Ist session of CEFRES Seminar 2021-2022
Conducting fieldwork in the post-socialist countryside. Crossed perspectives on ethnographic research in Mongolia and Belarus
When: Wednesday 6 October 2021, 4:30 pm
Where: At CEFRES and online (to register please contact claire(@)cefres.cz)
Language: English
With:
Veronique Gruca (PhD candidate at Paris-Nanterre University and PhD fellow at CEFRES)
&
Ronan Hervouet (Professor of sociology at the University of Bordeaux, temporarily assigned at CEFRES by CNRS)
Veronique Gruca and Ronan Hervouet will both present their research based on fieldworks respectively led in Mongolia and Belarus, and cross perspectives in order to address issues regarding the access to the fieldwork, the ways of conducting research, and the use of gathered ethnographic data. Through the focus on two different research subjects – rituals and family stories in rural Mongolia, everyday politics in rural Belarus – the aim is to raise broader epistemological questions and lead to a common reflection on the ways of constructing ethnographic research.
CEFRES team gathers one last time before the Summer break to discuss their work. Where: Národní 18, 7th floor, conference room.
9:45-10:20 Giuseppe Bianco: From Paris to Prague and Back (1900-1937). The International Conferences of Philosophy Before and After World War I
10:20-10:55 Lara Bonneau: Light At the End of the Tunnel – On Aby Warburg’s Method
Coffee Break
11:10-11:45 Edita Wolf: Iudicium Between Concept and Metaphor
11:45-12:20 Monika Brenišínová: The (16th Century Mexico) Architecture of Conversion. Problems and Responses
12:20-12:55 Perin Emel Yavuz: Elsewhere Right Here. The Non-Offical Artists’ Art of Worldmaking in Bratislava, 1960-80
Lunch Break
14:30-14:55 István Pál Ádám: Budapest Concierges in Changing Times
14:55-15:30 Mátyás Erdélyi: The Case Study as a Methodological Tool in Habsburg History
Coffee Break
15:55-16:30 Jana Vargovčíková: Defining Legitimate Actors and Practices: What the Institutionalization of Lobbying Tells Us About Governance
16:30-17:05 Filip Vostal: Challenging the Culture of Slowness
Program
9:30 Clara Royer: Introduction
10:00 Martin Pjecha: The Táborites in Christian apocalypticism
10:35 Adéla Klinerová: Reception of French Early Modern Architecture within 19th-Century Historicism in the Czech Lands and Central Europe
11:05 Break
11:20 Dan Cîrjan: Regulating Citizenship through Debt in 1920s Romania
12:05 Florence Vychytil-Baudoux: Studying Polonia from a transnational perspective: reconciling unity and diversity
12:40 Lunch break
14:00 Julien Wacquez: The Implementation of Fiction Within Science: the Case Study of the Dyson Sphere
15:35 Yuliya Moskvina: State, Squat, Society: the limits to urban commons
16:10 Aníbal Arregui: Editorial Boar: Animal Amendements on Barcelona Urban Relationality
16:45 Break
17:00 Anna Gnot: Indirect and direct autobiographism in the late work of Ota Filip (2000-2018)
17:35 Thomas Mercier: The Threshold of Europe: Derrida in Prague
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.
A lecture by Michala Lônčíková (Comenius University, Bratislava) 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
Similarly to other European countries that, immediately after the war, were facing the aftermath of German occupation and collaboration, a system of retributive justice was established in the restored Czechoslovakia as well. Even though anti-Jewish atrocities did not represent an exclusionary question in the lawsuits in the newly established People’s Courts, racially motivated crimes in general were covered in various paragraphs of the main retributive regulation, no. 33/1945 Sb. n. SNR. Analysing the trials of the main political representatives of the wartime Slovak State, which were held in the National Court, partly enables one to trace out the official anti-Jewish policy and its mechanisms at the state level. On the other hand, regional cases, which were in the jurisdiction of the District People’s Courts, also raise the question of the responsibility of local aggressors, co-perpetrators, and eye-witnesses amongst the Slovak majority. This microhistorical perspective is crucial for analysing the Jewish-Gentile relationships in their wider social context in the years of persecution and partly in its aftermath. Using the collections of the District People’s Court in Banská Bystrica, this presentation explores the struggle of Holocaust survivors in Slovakia for justice and the ways in which these crimes were judged in the early years after the Liberation.
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A lecture by Eraldo Souza Dos Santos (PhD candidate at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, associated at CEFRES) as part of the Franco-Czech historical seminar organized by Institute for Czech History of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (FFUK), in collaboration with CEFRES.
Venue: Faculty of Arts of Charles University, nám. J. Palacha 2, Prague 1, room 201
Time: 14 November 2019, 9:10-12:10
Language: French
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