Archives

Comrade Consumer

Shopping, Style, and Desire on Socialist Screens

This event is conceived and organised by Anastasia Mamaeva (PhD candidate, Sorbonne University, associate researcher at CEFRES) and hosted by CEFRES, Ponrepo Cinema, and the National Film Archive (Prague), with support from the Polish Institute in Prague and UMR Eur’ORBEM (Paris).
Dates & locations: December 5, 2025, 18:00
Ponrepo Cinema, Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1
December 12, 2025
CEFRES, Na Florenci, Prague 1 & online (to get the link, write to cefres[@]cefres.cz)
Language: English (projections in CS / PL, with English subtitles)
A two-part international workshop exploring the phenomenon of socialist consumerism in Czechoslovak, Polish, and Soviet films of “the long seventies”. The upcoming two-part event – 5th and 12th December – invites both scholars and the general public to take a closer look at national classics and recently rediscovered film gems, and to explore how images, characters, and themes of shopping, style, and everyday life were crafted on socialist screens.

Continue reading Comrade Consumer →

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 →