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Conférence-débat: Transformation, dégradation, perte des objets scientifiques

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Transformation, dégradation, perte des objets scientifiques

La conférence principale « De la disparition des objet de science » sera prononcée par le Professeur Olivier Clain (Université Laval à Québec).

Depuis près d’un demi-siècle, l’histoire des sciences s’est affranchie du schème d’un progrès linéaire qui mènerait les hommes de science de découverte en découverte. Ainsi, au moment de leur introduction dans le discours scientifique, les concepts de paradigme et de révolution scientifique, tout comme celui d’épistémè, par exemple, ont témoigné de la nouvelle attention portée aux ruptures qui affectent l’histoire des savoirs. Or, à l’encontre des « inventions », des « constructions » ou des « généalogies » qui figurent aujourd’hui encore au cœur de la plupart des travaux, et donc contre la préférence ainsi manifestée pour le versant « constructif » de l’histoire, nous souhaitons attirer l’attention sur un phénomène moins abordé, pour ne pas dire négligé, celui des « disparitions ».

Disparition n’est pas absence. Autrement dit on peut poser un certain nombre de questions relatives à la disparition des objets de savoir qui se manifestent dans l’histoire des disciplines : comment le savoir abandonne-t-il ses objets et que devient « le site » qui leur donnait consistance, à savoir les solutions aux problèmes et les questions dont ils étaient les témoins? Quelles traces les objets scientifiques eux-mêmes laissent-ils et quels retours opèrent-ils éventuellement? Existe-t-il une logique de la disparition qui renvoie à la structure du réel lui-même? Ces questions revêtent peut-être une importance particulière pour des disciplines dans lesquelles les grandes ruptures et les révolutions scientifiques sont difficiles à repérer, comme c’est le cas pour les sciences sociales.

Langue : français.

Lieu : CEFRES, Štěpánská 35, 5e étage.

Pour tout renseignement, contacter Jan Maršálek: jan.marsalek@fsv.cuni.cz

Conference | Transnationalism, Activism and Solidarity

Romani Racialization Beyond Majority-Minority Narratives

When: 21–23 May 2025
Where: Vila Lanna, Institute of Czech Literature, CEFRES

CEFRES is hosting the closing round table on the 23rd of June at 5 PM.

Convenors: Tina MAGAZZINI and Martin FOTTA (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

The conference is open to the public, but registration is required due to limited capacity.

📝 Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/HGQ7SNK2Rq
📄 The full programme is available for download as a PDF here. Continue reading Conference | Transnationalism, Activism and Solidarity →

Conference | Central Europe and Francophone Africa in the aftermath of the Second World War: Crossroads

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Centre universitaire francophone of the University of Szeged, in partnership with the Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Modern History and Mediterranean Studies of the University of Szeged, is organising a conference entitled ‘Central Europe and Francophone Africa in the aftermath of the Second World War: crossroads’.

This event has been created in partnership with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague (CEFRES) and the French Institute in Hungary.

When: May 19 and 20, 2025
Where: Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged

READ THE FULL PROGRAM HERE

Argumentary

This conference aims to interrogate post-history in two distinct regions that, at first glance, appear to share little in common, maintaining only distant relationships. However, when the fighting ended, both regions—considered peripherical—and their respective nations and populations experienced, simultaneously, an ambiguous and debatable liberation. With this paradox in mind, the conference seeks to highlight the inherent issues present in both regions within the broader perspective of the post–World War recomposition of the world, from which neither the European nor the African continent was exempt. The year 1945 marked the end of the dominance of traditional European powers and laid the foundations of the bipolar world order. These transformations had numerous repercussions for these regions, situated at the center of the superpowers’ geopolitical chessboard.

Taking a comparative approach, this conference positions itself as an open window into exploring the inherent or shared dynamics between Central Europe and Francophone Africa from the very end of hostilities onward. It also aims to describe the profound transformations, without losing sight of the fact that, although the year 1946 marked a rupture and a new beginning, it also belonged to the continuity of the old world.

Hence, the conference seeks to offer a space for reflection and dialogue between specialists of both regions—PhD students, early-career researchers, lecturers, and established scholars alike—to better understand the impact of the end of the Second World War on the contemporary history of Francophone Africa and Central Europe. The key perspectives proposed for discussion include:

  • Central Europe at the end of the Second World War
  • France and Central Europe from 1940 to 1950
  • Francophone Africa in 1945
  • The decolonization movements
  • Gaullism and Africa

Conducting fieldwork in the post-socialist countryside

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.

Conclusive Seminar of 2015-2016

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