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
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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.
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.
Find more information about the book here
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
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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.
Illustration: Pandemonium by George Grosz, 1914
Annette Wieviorka is probably one of the famous French historians on the Holocaust and a specialist of the history of Jews in France. A distinguished researcher of French National Research Center (CNRS), she just published 1945, la découverte (Le Seuil, 2017), dealing with the discovery of the Nazi concentration camps in April and May 1945 by the Allies through the testimonies of two war reporters. Among her books translated into English, one will read her groundbreaking The Era of the Witness (Cornell, 2006), along with Auschwitz Explained to My Child (Marlowe & Co, 2002). She talks about her personal trajectory in a series of interviews conducted by Séverine Nikel published in French under the title L’heure d’exactitude (2011). Annette Wieviorka will give her insight on the figure of the witness at the time of WWII during her lecture in Prague.
Find out more about Annette Wieviorka here.
Venue: Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, Nám. J. Palacha, room 200
Horaires : 5:30-7:30
Organizers: Kateřina Čapková, Clara Royer and Milan Žonca
Partners: CEFRES, Prague Center for Jewish Studies (FF UK) and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. With the support of the French Institute of Prague
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech
Illustration: “Taking photos of the victims in the ghetto (Budapest, 19. January 1945)”. Source: http://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-history.org/hungarian-photos/
