(Czecho)slovak History and French Colonial Space in Africa

Seventh 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 April 25, 2025, from 10 am
Language: French

Speaker: Silvestr TRNOVEC (Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Discussant: Jakub ŠTOFÁNIK (Masaryk Institute and Archives,  Czech Academy of Sciences)

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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)

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Armenian Chronicles from Ukraine

Between Poland and the Ottoman Empire: Armenian Chronicles from Ukraine during the Thirty Years’ War

Fifth session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone
Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
Already 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: March 28, 2025, from 10am to 12pm
Language: French

Speaker: Petra Košťálová (Institute of Ethnology , Czech Academy of Sciences)
Discussant: Radu Paun (CERCEC/CNRS) & Laurent Tatarenko (CCFEF, Warsaw)

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“Grand Entretien” with Pierre Monnet. Charles IV

“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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The Prague Castle Between the Two Wars

The Prague Castle: Cartography of the Construction of Republican Space in Czechoslovakia Between the Two Wars

First session of the 2024-2025 CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar The Map and the Border
Already 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 4th, October 2024, from 10am to 12pm
Language: French

Speaker: Jakub Štofaník (The Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Discussant:  (Eliška Tomalová (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)

 

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Border Cases

A workshop organized by CEFRES PhD Students Filip Herza, Magdalena Cabaj and Katalin Pataki

Time & Venue: from 2 to 5 pm at CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3
Language: English

Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
A barber shaving a man who looks extremely fearful. Lithograph by L. Boilly after himself.
By: Louis-Léopold Boilly
Program
Session I

Discussant: Sabine ARNAUD (Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS)

2.00: Filip Herza (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University – CEFRES): Faces of Normative Masculinity: Shaving Practices and the Popular Exhibitions of “Hairy Wonders” in the early 20th Century Prague

2:25: Magdalena Cabaj (Warsaw University / ENS Ulm – CEFRES): Dear Herculine, Dear Aaron: From the Angel to the Beast. On Two Cases of Hermaphroditic Writing

2:50: Discussion

— Coffee Break —

Session II

Discussants:

  • Veronika ČAPSKÁ (Department of Historical Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
  • Karel ČERNÝ (Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University)

3.30: Katalin Pataki (Central European University – CEFRES): Medical Expertise in Service of Joseph II’s Monastic Reforms’

3:55: Adam Mézes (Central European University): ‘Seen and Discovered’ – the Diagnosis of Vampirism in 1730-1750’s Habsburg Empire

4.20: Discussion