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Security Issues in Post-Brexit Europe: Views from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Poland

The Center for French Studies at the University of Warsaw and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences are glad to invite you to its roundtable on security issues in Post-Brexit Europe.

Date: Friday 18th June 2021, 15h – 17h
Place: Online, link of the webinair: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86944135144
ID: 869 4413 5144
Language: English

Organizer: Amélie Zima (Center for French Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland)

Welcoming remarks:

  • Jérôme Heurtaux (Director of CEFRES)
  • Nicolas Maslowski (Director of Center for French Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland)

Speakers:

  • Monika Brusenbauch-Meislova (Brno University, Czech Republic): Choppy Seas, or Calm Waters? Brexit Challenges for Czech Security and Defence policy
  • Delphine Deschaux-Dutard (Grenoble Alpes University, France): France, Germany and European Strategic Autonomy after Brexit: Squaring the Circle
  • Amélie Zima (Center for French Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland): Polish Defence Policy in Post-Brexit Era: Back to Atlancism?

Chair: Marek Madej (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Credits: European Takuba Task Force, DICOD/EMA

Selling Souls: Trafficking German Migrants – Lecture by William O’Reilly

Selling Souls: Trafficking German Migrants, Europe and America, 1648-1780

A lecture by William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge)

Time & Venue: 5:30 PM at CEFRES (Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor – conference room)
Language: English
Organizer: Veronika Čapská (FHS UK)

William O’Reilly is a senior lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge, associate director at the Centre for History and Economics and full-time fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest. He has worked on a range of topics in early modern European and Atlantic history, and is particularly interested in the history of European migration, colonialism and imperialism. He serves on the International Advisory Boards of the Historical Journal and Themes in Migrations.

Abstract:

Selling Souls investigates the history of seventeenth and eighteenth-century German emigration to North America and Central and Eastern Europe through the actions of Seelenverkäufer, the ‘soul-selling’ traffickers who recruited and escorted migrants and who bridged divides in geography, in literacy and illiteracy, in economic security and insecurity, in freedom and servitude. As the fashion for emigration grew in Europe after the great depopulation and general upheavals of the Thirty Years’ War, so did the proclivity of recruiters. It was virtually impossible in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe to contemplate emigration without coming under the influence of an agent or advertiser. They were scoundrels and saviours in differing measure and without their actions the entire process of early-modern migration would have been inconceivable. As such, they laid the groundwork for subsequent mass migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Selling Souls considers the role of colonist recruiters in the creation of a complex network of communication that encompassed an expansive Atlantic World, from Pennsylvania to Transylvania. Without the actions of migrant recruiters, informal webs of contact and communication could not have been maintained among migrants and, by extension, further migration might not have taken place.

Seminar introduction

The first session of FSV / CEFRES seminar “Reflecting on Crises” will be hosted by:

Maria Kokkinou, CEFRES
Jérôme Heurtaux, Paris-Dauphine Université, CEFRES
Topic: Seminar introduction

Where: online.
To register, please contact the organizers: maria.kokkinou@cefres.cz
When: Wednesday September 30th, 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)

La crise a le vent en poupe : l’apparition et la diffusion extensive de la Covid-19 en 2020 a redonné à cette notion une actualité globale, qu’elle n’avait plus eu depuis la crise financière de 2009. En dehors de ces moments spectaculaires d’effervescence à l’échelle de la planète, on ne compte plus les événements ou les phénomènes qui sont qualifiés de crise.

Concept-valise de la modernité, la « crise » (pré)occupe nos sociétés dans toutes ses dimensions. Les usages polysémiques du terme et sa très forte actualité nous incitent à revenir sur ce concept, ses significations et ses usages. C’est à cette tâche qu’est consacré ce cours-séminaire, qui verra l’intervention de chercheurs de diverses disciplines, sociologie politique, histoire, histoire de l’art, anthropologie, philosophie, etc.

Quelles réalités sont-elles qualifiées de « crises » et en quoi sont-elles critiques ? Qu’est-ce qu’une crise et comment expliquer sa survenue ? Comment une crise se déroule-t-elle, quels en sont les effets et la postérité ? Pourquoi les crises suscitent-elles des conflits d’interprétation sur leur signification ? La notion de crise est-elle un opérateur central de notre modernité et une clé de compréhension des enjeux qui traversent les sociétés contemporaines ?

 

Shaping the ‘Socialist Self‘? The Role of Psy-Sciences in Communist States of the Eastern Bloc (1948–1989)

International Workshop

Venue: Prague. Online.
Date: November 6, 2020
Organizer: Jakub Střelec (FSV UK/CEFRES)
Partner institutions: CEFRES, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Collegium Carolinum – Research Institute for the History of the Czech Lands and Slovakia

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82321134974?pwd=L09iMWF0VzJsOVFUUDJxMDZPc3Zidz09 
(823 2113 4974)
Password: 111784
Streaming: https://www.facebook.com/cefres

This workshop aims to bring together researchers dealing with the history of psy-sciences in communist Europe. The main aim is to (1) discuss contemporary approaches, topics and themes in current research about the role of psy-sciences in the communist states of the Eastern Bloc and to (2) outline possible questions and issues relevant for future research in this field.

Read the call for contributions.

Program:

9.00     Conference Opening

Producing Psy-expertise in the Eastern Bloc

Chair: Martin Schulze Wessel (Collegium Carolinum)

9:30     Ana Antic (University of Copenhagen)
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Beyond the Hospital in Socialist Yugoslavia

9:50     Melinda Kovai (Eötvös Lorand University)
From a Movement to the Privatization of Psychotherapy – Group Psychotherapy in Hungary in the 1970s and 1980s

10:10     Sarah Marks (Birkbeck, University of London)
From Pavlov’s Dogs to Cybernetic Tortoises: The Psy-Professions and the New Science of Cybernetics in Communist Czechoslovakia

10.30 – 11.15     Discussion

11.15 – 11.30     Break

 

Defining (Ab)normality

Chair: Adéla Gjuričová (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

11:30     Cristiane Brenner (Collegium Carolinum)
Judging the Anti-Socialist Element: The Role of Psychiatric Experts in Trials Against “Parasitic Women” in Socialist Czechoslovakia

11:50     Kate Davison (University of Melbourne)
From Prague to Sydney: Rethinking Psychiatry, Sexology and ‘Sexpertise’ in the Cold War

12:10     Jakub Střelec (Charles University in Prague)
Psychopaths as ‘New Danger‘ to the Socialist Society. Forensic Psychiatry, Criminology and Crime in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s

12:30 – 13:15     Discussion

13:15 – 14:15     Lunch break

 

Shaping the ‚Socialist Self’

Chair: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)

14:15     Verena Lehmbrock (Erfurt University)
Psychological Leadership Training in East Germany – A Transnational Technology of the Self?

14:35     Frank Henschel (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel)
Bowlby vs KPČ: Knowledge Transfer, Psychology and the System of State Childcare in Socialist Czechoslovakia

14:55     Lisa Dittrich (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Partnership and the Socialist Personality: Marital Coping Strategies in the GDR between Empowerment and Subjection

15:15 – 16:00     Discussion

16:00 – 16:30     Closing remarks

Social Presences: Toward an Approach of Interdependency Enhancing Time and Gender

A lecture by French sociologist Marc Bessin, head
of IRIS – Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stakes  (UMR 8156 CNRS – EHESS – U997 Inserm – UP13), organized by CEFRES Platform.

Language : French with simultaneous Czech translation.

Venue : CEFRES, Národní 18, Prague 1, conference room, 7th floor.

Outline
This lecture is grounded in empirical research on health, social, and parental care. It will be briefly presented to feed the debate on the moral and practical aspects of care activities, with a specific highlight on such stakes as temporalization and sexuation. Our hunch is that such practices of help concern academic space as well, which will be approached through the prism of temporal tensions, between an acceleration affecting our research practices and Slow Science, refered to by the sociology of social presences.

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Social space, geographical space, representation of space and literature

Social space, geographical space, representation of space and literature

Fifth session of the 2023-2024 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by beginning by questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, April 12th, 10–11:30 am
Language: French

Speaker : Josef Šebek, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, associate researcher at CEFRES

Discussant: Yasar ABU GHOSH (FHS UK)

The talk will focus on the forms of space in Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, looking in particular at the way they relate to one another and at the spatial aspects of the literary field. The first of these forms is the social space and social field, referring to a structure of positions that exists objectively yet does not exist (primarily) in physical space or real (physical) interactions between social agents. In order to make this structure intelligible, Bourdieu creates various spatial schemata that range from simple diagrams to visualisations based on multiple correspondence analysis. His followers come with even more sophisticated representations of social space. The relationship between this structure and geographical/physical space is complicated since relations in the social space or social fields do not necessarily coincide with actual spatial distances and proximities. Nevertheless, Bourdieu demonstrates – especially in the last period of his career – that it is necessary to study the relations among agents and the objectified forms of capital as they play out within physical/geographical space… The talk will then move to the question how the relations of the three forms of space can be applied to the literary field. In the spatially most interesting part of The Rules of Art, the “Prologue”, the representation of space has the competing forms of a diagram and a map. Bourdieu’s thinking on space thus guides us through the intriguing problem how to actually map literary fields as well as the social and geographical space represented in literary works.