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The Popularization of Entertainment, from the Enlightenment to Modernism: from West to East?

An international conference organized by CEFRES and EUR’ORBEM research center (Paris-Sorbonne University & CNRS).

Where: conference room – Na Florenci 3, building C, 4th floor.
Languages: English, French.

Program

9:30 – Welcome.

Panel 1: From Genres to Practices of Entertainment

Moderator: Stanislaw Fiszer (Lorraine University/ CERCLE)

9:45-10:10 – Olga Granasztói (Debrecen University) – Languages and Genres of Entertainment According to the Hungarian Library’s Sources.

10:10-10:35 – Diana Grgurić & Svjetlana Janković-Paus (Rijeka University) – Mediterranean Culture in Processes of Cultural Mobility – Rijeka’s Canzonette fiuman.

10:35-11 – Discussions.

– Coffee Break –

11-11:25 – Myriam Truel (Lille 3 University/ CECILLE) – Le Sonneur de la cathédrale and Les Marins, or How Russian Lubok Seizes Victor Hugo.

11:25-11:50 – Blanka Hemeliková (Academy of sciences in the Czech Republic) – On Cultural Transfer and Circulation in the Field of Popular Humour and their Limits: on the Material of Czech Satirical Magazines of the 19th century.

11:50-12:15 – Discussions.

– Lunch break –

Panel 2: Popularizing Entertainment in Practice

Moderator: Markéta Theinhardt (Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne / EUR’ORBEM)

2-2:25 – Claire Madl (CEFRES): Reading rooms and Lending Libraries: How They Fostered Reading As an Entertainment Practice.

2:25-2:50 – Veronika Čapská (Charles University) – Whose Laughter? What Subjects? Diversion and Entertainment in the Circles of Silesian Nobility Between Enlightenment and Romanticism.

2h50-3h10 : Discussions.

– Coffee Break –

3:30-3h55 – Dalia Pauliukevičiūtė (Vilnius University) – Melodramatic Reading and Promises of Serial Fiction at the End of 19th Century Lithuania.

3:55-4:20 – Jakub Machek (Charles University) – Adapting Global Patterns of Sensational Press to Local Audiences: The Examples of Illustrirtes Prager Extrablatt (1879-1882) and Pražský Illustrovaný Kurýr (1893-1918).

4:20-4:40 : Discussions.

– Coffee Break –

5-5:30 – Xavier Galmiche et Clara Royer – A Few Conclusions and a Discussion about the Future.

Visegrad Forum: Michel Wieviorka, between Prague and Warsaw

Program

Thursday 25 February – Prague

11:00-12:30 AM
Lecture by Michel Wieviorka within the frame of the cycle “Socio-Historical Confrontations” of the Department of Historical Sociology (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University).
Topic: Violence and Democracy.
Language: English.
Where: U Kříže 8, Praha 5 – Jinonice, auditorium 1034.

MW_Retour au sens

5-7 PM
Lecture and debate organized by CEFRES in partnership with the French Institute in Prague.
Topic: Are European Intellectuals Afraid of the Decline of the West? Around Michel Wieviorka’s book Retour au sens. Pour en finir avec le déclinisme [Back to Meaning. Getting over with declinism].
Discussant: Pavel Barša (FF UK).
Language: French with Czech translation.
Where: at Kino in the French Institute, Štěpánská 35.

Friday 26 February – Warsaw

2 PM
Lecture and debate organized by the French Center of Warsaw University (CCFEF).
Topic: Terrorrism and Migration in Europe.
Language: French with Polish translation.
Moderator: Gregorz Dobiecki.

Inside the Lobbying Regulation Processes in Central Europe: Negotiating Public and Private Actors’ Roles in Governance

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines”, Jana Vargovčíková (CEFRES-FF UK) will present her PhD work on Modes of Legitimating Lobbying in Central Europe and their Ambivalences. Her presentation will be discussed by CNRS Research Professor Pierre Lascoumes, a member of the European Studies Center (CEE), and a specialist among others on political corruption, law-making process, and contemporary forms of economic crime.

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3.

Language: English.

 

Making Life and Death Quantitative: Social Statistics and Life Insurance in the Dualist Monarchy

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines”, Mátyás Erdélyi (CEU, Budapest & CEFRES) will present a chapter of his PhD work on The Making of a Productivist Middle Class in the Habsburg Monarchy. His presentation will be discussed by CNRS researcher Wolf Feuerhahn, co-director of the Alexandre Koyré Center and chief-editor of the Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines.

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3.

Language: English.

Czechoslovak-Portuguese Relations in 1960-1980

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Disciplines and Areas”, Barbora Mencová (FSV UK) will present her work on Czechoslovak-Portuguese relations in 1960-1980.

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3.

Language: English.

 

CEFRES Interdisciplinary Seminar

Session led by Mátyás Erdélyi.

The present seminar session investigates how social statistics were created, comprehended, and used for commercial and public purposes in Dualist Hungary. It explores different modes of quantification, the inter- or pre-disciplinary sights of scientific production, and power relations between competing expert and nascent professions. Central to this line of inquiry is the investigation of relations between statisticians and other notables (i.e. every person worth of attention and involved in the debate, be it a politician, businessman, any type of scholar) inclined to claim authority over the creation and political/economic use of social statistics. This session contributes to the overall discussions on the nature of interdisciplinarity by describing primeval workshops on interdisciplinarity and by showing how the search for timeless truths and objectivity can be deviated by political and economic interests amidst disciplinary competition.

Readings:

  • Theodore M. Porter. ‘Life Insurance, Medical Testing, and the Management of Mortality.’ In Lorraine Daston (ed). Biographies of Scientific Objects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 226-246.
  • Alain Desrosières. La Politique des Grands Nombres: Histoire de la Raison Statistique. Paris: La Découverte, 1993.