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!
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.
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):
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.
Henri LAURENS (Collège de France) will give two lectures:
9:10 – Orientalists and the First World War: Adverturers, Experts, and Diplomats
10:50 – T. E. Lawrence
Place: Faculty of Arts (náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Prague 1).
Organizers: The Franco-Czech seminar in history is organized by the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, in collaboration with CEFRES.
Lecture by Pr. Dmitry Anatolyevich FUNK (Head of the Department of Ethnology, Moscow State University)
in the frame of the PhD program in Anthropology of the Pécs University, as part of the lecture cycle supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme and CEFRES.
Where: PTE BTK, Ifjúság útja 6. D épület D/425 terem, in Pécs, Hungary.
The Diversity Week aims at combining different interactions in the public space and debate in order to assess a key phenomenon of our societies: diversity in all its aspects.
This cultural and scientific event wishes to open a dialog between the various actors of the public sphere, to pool Czech and French knowledge and experience, and to develop an everyday interconnexion between science and culture.
In cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and the French Institute in Prague, CEFRES is supporting
Catherine WIHTOL DE WENDEN (CERI Sciences Po)’s lecture on:
Diversity and Autochtony in the History of France and Europe.
