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Haunted Anthropology: Ghosts in Inner Asia and Academic Writing

A workshop organized by the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with CEFRES

Time & Venue: 3-6 pm at CEFRES, Národní 18, 7th floor, conference room
Language: English

  • Grégory Delaplace (Département d’Anthropologie, Paris Nanterre University): “The Thickness of Things Invisible”
  • Luděk Brož (Institute of Ethnology – AV ČR): “Ghost and the Other”

Discussants:

  • Martin Paleček (Language, Mind, Society Center at the University of Hradec Králové)
  • Jonathan Mair (School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent)

Handling Social Otherness: Friendship in a Society of Orders

Claire Madl (CEFRES)
will be taking part at Franco-Czech historical seminar organized by CEFRES and Charles University

Date: Thursday March 25th , 9h-12h30
Where: CEFRES and online (see below)
Organisators: CEFRES and Charles University
Language: French

To visit the website and see the complete programme of the seminar, click here.

Click here to join the Zoom meeting : https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96694269885
To register, please contact Jaroslav.svatek@ff.cuni.cz

Grand entretien – Mali or Bohemia?

Mali or Bohemia ? “Grand Entetien” with François-Xavier Fauvelle and Ladislav Varadzin

Date : May 22, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Location : French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language : french and czech (simultaneous translation)

Partners of the event : CEFRES, French Institute in Prague, Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences

François-Xavier Fauvelle and Ladislav Varadzin will discuss about Africa’s cultural diversity and various historical paths of african societies. The will think about characteristics of a “global” Middle Ages including Central Europe and several regions of Africa. Engaging the exercice (inevitably risky) of historical comparaison, they will share their thoughts about medieval written documentation (including arabic and jewish works) available for these two regions, the role of archaeology, the emergence of the State, meeting of Central European and African societies with Christianity or Islam, “broker” States and business and more. They will mention the kingdoms of Bohemia, Moravia, Ghana, Mali and Ethiopia.

François-Xavier Fauvelle is professor at the Collège de France, holder of the chair of history and archaeology of African worlds at the Collège de France and currently director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem. He worked in South Africa, in Ethiopia where he excavated the Christian site of Lalibela and discovered several Muslim towns, and in Morocco where he excavated the medieval city of Sijilmasa. Among some twenty books translated into a dozen languages, he is the author of Zlatý nosorožec : Příběhy o africkém středověku (Prague, 2021).

Ladislav Varadzin is a researcher in the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. A specialist in recent prehistory and ancient history of societies in North-East Africa and Central Europe, he worked in Sudan and in Egypt, and he excavated the medevial site of Vyšehrad in Prague. He is the author of more than a hundred scientific articles and book chapters.

Grand Entretien | The World of Wiliam Marx

To Live in a Library of Five Dimensions

Date: June 11, 2025, 18 h
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Praha 1
The event will be held in French with simultaneous translation into Czech.

Where does the hostility towards literature come from, and what are the roots of its growing devaluation? How can we enrich our readings by taking a decentralised look at the texts? To what extent can a perspective from afar shed new light on our understanding of the Greek tragedies? And with what far-reaching arguments has Pope Francis put an end to a long history of scathing indictments of literary texts?

As part of the ‘Grands entretiens avec…’ series, this event is organised by CEFRES and its Platform partners in collaboration with the French Institute in Prague. Continue reading Grand Entretien | The World of Wiliam Marx →

GODTalks

Workshop with Tanya Luhrmann

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.

Program

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).

Geopolitics of sisterhood

Geopolitics of sisterhood.
Framing global feminism within the UN women’s conferences (1975–1995)

Fourth session of the 2023–2024 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The map and the border
This year, we would like to start by questioning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, through the interdisciplinarity of our perspectives, to question the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, February 23rd, 10–11.30 am
Language: French

Speaker: Ioana CÎRSTOCEA, CNRS / CEFRES
Discussant: Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

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