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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)

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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).

Ukrainian Diplomacy and Musical Creation 2014–2024

This conference is a part of the joint TANDEM research project “A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine” by Dr Valeria Korablyova and Dr Louisa Martin-Chevalier which is dedicated to the musical dimension of Ukrainian resistance as a vehicle for escaping the subaltern position of a double periphery in the blind spot between the EU and Russia. 

Date: 27-29 November, 2024
Place: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Praha 1 and online  (to get the link, please send an email to cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English

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Program 

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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)

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Emancipation through Translation?

Emancipation through translation?
Women trajectories in Central and Eastern Europe (19th–21st centuries)

This international conference is part of the “Femmes et choc(s) d’émancipation” cycle at CIRCE / Eur’ORBEM, developed since 2022 in partnership with CEFRES.

Date: from 17 to 18 Octobre 2024
Place: Czech Centre in Paris, 18 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6e
Language: English & French

Organizers: Cécile Gauthier (University of Reims),
Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg (Sorbonne University)
Agnieszka Sobolewska (University of Warsaw/Sorbonne University)
Partners: CEFRES, Eur’ORBEM (CNRS-Sorbonne University)

Please read hereafter the thesis of the conference.

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Claiming Women’s Rights. Workshop CEFRES-CNRS

Claiming Women’s Rights, Again and Again

An interdisciplinary workshop organized by CEFRES in cooperation with the Research group “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane” (GDR 3607, CNRS).

Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 & online
Date: 11 October, 2024, 9:30 am–1:30 pm
Language: English, French
Organizers: Ioana Cîrstocea (CNRS, CESSP Paris et CEFRES) & Natasza Quelvennec (EHESS, CESSP Paris)
Partner Institutions: CEFRES, CNRS

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