Eighth 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 May 23, 2025, from 10 am
Language: French
Speaker: Gilles LEPESANT (CEFRES / CNRS)
Discussant: Barbora Kvasničková (Research fellow at AMO – Association for International Affairs)
Abstract Continue reading Energy and its Renewed Cartography →
When: May 15th and 16th, 2025
Where: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Language: French, English
Organizers: Katarína Bednárová, Silvia Rybárová, Ján Živčák (Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
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This international conference is organised by The Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Arts of Comenius University Bratislava and CEFRES.
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Program
Continue reading Translation of Humanities and Social Sciences | Conference →
When: 27-29 March 2025
Where: ENS de Lyon, Site Descartes
Language: French, English
Organising Committee:
- Raphaëlle Brin (ENS de Lyon)
- Zoé Carle (Université Paris 8)
- Adrien Chassain (Université Paris 8)
- Sylvia Chassaing (Inalco)
- Hélène Martinelli (CEFRES, Prague)
- Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Académie tchèque des sciences, Prague)
Decolonizing Feminism – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès
On the occasion of the publication in the Czech edition of Un féminisme décolonial (La Fabrique, 2019) by Karolinum, CEFRES, the French Institute in Prague and Charles University invite you to a Great Interview with the author Françoise Vergès.
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6 pm
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language: French with simultaneous Czech interpretation
Moderator: Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Who cleans up the world? With this question, Françoise Vergès introduces a Decolonial feminism, taking as her starting point the underpaid, underestimated work that women, the majority of them racialised, do everyday all over the world, to make a society work. This feminism sees itself as the only one with a true understanding of women’s rights. Françoise Vergès defends an anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism. Continue reading CANCELED – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès →
Revision of the Experience of Failure in Growth Societies, and Its Hegelian Basis
4th 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, 3rd December, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English
Contact / To register: cefres[@]cefres.cz
It wll be hosted by:
Josefína Formanová (Faculty of Arts, Charles University)
Chair: Ivan LANDA (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
The following text will accompany our discussion:
Wiliiam DESMOND: “Philosophy and Failure” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1988, New Series, vol. 2. No. 4 (1988)
Abstract:
Continue reading Revision of the Experience of Failure in Growth Societies, and Its Hegelian Basis →
