A lecture by Lisa Peschel (University of York) 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: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Abstract
During the 40-month project Performing the Jewish Archive, we experimented with type of performance, which we called co-textual performance, to try to generate more intense audience engagement. That is, when we attempt to re-stage scripts written by Jewish authors during World War II, the historical context is one of the most important aspects of the plays. We argued that present-day spectators would be more engaged if they knew the historical background, but how to best present it? We proposed that performed scenes regarding the history, which would be presented as ‘co-texts’ – that is, incorporated into, and just as important as, the script itself – would be more effective than more traditional pre-show talks or program notes that treat the historical information as context. In this talk I describe how we created co-textual performances and how we tested their effect on the audience.
Third session of the 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Katerina Zheltova (IMS FSV UK)
Approaching the Borderlands: Cultural Intimacy as Theory and Practice
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 22.03.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Michael Herzfeld, “Introducing Cultural Intimacy”, in Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State, New York and London, Routledge, 2004, pp. 1-33.
Changes in Cultural Landscape of Czech-German Borderlands since 1918 until Nowadays: The Case of the Dolní Žandov Commune by Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska
When & Where: 15 March 2018, 4:30 pm, CEFRES Library
Organizer: Ania Gnot (U. of Opole, ÚČL AV ČR, associate PhD fellow at CEFRES)
Discussant: Paul Bauer (FSV UK)
Language: English
In her book, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska deals with the changes of the cultural landscape of the Czech Borderlands, based on the example of the Dolní Žandov (formerly Unter Sandau) commune. In a significant way, the landscape was co-created by the German-speaking inhabitants who, after 1945, practically disappeared from there, since they were displaced. This absence triggered changes in such areas as culture, society and landscape. Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska’s research is about the people who settled—or were settled—in the Dolní Žandov commune and the people who used to live there before 1945.
About the author
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska trained in cultural studies, slavist studies and ethnology. Her research interests include the anthropology of landscape, cultural borderlands and forced displacement in Poland and Czechoslovakia after 1945. She also uses “hauntology” as a tool of anthropological research. She currently works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her first book Zapamiętane w krajobrazie. Karjobraz czesko-niemieckiego pogranicza w czasach przemian was published in 2017. She now conducts a new project called „Recycling of memory. German War Memorials in Central Pomerania region”, financed by the National Science Centre of Poland.
Contact: karolina.rogalska@ispan.waw.pl
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska : Zapamiętane w krajobrazie. Krajobraz czesko-niemieckiego pogranicza w czasach przemian, Scholar, 2017.
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A lecture by Enrico Lucca (Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig) 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 pm to 6:30 pm
Language: English
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Hugo Bergman (1883-1975) have been classmates and very close friends until their first years of university. Yet, Bergman started to write on Kafka only very late in his life, dedicating to him a number of essays–both in Hebrew and in German–scattered in small journals and published in the last years of his life. By analyzing both the story and the vicissitudes of their friendship as well as Bergman’s later insights into Kafka’s work, the talk will try to get a sense of the meaning of Kafka and his figure in Bergman’s intellectual biography.
Second session of 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Martin Pjecha (CEFRES – CEU)
Human Agency and Apocalyptic Violence
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 08.03.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Matthias Riedl, “Terrorism as ‘Apocalyptic Violence’ On the Meaning, and Validity of a New Analytical Category”, Social Imaginaries 3.2 (2017), pp. 77-107.
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First session of Summer semester common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Mihai-Dan Cirjan (CEFRES – CEU)
Framing the ‘Crisis’: Between Vernacular Conflicts and Expert Disputes
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 22.02.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text :
Guyer, Jane I. “Terms of Debate versus Words in Circulation: Some Rhetorics of the Crisis.” in Carrier, James G. (ed.), A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 612-626.
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Illustration: Pandemonium by George Grosz, 1914
During the 40-month project Performing the Jewish Archive, we experimented with type of performance, which we called co-textual performance, to try to generate more intense audience engagement. That is, when we attempt to re-stage scripts written by Jewish authors during World War II, the historical context is one of the most important aspects of the plays. We argued that present-day spectators would be more engaged if they knew the historical background, but how to best present it? We proposed that performed scenes regarding the history, which would be presented as ‘co-texts’ – that is, incorporated into, and just as important as, the script itself – would be more effective than more traditional pre-show talks or program notes that treat the historical information as context. In this talk I describe how we created co-textual performances and how we tested their effect on the audience.