The fifth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this year will be hosted by
Anna Simbartlová (IMS FSV UK)
Topic: Civic Integration
Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 20 February 2019 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English
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Daniel Fisher (UC Berkeley) will give a lecture within the Gellner seminar organized by the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA– Česká Asociace pro Sociální Antropologii), the Czech Society of Sociology, in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES.
When: 5th February 2019, at 4:30 pm
Where: CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Language: English
This paper pursues an ethnographic account of intra-Indigenous relations and jurisdictional contest in urban northern Australia. Its narrative explores the relationship between Aboriginal community policing and emergent forms and figures of urban mobility and morbidity in Darwin, capital of Australia’s Northern Territory. While Darwin’s Indigenous patrols have no police powers, they do have some authority and status vested in them by the traditional owners of the country on which they patrol. Their Aboriginal-directed efforts thus entail both an assertion of Indigenous jurisdiction, and an accompanying reflexivity about the substance and limits of its reach — limits informed by settler colonial oversight, by the diversity of Indigenous claims to urban space, and by poetic figures and mediatized narratives that trope the volatility of Aboriginal dispersal and displacement. The paper explores the ways patrols negotiate their authority and reckon its limits, extending a local poetics jurisdiction and movement to illuminate the new urban worlds they traverse. This provides ground for considering the mobility and multiplicity of law and the distribution of sovereign power at the margins of the settler colony.
Daniel Fisher is associate professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley. He is author of The Voice and its Doubles (Duke, 2016) and co-editor of Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sound in the 21stCentury (NYU, 2012). His work has appeared in American Ethnologist,Cultural Anthropology and collections including Aural Cultures and Keywords in Sound. He is currently completing a monograph on new Indigenous urban worlds in Australia’s Northern Territory, while pursuing a second project on the political life of Aboriginal musical celebrity.
Roundtable discussion with professors and young researchers in humanities and social sciences open to public
In the frame of the Night of Ideas 2019 (Nuit des idées) entitled “Facing the Present: Being or Not Being Feminist Today?” the French Institute in Prague and CEFRES are organizing a roundtable on the contemporary issues of feminism.
Venue: CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Time: 2-4pm
Organizers: Felipe Fernandes (PhD student at EHESS and associated PhD student at CEFRES) and Olga Slowik (PhD student at the Charles University and associated PhD student at CEFRES)
Language: English
The already complex situation of gender studies in Central Europe has gotten even more complicated by the recent political changes, which consequences are the most visible in Poland and Hungary. On the other hand, the situation of this field in the Western world, including France, its academic recognition are often idealized by scholars from Czechia, Poland and Hungary. Is this really the case? What is the current place of gender studies in different countries? What are the challenges, obstacles, and controversies that they are facing nowadays?
Speakers:
Moderated by Olga Slowik and Felipe Fernandes
The new edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Thursday 13 December at 5 pm at CEFRES library.
Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France.
This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes.
So far, the following presentations are announced : Continue reading CEFRES Review of Books – December 2018
Fourth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by
Pavel Baloun (FHS UK / CEFRES)
Martin Pjecha (CEU / CEFRES)
Topic: “Violences”, Old and New
Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 5 December 2018 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English
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A lecture by Agnieszka Wierzcholska (Free University of Berlin) 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 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Language: English
Abstract
Tarnów in southern Poland has been a Polish-Jewish town for centuries. Prior to the Second World War almost 50% of the town’s inhabitants were Jewish and the remaining half were Catholics. Relations between Jews and non-Jews were a normal part of everyday life among neighbors, schoolmates, and in local politics. During the Shoah the murder of the town’s Jews took place on the streets of the town, right before the eyes of the non-Jewish neighbors. Of the 25,000 Jews who lived in Tarnów in 1939, only a mere thousand returned, and only a few hundred stayed.
What happens to a town where the German occupier destroyed the Polish-Jewish Lebenswelt? The social fabric changed dramatically since 1939 and the local community became an occupied society. The antisemitism that arose in the town in the late 1930s intertwined with German anti-Jewish policies in many ways. Due to the proximity of violence, non-Jewish Poles were implicated in the Shoah. On the other hand, we must also ask which local networks proved to be resilient, what friendships turned out to be lifesaving, and what contacts proved to be dangerous? Finally, what happened to the town when the German occupier left in January 1945 and half of its population – the Jewish part – was gone?
This talk retraces the everyday life of a Polish Jewish town, bridging the caesuras of World War Two in order to retrace the continuities within the upheavals and to reiterate individual life stories.
