Conclusive Seminar of 2015-2016

CEFRES team gathers one last time before the Summer break to discuss their work. Where: Národní 18, 7th floor, conference room.

9:45-10:20 Giuseppe Bianco: From Paris to Prague and Back (1900-1937). The International Conferences of Philosophy Before and After World War I

10:20-10:55 Lara Bonneau: Light At the End of the Tunnel – On Aby Warburg’s Method

Coffee Break

11:10-11:45 Edita Wolf: Iudicium Between Concept and Metaphor

11:45-12:20 Monika Brenišínová: The (16th Century Mexico) Architecture of Conversion. Problems and Responses

12:20-12:55 Perin Emel Yavuz: Elsewhere Right Here. The Non-Offical Artists’ Art of Worldmaking in Bratislava, 1960-80

Lunch Break

14:30-14:55 István Pál Ádám: Budapest Concierges in Changing Times

14:55-15:30 Mátyás Erdélyi: The Case Study as a Methodological Tool in Habsburg History

Coffee Break

15:55-16:30 Jana Vargovčíková: Defining Legitimate Actors and Practices: What the Institutionalization of Lobbying Tells Us About Governance

16:30-17:05 Filip Vostal: Challenging the Culture of Slowness

CEFRES Review of Books

To celebrate the end of the semester and gather our readers in the library of CEFRES at Na Florenci 3 before the Summer break, we invite our readers to share about the
newest publications in France in the social sciences and humanities!

Will be presented on Thursday, June 23rd:

  • Donation GRAU : Néron en Occident (Gallimard) by Edita Wolf
  • Georges MINK : La Pologne  au cœur de l’Europe (Libella) by Ludovic Schlosser
  • Pierre MONTEBELLO : L’autre métaphysique (Presses du réel) by Lara Bonneau
  • Dominique PESTRE (dir.) : Histoire des sciences et des savoirs. II, Modernité et globalisation (Seuil) by Mátyás Erdélyi
  • N. ROUSSELIER : La force de gouverner. Le pouvoir exécutif en France, XIXe-XXIe s (Gallimard) by Michel Perottino
  • Jacques de SAINT-VICTOR : Blasphème (Gallimard) by Hana Fořtová
  • D. SKOPIN : La photographie de groupe et la politique de la disparition dans la Russie de Staline (L’Harmattan) by Françoise Mayer

The Review aims at better presenting and discussing the current French editorial landscape. Reviews are then published on CEFRES blog www.cefres.hypotheses.org or in other magazines.

Check here our latest acquisitions!

Summer Seminar – Nationalism, Religion & Violence in Europe

The Summer Seminar on Nationalism, Religion and Violence organized by Charles University in Prague and International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki, supported by the LSEE, PRIO and CEFRES, is preparing for its fourth year. A key goal of the Summer Seminar, taking place in Prague from June 20 to July 1, 2016, is to contribute in a substantial way to the study of violence and to catalyze the growth of the study of violence as a field.

  • led by the best international researchers in the field
  • bringing together lecturers from the most prestigious institutions such as USHMM, Sciences Po, University of Montreal or George Washington University
  • targeting students and graduates of Political Science, History, Anthropology, International Relations, International Law, Journalism & other related disciplines
  • course for both undergraduates, (post)graduate students and activists
  • taking place at the oldest university in Central Europe

See the complete program, the list of lecturers and how to register on the website of the summer school:
http://nrvsschool.fsv.cuni.cz/

The First Night of Philosophy in Prague

Join us on the night of 16-17 June to discuss about “Images, Sciences and Politics” with the guests of the very first Night of Philosophy in Prague and in Central Europe. Between 7 pm and 3 am, at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University and inside the Fair Trade Palace of the National Gallery in Prague, you can pick and choose between screenings, exhibitions and guided tours, readings, lectures, concerts, debates and encounters—within a dozen of rooms.
Our aim: to create a dialogue between a large public and above 55 leading international philosophers around very contemporary ethical and political questions. Find out the complete program of the Night of Philosophy on the blog: https://philonight.hypotheses.org/

Free Entry!

Where: The National Gallery in Prague – Trade Fair Palace & the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague

Languages: English / Czech / French (with simultaneous translation in Czech)

Main organizers: FF UK, CEFRES, FLÚ AV ČR, IFP and the National Gallery in Prague.

A program prepared by Anne Gléonec (Paris VII University) & Ondřej Švec (FF UK).

Check our partners and supports here.

 

Not so far away from West, the Turn of Art in Bratislava (1960-1980)

Perin Emel Yavuz (CEFRES & FMSH) will challenge the notions of center and periphery in her lecture on the turn of art which occured in the 60-80s avant-garde in Bratislava in the frame of the seminar of the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Language: English
Where: Jilská 1, Prague 1

The remarkable turn of art which occured in the 1960s-1980s has been under the scrutiny of researchers in Western Europe and United States since the early 2000s. Yet, most of their investigations focus on this geographical area assumed to be the center of the avant-garde. Attention given to “margins” and other “peripheries” offers a different perspective to what is an obvious Western ethnocentric myth. Through the study of the microcosm of Bratislava neo-avant-garde, this lecture aims to highlight the chronological parallelisms known between “center” and “periphery” art. The study of artworks and artists’ careers will help understanding the origins of this turn of art, between transfers and local context.

Form and energetics in Aby Warburg’s work

Lara BONNEAU  (CEFRES & Université Paris I)
will hold a conference in the frame of the Seminary Collegium historiae artium of the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of sciences

Where: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117
Language: English

The work of the Art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) was elaborated within a philosophical and theoretical corpus that tends to be neglected. His esthetics was part of a more general project : elaborating a Psychology based on the relationships of the different symbolic forms forged by human beings. His method thus oscillates between an extreme attention to the details of the works of Art, and the general ambition to build a « Science of Culture ». We will focus on the notion of « energy » and relate it to the use Warburg makes of the concept of « polarity ». This way, we will try to understand the role philosophical influences played in the developpement of his work.