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Disciplinary Approaches to Concepts. Different Ways of Using the Concept of Morals

Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by István Pál Ádám (CEFRES).

Texts:

  • E. P. Thompson, « The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century », Past & Present, No. 50, Oxford University Press, 1976, p 76-94

  •  Ernesto Verdeja, “Moral Bystanders and Mass Violence,” in New Directions in Genocide Research, Routledge, 2011

Disability: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?

First session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Filip Herza (FHS UK & CEFRES).

Texts:

1) Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. 2002. “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory”. Nwsa Journal 14 (3): 1-32.
2) Scott, Joan W. 1986. “Gender: A Useful Category Of Historical Analysis”. The American Historical Review 91 (5): 1053-1075.

Digital Games as Representations of the Past: The Central European Context

4th session of CEFRES Seminar 2021-2022

Digital Games as Representations of the Past: The Central European Context

Hosted by:
Jan Kremer, Phd-fellow at CEFRES and at the Faculty of Education, Charles University

When: November 10th, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Where: CEFRES and online (to register please mail to claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English

Jan Kremer will present historical game studies as a part of a broader field of public history. The paper will deal with historical games as a fluid research subject, it will introduce main analytical methods and strategies. Jan Kremer as a medievalist writing his PhD thesis on digital medievalism will further examine ludic representations of the Middle Ages focusing on Central European digital games production in the context of regional historical culture.

Did Prussia have an Atlantic history or how to write a global history of 1772?

The 4th 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:

Bernhard Struck (CEFRES, University of St Andrews)
Topic: Did Prussia Have an Atlantic History or How to Write a Global History of 1772? Reflections on Modern Europe in a Transnational Perspective

Where: Faculty of Arts of Charles University, nám. J. Palacha 2, Prague 1, room 201
To register, contact: jaroslav.svatek(@)ff.cuni.cz
When: November 26, Thursday 9:00-10:30
Language: French

This session is organised by Jaroslav Svatek et Martin Nejedly in the frame of the Franco-czech historical seminar. To see more information, visit the website of the Faculty of Arts.

 

Developments in Post-Soviet Studies on Soviet Jewry

A lecture by Professor Yaacov Ro’i (Tel Aviv University)

Where: CEFRES library
Language: English

Professor Yaacov Ro’i from the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at the Tel Aviv University is a leading expert on history of Jews in the Soviet Union.  Among his recent publications are however also books on Islam in the postwar Soviet Union.

The lecture will be followed by a workshop during which Dr. Kamil Kijek, Dr. Kateřina Čapková and Dr. Stephan Stach will present their projects on postwar history of Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Basis of the workshop will be a discussion of their texts under the leadership of Prof. Ro’i.

To take part in the workshop following the lecture of Prof. Ro’i, please write to capkova@usd.cas.cz.

The event is co-organized by the Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences and by CEFRES.