First session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Clara Royer (CEFRES) and Tomáš Weiss (IMS)
Texts :
A lecture by Gábor Egry (Institute of History – Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Discussant: Rudolf Kučera (Masaryk Institute – AV ČR)
Where: Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor, conference room.
The end of WWI in East Central Europe brought about similar developments: the collapse of empires and the emergence of nation states. But behind the façade of seemingly uniform transformations and the general tendency of nationalizing in the new states, local societies and micro regions were sometimes less constrained in exerting influence upon the specific conditions of transition than it is presumed according to the overarching narrative of imperial collapse and nation-state building. The imperial past did not vanish without a trace, furthermore, the new entities often operated as mini-empires reviving or retaining people, methods and structures of imperial management of power and population.
Comparing case studies of local transition offers an insight into the local contexts, how different local social constellations, imperial prehistories, helped local groups to negotiate their positon in the new states. While certain practices, habits, institutions were retained and often used to co-opt the new elites into the circles of the old, peculiar imperial figures managed to move swiftly between successor states and broader social changes altered the general balance and conferred agency to hitherto disadvantaged groups. In my lecture I will outline the most important factors behind different paths of transitions and how individuals situated themselves in the new world of nation states.
Where: CEFRES library
Language: English
Professor Yaacov Ro’i from the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at the Tel Aviv University is a leading expert on history of Jews in the Soviet Union. Among his recent publications are however also books on Islam in the postwar Soviet Union.
The lecture will be followed by a workshop during which Dr. Kamil Kijek, Dr. Kateřina Čapková and Dr. Stephan Stach will present their projects on postwar history of Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Basis of the workshop will be a discussion of their texts under the leadership of Prof. Ro’i.
To take part in the workshop following the lecture of Prof. Ro’i, please write to capkova@usd.cas.cz.
The event is co-organized by the Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences and by CEFRES.
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
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:
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.
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.
See the complete program, the list of lecturers and how to register on the website of the summer school:
http://nrvsschool.fsv.cuni.cz/
