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Transfer, Translation and Transmission of Knowledge in Monastic Networks – Keynote speech by József Laszlovszky

Transfer, Translation and Transmission of Knowledge in Monastic Networks. Research Directions and Approaches in the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Patterns

A keynote speech by József Laszlovszky (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest)

Time & Venue: 5:30 PM at Špork Palace, Hybernská 3, Prague 1, room nr. 303
Language: English

József Laszlovszky is a full time professor of the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University and a guest lecturer at the Department of Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology at the  Eötvös Loránd University.  His research fields cover archaeology, archaeozoology, material culture and everyday life with a strong focus on ecclesiastical, urban and enomic history. He is the director of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at CEU.

Abstract

Interactions and exchanges (spiritual and material) between monastic communities have been discussed in monastic studies for a very long period of time: to some extent the history of monastic culture and the issue of mission by monastic groups cover all related research questions in this context. Textual and church historical research of monastic rules, the movement and travels of leading monastic figures, the history of pilgrimages, the transmission of texts between monastic scriptoria, and the study of monastic libraries were typical research directions in these previous studies.  More recently, the concept of knowledge transfer was introduced as a holistic approach and more emphasis has been given to the problem of communication. The question is not only about the object of the knowledge transfer, but more about the ways and means of interactions between the monastic communities.

By using the results of a joint research project carried out by the FOVOG (Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders) in Dresden and the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (Budapest) during the last some years this paper offers an overview of the new research directions in monastic studies. It will discuss the key concepts of these studies, such as the transmission of ideas, objects and complex knowledge packages in monastic circles. These examples allow us to understand better the general problem of monastic life. The combination of a written regula and of a set of unwritten rules and practices is the key factor in establishing a new monastic community.  Research results will be presented on the issue of monastic architecture, technological innovations and of „monastic business management”. Recent studies in the field of such questions in the medieval and early modern period have already demonstrated that the traditional boundaries between the different monastic orders should not be taken as clear cut division lines and more interaction can be detected in this respect. By introducing new research concepts into these fields of studies, such as the concept of monastic landscape, a more global (international) research direction can be developed. At the same time, local aspects and influences can also be taken into consideration, and for these the issue of siting or site selection in the process of a new monastic foundations play a crucial role.

Instead of a panoramic and general overview of all these questions, the paper will offer case-studies to highlight different research approaches and concepts, particularly in the context of material evidence for knowledge transfer and transmission of ideas.

 

(Trans)Missions: Monasteries As Sites of Cultural Transfers

A workshop organized by the Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (SIAS FF UK), CEFRES and the Institute of Art History of Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR). The collaboration is realized within the Research project “Cataloging and study of the translations of Spanish and Ibero-American Dominicans”.

Venue: Špork Palace, Hybernská 3, Prague 1, room nr. 303
Scientific organizers: Monika Brenišínová (SIAS FF UK), Katalin Pataki (CEFRES) and Lenka Panušková (IAH CAS)
Language: English

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Program

25 September, 2017 Monday

9.30–10.00            Registration
10.00–10.40         Opening Ceremony and introduction (organisers)

  • Markéta Křížová (Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University)
  • Clara Royer (French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences)
  • Tomáš Winter (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

10.40–12.10
Interpretation and Context
Chair: Veronika Čapská (Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)

  • Martin Lešák, Monasteries on the Horizon: The Sacral Landscape Through the Senses of Medieval Pilgrims
  • Jana Králová, The Monastery Translation From the Contemporary Perspective
  • Jan Tesárek and Barbora Spálová, Other time: Construction of Temporality in Benedictine Monasteries

12.10–14.00 Lunchbreak

14.00–15.00
Monastic Networks: Technology and Society
Chair: Jan Zdichynec (Department of the Czech History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

  • Barnabás Szekér, Whose Instructions? – Educational Orders, Administration, and Rules of Higher Schools in the 18th Century Kingdom of Hungary
  • Katalin Pataki, The Monasteries as Mediators of Medical Knowledge – Camaldolese Pharmacies of the Hungarian Kingdom and Austria

15.00–15.30 Coffee break

15.30–17.00
Devotion and Vocation: The Transition of Ideas
Chair: Markéta Křížová (Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Charles University)

  • Antonio Bueno, To whom may read this. The Prologue of Linguistic Works and Translations of the Dominicans as the Main Ideas for Reflection on Translation Theory
  • Monika Brenišínová, Mexican Monasteries and Processions. The transmission of ideas, space and time
  • Marcin F. Rdzak, Books of Enrollment to the Fraternity of the Scapular (1911-1946) from the Convent of Carmelite Fathers in Lwow. The Transition of Devotional Patterns

17.00–17.30 Coffee break

17.30
Keynote Lecture
József Laszlovszky (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University)
Transfer, Translation and Transmission of Knowledge in Monastic Networks — Research Directions and Approaches in the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Patterns

26 September, 2017 Tuesday

9.00–10.00
Arts and Architecture: Transferring the Forms
Chair: Lenka Panušková (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Pavel Štěpánek, El Escorial jako duchovní model českých a
    moravských klášterů ve světle současné interpretace
    (Hradisko, Kuks, Plasy) [El Escorial as Spiritual Model of Czech and Moravian Monasteries in the Light of the Contemporary Interpretation (Hradisko, Kuks, Plasy)]
  • Jana Povolná, Sázava monastery: St Procop, Scriptorium and the Church

10.00–10.30 Coffee break

10.30–12.00
Writing Monastery
Chair: Kateřina Bobková (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Renata Modráková, Benedictine St. George’s Cloister at the Prague Castle as a Crossroad of Medieval Cultural Trend and Ideas
  • Jan Kremer: Religious Identity and Order Discipline – Early Thirteenth-Century Bohemian Premonstratensians
  • Kristian Bertović, Glagolitic monks—Monastic Continuity and Glagolitic Script in the Medieval Croatia and the Istrian Peninsula

12.00–13.00 Lunchbreak

13.00–14.30
Presentations of ongoing projects

  • Klášterní stezky (project of the Department of History and History Didactics, Faculty of Education, Charles University); http://www.klasterni-stezky.cz/
  • Visions of Community (VISCOM, University of Vienna); https://viscom.ac.at/home/
  • Szerzetesség a kora újkori Magyarországon – Religious Orders of Early Modern Hungary http://szerzetes.hypotheses.org/
  • Sources, Forms, and Functions of the Monastic Historiography
    in Early Modern Ages in the Czech Lands

Closing remarks
Lenka Panušková (IAH CAS), Katalin Pataki (CEFRES), Monika Brenišínová (SIAS FF UK)

15.30
The Emmaus Monastery
Guided tour by Kateřina Kubínová

Tracing the Legacies of the Roma Genocide: Families as Transmitters of Experience and Memory

When: 20–21 September 2017
Where: Czech Academy of Sciences, Villa Lanna, Prague
Language: English

The conference is a joint event bringing together two recent academic initiatives focusing on the research on the history of the Roma and supporting new approaches in the field: the Prague Forum for Romani Histories and the Research network on ‘Legacies of the Roma Genocide in Europe since 1945’, which is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC, United Kingdom). Both initiatives aim at fostering a debate on the history of Roma as part of European history and contemporary European society.

Find the program of the conference here!

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CEFRES 2016/17 Concluding Seminar

After a year spent at CEFRES, CEFRES 2016/17 PhD students will present to their fellow colleagues the outcomes of their research in a joint concluding seminar, and welcome the members of CEFRES team 2017/2018.

Place and time: Na Florenci 3, building C, conference room, 3rd floor, between 2 and 5:30 PM
Language: English

Program

2:00 Mátyás Erdélyi : Modernity, Capitalism, and Private-Clerks: The Philosophy of Money in Austria-Hungary

2:30 Filip Herza : Freak Shows and the Collective Body of Nation in Prague 1860s-1930s: The Concept of Disability and Nationalism Studies

3:00 Katalin Pataki : From Victims to Collaborators: the Dissolution Procedure of Mendicant Monasteries in the Hungarian Kingdom (1787-1793)

3:30 Coffee Break

4:00 Chiara Mengozzi (post-doctoral researcher): Literary Animals: Thinking Beyond Human, Reading Against Allegory

4:30 Magdalena Cabaj : From Hermaphrodite Writing to Intersex Writing

5:00 Lara Bonneau : Fall and Ascent: Reading Warburg with Binswanger

Norms and Transgressions in Central Europe

A workshop organized by CEFRES and the CNRS research group “Knowledge on Central Europe” (GDR CEM)

Venue: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, 3rd floor, conference room
Language: French (English)
Organizers: Clara Royer (CEFRES), Nadège Ragaru (CERI-Science Po) & Antoine Marès (Panthéon-Sorbonne University)

Read the call for papers in French or in Czech

Temporary Program
Thursday 15 June

1:30 Welcome by Clara Royer, director of CEFRES
Antoine Marès : Présentation du GDR Connaissance de l’Europe médiane

Panel I. Literary Creation: Canonic or Transgressive (P)Act?
Discussants: Eva Beránková & Paweł Rodak

2.00 Dimitri Garncarzyk (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 / CERC) : La norme comme idéal : éloge et apologie des règles dans le classicisme polonais, de Dmochowski à Śniadecki
2.20 Lucia Bonora (UČL AV ČR) : La transgression comme modus vivendi : le décadentisme tchèque et le dépassement des règles
2.40 Discussion

3.00 Clara Royer (CEFRES) : Littérature des camps et écriture iconoclaste : Imre Kertész contre Jorge Semprun
3.20 Kinga Callebat (Université Paris-Sorbonne / EUR’ORBEM) : La transgression comme norme ? La re-lecture de textes canoniques de la culture polonaise par les prosateurs de la fin du XXe et du début du XXIe siècle
3.40 Discussion

—- Break —-

Panel II. Intimacy and Writing: Asserting the Self Against Which Norms?
Discussant: Clara Royer

4.30 Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg (Paris-Sorbonne University / EURORBEM) : Exhiber l’ossature du temps ou des usages transgressifs de la succession dans les écrits intimes : Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz
4.50 Paweł Rodak (Centre de Civilisation polonaise – Paris-Sorbonne University) – Transgression et résignation dans les journaux d’Edward Stachura : à la frontière de la vie, à la frontière de la littérature
5.10 Discussion

Friday 16 June

Panel III. Bodies and Souls
Discussants: Marie-Élizabeth Ducreux

9.00 Daniela Tinková (FF UK): Le suicide entre la norme religieuse, pénale et médicale dans la monarchie des Habsbourg et en France entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle
9.20 Filip Herza (CEFRES / FHS UK): Staging Transgressions: Freak Shows in the 19th-Century Prague
9.40 Mateusz Chmurski (Université Libre de Bruxelles / EUR’ORBEM): Une trop bruyante intimité ? Kronos de Witold Gombrowicz et sa réception polonaise
10.00 Discussion

—- Break —-

Panel IV. Between Defiance and (Re-)Negociations
Discussants: Antoine Marès and (to be confirmed)

10.45 Étienne Boisserie (Inalco): Contestation et stratégies d’évitement de la contrainte morale et matérielle dans l’Autriche-Hongrie en guerre : outils et temporalités
11.05 Alessandro Milani (EPHE / CEFRES-FMSH / Centre Marc Bloch): La gestion des minorités dans la Seconde République de Pologne entre normes et désobéissance civile : le cas galicien
11h25 Discussion

—- Break —-

Discussant: Jiří Hnilica (PedF UK)

12.10 Paul Gradvohl (Lorraine University): Les discours sur l’histoire en Europe centrale : du national comme norme
12.30 Jana Vargovčíková (FF UK / Paris-Nanterre University): Le scandale comme fabrique de sens et arène de politisation : le lobbying polonais dénoncé et défini à travers les récits de transgression
12.50 Discussion

Concierges of Budapest as Ordinary Profiteers of the Holocaust in Hungary

A lecture by István Pál Ádám (CEFRES) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the ÚSD 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

Abstract
During the Second World War, Budapest concierges (in Hungarian, házmester, in Czech, domovník) were a link between the authorities and most Jewish citizens living in the city. This role grew in importance, especially in summer 1944, when a dispersed Budapest ghetto was formed from some 2,000 individual apartment buildings. In his paper, István Pál Ádám seeks to explain the circumstances in which these concierges could acquire a good deal of assets by trying to help the persecuted Jews to survive.