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New approach to the concept of Translation and the notion of Literary Inscription. From linguistics to the Actor-Network Theory.

Third session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by
Julien Wacquez (CEFRES – EHESS):
New approach to the concept of Translation and the notion of Literary Inscription. From linguistics to the Actor-Network Theory.

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: 23.11.2017 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Texts:
— Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Sage Publication, 1979), p. 43-90.

Read more about the seminar!

Noble Elites and Promotion of the Industry in the 18th and 20th Century Europe

Preparatory Roundtable for the 23e International Congress of  Historical Sciences in Poznań 2020

Date & Venue: 31 October 2019, 13:00-17:00, CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Organizers: (Electro)technic History Laboratory (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, ČVUT, Prague), CEFRES, Association of Historians of the Czech Republic, Association for Economic and Social History of the Czech Republic, Université Bordeaux Montaigne & École polytechnique, Paris
Language: French

Programme
I. Opening
  • Mathieu Wellhoff, Attaché of Scientific and University Cooperation (French Embassy, Czech Republic)
  • Jiří Kocian, Director of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic & Deputy Director of the National Committee of Historical Sciences
  • Mme Marcela Efmertová, Director of the Association for Economic and Social History of the Czech Republic

II. Roundtable

  • Prof. Michel Figeac (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : Noblesse et innovation économique au siècle des Lumières
  • Prof. Éric Godelier (École polytechnique de Paris) : Comment traiter de la nationalité en histoire des entreprises : quelques pistes de réflexion
  • Prof. Milan Hlavačka (Institut d’histoire de l’Académie tchèque des sciences, Prague) : Les Ringhoffer, une famille d’entrepreneurs anoblis (en anglais)
  • Prof. Marcela Efmertová (Université polytechnique de Prague) : František Křižík – membre de la Chambre haute du Parlement (Panská sněmovna), et l’électrification des Pays tchèques

 III. Discussion

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This Preparatory Roundtable for the 23rd International Congress of  Historical Sciences in Poznań 2020 continues on Friday 1st of November 2019, from 10:00am, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Prague (room 80). See the full program (in French): Electrification and computer sciences in Czechoslovakia.

Normality and Alterity In the Discourse of Tomio Okamura´s Freedom and Direct Democracy Party (SPD) in the Czech Republic

The 5th session of the Franco-czech Historical Seminar, organized by the Institute for Czech History of the Faculty of Arts and Charles University in Prague (FF UK) in collaboration with CEFRES, will be hosted by:

Adrien Bauduin (CEU/CEFRES)

Topic: Normality and Alterity In the Discourse of Tomio Okamura´s Freedom and Direct Democracy Party (SPD) in the Czech Republic

Where: Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Online.
To register, please contact: jaroslav.svatek(@)ff.cuni.cz
When: Thursday 3rd December, 9:00 – 12:30
Language: French

This session is part of the Franco-Czech Historical Seminar organized by Jaroslav Svátek and Martin Nejedlý.
For more information, visit the website of the seminar at the Faculty of Arts.

Normalizing Uncertainty

Normalizing Uncertainty. Tracing Brexit-Effects in the Lives of Slovak and Czech Roma Migrants in Britain (and Beyond)
A lecture by Jan Grill (University of Valle, Colombia)

Time & Venue: 5 pm, CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Organizer: CEFRES, Prague Forum for Romani Histories at the Institute of Contemporary History AV CR
Language: English

Abstract

This paper explores the effects of Brexit on the lives of Slovak and Czech Roma migrants in Great Britain through what can be called ‘normalizing uncertainty’. Coming alongside other East European migrants, some Roma networks started to move in search of more viable lives following the EU enlargement in 2004. Various studies have documented negative impacts the Brexit debates had on the lives of migrants, ranging from increased sense of uncertainty and rupture to the intensified modes of racialisation and xenophobic discrimination. Drawing on a long-term ethnographic research in the UK and in Slovakia, the present paper focuses not just on the level of discourses and narratives recorded in the aftermath of Brexit vote (elicited by researchers’ efforts and interviews) but rather tries to situate these within a long-term practices and relations vis-a-vis dominant societies and forms of being exposed to oppressive social forces and forms of violence and stigmatization. Drawing on relational sociological and anthropological perspectives, this paper examines different ways of coping with and responding to the pre/post-Brexit depending on social positions various migrants’ occupy within different social fields and the durable dispositions acquired against the backdrop of different modes of domination experienced in Central Eastern Europe and in Great Britain.

Jan Grill is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Valle, Colombia. He is also Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He has conducted extensive ethnographic research among Slovak, Czech, and Hungarian Roma/Gypsy groups, exploring issues related to different forms of migration from Central Eastern Europe to the United Kingdom and Canada. He has also carried out research on uneven mobilities in the city of Cali, Colombia. His central research interests are migration, ethnicity, racialization, marginality, labour, and the ethnography of the state. His recent publications include ‘Re‐learning to labour? ‘Activation Works’ and new politics of social assistance in the case of Slovak Roma’, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute (2018); ‘“In England, they don’t call you black!” Migrating racialisations and the production of Roma difference across Europe’, Journal of Ethic and Migration Studies (2017); and ‘Struggles for the folk: politics of culture in Czechoslovak ethnography, 1940s-1950s’, History and Anthropology (2015).

Norms and Transgressions in Central Europe

A workshop organized by CEFRES and the CNRS research group “Knowledge on Central Europe” (GDR CEM)

Venue: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, 3rd floor, conference room
Language: French (English)
Organizers: Clara Royer (CEFRES), Nadège Ragaru (CERI-Science Po) & Antoine Marès (Panthéon-Sorbonne University)

Read the call for papers in French or in Czech

Temporary Program
Thursday 15 June

1:30 Welcome by Clara Royer, director of CEFRES
Antoine Marès : Présentation du GDR Connaissance de l’Europe médiane

Panel I. Literary Creation: Canonic or Transgressive (P)Act?
Discussants: Eva Beránková & Paweł Rodak

2.00 Dimitri Garncarzyk (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 / CERC) : La norme comme idéal : éloge et apologie des règles dans le classicisme polonais, de Dmochowski à Śniadecki
2.20 Lucia Bonora (UČL AV ČR) : La transgression comme modus vivendi : le décadentisme tchèque et le dépassement des règles
2.40 Discussion

3.00 Clara Royer (CEFRES) : Littérature des camps et écriture iconoclaste : Imre Kertész contre Jorge Semprun
3.20 Kinga Callebat (Université Paris-Sorbonne / EUR’ORBEM) : La transgression comme norme ? La re-lecture de textes canoniques de la culture polonaise par les prosateurs de la fin du XXe et du début du XXIe siècle
3.40 Discussion

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Panel II. Intimacy and Writing: Asserting the Self Against Which Norms?
Discussant: Clara Royer

4.30 Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg (Paris-Sorbonne University / EURORBEM) : Exhiber l’ossature du temps ou des usages transgressifs de la succession dans les écrits intimes : Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz
4.50 Paweł Rodak (Centre de Civilisation polonaise – Paris-Sorbonne University) – Transgression et résignation dans les journaux d’Edward Stachura : à la frontière de la vie, à la frontière de la littérature
5.10 Discussion

Friday 16 June

Panel III. Bodies and Souls
Discussants: Marie-Élizabeth Ducreux

9.00 Daniela Tinková (FF UK): Le suicide entre la norme religieuse, pénale et médicale dans la monarchie des Habsbourg et en France entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle
9.20 Filip Herza (CEFRES / FHS UK): Staging Transgressions: Freak Shows in the 19th-Century Prague
9.40 Mateusz Chmurski (Université Libre de Bruxelles / EUR’ORBEM): Une trop bruyante intimité ? Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz et sa réception polonaise
10.00 Discussion

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Panel IV. Between Defiance and (Re-)Negociations
Discussants: Antoine Marès and (to be confirmed)

10.45 Étienne Boisserie (Inalco): Contestation et stratégies d’évitement de la contrainte morale et matérielle dans l’Autriche-Hongrie en guerre : outils et temporalités
11.05 Alessandro Milani (EPHE / CEFRES-FMSH / Centre Marc Bloch): La gestion des minorités dans la Seconde République de Pologne entre normes et désobéissance civile : le cas galicien
11h25 Discussion

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Discussant: Jiří Hnilica (PedF UK)

12.10 Paul Gradvohl (Lorraine University): Les discours sur l’histoire en Europe centrale : du national comme norme
12.30 Jana Vargovčíková (FF UK / Paris-Nanterre University): Le scandale comme fabrique de sens et arène de politisation : le lobbying polonais dénoncé et défini à travers les récits de transgression
12.50 Discussion

Not so far away from West, the Turn of Art in Bratislava (1960-1980)

Perin Emel Yavuz (CEFRES & FMSH) will challenge the notions of center and periphery in her lecture on the turn of art which occured in the 60-80s avant-garde in Bratislava in the frame of the seminar of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Language: English
Where: Jilská 1, Prague 1

The remarkable turn of art which occured in the 1960s-1980s has been under the scrutiny of researchers in Western Europe and United States since the early 2000s. Yet, most of their investigations focus on this geographical area assumed to be the center of the avant-garde. Attention given to “margins” and other “peripheries” offers a different perspective to what is an obvious Western ethnocentric myth. Through the study of the microcosm of Bratislava neo-avant-garde, this lecture aims to highlight the chronological parallelisms known between “center” and “periphery” art. The study of artworks and artists’ careers will help understanding the origins of this turn of art, between transfers and local context.