Archives

Visegrad Forum: Laure Teulières, between Warsaw & Prague

Program

Tuesday 25 April – Warsaw

Immigration in order to repopulated: measures, narratives and migrant social paths in France post-WW1. A workshop around Laure Teulières organized by the Center of French Civilization and Francophone Studies.
Language: English

Wednesday 26 April – Prague

6:30-8:00 PM
“Étrangers d’ici”: migrants et migrations en France à travers des films de la Cinémathèque de Toulouse. A lecture by Laure Teulières organized by CEFRES.
Where: French Institute (5th floor), Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language: French

Thursday 27 April – Prague

2:00-7:00 PM
Around the migrations in the middle of the 20th century – prospects from the two sides of the Channel. A workshop around Laure Teulières and Simon Gunn.
Organizer: World History Department, FF UK
Where: Hybernská 3, Prague 1 (room 303)
Language: English

Urban Margins in the Context of Budapest

The fifth session of CEFRES / IMS epistemological seminar will be led by Ludovic LEPELTIER-KUTASI (Tours University / associated PhD fellow at CEFRES)

  • Wacquant L., « Ghettos and Anti-Ghettos: An Anatomy of the New Urban Poverty », Thesis Eleven, 1 août 2008, vol. 94, no 1, p. 113‑118.
  • Auyero Javier et Lara Agustín Burbano de, « In harm’s way at the urban margins », Ethnography, décembre 2012, vol. 13, no 4, p. 531‑557.

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

 

Identity Strategies: Heritage and Diversity

In the frame of FF UK Divesity week, the Institute of World History and its partners are organizing a workshop on “Identity Strategies: Heritage and Diversity”

Where: Hybernská 3, Prague 1 (room 303)

What do cultural patrimony, identity and diversity share in common? This question will be tackled during the workshop:
What strategies are in question when speaking about the choice and presentation of UNESCO monuments? Linda Kovářová, who compares the UNESCO monuments in the Czech Republic, Italy and Japan, will speak about this topic more in detail.
Aurore Navarro in her presentation about her research concerning retailers of so-called quality food in Prague is going to persuade us that identities go through our stomach: the food divides and unifies, delimits and designates.
Why the rich breton culture and tradition didn’t become the base for confident regional patriotism? Did the elites of Brittany choose a wrong strategy? Martina Reiterová is going to look for an answer to this question.
Alena Křivánková is going to reveal us who was interested in occitan at the beginning of the French Revolution and why this language didn’t become a link for southern French identity.
Jan Krajíček is going to present us technocratic dreams of František Radouš dating the 1930s, one of those being the idea that an underdeveloped and peripheral region like the Vysočina region constitute an ideal place for modernisation strategies.

Come and join us at this collective brainstorming!
In case you have other ideas, we would like to listen to them in the workshop.

Program

Linda KOVÁŘOVÁ (FF UK) UNESCO a koncept diverzity na příkladě Kutné Hory, Hirošimy a Villa Romana di Casale

Aurore NAVARRO (CEFRES/Université de Lyon) Food quality and retail trade in Prague: heritage, reinvention and innovation.

Martina REITEROVÁ (FF UK):  Problematické dědictví? Identifikační strategie bretonských regionalistů přelomu 19. a 20. století.

Alena KŘIVÁNKOVÁ (FF UK): „Okcitánština“ – počátky vědeckého zájmu a sporů o jeden (?) jazyk

Martin THARP (FHS UK): Thomasius’ Legacy or the Language Paradox of European Universities

Jakub NEUMANN (FF UK): Proměny kladenské industriální krajiny ve 20. století

Jan KRAJÍČEK (FF UK): Periferní region jako technologický projekt: modernizace Vysočiny podle Františka Radouše (1939)

See the complete program with abstracts (in Czech) here.

 

Jews and Popular Culture in 1960’s Czechoslovakia

A lecture by Ilana Miller (University of Chicago) 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

Was there such a thing as “Jewish popular culture” under communism? In this presentation, I use data collected from the publishing and film industries to examine moments of increased popularity in Jewish themes in Czechoslovak culture. While the rapid rise in interest in Jewish themes in post-communist culture has been written about extensively, few have taken seriously the possibility of widespread interest in Jewish themes under communism. By examining trends in mainstream literary and cinematic culture, I show that the 1960’s boom in interest in Jewish themes rivalled the post-communist period. While the post-communist period was heavily influenced by foreign and external cultural trends, communist era literature and films were far more domestic—both in their creation as well as in their themes and focus. Using distribution and publication data, reviews, movie posters and illustrations, this presentation explores the characteristics and qualities of Jewish popular culture under communism, particularly the role that Jewish themes played during the era of communist reform.

Illustrations by Zdeněk Chotěnovský from Hana Bělohradská, Bez krásy, bez límce (1964).

Diversity week

Organizers: Jan Bičovský, Anna Hořejší, Eva Marková, Pavel Sitek, Kateřina Svatoňová
Language: Czech, English
Where: Hybernská 4

Check the program and details on the organizers’ website http://tydendiverzity.cz/

Within the Divesity week, the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University creates a platform for common activities of deparments, institutes and clubs of the Faculty of Arts and its partners.

The topic City and Emotions leads us to examine the life in city from various perspectives. The empty building in Hybernská 4 will provide the space to meet, share experience, exchange views and establish contacts. City and emotions in Hybernská 4—this means lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, excursions, readings, concerts and many more in one single place. The event is held under the auspices of the rector of Charles University and the Mayor of Prague.

Aurore Navarro (CEFRES – FMSH) will take part in the workshop Identity strategies: heritage and diversity organised by the Institute of World History and giving a speech on:

Food Quality and Retail Trade in Prague : Heritage, Reinvention and Innovation.
Abstract

In the last decade, food retail trade has been upset by the emergence of a new demand from consumers. After a few scandals concerning agro-food products, a portion of the citizens started to pay more attention to the origin and quality of food. This last notion is not easy to define. In the case of my research, I decided not to focus on a specific food quality (organic agriculture, origin, etc), but on quality which is seen, and sold, as such by food retailers (tradesmen, food craftsmen or farmers). There is a lack of research about the multiplication of specialized shops, whose peculiarity is to be independant and to offer an alternative to large-scale distribution. The scientific literature is richer about farmers markets and shopping malls. By studying urban food retailers, we can find out how the city is making developing between heritage, reinvention and innovation. It’s also a way to approach the countryside, food production spaces and their links with city.

The Concept of Political Power: Third Party Politics in the United States

Fourth session of IMS / CEFRES Epistemological Seminar led by
Zdeněk KRÁL (IMS FSV UK).

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text to be read:
Talcott Parsons, “On the Concept of Political Power” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 107, No. 3 (Jun. 19, 1963), pp. 232-262
https://www.hse.ru/data/2012/11/27/1301625729/Parsons%20Power.pdf