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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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).
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
Venue: CAS, “Lower Hall” (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Date: 10-11 September 2019
Organizers: Institute of Ethnology and Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES, with the support of the program “Strategy AV21”
Language: English
In 2018, Polish authorities announced a plan to build one of Europe’s longest fences to protect the country’s Eastern border from unwanted migrants and a highly contagious disease they might be carrying. At the first glance, the plan is reminiscent of president Trump’s design for a wall along the US Mexican border, or the already built Hungarian fence at the Serbian and Croatian borders. However, there is an important difference: the disease that Polish and other European authorities fear is African Swine Fever (ASF), and the unwanted migrants are not humans but wild boars from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The Polish plan has since been dropped, yet similar fences, such as one between Denmark and Germany, are already being built. It seems that the “Trojan boar”, the feared virus carrier, is contributing toward the resurrection of the old-new borders just as human refugees have, eroding the Schengen space of free movement. This account of foreign boars, biosecurity, and border walls is just one example of the interesting parallels between human and nonhuman animal movement and how the state organises in response.
Noting the unfolding conceptual exchange between mobility studies and animal studies, the objective of this workshop is to further the dialogue and bring together scholars of human migration and non-human animal migration. At the intersection of these two fields of study we expect a range of engaging questions to emerge. Migration often involves the destabilisation of established orders of belonging and the triggering of processes of othering and protectionism. What are the potential empirical and analytical synergies between studying the movement of people and that of non-human animals across geophysical, symbolic and biopolitical borders? In many contexts, human migrants are derogatively described with the use of animal metaphors (e.g. as cockroaches) while animals, often equally derogatively, are described with the human qualifiers (e.g. as invaders). What should we make out of those analogies? Can we still speak about the flow of “metaphors” between accounts of human and non-human migration if we refuse to see the two as belonging to ontologically disparate domains (one exclusively human, the other exclusively non-human)?
We invite participants to share empirical research on, and conceptualizations of, migration in relationally complex multispecies world. Focusing on ongoing, historical and anticipated movements of humans and non- human animals we wish to explore the changing meaning and analytical utility of such concepts as belonging, precarity, (bio)security, prosperity, invasiveness, climate refugees, ecosystem, native, nation or state.
Venue: Institute of Ethnology of the CAS (5th Floor), Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
Date: 26-27 June 2019
Organizers: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES
Language: English
Argumentary
As part of its ongoing commitment to growing the emerging field of critical suicide studies, an international network of scholars will come together for two days in Prague to address the following goals:
1. Identify ongoing opportunities for collaborative grant-writing, research and writing projects.
2. Develop a regular conference schedule to build on the success of three international conferences to date (Prague, Canterbury, Perth). The next conference is planned for Vancouver in June 2020.
3. Articulate a set of guiding ethics to serve as a touchstone for our scholarly, practice and pedagogical engagements.
4. Continue to mobilize critique for productive ends by identifying opportunities to re-think what it means to do suicide prevention.
5. Expand the field to include scholars, practitioners and those with lived experience from around the world.
For further information: https://criticalsuicidology.net/.
Venue: Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (74, rue Lauriston, Paris), Sorbonne University (17, rue de la Sorbonne, “Salle des actes”, Paris)
Date: 7-8 June 2019.
Organizers: Science Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris, Centre of Polish civilisation (Sorbonne University), CEFRES, Centre of French Civilisation and Francophone Studies in Warsaw
Language: English
This conference is the first in a cycle of conference entitled “1989-2019: Beyond the Anniversary, questionning 1989“, held in Paris, Warsaw and Prague.
You can check the detailed program here.
What is known about 1989, this chain of major events that have shaken up the map of Europe and the world? The collapse of communist regimes has been extensively studied and commented on. The human and social sciences have long focused on the 1989 enigma, which saw the un-anticipated collapse of the European part of the Soviet bloc in just a few months. However, the work on 1989 quickly led to other research agendas, proposing to study the current transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. Because contrary to what the large number of stories about 1989 may suggest, there are few empirical studies on this object and for good reasons. Because of its historical situation as the final moment of the communist period and as the inaugural moment of the “democratic transition”, 1989 was finally little addressed as such and for itself. Retrospective analyses of the reasons for the fall of the communist bloc and prospective studies on the democratization of Eastern European societies quickly marginalized the event as an object of investigation, in favor of more interpretation-oriented writings. More recently, it is more a questioning around the memory controversies on 1989 that has caught the attention of researchers. This conference therefore proposes a return to the event itself. Going back to the field, diving in the past, mobilizing new sources, without of course sacrificing the analysis to pure facts. This is the perspective adopted which consists in questioning the event through its social margins, actors who have until now remained in the shadows (for example workers or women), through writing and cultural practices and by engaging in a debate on the archives of 1989, raising new or too long ignored questions. Several leads seem to be possible:
It is therefore about revisiting 1989 by consciously taking a fragmented look on the series of political events that have transformed Central and Eastern Europe. Hence the use of new and heterodox sources: oral history with ordinary citizens, self-writing, memoirs written by former members of the opposition or communist parties, posters, literary and artistic materials, etc., which have been the subject of so few publications since then.
