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Transatlantic Crossings

Polish Communities in France and in the United States after WW2 and their Political Practices

9th session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library and online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English

Florence Vychytil-Baudoux (EHESS / CEFRES)
Chair: tba

Text to be read: Michael Werner & Bénédicte Zimmermann, « Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity », History and Theory, 2006, vol. 45, no 1, p. 30‑50.

Abstract:

Between the 1880s and the 1930s, over 12 million people left Polish territories “za chlebem” (for bread). While before WW1 the United States attracted most Polish peasants looking for a better future, it was France that became the main destination for Polish migrants in the interwar period. Continue reading Transatlantic Crossings →

A European Middle Ages | Doctoral Workshop

A European Middle Ages. Circulation of Objects, Practices, and Techniques between Central and Western Europe (1000–1600)

Fourth PhD Students Workshop organized within the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Date: April 24, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online, to get the link, register at the address cefres@cefres.cz)
Language of the workshop: English

Convenors:

  • Lise Saussus, Center of historical research, UMR 8558, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences
  • Jakub Sawicki, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
  • Tomasz Cymbalak, National Heritage Institute, Prague
  • Nicolas Thomas, National Institute of Preventive Archeological Research, Laboratory of Western Medieval Studies, Paris
Program Continue reading A European Middle Ages | Doctoral Workshop →

Literature as a Tool for Understanding History and Society

Blurring Boundaries: Literature as a Tool for
Understanding History and Society.
Meaningful work during normalized Czechoslovakia

7th session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library and online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English

Valentin Auger (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, associated at CEFRES)

Chair: Jan Váňa (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Abstract Continue reading Literature as a Tool for Understanding History and Society →

The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises

Fifth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
In 2023 we  started questionning the very act of bordering and representing (a territory, a period, a trajectory). In short, thanks to the interdisciplinarity of our respective disciplines, we began inquiring into the question of the map and the border.

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Date: Friday February 28, 2025, from 10 am
Language: French

Speaker: Eva KRÁSOVÁ (Institute of Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Discussant: Chiara MENGOZZI (Faculty of Arts, Charles Unversity)

Abstract Continue reading The Cosmologies of Global Film Franchises →

École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

École(s) de Paris: Crossroads of Arts and Transnational Encounters

A conference organized in partnership with the National Gallery in Prague and the French Institute in Prague, within the joint series Rezonance/Résonnance.

Date: 20 February, 2025, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Location: Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1 ; French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Languages: French & English

Program
I. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

9:30 Registration, coffee

10:00 Introduction

Jacek Gajewski, Ambassador of Poland in Czech Republic
Stéphane Crouzat, Ambassador of France to the Czech Republic
Alicja Knast, General Director, National Gallery in Prague

10:15 – 11:30  Visual Arts

L´École de Paris entre les deux guerres et les artistes tchécoslovaques / École de Paris Between the Wars and Artists from Czechoslovakia
Anna Pravdová, Curator NGP and Curator of the Exhibition École de Paris: Artists from Bohemia and Interwar Paris

Les artistes juifs de l’École de Paris / Jewish Artists of the École de Paris
Pascale Samuel, Curator, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

École de Paris and Its Polish Connection
Artur Tanikowski, National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning, Warszawa

11:30-11:50 COFFEE BREAK

11:50 – 13:00 Visual Art and Music

The Ukrainian Branch of the School of Paris. From Ukraine to Paris via Prague
Vita Susak, member of the Swiss Academic Society for East European Studies, Bern

Le groupe artistique polonais “Comité de Paris” (Kapistes) dans la Ville des Lumières / Polish artistic group “Paris Committee” (Kapists) in the “City of Lights”
Anna Baranowa, Association of Art Historians, Krakow Branch

 A Musical School of Paris? Between Ghost and Opportunity
Federico Lazzaro, University of Fribourg

13:10 – 14:10 LUNCH BREAK

II. LECTURE–CONCERT

Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1

14:30 – 16:00
Paris, capitale musicale polonaise dans l’entre-deux-guerres / Paris, the Polish Musical Capital in the Interwar Period 
Performers: Renata Suchowiejko (lecture in French), Joanna Maklakiewicz (piano), Marek Bugajski (viola).

Agency and Emancipation in Exile

Agency and Emancipation in Exile: A Decolonial Analysis of Conflict- Displaced Afghan Women in Europe

3rd session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library
Date: Tuesday, 5 Novembre, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English
Contact / To register: cefres[@]cefres.cz

Seema Sridhar (CEFRES / CEU)

Chair: Zuzana UHDE (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Abstract Continue reading Agency and Emancipation in Exile →