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Central-European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective: International Symposium

International symposium organized by CEFRES in the frame of the Central European Masculinities research project, with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR, PARCECO Program), in collaboration with the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚČL AVČR) & the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University (ÚČLK FF UK).

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: June 19 – 20th, 2024
Languages: English, French
Organizers: Wojciech Śmieja (IL WNH UŚ), Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne), Iwona Kurz (IKP WP UW), Richard Müller (ÚČL AV ČR), Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK), Ivana Taranenková (ÚSL SAV).

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87287534658?pwd=76IKqZc2qhThHlfLedvvxFbpNbe1iM.1 

Meeting ID: 872 8753 4658
Passcode: 451680

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Central Europe: Academic Freedom in Danger.

Jérôme Heurtaux, CEFRES

will be taking part in the seminar called Current Issues. Reflection on Crises coorganised by CEFRES  and the Institute for International Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague.

Date: Wednesday February 17th 2021, 11:00 to 12:20
Place: Online on Zoom
Organisators:  Maria Kokkinou (post-doc at CEFRES / Charles University), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Language: French

To join the Zoom meeting, please click here:
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/94466941213
Code : 944 6694 1213

For more information about the seminar, click here: http://cefres.cz/fr/seminaires/penser-les-crises.

Central Europe in French Humanities Publications

A roundtable discussion organized at „Book World Prague“ – „Svět knihy“ among events devoted to France, the guest of honour of the 2021 edition of the book fair

Where: Prague, Výstaviště, Ateliér Evropa
When: 24 September 2021, 11h-12h50
Language: French with a simultaneous translation into Czech

For many years now Central Europe has been the subject of interest on the part of French publishing houses focusing on humanities. This curiosity, however, is often marginal, and only intensifies in the light of major historical events. French publishers and social scientists debate Central Europe‘s publishing potential in France.

With the participation of:
Astrid Thorn-Hillig (Publishing house of Maison des sciences de l’homme),
Gwendal Piégais (Codex Publishing),
Miroslav Novák (author of Le Printemps de Prague, 1968. Une révolution interrompue ?, Codex, 2021)
Ronan Hervouet (author of Le goût des tyrans. Une ethnographie politique du quotidien en Biélorussie, Lormont, Le Bord de l’eau, 2020).

Moderation: Jérôme Heurtaux, director of CEFRES, author of Pologne 1989. Comment le communisme s’est effondré, Codex, 2019.

Central Europe facing risks: reinventing solidarity?

In the framework of the Night of Ideas and on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of CEFRES, the French Institute in Prague and CEFRES invite you to the online conference “Central Europe facing risks: reinventing solidarity?”

Given the environmental, safety and now health risks facing Europe, especially Central Europe, two main attitudes are clashing: national and community withdrawal on the one hand, and national and international solidarity on the other. How can we (re)invent forms of solidarity in Central Europe? What kind of historical experience can inspire public action today and outline the contours of living together? How can we answer to the challenges posed by the current pandemic to social cohesion within European nations but also to the cohesion of the European Union itself? A French historian, a Polish philosopher and a Czech journalist will share their expertise and confront their points of view on these crucial issues.

Speakers:

Opening words by Alexis Dutertre, French Ambassador in the Czech Republic.

Thomas Serrier, historian, professor at the University of Lille, co-publisher (with Etienne François) of Europa. Notre histoire, Les Arènes, Paris, 2017.

Michał Kozłowski, philosopher, associate professor at the University of Warsaw, author of Le Monde diplomatique (Polish edition).

Saša Uhlová, reporter.

Moderator: Jérôme Heurtaux, political scientist, director of CEFRES.

The conference will be available live:

– in French with Czech simultaneous translation via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97516953316?pwd=Mk5mQVJWR0FOKzkzZkNEUlgzM3pBUT09,

– in French on the Facebook of CEFRES and the French Institute in Prague.

Central Europe at the Crossroads

A workshop organized by the PhD students of “Passages” within EUR’ORBEM research center, in partnership with FF UK and CEFRES.

Where:
14 April: at CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, C building, 3rd floor, conference room.
15 April: at Faculty of Arts (FF UK), nám. Jana Palacha, room 104.

See the call for papers here.

Program
Thursday 14 April: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1, building C, 3rd floor, conference room.

9h30 : Opening
– Clara Royer (CEFRES)
– Eva Voldřichová-Beránková (FF UK)
– Xavier Galmiche (Paris-Sorbonne University / EUR’ORBEM)

10:00-11:00. Panel 1: Networks and Intertextuality in Central Europe

Jean Boutan (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « Czechs and Germans in the poetical rewritings of the Maidenwar in the romantic era: stanzas and stances on nation »
Nicolas Porta (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « Intertextualité centre-européenne et évolution dans les littératures tchèques contemporaines »

Break

11:30-12:30. Panel 2: Russian Literature As an Opposition Space between Russia and Europe

Leandre Lucas (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « Gontcharov et l’ailleurs européen »
Simona Fialová (Université Charles de Prague) : « Reading Dostoevsky as „controversy between East and West“ »

Lunch

2:00-3:00. Panel 3 : Central European Science-Fiction and Its Echoes from East to West

Natalia Chumarova (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « Stanislav Lem: une personnalité polonaise de la science-fiction soviétique »
Alžběta Tichá (Université Charles de Prague) : « Des reflets de l’œuvre R.U.R. de l’écrivain tchèque Karel Čapek dans la pièce „Frénésire ! ou le nouvel Orphée“ du dramaturge suisse David France Jakubec »

Break

3:30-4:30. Panel 4: The Reception of Latin Writers in Czech Literature

Katarína Zatlkajová (Université Charles de Prague) : « The image of St. Teresa of Avila in Czech cultural, spiritual and literary milieu »
Jana Kantoříková (Université Charles de Prague) : « Odkud to přišlo ?! La réception tchèque d’un décadent français »

Friday 15 April: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, room 104, náměstí Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Praha 1.
9:30-11:00. Panel 5: Intellectual Circles and Elites

Svetlana Skvortsova (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « Les étapes de la formation du marché de l’art du XIXe à nos jours »
Matyas Erdélyi (CEFRES) : « Les écoles supérieures de commerce et les sciences du commerce : un projet national dans l’espace habsbourgeois (1867-1918) »
Stéphanie Cirac (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « Les émigrés russes et les intellectuels tchèques pendant l’entre-deux-guerres. Réseaux épistolaires »

Break

11:30-12:30. Panel 6: Territories and Borders

Ksenia Smolovic (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne) : « Discours français au lendemain de l’attentat de Sarajevo (1914) »
Laura-Jane Duquesney (Université Paris-Sorbonne) : « La frontière entre la Moldavie et la Roumanie : une ex-frontière soviétique devenue frontière de l’Union européenne »

Lunch

2:00-3:00. Panel 7: Communist Politics and Social Practice

Marián Lozi (Université Charles de Prague) : « Francouzský a český komunismus v historii i historiografii: podobnosti, průniky a možné inspirace »
Lucie Dušková (Université Charles de Prague) : « Prague et Tchécoslovaquie de nuit de l’après-guerre : entre l’Occident et l’Orient, l’imaginaire et la pratique sociale de la fin de la guerre à la constitution socialiste »

Break

3:30-4:30. Roundtable: Central Europe at the Crossroads.

CEFRES–EHESS workshop dynamics of political participation

Dynamics of Political Participation: Disciplinary Knowledge through the Prism of “Area Studies”

This PhD Students Workshop is organized withing the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Organizers and chairs of the workshop: Lucie Drechselova (CETOBAC, EHESS), Falk Bretschneider (Centre Georg Simmel, EHESS), Mateusz Chmurski (director of the CEFRES)
Time and place: 26 September 2023 (9:00 – 18:30) – CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1. It is also possible to participate online. For online participation, please follow this link : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84781174864
Language of the workshop: English

Keynote by Olga Lomová, Charles University et Tomáš Weiss, Charles University.

The thesis of the workshop is available on the page of the CFP.

Schedules  :

9:00-9:10 Welcome Address: Mateusz Chmurski, director of CEFRES & Falk Bretschneider, EHESS

9:10-10:10 Dialogical Keynote

Olga Lomová, Centre for Strategic Regions & Professor of Chinese Literature at the Faculty of Arts (Charles University): “The Elusive Nature of „area studies” and Czech Academic traditions”

&

Tomáš Weiss, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences (Charles University): “Area Studies Today: Between Academic and Political Use”

10:10-10:20 Coffee Break

10:20-12:15 PANEL 1 Area Studies through the Prism of Other “Studies”: Gender, Decolonization and Researchers’ Positionality

Discussant: Pelin Ayan Musil, Institute of International Relations, Prague

Alex Alexis, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: Law from One Geographical Area to Another: Decolonizing Legal Transplants through Political Participation

Rebecca Saab Saade, EHESS: The Orientalism of Sexual Desire and the Omnipresence of the White Gaze. How Desiring Arabs Travels Between Spaces

Anna Huláková, Charles University: Women’s Political Participation in the Lower House of the Kazakh Parliament

Szilvia Nagy, CEU Vienna: Situating the Global East: Positionality in the Shadow of the Epistemic ‘Grey Zone’

12:15-13:15 Lunch Break

13:15-14:15 PANEL 2 Area Studies viewed from the Perspective of Central Europe

Discussant: Tomáš Petrů, Oriental Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences) & Faculty of Arts (Charles University)

Monika Stachová, Charles University: “O Roma hi čačes a po névo droma.” Slovak Roma in the State Socialism and Early Post Socialism

Aleš Michal, Charles University: Liberal Democratic Representation Facing New Triangle Polarization: Lessons from the Central Europe

14:15-14:30 Coffee Break

14:30-15:30 PANEL 3 Area Studies: the Challenges and Prospects of Interdisciplinarity

Discussant: Radek Buben, Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Faculty of Arts (Charles University)

Anne Goerens, Centre d’Etudes Politiques Et sociales (CEPEL), Montpellier: Towards political participation through citizen empowerment? The case of energy policy in Guadeloupe

Noelia Noya Iglesias, EHESS: A reflection on interdisciplinary bridges to consider the roles of territorial intermediation in Latin America

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-18:15 Collective Master Class led by Antonella Romano (EHESS-Centre Alexandre Koyré): “Area Studies and Social Sciences: Place, Position, Positionality” & General Discussion

18:15-18:30 Closing of the workshop: Lucie Drechselová, CETOBaC (EHESS)

19:00 Workshop dinner for invited researchers