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
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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.
Symposium organised by the Institute of Ethnology AV ČR and CEFRES s with the support of the program Strategy AV21 – Diversity of Life and Health of Ecosystems
Venue: Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1, 160 00 Prague 6
Date: 8.11.2019, 10:00-16:00
Contact: broz@eu.cas.cz
A lecture by Thomas C. Mercier (post-doc. CEFRES / Charles University) 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: 9:10-10:30
Language: French
Continue reading Velvet Revolution and Intellectual Dissidence: Charter 77 and Jan Hus Association
Debate around a book byWith 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.
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.
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).
