Lara BONNEAU (CEFRES & Université Paris I)
will hold a conference in the frame of the Seminary Collegium historiae artium of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of sciences
Where: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117 Language: English
The work of the Art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) was elaborated within a philosophical and theoretical corpus that tends to be neglected. His esthetics was part of a more general project : elaborating a Psychology based on the relationships of the different symbolic forms forged by human beings. His method thus oscillates between an extreme attention to the details of the works of Art, and the general ambition to build a « Science of Culture ». We will focus on the notion of « energy » and relate it to the use Warburg makes of the concept of « polarity ». This way, we will try to understand the role philosophical influences played in the developpement of his work.
The 3rd session of the Franco-czech historical seminar organized by Institute for Czech History of the Faculty of arts, Charles University (FFUK), in collaboration with CEFRES will be hosted by:
Michèle Baussant (CEFRES) Topic: Foreigners without remission and exiles from colonial worlds: a comparative approach (Algeria-Egypt)
Where: Faculty of Arts of Charles University, nám. J. Palacha 2, Prague 1, room 201 When: Thursday, November 12th, 9:10-12:30 Language: French
This session is part of the Franco-czech historical seminar organized by Jaroslav Svátek et Martin Nejedlý
For more information about the seminar, visit the website of the Faculty of Arts
Following the Global Rules of Art?
Careers of Unofficial Soviet Artists and the Valorization of Local Art as a “Contemporary”. 1957–1991
1st session of CEFRES in-house seminar Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.
Location: CEFRES Library
Date: Tuesday, 24 Septembre, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English
Contact / To register: cefres[@]cefres.cz
CEFRES will welcome its new team – CEFRES Platform’s PhD Fellows, CEFRES Young Researchers (PhD and post-doctoral researchers) and potentially interns – on September 1st.
During this meeting, CEFRES’s administrative team, program, premises and library will be introduced to the new team. Researchers will be invited to discuss with the director of CEFRES the activities they will be involved in–such as PhD seminars, workshops, lecture cycles, publications, and so forth. They will set goals for their own research during the year 2015-2016. They will also sign their individual agreement with CEFRES. Lastly, they will be gathered around lunch.
A lecture by Gábor Egry (Institute of History – Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Discussant: Rudolf Kučera (Masaryk Institute – AV ČR)
Where: Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor, conference room.
Volunatry firefighters from Ciacova. Source: romaniainterbelica.memoria.ro
The end of WWI in East Central Europe brought about similar developments: the collapse of empires and the emergence of nation states. But behind the façade of seemingly uniform transformations and the general tendency of nationalizing in the new states, local societies and micro regions were sometimes less constrained in exerting influence upon the specific conditions of transition than it is presumed according to the overarching narrative of imperial collapse and nation-state building. The imperial past did not vanish without a trace, furthermore, the new entities often operated as mini-empires reviving or retaining people, methods and structures of imperial management of power and population.
Comparing case studies of local transition offers an insight into the local contexts, how different local social constellations, imperial prehistories, helped local groups to negotiate their positon in the new states. While certain practices, habits, institutions were retained and often used to co-opt the new elites into the circles of the old, peculiar imperial figures managed to move swiftly between successor states and broader social changes altered the general balance and conferred agency to hitherto disadvantaged groups. In my lecture I will outline the most important factors behind different paths of transitions and how individuals situated themselves in the new world of nation states.
A lecture by Zdenko Maršálek (ÚSD, AV ČR) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Jewish Museum
Foreign units of the Czechoslovak Army operating in the Second World War were made of Czech and Slovak soldiers as well as citizens of every nationality existing in the Czechoslovakian republic in the interwar period. Jewish volunteers became an important part of the exiled troops. Even though the number of Jewish soldiers in these units was very high, their importance became marginal for various reasons. This contribution, based on a quantitative analysis of the phenomenon, will focus on the problems brought by the coexistence of soldiers with different nationalities, confessions and origins.
Language: Czech
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague
