A lecture by Enrico Lucca (Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Masaryk Institute (AV ČR).
Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: from 5 pm to 6:30 pm
Language: English
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Hugo Bergman (1883-1975) have been classmates and very close friends until their first years of university. Yet, Bergman started to write on Kafka only very late in his life, dedicating to him a number of essays–both in Hebrew and in German–scattered in small journals and published in the last years of his life. By analyzing both the story and the vicissitudes of their friendship as well as Bergman’s later insights into Kafka’s work, the talk will try to get a sense of the meaning of Kafka and his figure in Bergman’s intellectual biography.
Second session of 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Martin Pjecha (CEFRES – CEU)
Human Agency and Apocalyptic Violence
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 08.03.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Matthias Riedl, “Terrorism as ‘Apocalyptic Violence’ On the Meaning, and Validity of a New Analytical Category”, Social Imaginaries 3.2 (2017), pp. 77-107.
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First session of Summer semester common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Mihai-Dan Cirjan (CEFRES – CEU)
Framing the ‘Crisis’: Between Vernacular Conflicts and Expert Disputes
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 22.02.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text :
Guyer, Jane I. “Terms of Debate versus Words in Circulation: Some Rhetorics of the Crisis.” in Carrier, James G. (ed.), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 612-626.
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Illustration: Pandemonium by George Grosz, 1914
Annette Wieviorka is probably one of the famous French historians on the Holocaust and a specialist of the history of Jews in France. A distinguished researcher of French National Research Center (CNRS), she just published 1945, la découverte (Le Seuil, 2017), dealing with the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps in April and May 1945 by the Allies through the testimonies of two war reporters. Among her books translated into English, one will read her groundbreaking The Era of the Witness (Cornell, 2006), along with Auschwitz Explained to My Child (Marlowe & Co, 2002). She talks about her personal trajectory in a series of interviews conducted by Séverine Nikel published in French under the title L’heure d’exactitude (2011). Annette Wieviorka will give her insight on the figure of the witness at the time of WWII during her lecture in Prague.
Find out more about Annette Wieviorka here.
Venue: Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Nám. J. Palacha, room 200
Horaires : 5:30-7:30
Organizers: Kateřina Čapková, Clara Royer and Milan Žonca
Partners: CEFRES, Prague Center for Jewish Studies (FF UK) and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. With the support of the French Institute of Prague
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech
Illustration: “Taking photos of the victims in the ghetto (Budapest, 19. January 1945)”. Source: http://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-history.org/hungarian-photos/
Interdisciplinary Workshop
Organizers: Kateřina Kolářová (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague – FHS UK), Martina Winkler (Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel), Filip Herza (FHS UK), Kamila Šimandlová (FHS UK)
When: 17. 2. 2018
Where: Akademické Centrum, Husova 4a, Prague 1
Language: Czech/English
Workshop is organized within the project “(Post)Socialist Modernity and social and cultural politics of disability” jointly funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), held by the Faculty of Humanities Charles University. The event is co-hosted by CEFRES and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Programme
9–9:30 am Welcome
9:30–10 am : Opening of the symposium, Kateřina Kolářová.
10–11:45 am Panel I
- Martina Winkler: Disability and Childhood in Czechoslovak Media, 1960s-1989 (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) (in English)
- Marek Fapšo, Jan Randák: To What Extent Was the So-Called “Special” Socialist Teaching Really Socialist? (Institute of Czech History, Faculty of Literature UK)
- Šimon Charvát: “Mental Disability Is a Time Bomb.” The Discursive Approach to “Mental Disability” in the Czech Lands During the Second Half of the XIXth Century (Chair of General Anthropology, FHS UK)
- Maria-Lena Fassig: First Thoughts on Definition of Disability in the Historical Context of Socialist Czechoslovakia (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) (in English)
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 2:30 pm Panel II
- Radek Carboch, Dana Hradcová, Dita Jahodová, Michal Synek: Between Silence and Translation. Ethnography of Cognitive Disability (Research center for longevity and long-terme care, FHS UK; Chair of Sociology, FSV MUNI Brno).
- Daniela Komanická: Reconceptualizing Labor and Care Through the Active Participation of the User of Self-Determined Personal Assistance in the Service (Chair of Anthropology, FHS UK).
- Ľubica Kobová: Vulnerability as an Ontological Condition and its Critical Reception (Chair of Gender Studies, FHS UK).
- Hana Porkertová: Disability as an Amalgam at the Crossroads Between Rhetorics and Materiality (Chair of Sociology, FSS MU).
2: 30 – 3:00 pm Coffee break
3:00 – 4:30 pm Panel III
- Petra Honová, Lucie Kondrátová, Dino Numerato: The Experience of the Patients and their Family Scrutinised by the Expertise of a Knowledge Society. The Case of the Psychiatric Care Reform (Chair of sociology, FSV UK; National Institute of Mental Health).
- Martin Fafejta: The Czech Community on Pedophilia (ČEPEK) and its Emancipatory Rhetorics (Chair of Sociology, Anthropology and Adult Learning, FF UP).
- Jiří Mertl: “I Never Tried That Before” … Psychological Assistance, Individual Responsibility and People Dismissed from Work (Research center for New Technologies, ZČU).
4:30 – 5 pm Conclusion of the symposium by Filip Herza
You can download the program of the conference here
and the abstracts of each contribution here.
See th argument of the conference.
For any question, please contact Kamila Šimandlová, simandlova[at]outlook.com
Organizers: Michal Šípoš and Luděk Brož (Institute of Ethnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences)
with the support of Strategy AV21, programme: Global Con icts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges
Venue: Villa Lana, Prague
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See the pdf of the event Consequences of Ethnography_colloquium.
Outline
As Sherry Ortner famously argued, ethnography in its minimal de nition is “the attempt to understand another life world using the self—as much of it as possible—as the instrument of knowing.” It is hardly surprising that conducting ethnographic research among/with survivors of violence—be it military, community, domestic, sexual, self-in icted or another form of violence— has a strong impact on the researcher. That impact, given the nature of ethnography, then directly translates into issues that are simultaneously personal and epistemological. Implications for the ethnographically knowing subject stretch well beyond feelings of empathy with research participants, as well as beyond the space-time of the eldwork. In this colloquium, we want to address methodological questions connected to knowing violence ethnographically, such as—but not limited to—the following:
- When conducting ethnographic eldwork, researchers are often confronted with survivors’ silence or with an urgent need to tell what survivors witnessed and endured. Does that translate into an equally polarised reaction on the side of the researcher?
In other words, can we see increased academic productivity in some cases among ethnographers, but inhibition of speaking-writing in other cases?
- How can we speak of trauma of research without inappropriately shifting attention from research subjects to the researcher him- or herself?
- The needs of research subjects may significantly shape a researcher’s own trajectory in the eld. Should the researcher let research subjects take control over the project?
- Some ethnographers who publicly voice their research agendas are targeted by various actors, including authorities, hate groups or even the perpetrators behind the violence sufered by their research subjects. How can we methodologically conceptualise such encounters as part of ethnographic endeavour? What is the epistemic role of fear in such cases?
Program
9:20 Registration
9:50 Welcome address
10:00-11:00—Keynote speech no. 1
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University): The Character of the Possible: Modality and Mood in the Genre of Ethnography
11:00-12:00—Keynote speech no. 2
David Mosse (SOAS, University of London): Trauma and Ethical Self-Making after Suicide: The Existential Imperative to Respond
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:00—Keynote speech no. 3
Jonathan Stillo (Wayne State University): “No One Leaves This Place Except the Dead”: Tuberculosis as a Socially Incurable Disease
14:00-14:15 Coffee break
14:15-16:15—Roundtable discussion
with: Petra Ezzeddine (Charles University), Jaroslav Klepal, Michal Šípoš and Václav Walach (The Czech Academy of Sciences)
