989-2016 (Presses de Sciences po, 2017), Introduction à l’Europe postcommuniste (avec Frédéric Zalewski, De Boeck, 2012) and 1989 à l’Est de l’Europe. Une mémoire controversée (in co-direction with Cédric Pellen, L’Aube, 2009). He publishes in 2019 Pologne, 1989. Comment le communisme s’est effondré (Éditions Codex).
Informal meeting with Claire Zalc about her research
Open to public.
Discussants: Pavel Baloun (FHS UK/CEFRES), Florence Vychytil-Baudoux (EHESS/CEFRES), Francesca Rolandi (Masaryk Institute of the CAS)
Moderated by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Venue: CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Date: 18 November 2019, 2-4 pm
Organizer: CEFRES
Language: English
Claire Zalc (CNRS) is a prolific and innovative french historian specializing in immigration issues, Jewish studies and economic history. She has published several books, some of which have been translated into English, such as Microhistories of the Holocaust (dir., with Bruttmann), New York, Berghahn Books, 2016 and Quantitative Methods in the Humanities. An Introduction (with Claire Lemercier), Virginia Press, 2019. She is also Principal Investigator de l’ERC Consolidator LUBARTWORLD « Migration and Holocaust : Transnational Trajectories of Lubartow Jews Across the World (1920s-1950s) ».
Gellner Seminar
Tatjana Thelen (Professor in the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna) will give a lecture within the Gellner seminar organized by the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA– Česká Asociace pro Sociální Antropologii), the Czech Society of Sociology, in cooperation with the Department of General Anthropology (FHS UK) and CEFRES.
When: 14 November 2019, 5:30 pm
Where: CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Language: English
Abstract
State, Kinship, Care: Towards a relational Approach
In October of this year (2019), the first two so-called ISIS-children arrived in Austria. Their mother was separated from her children, had disappeared during the war. Nothing is known about the father. Lacking birth certificates, citizenship was granted based on a DNA-test that established the kinship with their Austrian mother. The Kurdish self-government then gave them over to the Austrian state representatives at the Syrian border. Meanwhile, custody has been transferred to their maternal grandmother. This is only one recent example of the deep entanglement between kinship, state and care. Despite and constant co-production, kinship and state are still often dealt with conceptually separately, or even contrasting domains, which creates unhelpful blind spots. In my talk I will propose a relational approach that uses care as an entry road into ethnographically researching their intricate relationship. The aim is to show how kinship is not only influenced by the state but also shapes political structures. Ultimately, I argue that overcoming the stereotypical divide and myth of the “modern” family as functionless in politics, can be an important contribution of anthropology in public debates.
Tatjana Thelen is Professor in the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. She has carried out fieldwork in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and eastern Germany on questions of property reform, care, kinship and the state. The epistemic foundations and significance of boundary work between kinship and state formations increasingly form the focus of her research. This was at the heart of the interdisciplinary research group on Kinship and Politics, which she co-led at the Center for Interdisciplinary research in Bielefeld (ZIF). Recently, she co-edited Reconnecting State and Kinship (University of Pennsylvania Press 2018) and Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State (Berghahn 2017).
A lecture by Eraldo Souza Dos Santos (PhD candidate at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, associated at CEFRES) as part 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: 14 November 2019, 9:10-12:10
Language: French
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Second session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by
Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/associated at CEFRES)
Topic: Civil Disobedience: A Conceptual History
Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 13 November 2019 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English
Text to be read:
- Alexander LIVINGSTON. “Fidelity to Truth: Gandhi and the Genealogy of Civil Disobedience.” Political Theory 46 (4), 2018, pp. 511-536.
A lecture by Elizabeth Anthony (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) in the frame of the seminar on Modern 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
Of the pre-Anschluss total of more than 200,000 Austrian Jews – both self-identified and those categorized as such by National Socialist “racial” policy – more than 90 percent lived in Vienna. Some 130,000 managed to escape but the Nazis murdered no less than 65,000, and by 8 May 1945, fewer than 6,000 remained alive in the capital city. Some survivors reemerged from hiding immediately upon the Soviets’ conquest of the city and those who had endured internment in concentration camps joined them there shortly thereafter. The majority of Austrian Jews who survived in exile remained abroad, but a few thousand also returned to reestablish lives in Vienna.
Why lay down roots anew in a homeland from which they had been deported or expelled, and why choose to live among former compatriots who neither expected nor desired their return? What did survivors expect to find in Vienna? What reality did they encounter? And why did they stay? This presentation elucidates the different concepts of familial home, political home, and professional home that inspired a handful of Viennese Jews to go back to their hometown. It analyzes the first opportunities survivors took to exert personal agency for their futures in the immediate postwar period with their emotional, political, and professional reconnection to Viennese society.
