Lecture by Pr. Galia VALTCHINOVA (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires, Maison de la Recherche, Toulouse 2 University–Jean Jaurès)
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.
Anthropology of apparitions is a subfield within anthropology of religion characterized by its dynamism, both in fieldwork and in theoretical issues. It is well known that Central-European field materials have largely contributed to its emergence. In my presentation I will try to demonstrate that Balkans materials may open new thematic avenues in anthropology of apparitions.
The presentation deals with several Balkan examples of visionaries, or alternative religious experts, whose subjectivities and the cultural techniques they use in their religious expertise are patterned by three mainstream religious cultures: Roman Catholicism, or Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam.
Convener: Filip Vostal (CEFRES & FLÚ AV ČR).
Language: English.
Venue: CEFRES, Štěpánská 35, 5th floor.
First meeting of the cycle Produce and share knowledge in the digital era, with:
- Odile Grandet (general director for documentary equipment of the Campus Condorcet)
- Mélanie Leroy-Terquem (National library of France, Gallica)
- Candice Chenu (Quai Branly Museum, communication manager).
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).
International conference organized by the Kassák Museum in Budapest, with the support of Visegrad Fund (Small Grant) and CEFRES.
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.
