First meeting of the cycle Produce and share knowledge in the digital era, with:
Prof. Bernard LAHIRE’s public inaugural lecture for CEFRES Platform
Place: Carolinum’s Patriotic Hall
Prof. Bernard Lahire teaches sociology at École Normale Supérieure in Lyon and is the vice-director of the Max Weber Center. He wrote on school failure and success in the working classes, popular appropriation modes of written culture, on the history of illiteracy, on French cultural practices, on life and creation conditions of writers, on Franz Kafka’s work, and on the historical relations between art and domination in the West. He conceptualized a theory of action, both “dispositional” and “contextual”, aiming at specifying and qualifying Bourdieu’s field theory and the related notion of habitus, thanks to his concept of “social game”. Bernard Lahire thus engages in an epistemological reflection on social sciences and their social functions. He also strove to show that social sciences should be taught from primary school upward (L’Esprit sociologique, 2005).
Bernard Lahire published about twenty books, among which:
L’Homme pluriel (Nathan, 1998)
La Culture des individus (La Découverte, 2004)
Franz Kafka. Éléments pour une théorie de la création littéraire (La Découverte, 2010)
Monde pluriel : penser l’unité des sciences sociales (Le Seuil, 2012).
The conference will be held in French, with simultaneous translation in Czech.
5 PM – Inauguration of CEFRES’s new premisses, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (by invitation only) by French Ambassador Mr. Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian, the president of the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, Pr. Jiří Drahoš, and the rector of Charles University, Pr. Tomáš Zima.
6 PM – Cocktail Party at the French Embassy, Velkopřevorské nám. 2, Prague 1 (by invitation only).
Partners : Charles University in Prague, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Warsaw, Masaryk University in Brno, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Polish Academy of Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, National Museum in Warsaw, Slovak Design Museum and Monoskop.org.
See the complete program here.
Check on Kassák Museum webpage here.
The subject of the conference is the ‘Central European avant-garde magazine’, arguably the most important medium of communication for progressive literature and visual arts in the region during and after the First World War. Given the multifaceted nature of the phenomenon, the analysis will take an interdisciplinary perspective and employ several different approaches. The avant-garde magazine will be examined as a discursive space of avant-garde communication, as a Gesamtkunstwerk, and as a historical document. As the recent conjuncture in scholarship positions the art of the region in the international context, our aim is to draw more attention to the – sometimes ambivalent – interrelationships between the local contexts and international networks of Central European avant-gardes.
How did the different cultural and historical characteristics affect the ‘local’ avant-gardes of Central Europe? How are the avant-garde magazines of Central Europe related to each other? Accordingly, how could ‘Central European avant-gardes’ be described from the perspectives of Cracow, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava or Budapest? Through detailed case studies, the conference will emphasize the complex and problematic nature of Central European avant-garde magazines regarding the questions of national/local and international/cosmopolitan. The conference will include monographic, thematic and problem-oriented lectures on current research on local avant-garde magazines published during the First World War and in the interwar period.
The conference is accompanied by a temporary exhibition in the Kassák Museum dedicated to the first avant-garde magazine of Lajos Kassák, A Tett [The Act] published between 1915 and 1916. The exhibition marks the centenary of Kassák’s ‘debut’. The Kassák Museum is the only thematic showroom of the historical avant-garde in Hungary. Its objectives in this regard are to reach a broader audience and to establish the museum as a regional focus point for research into the avant-garde and modernism.
CEFRES will welcome its new team – CEFRES Platform’s PhD Fellows, CEFRES Young Researchers (PhD and post-doctoral researchers) and potentially interns – on September 1st.
During this meeting, CEFRES’s administrative team, program, premises and library will be introduced to the new team. Researchers will be invited to discuss with the director of CEFRES the activities they will be involved in–such as PhD seminars, workshops, lecture cycles, publications, and so forth. They will set goals for their own research during the year 2015-2016. They will also sign their individual agreement with CEFRES. Lastly, they will be gathered around lunch.
As a partner of CEFRES Plateform, Charles University is recruiting two high-quality post-doctoral research fellows from abroad, to become researchers at CEFRES, within the frame of the Charles University’s International Post-Doc Research Fund. These post-doctoral positions are open for two years from 1st of January 2016. The salary is 28 000 CZK per month and a fixed-term contract will be signed between the each post-doctoral researcher and CEFRES.
More information here
