Violence and Democracy

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.

See the invitation in Czech.

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.

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.

CEFRES Review of Books

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):

  • Jean-Hugues BARTHELEMY: Simondon (Belles Lettres) – by Lara Bonneau
  • Patrick BOUCHERON : L’entretemps (Verdier) – by Eloïse Adde
  • Luc BOLTANSKI : Enigmes et complots (Gallimard) – by Gwendal Piégais
  • Marc FUMAROLI : La République des lettres (Gallimard) – by Edita Wolf
  • Emmanuel FUREIX, François JARRIGE : Modernité désenchantée (La Découverte) – by Mátyás Erdelyi
  • Albert OGIEN, Sandra LAUGIER : Le principe démocratie (La Découverte) – by Jana Vargovčíková
  • Michel WIEVIORKA, Retour au sens (R. Laffont) by Nicolas Maslowski
  • Caroline ZUM KOLK (dir.) et al. : Voyageurs étrangers à la cour de France (Presses U. de Rennes) – by Zdeněk Hojda

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.

 

Social Presences: Toward an Approach of Interdependency Enhancing Time and Gender

A lecture by French sociologist Marc Bessin, head
of IRIS – Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stakes  (UMR 8156 CNRS – EHESS – U997 Inserm – UP13), organized by CEFRES Platform.

Language : French with simultaneous Czech translation.

Venue : CEFRES, Národní 18, Prague 1, conference room, 7th floor.

Outline
This lecture is grounded in empirical research on health, social, and parental care. It will be briefly presented to feed the debate on the moral and practical aspects of care activities, with a specific highlight on such stakes as temporalization and sexuation. Our hunch is that such practices of help concern academic space as well, which will be approached through the prism of temporal tensions, between an acceleration affecting our research practices and Slow Science, refered to by the sociology of social presences.

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