International workshop within the program of the CEFRES non-residential fellowships for Ukrainian scholars in humanities and social sciences, 2023
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: September 19–20, 2023
It is also possible to participate online. To receive the link, please register at cefres(@)cefres.fr
Language: English
THE VAGUENESS.
31st Summer School of the Jan Hus Foundation
Organizers: the Institute of Philosophy of Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Department of Romance and Slavic Languages of the Faculty of Applied Languages of the University of Economics of Bratislava
With the support of: the French Embassy in Slovakia, the French Institute in Slovakia, the CEFRES, the IUFS / SFUI and FrancAvis
Date : 24th August – 28th august 2023
Location: Krahule
Après-midi : arrivée des participants
19h : dîner
8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner
9h – 9h15 : ouverture
9h15 – 10h15 : Colas DUFLO (Université Paris Nanterre) –Conférence plénière – titre à préciser
10h15 – 10h45 : pause-café
10h45 – 11h45 : Bertrand PRÉVOST (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) – Conférence plénière – titre à préciser
12h – 13h : déjeuner
13h – 14h : André SCALA (IDBL Digne-les-Bains) – Conférence plénière – titre à préciser
14h – 15h : Josef FULKA (Université Charles) – La naissance du langage selon Condillac
Petr KYLOUŠEK (Université Masaryk de Brno) – Le flou – la septième fonction du langage ?
15h – 15h30 : pause-café
15h30 – 18h : Florence BOULERIE (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) – Dans le vague des sentiments : l’expression du flou comme spécialité des romancières d’une période esthétiquement indéfinie, 1780-1820 ?
Katia HAYEK (Université Masaryk de Brno) – Du flou à la société : le roman du romantisme dit noir
Vasile SPIRIDON (Université d’Économie de Bratislava / Université de Bacău) – Le flou chez Nerval
Sunil KUMAR (Université Charles) – Une image féministe floue de Gustave Flaubert en Inde
Barnabé PIRET (Université de Liège) – Le faubourg Saint-Germain : floutage et brouillage d’un lieu dans la littérature. Étude de cas chez Rutlidge, Balzac et Barbey d’Aurevilly
19h : dîner
8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner
9h – 10h30 : Sylviane COYAULT (CELIS Université Clermont Auvergne) – Le flou générique dans Autoportrait en vert de Marie Ndiaye
Zuzana MALINOVSKÁ (Université Comenius de Bratislava) – Noëlle Revaz : du flou au précis
Eva VOLDŘICHOVÁ BERÁNKOVÁ (Université Charles) – Le flou transgressif chez Didier Eribon
10h30 – 11h : pause-café
11h – 12h30 : Jan BIERHANZL (Université Charles) – L’heure bleue et le rêve éveillé chez Ernst Bloch
Róbert KARUL (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – Archi-événement dans les écrits de Claude Romano
Alžbeta KUCHTOVÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – Le flou insaisissable et la pensée environnementale
12h30 – 13h30 : déjeuner
13h30 – 15h30 : Ján ŽIVČÁK (Université de Prešov) – Nouvelles perspectives sur les pièges d’un discours poétique flou de la fin du Moyen Âge : Jozef Felix face à François Villon
Jaroslav STANOVSKÝ (Moravská zemská knihovna) – Les écrits de Maximilian Lamberg à la frontière des genres et des styles
Dóra SZÉKESI (Université de Szeged) – Jacques le Fataliste et son maître de Denis Diderot, un flou artistique
Andrea TUREKOVÁ (Université d’Économie de Bratislava) – Le flou des sentiments dans le roman libertin
15h30 – 16h : pause-café
16h – 18h : Anna LUŇÁKOVÁ (Université Charles) – Image rémanente
Jon STEWART (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – La technique de la caméra tremblante en cinématographie : une
exploration du flou de la perception
Tetyana SERGIENKO (Université Charles) – Le flou en musique : une rétrospective historique
Daniel VOJTEK (Université Šafárik de Košice) – Flou terminologique en grammaire : le cas du français et du slovaque
19h : dîner
8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner
9h – 10h30 : Erzsébet FENYVESINÉ PROHÁSZKA (Université de Szeged) – Les représentations de l’incertitude dans la peinture française au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle
Zsófia IVÁN-SZŰR (Université de Szeged) – La touche de Jean Siméon Chardin et la vision trompée
Katalin KOVÁCS (Université de Szeged) – « Les nuages qui passent » : contribution à la peinture des nuages aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
Luca RAUSCH-MOLNÁR (Université de Szeged) – Watteau : artiste mélancolique ou œuvre mélancolique ?
10h30 – 11h : pause-café
11h – 12h30 : Kateřina SEGEŠOVÁ (Université Masaryk de Brno / Université de Sorbonne) – Le flou de Bohuslav Reynek
Michaela RUMPÍKOVÁ (Université Charles) – Pour une nouvelle ontologie des corps : « gender/genre blurring » au
sein de l’espace littéraire
Silvia RYBÁROVÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – à préciser
Dalibor ŽÍLA (Université Masaryk de Brno) – Mémoire floue à travers Les Années d’Annie Ernaux
12h30 – 13h30 : déjeuner
section anglaise
13h30 – 15h30 Ivana KOMANICKÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – Negative Capability and John Keats : Thinking in writing
Katalin STEWART (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – The Ambiguity of Perception: The Turn of the Screw as an Aporetic
novel
Dagmar KUSÁ (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – à préciser
Lukáš SIEGEL (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – The Relative Individual: Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy in the Age of Modern Technologies
15h30 – 16h : pause-café
16h – 17h30 : Michal LIPTÁK (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) –Fleeting promise of happiness: phenomenological reading of Adorno’s philosophy of avant-garde music
Marcel ŠEDO (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – French meditations on the concept of event (according to Heidegger)
Michal ZVARÍK (Académie Slovaque des Sciences) – The Dead In And Among Us. Jan Patočka’s Concept of After-Life
19h : dîner
8h – 9h : petit-déjeuner
matinée : départ des participants
The next edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on
Tuesday, June 27th, at 3 pm,
at CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
in French.
This informal meeting gathers CEFRES team, library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing. The aim of our Review of Books is to make better known the publishing landscape in humanities and social sciences. Each book is presented in French and in no more than 10 minutes, so to stress its originality and stakes. A short discussion follows each presentation. Continue reading CEFRES Review of books – June 2023
Second session of the seminar RETHINK. Objects, models, and methods in Humanities and Social Sciences since the invasion of Ukraine
Continue reading Discursive and memorial transformations in Ukraine
Location: Warsaw, Paris, CEFRES Library and online (zoom)
To receive the link, please contact us at cefres[@]cefres.cz
Date: Friday, June 12th 2023, 4.30 pm
Language: English
The seminar will focus on life narratives of queer people in socialist and post-socialist Central European countries in the 1980s and 1990s, in the period of political and social transformation. The papers will address biographical and autobiographical discourses and texts, from sexological and legal documents through oral autobiographical narrations to genres of life writing (autobiography and autofiction), with an emphasis on the aspects of transformation and the peculiarities of the Central European context in relation to queer theory. The “zoegraphy” in the title points to the troubling dichotomy of what is/can be narrated under changing social and political circumstances and what is lived without necessarily finding textual form.
Part 1
“Pat-a-Cake”: Czech Queer Writing of the Self from the Time of Social Transformation around 1989
Josef ŠEBEK (Charles University)
In the period around 1989, crucial for the transformation of the Czechoslovak society from state socialism to democratic capitalism, several remarkable autobiographical/autofictional narratives were published that revolve around the issues of queerness: Václav Bauman’s Paci, paci, pacičky (Pat-a-Cake, written in 1984, published as samizdat in 30 copies in 1987, then in the samizdat Revolver Revue in 1988, and officially in Prague in 1990 and again in 2017), Václav Jamek’s Traité des courtes merveilles (written in French, dated Paris 1985 – Prague 1988, published in Paris in 1989 and never translated into Czech), and Ladislav Fuks’s memoir Moje zrcadlo (My Mirror, written 1991–1993, heavily edited and published posthumously in Prague in 1995 and in a modified version in 2007). I will analyse these narratives in their peculiar discursive context(s), reflected partially in the intricate ways they were written, edited and published. The analysis will follow the lines of genres of the writing of the self (ranging from the wildly funny emancipatory story through an elaborated autobiographical essay to autobiography suppressing key aspects of politics and sexuality), the discursive ethos of the author/narrator/character, and the politics of sexuality. These texts, taken as a certain synecdoche of queer literary narratives written in the Czech milieu in the period, present a surprisingly varied mosaic of openly pronounced as well as unsaid queer desire and in complex and sometimes contradictory ways participate in the process of social transformation.
Josef Šebek is an assistant professor at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and an associated researcher at CEFRES. He specializes in cultural materialism, the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and current French sociology of literature and works also on contemporary theory of discourse and rhetoric, media theory of literature, genres of life writing, and queer studies. He is the author of the book Literature and the Social: Bourdieu, Williams, and their Successors (Prague, FF UK, 2019), co-author of Richard Müller, Tomáš Chudý et al., Beyond Media Contours: Literature and Mediality (Prague, Karolinum, 2020), managing editor of the journal Slovo a smysl / Word & Sense and a member of the editorial team of Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics.
Part 2
Queer Opera Divas: The Case of Three Polish Singers
Marcin BOGUCKI (University of Warsaw)
The cult of diva is inherently connected both to opera and queer culture. In my talk I would like to analyze the iconic status of three contemporary Polish singers in the local context: Ewa Podleś, Violetta Villas, Aldona Orłowska. Although they were all trained as opera performers, they functioned in different musical realms: Ewa Podleś – contralto – was praised for her voice and stage presence on the most prestigious stages in the world, Violetta Villas – coloratura soprano – was regarded as the epitome of camp, mixing opera and popular music, Aldona Orłowska – also soprano – has emerged recently as an Internet phenomenon and can be defined as embodiment of queer art of failure.
Marcin Bogucki – graduate of cultural studies, art history and musicology, assistant professor in the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. His research focuses on the cultural history of music and modern staging of opera. In 2012 he published a book about Peter Sellarsʼs operatic work. Co-author of the book The Chopin Games. History of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 1927-2015 (2021). Member of the Polish Society for Theatre Research (2016-2020 – secretary of the Society), and member of the Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l’Eurovision.
The illustration by Daniela Olejníková from Václav Bauman: Paci, paci, pacičky. 2nd ed. Prague: Filip Tomáš – Akropolis, 2017. Illustration © Daniela Olejníková
See the complete program of the Seminar here.
Third session of the CEFRES 2023 Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar. The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start 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, June 9th, 10 am – 11.30 am
Language: french
Chiara MENGOZZI (Charles University), discussant Michèle BAUSSANT (CNRS, CEFRES)
While, until the 1990s, migrant deaths at sea occurred fairly far from the Italian coast, the situation changed in the 2000s, following a number of shipwrecks that were widely covered by the media. Continue reading Tragedies in the Mediterranean on the contemporary Italian and European stage
