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INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS

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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Intertextuality: A Mesh of Fiction and History

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.

Introduction to CEFRES research projects

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(CEFRES-UK): Studying the philosophical text from the standpoint of its archive: Derrida’s readings of Marxist texts in unpublished materials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

Inventing the Right Numbers: Social Statistics, Commercial Reason, and the Public Good

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.

Is Academic Freedom a Freedom of All?

CEFRES 30th Anniversary International Conference (Part 2), Prague, 25–26 November 2021

Venue: Prague, Carolinum, Ovocný trh 3, and online on CEFRES Facebook page and on Zoom
Date: 25–26 November 2021

Academic freedom is weakened and even challenged in many countries by various political, economic and religious powers. The indifference of the population for a freedom often perceived as a caste privilege aggravates this situation. It is therefore urgent to make academic freedom a public good that concerns all members of a society.

After a first part held last May, CEFRES is organising the second part of its 30th anniversary international conference on 25–26 November 2021 in Prague, together with its CEFRES Platform partners, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences. The conference will be held at the Carolinum of Charles University and simultaneously online.

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Program 
Thursday, 25 November 2021

4:30–6:30 pm (English)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85931944473

Welcome speeches
  • Lenka Rovná, Vice-Rector of Charles University
  • Alexis Dutertre, Ambassador of France in Czech Republic (to be confirmed)
  • Ondřej Beránek, Vice-President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, responsible for Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Jérôme Heurtaux, Director of CEFRES

Film Screening: Science in Exile, by Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj and Pascale Laborier, 2020 (8’).

Round-Table: Is academic freedom a freedom of all?

Moderator: Pascale Laborier, Professor at University of Nanterre, Vice-President of Paris-Lumières University

  • Jiří Přibáň, Professor at Cardiff University
  • Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj, Photographer and Video Artist
  • Dilnur Reyhan, President of European Uyghur Institute
  • Olga Golubko, Emergency Program Manager at the Education Office for the New Belarus
  • Michal Vašečka, Program Director of Bratislava Policy Institute

Cocktail

Friday 26 November 2021

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81879262389

Scholars and institutions facing powers

9:30–11:15 (English)

Moderator: Alena Marková, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

  • Gábor Egry, Director of the Institute of Political History, Budapest The silence of the lambs? Cooptation, exclusion, rewarding: Means of creating a silenced academia in Hungary
  •  Piotr Forecki, Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
    History on trial. The attack on Holocaust researchers in Poland 
  • Shamil Jeppie, Associate Professor at University of Cape Town Freedom and ethics in the academy
  • Cherine Hussein, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations, Prague                                                        Resistance Movements, Scholar-Activism and the Question of Solidarity

Coffee Break

Does New Public Management challenge scientific freedom?

11:30–13:00 (English)

Moderator: Mitchell Young, Assistant Professor, Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

  • Tereza Stöckelová, Researcher at the Institute of sociology of Czech Academy of Sciences
    Why academic freedom must be challenged
  • Michael Komm, Michaela Vojtková et Lukáš Dvořáček, Věda žije!
    When scientists are not playing fair and how to deal with it
  • Frédéric Sawicki, Professor of political science, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University                                                                                              The perverse effects of the managerial turn: The French experience

 Lunch

How to defend and protect academic freedom?

14:15–16:00 (French and English, with live translation)

Moderator: Jakob Vogel, Director of Marc Bloch Center, Berlin

  • Catherine Gousseff, Senior researcher at CNRS                                The exceptional welcome of the Russian academic exile in Prague (1920–1939): State policy and benefits of experiences
  • Pascale Laborier, Vice-President of Paris-Lumières University, Co-Founder of PAUSE                                                                                        Some lessons on hosting researchers in exile abroad
  •  Habib Mellakh, President of the Association tunisienne de défense des valeurs universitaires (ATDVU)                                              Challenging and defending academic freedom: The Tunisian experience
  • Béatrice Hibou, Senior researcher at CNRS – CERI-Sciences Po, Paris
    Some lessons from the support to Fariba Adelkhah, scientific prisoner in Iran

  Coffee Break

What to do? How to do?

16:30–18:00 (French and English, with live translation)

Moderator: Jérôme Heurtaux, Director of CEFRES

All Participants and, among others, Katia Boissevain, Director of IRMC (Tunis), Pierre Buhler, CAPS-MEAE, Adrien Delmas, Director of the Jacques Berque Center (Rabat), Adrien Fauve, Director of IFEAC (Bichkek), Anaïs Marin, Researcher at CCFEF, Warsaw and Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, etc.

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Is Animal Violence characteristic in the Middle Ages? On the Adulterous Stork.

Thursday, May 14th starting at 9:10 at the CEFRES

Jacques Berlioz (CNRS / EHESS, Paris)

Will hold two conferences:

Is Animal Violence characteristic in the Middle Ages? On the Adulterous Stork.

And

Forces of Nature and Human Reactions: how to deal with the consequences of Natural Catastrophes in the Middle Ages?

As part of the French-Czech workshop for historical sciences that CEFRES organized in collaboration with Charles University’s Faculty of Arts in Prague.