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Ukrainian Diplomacy and Musical Creation 2014–2024

This conference is a part of the joint TANDEM research project “A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine” by Dr Valeria Korablyova and Dr Louisa Martin-Chevalier which is dedicated to the musical dimension of Ukrainian resistance as a vehicle for escaping the subaltern position of a double periphery in the blind spot between the EU and Russia. 

Date: 27-29 November, 2024
Place: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Praha 1 and online  (to get the link, please send an email to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

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Two European Territories facing History

The Districts of Cheb/Eger and Saverne: Two European Territories facing History from the End of the 19th Century to 1945.

Second session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
Already in 2023, we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday 1st, September 2024, from 10am to 12pm
Language: French

Speaker: Pascal Schneider (Sorbonne Université, Paris / Universität des Saarlandes)
Discussant:  Martin Klečacký (Masaryk Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

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Truth and Untruth. Transmission of Memories of War

 Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop

When: 4 – 5 November 2022
Where: Prague, Czech Republic
Convenors:
Astrid Greve Kristensen (Sorbonne University, associated at CEFRES)
Rose Smith (Charles University & University of Groningen),
Emina Zoletic (University of Warsaw / CEFRES)

A Workshop organized by 4EUPlus with the collaboration of CEFRES.

Read the call for papers here.

Friday November 4th 2022
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1

17.30–19.00 | Roundtable discussion
Transmissions of memories of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Moderated by František Šístek (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University).
With historians and memory scholars:
Jelena Đureinović (University of Vienna)
Vjeran Pavlakovic (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Naum Trajanovski (University of Warsaw, Institute for Sociology)

Saturday November 5th 2022
Location: Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Smetanovo nábř. 995/6, Room 212, Prague 1

08.30–09.15 | Registration and welcome

09.15–09.50 | Keynote lecture about the war in Ukraine

Elmira Muratova, PhD (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University)

10.00–12.00 | Panel 1
The Road to the Audience’s Heart? Theatre, Songs and Poetry

Discussant: Türkay Salim Nefes, PhD (University of Oxford)
Chair: Emina Zoletić

Alice Clabaut (Sorbonne University & Charles University)
Hammering Brecht’s Theater During the Cold War: Between Political Nostalgia and Cultural Propaganda

Nenad Milosavljević (Sorbonne University)
The Wars of the Years 1990s in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro in the Mirror of the Poetry Written in These Countries

Lubna Batool (Rawalpindi Women University)
Embedment of War Memories in Youth Through National Songs: A Multimodal Analysis of Remakes in Pakistan

Aida Čopra (Sorbonne University, University of Florence, University of Bonn)
Nothing to be done. Theatre as a Medium of Memory in Wartime Sarajevo (1992-1995)

12.00–13.00 | Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 | Panel 2
Distortion Through the Camera Lens

Discussant: Jana Jedličková, PhD (Palacký University, Olomouc)
Chair: Astrid Greve Kristensen

Maria Plichta (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)
First as a tragedy, then as the lowest rated film on IMDb: The Kitschification of the Smolensk catastrophe in the Smoleńsk (2016) film.

Domenico Scagliusi (Sorbonne University)
Time Travel and Poetics of Reenactment: the Kitschification of WWII in Russian Post-Soviet Fantastika

Đejmi Hadrović (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
Cinema as a Political Platform in Post-Yugoslavia

14.30-15.00 | Coffee Break

15.00 – 16.30 | Panel 3
In The Grip of Words: Big Actors, Propaganda and False Narratives

Discussant: Valeriya Korablyova PhD (Charles University)
Chair: Rose Smith

Anna Greszta (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis)
Performance, Masquerade and Post-Truth Sensibilities in Cultural Representations of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Heqi Sun (University of Warsaw)
Spillover effects of the Kosovo War – The US bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999

Nicholas Idris Erameh (Northwest University, South Africa)
In the Shadow of Empire: Putin’s Expansionism, Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Limitation of United Nations Security Council Veto Power

16.30 | Concluding remarks

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Treating historical traumas between psychic breakdowns and institutional failure

Marine Mazel, psychologist and psychoanalyst

will be taking part in the seminar called Current Issues. Reflection on Crises organised by CEFRES.

Date: Wednesday , March 17th 2021, 12h30 à 13h50
Where: Online on Zoom.
Organisators:  Maria Kokkinou (post-doc at CEFRES / Charles University), Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES)
Language: French

For more information about the programme and the seminar,  see the website: http://cefres.cz/fr/seminaires/penser-les-crises.

Travelling Rituals – Anne-Marie Losonczy

Anne-Marie Losonczy (Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études) will give on March 2nd 2015 in Pécs, at the Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Science, a conference on “Travelling rituals. New theories, new fields”.

The conference is organized by Pécs University and the regional Committee of the Hungarian Science Academy

In collaboration with the “Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme”, Paris, and CEFRES, Prague.

Transnational Media and the Politics of Fundraising in the Armenian Diaspora

Gellner Seminar

Rik Adriaans (Central European University, Budapest) will give a lecture within the Gellner seminar organized by the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA– Česká Asociace pro Sociální Antropologii), the Czech Society of Sociology, in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES.

When: 15th November, at 5 pm
Where: CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Language: English

Abstract

Transnational Media and the Politics of Fundraising in the Armenian Diaspora
Fundraising spectacles such as gala dinners and concerts have long been central to the culture and institutions of the Armenian diaspora. Since the early 1990s, the conversion of money into ethnicity takes on increasingly mediatized and transnational forms. My talk examines the Armenia Fund Telethon, an annual pan-Armenian spectacle broadcast from Los Angeles that collects donations for infrastructure in the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic on the de jure territory of Azerbaijan. Through the establishment of a transnational sphere of media rituals that links up Armenians across continents, the occupation of formerly Azerbaijani-occupied lands is turned into a diasporic celebration of humanitarian ethics and cultural heritage. At the same time, diaspora activists in Los Angeles are increasingly calling for a boycott of the annual telethon by organizing competing events that criticize it for serving the interests of post-Soviet oligarchs. The appeal of these activist initiatives is analyzed in relation to unpredictable eruptions of violence in the homeland.

Rik Adriaans

Rik Adriaans recently obtained his PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University in Budapest. His doctoral thesis examines the interfaces between image production, technological mediation and diasporic recognition struggles in the transnational circuits that connect post-Soviet Armenia to the Armenian diaspora in Los Angeles. He also maintains an ongoing research interest in the politics of Armenian popular music. His articles have appeared in the journals Social Analysis, Nationalities Papers, Caucasus Survey and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.