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Prefiguration within legal frame: process of depoliticising of an autonomous zone

The 6th session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological seminar will be hosted by:

Lukáš Kotyk (PhD candidate at FSV UK / associated at CEFRES)
Topic: Prefiguration within legal frame: process of depoliticising of an autonomous zone
Discussant: Yulia Moskvina (PhD candidate at FSV UK / associated at CEFRES)

Organisers: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Claire Madl (CEFRES), Tomáš Weiss (FSV UK) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK)
Where: on line
To register, please contact: claire(@)cefres.cz
When: Wednesday, February 24th, 4:30 pm- 6:00 pm
Language: English

Reading:

  • Luke Yates, “Prefigurative Politics and Social Movement Strategy: The Roles of Prefiguration in the Reproduction, Mobilisation and Coordination of Movements”, Political Studies, 2020-1

Private Actors in Politics and Policy-Making: Trespassers Producing Norms?

A Platform CEFRES workshop organized by Jana Vargovčíková (CEFRES & FF UK) and Kateřina Merklová (FF UK).
Where: CEFRES, Národní 18, conference room on 7th floor.
Language: English.

See the call for papers here.

Discussants:

Hélène Michel (SAGE, Institut d’Études Politiques in Strasbourg) Michael Smith (CERGE-EI, Czech Academy of Sciences) Ondřej Císař (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences) Mitchell Young (Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague).

9:15-9:30 — Welcome & Opening
9:30-11:30 — Panel 1

Armèle Cloteau, Laboratoire Printemps, UVSQ –Paris Saclay, France: “The Angels of Europe – European External Affairs employees: in-house entrepreneurs of Europe”

Lola Avril, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France: “Lobbying and influence: lawyers in competition law as actor in european policies”

Oriane Calligaro, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: “The Open Society Foundation, Advocacy NGOs and the Making of EU Anti-Discriminatory Norms”

11:30-11:45 —  Coffee Break
11:45-13:00 — Panel 2

Katarína Svitková, Charles University, Czech Republic: “The Role of Private and Hybrid Actors in Urban Resilience and Security”

Olivier Gajac, Centre Émile Durkheim, Bordeaux, France: “The Private Universities in the Education System in Turkey: Shared Interests Among Economic Actors, Political Power and New Elites”

13:00-14:30 — Lunch
14:30-15:50 — Panel 3            

Jaromír Mazák, Tomáš Diviák, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic: “Transactions in multidimensional social networks: The case of the Reconstruction of the State”

Tomáš Korda, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic: “Emancipation of the universal will from the particular one”

15:50-16:00 —Coffee Break
16:00-17:20 — Panel 4

Milos Resimic, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary: “The role of networks in privatization in post-Milosevic Serbia”

Vít Šimral, University Hradec Králové, Czech Republic: “Regulating Lobbying in Europe: No Model Fits All”

Proustian Perspectives

Date and location: March 23–25, 2023, Prague and online
Organizers: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech Literature and Comparative Studies & Department of Romance Studies; with the collaboration of CEFRES
Languages: French and English

Read and download the list of participants and abstracts of their presentation on the FF UK website here.

See the program here.

Text of the call for papers:

Although well explored, Marcel Proust’s literary work is a territory that never ceases to reveal unknown corners. Whether the subject of interest is the author’s masterpiece or his other literary attempts, or even his unpublished writings, research continues to bring out new discoveries. The century that has passed since the author’s death has been marked by efforts to understand his work, or at least to multiply its readings with different interpretative languages.

In Search of Lost Time represents a field of possibilities that – by its essentially open nature – brings to light new answers to old questions: is the aim of the work to satisfy the author’s desire to record his entire life; to overcome death through the power of language, or to express the essence of things? Is it a monumental act of free and involuntary recollection? Or a vast meditation on so many social issues? Continue reading Proustian Perspectives →

Psy-sciences, expert knowledge and the ‘self’ in Europe after 1945

Eighth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by:

Jakub Střelec (FSV UK / CEFRES)
Topic: Psy-sciences, expert knowledge and the ‘self’ in Europe after 1945

Where: Online
When: Wednesday 1st April 2020, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English

Texts to be read:

  • Rose, Nikolas (1992). Engineering the Human Soul: Analyzing Psychological Expertise. Science in Context, 5, pp 351-369.

Psy-sciences, expert knowledge and the ‘self’ in Europe after 1945 – POSTPONED TO 1 APRIL

Seventh session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by:

Jakub Střelec (FSV UK / CEFRES)
Topic: Psy-sciences, expert knowledge and the ‘self’ in Europe after 1945

Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 18 March 2020, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English

Texts to be read:

  • Rose, Nikolas (1992). Engineering the Human Soul: Analyzing Psychological Expertise. Science in Context, 5, pp 351-369.

Psychoanalysis in Czechoslovakia (1918-1939)

Psychoanalysis in Czechoslovakia (1918-1939):
Freud’s Theories Between Czech and Slovak Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Politics 

1st session of the Seminar “Rethinking Psychoanalysis in Central Europe: Interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives“ 

When: Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 4:00–6:00 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register, please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English

Coordinator: Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University/CEFRES)

Guest-speaker : Adam Bzoch (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Discussants:

  • Paweł Rodak (University of Warsaw)
  • Jean-François Laplénie (Sorbonne University)