To celebrate the end of the year and gather our readers in the brand new library of CEFRES at Na Florenci 3, we are happy to offer a last encounter around some of the
newest publications in France in the social sciences and humanities!
It will give us the opportunity to better present and discuss the current French editorial landscape through this new review of books, which will be from now on held twice a year, before Winter and Summer holidays.
Reviews (preferably in English or Czech) will be published on CEFRES blog www.cefres.hypotheses.org.
The following books will be presented (in French):
- Jean-Hugues BARTHELEMY: Simondon (Belles Lettres) – by Lara Bonneau
- Patrick BOUCHERON : L’entretemps (Verdier) – by Eloïse Adde
- Luc BOLTANSKI : Enigmes et complots (Gallimard) – by Gwendal Piégais
- Marc FUMAROLI : La République des lettres (Gallimard) – by Edita Wolf
- Emmanuel FUREIX, François JARRIGE : Modernité désenchantée (La Découverte) – by Mátyás Erdelyi
- Albert OGIEN, Sandra LAUGIER : Le principe démocratie (La Découverte) – by Jana Vargovčíková
- Michel WIEVIORKA, Retour au sens (R. Laffont) by Nicolas Maslowski
- Caroline ZUM KOLK (dir.) et al. : Voyageurs étrangers à la cour de France (Presses U. de Rennes) – by Zdeněk Hojda
See the latest acquisitions of the library.
Please confirm in advance your participation in this latest meeting of CEFRES before the end of the year! Contact the organizers: Lara Bonneau or Claire Madl.
A lecture by French sociologist Marc Bessin, head
of IRIS – Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stakes (UMR 8156 CNRS – EHESS – U997 Inserm – UP13), organized by CEFRES Platform.
Language : French with simultaneous Czech translation.
Venue : CEFRES, Národní 18, Prague 1, conference room, 7th floor.
Outline
This lecture is grounded in empirical research on health, social, and parental care. It will be briefly presented to feed the debate on the moral and practical aspects of care activities, with a specific highlight on such stakes as temporalization and sexuation. Our hunch is that such practices of help concern academic space as well, which will be approached through the prism of temporal tensions, between an acceleration affecting our research practices and Slow Science, refered to by the sociology of social presences.
Continue reading Social Presences: Toward an Approach of Interdependency Enhancing Time and Gender →
The IMS-CEFRES seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines” will host post-doctoral researcher
Filip Vostal (CEFRES & FLÚ AV ČR)
who will present his work on
“Slowing down” Modernity: Risky, Futile or Progressive?
His presentation will be discussed by French sociologist Marc Bessin (director of IRIS-EHESS, editor-in-chief of the scholarly review Temporalités).
The seminar will be held in English.
Venue: Carolinum – Small conference room (2nd floor), Ovocný trh 3, Prague 1.
Contact: Paul Bauer paul.bauer@fsv.cuni.cz & Clara Royer clararoyer@cefres.cz
Cécile Guillaume-Pey (CEFRES-FMSH) will give a lecture within the Gellner seminar organized by the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA– Česká Asociace pro Sociální Antropologii), the Masaryk Czech Society of Sociology, in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Where: New York University, Malé náměstí 11, Praha 1 – Staré Město (1st floor, entry from the passage), Prague.
Abstract: Among the Sora tribe (Odisha-Andhra Pradesh) one finds mural paintings in front of which sacrifices are performed. These images are considered to be houses for deities whose presence is thus materialized in the domestic space. Their designing is part of a ritual which requires close collaboration between a painter and other religious specialists who, through songs, invite local deities to inhabit the pictures. But these “altar-paintings” may be disconnected from the converging agencies set in motion by the ritual. As cultural emblems displayed in regional museums or as articles for sale in “tribal markets,’’ or even as animated movies used as political instruments denouncing the abuses perpetrated against Adivasi/Tribal groups, Sora paintings inspire a large range of modern-day media. We will follow the journey of these images which traverse cultural, ethnic, and national boundaries.
Convener: Filip Vostal (CEFRES & FLÚ AV ČR).
Language: English.
Venue: CEFRES, Štěpánská 35, 5th floor.
We’re leaving the French Institute on Štěpánská to move in our new premises within the Czech Academy of Sciences! CEFRES library will be closed from 7 to 9 December.
Come and visit from 10 December at Na Florenci 3, in the courtyard for the library and the 4th floor for our offices!
