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Diversity week

Organizers: Jan Bičovský, Anna Hořejší, Eva Marková, Pavel Sitek, Kateřina Svatoňová
Language: Czech, English
Where: Hybernská 4

Check the program and details on the organizers’ website http://tydendiverzity.cz/

Within the Divesity week, the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University creates a platform for common activities of deparments, institutes and clubs of the Faculty of Arts and its partners.

The topic City and Emotions leads us to examine the life in city from various perspectives. The empty building in Hybernská 4 will provide the space to meet, share experience, exchange views and establish contacts. City and emotions in Hybernská 4—this means lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, excursions, readings, concerts and many more in one single place. The event is held under the auspices of the rector of Charles University and the Mayor of Prague.

Aurore Navarro (CEFRES – FMSH) will take part in the workshop Identity strategies: heritage and diversity organised by the Institute of World History and giving a speech on:

Food Quality and Retail Trade in Prague : Heritage, Reinvention and Innovation.
Abstract

In the last decade, food retail trade has been upset by the emergence of a new demand from consumers. After a few scandals concerning agro-food products, a portion of the citizens started to pay more attention to the origin and quality of food. This last notion is not easy to define. In the case of my research, I decided not to focus on a specific food quality (organic agriculture, origin, etc), but on quality which is seen, and sold, as such by food retailers (tradesmen, food craftsmen or farmers). There is a lack of research about the multiplication of specialized shops, whose peculiarity is to be independant and to offer an alternative to large-scale distribution. The scientific literature is richer about farmers markets and shopping malls. By studying urban food retailers, we can find out how the city is making developing between heritage, reinvention and innovation. It’s also a way to approach the countryside, food production spaces and their links with city.

The Concept of Political Power: Third Party Politics in the United States

Fourth session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological Seminar led by
Zdeněk KRÁL (IMS FSV UK).

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text to be read:
Talcott Parsons, “On the Concept of Political Power” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 107, No. 3 (Jun. 19, 1963), pp. 232-262
https://www.hse.ru/data/2012/11/27/1301625729/Parsons%20Power.pdf

 

The Concept of Ideology

Third session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Ayşe Yuva (CEFRES-FMSH)

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Texts to read

  1. K. Marx/F. Engels, The German Ideology, 3 shorts extracts:
  • Extract 1: “Social being and social consciousness” (§4) – here
  • Extract 2: “History: fundamental conditions” – here
  • Extract 3: “Ruling class and ruling ideas” – here

2. K. Marx, “Preface to a contribution to the critique of political economy” (also a short text) – here

3. L. Althusser, “Ideology and ideological state apparatuses” (especially from the chapter “Infrastructure and Superstructure”, up to the end) – here

 

Austrian Refugee Movements to Czechoslovakia, 1934–39: From Political Exiles to Jewish Refugees

A lecture by Wolfgang Schellenbacher (University of Vienna / EHRI) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Jewish Museum

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: 5 pm to 7 pm
Language: English

The political exile of Austrian Socialists in Czechoslovakia in 1934 is different from other refugee movements in central Europe at that time, most noticeably because of the sympathetic approach of the Czechoslovak government towards those fleeing. In the later 1930s, however, the refugee policies of Czechoslovakia became distinctly more restrictive. By comparing the escape routes and fates of Austrians fleeing persecution for their political beliefs in 1934 with those of Austrians attempting to get into Czechoslovakia to escape anti-Jewish persecution in 1938, the new, anti-Jewish refugee policy of Prague becomes clear.

The Holocaust and its Aftermath from the Family Perspective

Where: Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague 1
Organizers: Eliyana Adler (The Pennsylvania State University), Kateřina Čapková (ÚSD AV ČR) and Ruth Leiserowitz (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)

Check the program and details on the organizers’ website here

Program

Wednesday 15 March

9:00 – Welcome

9:15 – 11:00 Family and Genocide
Chair: Eliyana Adler (Pennsylvania State University)

Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Narrating Families’ Daily Life in East European Ghettos: Concepts and Dilemmas

Michal Unger (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel): Separation and Divorce in the East European Ghettos

Volha Bartash (Hugo Valentin Centre, University of Uppsala): Romani Family in the Holocaust: Ethnographic Field Notes from the Belarusian-Lithuanian Borderland

11:00-11:15  Coffee break

11:15 -12:30 Family Correspondence
Chair:  Kateřina Králová (Charles University, Prague)

Joachim Schlör (University in Southampton): „I could never forget what they had done to my father“: The Absence and Presence of Holocaust Memory in a Family’s Letter Collection

Rony Alfandary (Bar Ilan University): Family Letters from Thessaloniki – Real and Imaginary Consequences

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:45 Family and Choice
Chair: Ruth Leiserowicz (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)

Kiril Feferman (Ariel University): Changing Roles: Flight Decision-Making in the Mixed Families in the Soviet Union, 1941

Alina Bothe (Free University, Berlin): “This was the last time I saw my mother” – Families Responding to the First Mass Deportation in October 1938

Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union, New York City): Negotiating Gender, Family, and Survival Behind the Lines: Perspectives from the Margins of Holocaust History

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:45 Children’s Perspectives
Chair: Clara Royer (CEFRES, Prague)

Boaz Cohen (Western Galilee College, Akko): Family Survival Strategies as Seen by Survivor Children in their Early Testimonies

Sarah Rosen (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem): The Survival of Deported Families in Transnistrian Ghettos as Reflected in Diaries of the Youth

Joanna Beata Michlic (Bristol University): Grayer Shades of Jewish Identity: Atypical Histories of Child Survivors from Mixed Polish-Jewish Families in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Thursday 16 March

9:00 – 10:45 Imagined Families
Chair: István Pál Ádám (CEFRES, Prague)

Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, New York City): Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families

Rita Horvath (Yad Vashem): Hasidic Families under Pressure: An In-Depth Analysis of the Holocaust Testimonies Collected by Yaffa Eliach

Viktória Bányai (Institute for Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): The Impact of the Joint’s Assistance Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945-49

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12: 45 Postwar Dilemmas
Chair: Stephan Stach (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)

Laura Hobson Faure (Sorbonne Nouvelle University): Siblings in the Holocaust and its Aftermath: Rethinking the “Holocaust Orphan” in France and the United States

Marcos Silber (University of Haifa): Migrations, Gender and Family: Bottom-Up Perspectives on Migrations and Nation Building in 1950s’ Poland and Israel

Kamil Kijek (Wrocław University): Jewish Family Confronting the Holocaust Aftermath and Demise of Modernism: The Case of Polish Lower Silesia, 1945-1957

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:45 Rebuilding the Family
Chair: Kateřina Čapková (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)

Robin Judd (Ohio State University): “Experiencing Family and Home”: Jewish Military Brides, Allied Soldier Husbands, and the Centrality of Kinship, 1944-1950

Anja Reuss, Independent Historian: “Return to Normality”—The Relevance of Motherhood and Family for Sinti and Roma Survivors in the Aftermath of World War II

Sarah Wobick-Segev, University of Western Ontario: Looking for a Nice Jewish Girl . . .: Personal Ads and the Creation of Jewish Families in Germany during and after the Shoah, 1938-1953

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45 Concluding discussion

The Concept of Sex

Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Magdalena Cabaj (CEFRES-ENS Ulm-Warsaw University)

Texts to read

  • Judith Butler, “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality”, in idem, Undoing Gender, 2004, p. 57- 74.
  • Alice Domurat Dreger, “Ambiguous Sex: Or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Intersexuality”, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 28, no. 3, May-June 1998, p. 24-35.