International Network Meeting
Venue: Institute of Ethnology of the CAS (5th Floor), Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
Date: 26-27 June 2019
Organizers: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES
Language: English
Argumentary
As part of its ongoing commitment to growing the emerging field of critical suicide studies, an international network of scholars will come together for two days in Prague to address the following goals:
1. Identify ongoing opportunities for collaborative grant-writing, research and writing projects.
2. Develop a regular conference schedule to build on the success of three international conferences to date (Prague, Canterbury, Perth). The next conference is planned for Vancouver in June 2020.
3. Articulate a set of guiding ethics to serve as a touchstone for our scholarly, practice and pedagogical engagements.
4. Continue to mobilize critique for productive ends by identifying opportunities to re-think what it means to do suicide prevention.
5. Expand the field to include scholars, practitioners and those with lived experience from around the world.
For further information: https://criticalsuicidology.net/.
A lecture by profesor Gregor McLennan organized by Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies (Institute of Philosophy AV ČR), Program Prvouk 19 “Interdisciplinary sciences”, Department of Historical Sociology FHS UK and CEFRES.
Where: Jinonice, U Kříže 8, Praha 5 – room 6022.
Language: English.
The lecture is going to be held within the frame of the cycle “Historical Sociology Confrontations”.
Zygmunt Bauman once characterized the shift from modernity to postmodernity in terms of the changing style of intellectuals, from the model of the ‘legislator’ to that of the ‘interpreter’. With the blurring of any sharp contrast between modernity and postmodernity, a third figure, that of the ‘mediator’, has come to the fore. Working through various ways in which the rather bland connotations of mediation can be upgraded and energized, I identify the late Stuart Hall as an outstanding mediator in the last 50 years of critical social thought – though this involves questioning some received wisdom about Hall within cultural studies itself. And it turns out that one condition of being a notable intellectual mediator is the retention of a definite degree of ‘legislation’, in this case Hall’s continued (if stretched) allegiance to Marxism. I then consider (also affirmatively) the very different case of Ernest Gellner, who is sometimes thought to have been so legislatively modernist (and thus also ‘Eurocentric’ and ideologically ‘secularist’) as to have little to offer the ‘postsecular’ frame of understanding that is increasingly prominent in our times.
Gregor McLennan is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. Building on previous writings on Marxism, pluralism, sociology and cultural studies, Prof McLennan’s more recent work has examined the theoretical challenges posed by contemporary postcolonialism and postsecularism.
Contact:
– Filip Vostal (FLÚ AV ČR, CEFRES) filip.vostal@gmail.com
– Nicolas Maslowski (FHS UK) nicolas.maslowski@gmail.com
– Marek Skovajsa (FHS UK) marek.skovajsa@fhs.cuni.cz
Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK,
Yuliya Moskvina (FSV UK & CEFRES)
Critical Actor and Political Critique
Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text:
- Paul Blokker: European Crisis and Political Critique of Capitalism. in: European Journal of Social Theory, 17 (3) 2014, p. 258-274.
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Yoann Morvan (French Research Centre in Jerusalem CRFJ)
will be taking part in the seminar called
Current Issues. Reflection on Crises
organised by CEFRES.
Date: Wednesday , May 5th 2021, 12h30 – 13h50
Where: Online on Zoom.
Organisators: Maria Kokkinou (post-doc at CEFRES / Charles University), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Language: French
Link to join the seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84097191940
For more information about the programme and the seminar, see the website: http://cefres.cz/fr/seminaires/penser-les-crises.
10th session of FSV / CEFRES seminar “Reflecting on Crises” will be hosted by:
Claire Madl (CEFRES)
Subject: Crisis of reading or media revolution?
Where: online.
For any question, please contact the organizers: maria.kokkinou@cefres.cz
When: December 9, Wednesday, 12:30-1:50pm
Language: french
As part of the seminar:
“Enjeux contemporains. Penser les crises” / Current Issues. Reflecting on Crises
organized by Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / UK) and Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES):
Presentation of the seminar:
The crisis has the wind in its sails: due to the appearance and extensive spread of Covid-19 in 2020, this concept has regained a world-wide attention, last observed during the financial crisis of 2009. Apart from these spectacular moments of global turmoil, we can no longer count the events or phenomena that are described as crises.
A concept inextricably linked to modernity, a “crisis” (pre)occupies our societies in all its dimensions. The polysemic uses of the term and its very topicality prompt us to revisit this concept, its different meanings and uses. This seminar course is devoted to this task. It will involve the intervention of researchers from various disciplines – political sociology, history, art history, anthropology, philosophy, etc.
What realities are qualified as “crises” and in which ways are they critical? What is a crisis and how to explain its emergence? How does a crisis unfold, what are its effects and consequences? Why do crises give rise to conflicts of interpretation over their meaning? Is the notion of crisis a central operator of our modernity and a key to understanding the challenges that contemporary societies face?
Dimitris Kataiftsis, Paris IV, University of Macedonia
will be taking part in the seminar called Current Issues. Reflection on Crises organised by CEFRES.
Date: Wednesday , March 10th 2021, 12h30 à 13h50
Where: Online on Zoom.
Organisators: Maria Kokkinou (post-doc at CEFRES / Charles University), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Language: French
Link to join the seminar : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84097191940
For more information about the programme and the seminar, see the website: http://cefres.cz/fr/seminaires/penser-les-crises.
