One-day academic workshop hosted by CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague) and co-organised by Dilnur Reyhan, Shaivya Mishra, and Zbyněk Mucha (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences).
Dates: September 17, 2026
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Abstract
The workshop explores the plurality of colonial legacies in contemporary societies by bringing into dialogue perspectives on postcoloniality, decolonisation, and anticolonialism from non-Western contexts. It aims to foster comparative and interdisciplinary discussion on colonial continuities, transformations, and resistances across regions and historical settings.
The event builds on the organisers’ research on anti-colonial movements in British India, postcolonial migration governance in Bangladesh, and Chinese colonialism in East Turkestan and decolonial movements in Eurasia. It is envisioned as a focused, discussion-oriented workshop.
Read answer the call for proposals – open until July 31, 2026.
The program will be announced soon.
Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and the Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East
Kick-off meeting of a research project developed within AV ČR-CNRS Tandem Program supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences, CNRS and CEFRES.
Date: February 19, 2026, 10h15-12h45
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: English
Principal researchers of the project:
Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon / CEFRES)
Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Oriental Institute, AV ČR / CEFRES)
Associated Researcher:
Ali Al-Moussaoui (CEFRES / Charles University)
With a keynote by Alessandro LUDOVICO (University of Southampton)
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Retracing Circulations in Times of War and Beyond
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The workshop is a part of a program developed jointly by the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Northern Asia Research Institute (IRECA, Warsaw), the French Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences and its Platform (CEFRES, Prague) and the Marc Bloch Center (CMB, Berlin): initiated in 2023 at CEFRES and continued in 2024 by CEFRES and the CMB (41 non-residential scholarships and 13 residential scholarships awarded in 2023-2024), and in 2025 by CEFRES, CMB & IRECA in collaboration with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), the French Embassy in Ukraine and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Date: October 18—19, 2025
Location: University of Warsaw, Dobra 55
Language: English
Organizers :
Mateusz Chmurski (French Research Centre for Humanities & Social Sciences, Prague)
Laure Delcour (French Research Institute on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Northern Asia, Warsaw)
Iryna Klymenko (Max Weber Foundation Research Center Ukraine)
Jay Rowell (Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin)
See the program in PDF here.
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ID de réunion: 849 4370 4066
Code secret: 309777
The expert seminar is organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Prague, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague, and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), in cooperation with the Embassy of the French Republic in Prague.
Date: June 10, 2025
Location: Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Valdštejnská 8, Prague 1
Language : English
PROGRAM
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When: June 25-28, 2025
Where: Prague
Organizers: Czech Association for African Studies & European African Studies Association
AEGIS organises the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) every second year, in a different European city, convened by one or more AEGIS members. It has become the largest global African Studies gathering, growing exponentially every year and attracting scholars from across Europe, Africa and the world.
CEFRES is a proud partner of this international conference which is is for the first time in its history located in one of the post-communist Visegrad countries – in the Czech Republic, known as the heart of Europe.
The 20th anniversary of ECAS will give us a great opportunity to look retrospectively at African studies in Europe, and more generally over the past two decades, while also providing new insights into the future development in the field. We will do our best to design a challenging programme of keynote speakers, plenary and roundtable sessions, film screenings, book displays focusing on African studies, and cultural and artistic events.
See the full program of the conference here.
10th 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, June 10, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English
Speaker: Honorata Sroka (CEFRES / Charles University)
Chair: Hélène Martinelli (CEFRES / École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Text to be read: Peter Bürger (1974). Theory of the Avant-Garde. Translation Michael Shaw. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Abstract
The presentation will take the form of very preliminary remarks related to my post-doctoral research, which I have been conducting for 7 months at the French Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences. My project develops the same line of research as my doctoral thesis, however, approaches the issue in a broader way. Specifically, using selected examples of neo-avant-gardes in Central and Eastern Europe, I hope to show how and why artists decided to create subversive forms of historiography and what kind of experimental strategies can be found in archives. Employing the methodology so-called “cultural history of the avant-gardes”, I will reflect on vanguard institutions and practices oriented towards a self-historiography. What I dare to claim one can essentially call a discussion on Peter Bürger’s pivotal book Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974). He was the one who argued that the avant-gardes stood against institutions. In contrast to his assumption, my research aims to display how neo-avant-gardes in Central and Eastern Europe developed rather than destroyed art institutions, as well as subversive forms of historiography, and why these two were intertwined.
Please find the complete program of 2024–2025 seminar here.
