Second session of the CEFRES 2023 Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar. The map and the border
In 2023, we would like to start by questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory), in short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, to question the map and the border.
Location: CEFRES Library, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Dates: Friday, May 12th, 10 am – 11.30 am.
Language: french
Eloïse ADDE (CEU), discussant Jan ZDICHYNEC (Charles University)
Territory is one of the fundamental markers defining a nation; it is even an essential support of it, alongside the State and the population to which it is attached. Often corresponding to natural phenomena that can be identified spatially, such as mountain ridges or river lines, the territory is generally taken for granted and is therefore rarely questioned. Nevertheless, like the nation it materialises, it is a construction, a production that is fluid and changing depending on the uses that are made of it, and its display is much more contingent than it seems. Territory is closely linked to political practice; it is what unifies a “political community”, but the latter also gives it its shape. In this communication, Eloïse Adde will decipher the function of territory and the way it was perceived and constructed within two projects aimed at founding and consolidating the nation in Bohemia and Brabant in the early 14th century.
See the complete program of the seminar here.
Book launch:
“À vous de cœur” André Spire et Otokar Fischer 1922-1938
a collection of texts edited and presented by Marie-Odile Thirouin,
Prague: Museum of Czech Literature (Depozitář/Dokumenty), 2016.
For French and Czech readers.
The book will be presented by Marie-Odile Thirouin (University of Lyon 2) and Marie-Brunette Spire.
An odd story of friendship between two poets that everything seemed to separate: borders, political commitments, and poetic conceptions. Yet, André Spire (1868-1966) and Otokar Fischer (1883-1938) developed in the course of their 16 year-old epistolary correspondence an almost brotherly relationship. Their differences opened up a dialogue that fed their friendship and their reflection on the most pressing issues. Through these warmly felt letters a more unknown dimension of the interwar relationship between Czech and French culture can be uncovered.
Organizers: Museum of Czech Literature (PNP) in cooperation with the French Institute of Prague and CEFRES
Time and Venue: 12.1.2016 at 7:00 pm at the French Institute, Štěpánská 35, 5th floor
Language: French with simultaneous translation in Czech
Read more on the French Institute website.
Interview with Xavier Galmiche on the publication of two books in Czech: Le Poulailler métaphysique (Revolver Revue, 2023) and Znaky a přízraky (Karolinum, 2023).
Date: 6th December, 2023, from 6.p.m.
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 644/35, 110 00 Nové Město, Prague.
Language: French and Czech (simultaneous translation)
Partners of the event: CEFRES, French Institute in Prague, Charles University and Karolinum Press
Chair: Mateusz Chmurski, director of CEFRES, associate professor in Polish & Central European literature at Sorbonne University.
Discussant: Xavier Galmiche, Professor of Czech and Central European Literature and History at Sorbonne University.
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“Grand entretien” with Pierre Monnet.
Charles IV, King and Emperor in Europe (1316–1378)
This “grand entretien” is organized in partnership with the French Institute in Prague, Karolinum Publishing and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 6:00 PM
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Langue: French with simultaneous translation into Czech
Moderation: Václav Žůrek, Center for medieval studies, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of sciences
Pierre Monnet will present his book: Charles IV, un empereur en Europe, published in Czech in 2023 at Karolinum Publishing in the translation by Jana Žůrková, and funded by « Fonds Šalda ».
Abstract
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On the occasion of the publication, in Czech language, of Pierre Bourdieu’s Pascalian Meditations (Karolinum Press; translated by Jan Petříček) and within a series of workshops dedicated to Pierre Bourdieu’s legacy organized by CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Professor Ghassan HAGE will give a “Grand Entretien” at the French Institute in Prague.
Date: Thursday 1 December 2022, 17:00
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Organizers: CEFRES in partnership with the French Institute in Prague
Language: English
Moderation : Yasar Abu Ghosh (Faculty of Humanities, Charles Universities)
Ghassan Hage is a Lebanese-Australian anthropologist, professor at the University of Melbourne and currently visiting professor at Max Planck Institute in Halle. After graduating at Macquarie University and the University of Nice, he collaborated with Pierre Bourdieu at EHESS.
Specialized in comparative studies on nationalism, racism and multiculturalism, he devoted his fieldwork to Libanese diaspora, Middle East and Australia, and is renowned for his analyses of the construction of white populations’ social and cultural identity.
His conceptual work on the political dimension of critical sociology draws on Bourdieu’s oeuvre.
Among his publications:
- The Diasporic Condition, University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Decay, Duke University Press, 2021.
- Is Racism an Environmental Threat?, Polity Press, 2017.
- Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination. Melbourne University Press, 2015.
- White Nation: fantasies of White supremacy in a multicultural society, Routledge, 1998.
“Grand entretien” with Boris Cyrulnik
This “grand entretien” is organized in partnership with the French Institute in Prague and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 6:00 PM
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Langue: French with simultaneous translation into Czech
Moderator: Alice KOUBOVÁ (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Abstract
Since the advent of neuroimaging, it has become evident that environmental deficiencies lead to brain dysfunction. When the environment is impoverished, the corresponding brain areas atrophy, causing individuals to perceive the world differently, often as hostile. All mammals can suffer from such disrupted development.
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