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The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons in 14th-century Bohemia

The rhetoric of Good Friday sermons in 14th-century Bohemia: Defining norms, commonplaces, and discrepancies

8th session of CEFRES in-house seminar 2022-2023.
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library and online
Date: Tuesday 9th of May 2023, 16:30
Language: English
Contact: cefres[@]cefres.cz

Olga Kalashnikova (PhD candidate at CEU /  associated with CEFRES)
Discussant: Eloïse Adde (CEU)

Abstract

Holy Week – and Good Friday in particular – represents a crucial period of the Lenten season, as it marks the peak of Christian devotion. During Holy Week, charismatic preachers of the Middle Ages sought to profoundly influence the daily life and religious behavior of the people. Bohemian preachers retold the story of Christ’s Passion to evoke an emotional response from listeners (and sometimes readers) and invite them to repent and confess their sins. In some instances, preachers experimented with available sources and theological and rhetorical approaches to the topic to reflect on the growing devotion to the Passion and sacraments in the region and even criticise moral decay of the Bohemian laity and clergy.

My presentation will focus on intellectual background and shared discourse on Christ’s Passion that surrounded fourteenth-century Bohemian preachers while composing their Good Friday sermons at desk. In addition, I will discuss the rationale, structure, methodology, and goals of my PhD project, which ultimately aims to critically examine Good Friday preaching in Bohemia in 1330-1380, identify the peculiarities (transgressions) – of the Bohemian corpus in the broader European context, and classify some theological, hermeneutical, pastoral, and rhetorical “commonplaces” (norms) typical for the genre.

See the complete program of the seminar here.

The Rhetorics of Affective Life: Stirring, Understanding and Naming Emotions

The first international conference organized in the frame of the VOICE excellency research center by the Institute of Romance Studies and the Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Arts, in celebration of Charles University’s new membership within the Agence universitaire de la francophonie. The conference has received the patronage of Roland Galharague, Ambassador of France in the Czech Republic.

Date & Venue: 1-2 December, Faculty of Arts, room 300(náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1)
Language: French
Partners : FF UK, VOICE, CEFRES, French Institute in Prague, French Embassy in the Czech Republic, Agence universitaire de la francophonie, University of Cambridge, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, École Normale Supérieure in Lyon,  Paris-Sorbonne University, University of Paris X-Nanterre, Reims Champagne-Ardenne University, University of Clermont-Auvergne, University of Limoges, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Masaryk University (Brno).
See also the website of the conference.

Twenty-one scholars in philosophy, literary studies and art history will tackle the topic of “emotions”, their sources, expression, transmission and conceptualization. Papers will be grounded in French-written literature and philosophy from all around the world, from Renaissance to today.

Program

Friday 1 December

8:30-9 am Opening Remarks  (Faculty of Arts, room 300)

9-10:30 am
Panel I: Philosophy I
Discussant: Ondřej Švec

  • Denis KAMBOUCHNER (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): L’héritage cartésien dans les théories modernes des émotions
  • Pierre-François MOREAU (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon):
    Politique des affects

Coffee break

10:45-12:45 am
Panel II: Philosophy II
Discussant: Chiara Mangozzi

  • Ian JAMES (University of Cambridge): Affectivité, sens et affects : les émotions comme articulation de la vie biologique
  • Véronique Le RU (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne):
    Individuation et affects : les rythmes de l’empathie
  • Ondřej ŠVEC (Charles University): L’historicité radicale des émotions

1-2 pm
Lunch break

2:30-6 pm
Panel III: French literature of the 17th and 18th century
Discussant: Catherine Ébert-Zeminová

  • Záviš ŠUMAN (Charles University) : Catharsis : essai de légitimer la fiction théâtrale au XVIIe siècle en France
  • Camille Guyon-Lecoq (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) :
    Sensibilité à la douleur et compassion chez Robert Challe voyageur : de l’expérience de l’attendrissement à une réflexion sur la nature humaine
  • Céline BONHERT (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne):
    Émotion et décision dans les livrets de Philippe Quinault : la tragédie en musique et les passions du prince
  • prof. Jean-Louis HAQUETTE (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne): “Notre âme est un tableau mouvant”. Énergétique des émotions et puissance de l’image chez Diderot

Saturday 2 December

9-11 am
Panel IV: French literature of the 19th century
Discussant: Jovanka Šotolová

  • Pascale AURAIX-JONCHIÈRE (Université Clermont-Auvergne) :
    L’expression des émotions, un paradigme structurel dans les nouvelles de Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly
  • Cécile GAUTHIER (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne) :
    Barbarie, émotion et altérité : les affects “excessifs” de la slavité fin-de-siècle
  • Eva VOLDŘICHOVÁ BERÁNKOVÁ (Charles University) :
    La valeur cognitive des passions dans “le système symboliste”

Coffee break

11:15-1:15 pm
Panel V: Literature of the 20th century – theoretic approaches
Discussant: Clara Royer

  • Alexandre GEFEN (Université paris IV-La Sorbonne): Le tournant affectif des études littéraires : bilan et perspectives
  • Anne-Élisabeth HALPERN (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne): “Cette émotion appelée poésie” (Reverdy)
  • Sylviane COYAULT (Université Clermont-Auvergne): Article 353 du code pénal de Tanguy Viel, ou la tenson entre la loi et les affects

1:30-2:30 pm
Lunch break

3-5 pm
Panel VI: Post-colonial and diaspora literature I
Discussant: Eva Voldřichová Beránková

  • Petr KYLOUŠEK (Masaryk University): Ariel et Caliban : double discours de la diaspora haïtienne de Montréal
  • Chiara MENGOZZI (CEFRES, Université Charles): Aux frontières de l’humanité: (in)efficacité de l’empathie et de l’expérience esthétique
  • Jean-Michel DEVÉSA (Université de Limoges) : L’Amère Souffrance des enfants de la (post)colonie

Coffee break

5:15-6:45 pm
Panel VII:  Post-colonial and diaspora literature II
Discussant: Milena Fučíková

  • Petr VURM (Masaryk University): 1984-2084. Faux-semblants révélés, émotions refoulées : les émotions à l’âge totalitaire chez George Orwell et Boualem Sansal
  • Vojtěch ŠARŠE (Charles University): La manifestation collective du sentiment de la tristesse dans l’Afrique romanesque

The Second Workshop of ‘Central European Masculinities’

Second International Workshop:
Central European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective

International workshop organized by CEFRES in the frame of the Central European Masculinities research project, with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR, PARCECO Program), in collaboration with the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚČL AVČR) & the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University (ÚČLK FF UK).

Location: CINiBA, ul. Bankowa 11a, 40-007 Katowice
Date: 14–15 November, 2024
Languages: English
Organizers: Wojciech Śmieja (IL WNH UŚ), Mateusz Chmurski (CEFRES/Sorbonne), Iwona Kurz (IKP WP UW), Richard Müller (ÚČL AV ČR), Josef Šebek (ÚČLK FF UK), Ivana Taranenková (ÚSL SAV).

Program

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The Soviet Border as a source for the Holocaust

First session of the CEFRES 2023 Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar. The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by beginning 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, April 14th, 10 am – 11.30 am.
Language: french

Thomas CHOPARD (EHESS / IMS, Charles University), discussant Ronan HERVOUET (Université de Bordeaux / CEFRES)

Recent images reminded us of the entanglement between war, persecution, and exile. What role did the Soviet border play in the survival strategies or in the aggravation of the situation of the Jewish population? What status was the status of the border after the territorial translation and annexations that followed the German-Soviet pact of 1939? Continue reading The Soviet Border as a source for the Holocaust →

The Territory of the Modern State: Infrastructural Ties and Dispositions of Power

Fifth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Katalin Pataki (CEFRES & Central European University, Budapest)

Texts:

  • MANN, MICHAEL (1986), “The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms, and results”, in HALL, JOHN A. (ed.), States in History. Oxford: Blackwell. p109-136
  • FOUCAULT, MICHEL (2001), “Governmentality”, in Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984). p199-222

The Transformations of the Book Publishing in Post-Socialist Spaces

The Transformations of the Book Publishing in Post-Socialist Spaces (ex-USSR, post-Yugoslav space, Czech Republic and Slovakia)

A workshop organized by the Research Center Europe-Eurasia, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris, France with the collaboration of the CEFRES.

Dates: Wednesday February 7 2024, from 10 am to 5 pm
Location: INALCO – Maison de la Recherche – Salle de Sacy – 2e étage (2, rue de Lille – Paris 7e)

Language: English

Convenors
  • Anne Madelain (CREE, Inalco, Paris)
  • Daria Petushkova (CREE, Inalco / CESSP, EHESS)
Speakers
  • Aglaé Achechova (BULAC, Paris),
  • Dmitrii Khriakov (EHESS, Paris),
  • Anne Madelain (CREE, Inalco, Paris),
  • Vanda Mikšić, Mirna Sindičić Sabljo, Željka Tonković (Université de Zadar, Croatie),
  • Bella Ostromooukhova (Eur’Orbem, Sorbonne Université, Paris),
  • Daria Petushkova (CREE, Inalco et CESSP, EHESS),
  • David Piovesan (Magellan, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3),
  • Jiřina Šmejkalová (Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Université Charles, Prague)
  • Anna Štičková (Masaryk University, Brno, Rep. Tchèque),
Thesis of the workshop

“The end of the socialist regimes profoundly affected the publishing industry and book distribution in the post-socialist space, including Central and Southeast Europe. Among the most visible transformations that occurred, the end of state control, the appearance of private actors (publishers, distributors, booksellers) and the influx of translations of works by Western authors can be emphasized (as substantial). These transformations have also coincided with the digital revolution that has disrupted publishing and reading practices all over the world. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 brought new pressure and reconfigurations.”

This workshop will bring together the authors of a multidisciplinary and comprehensive set of papers which will be published in the special issue of the open access peer-reviewed journal Connexe. Exploring Post-communist Spaces.

Contacts

anne.madelain@inalco.fr et daria.petushkova@inalco.fr

image: Karolinum Bookshop, Prague, 2019 © Anne Madelain