Second International Workshop:
Central European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective
International workshop organized by CEFRES in the frame of the Central European Masculinities research project, with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR, PARCECO Program), in collaboration with the University of Silesia in Katowice, the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚČL AVČR) & the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University (ÚČLK FF UK).
This “grand entretien” is organized in partnership with the French Institute in Prague and the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 6:00 PM Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1 Langue: French with simultaneous translation into Czech Moderator: Alice KOUBOVÁ (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Abstract
Since the advent of neuroimaging, it has become evident that environmental deficiencies lead to brain dysfunction. When the environment is impoverished, the corresponding brain areas atrophy, causing individuals to perceive the world differently, often as hostile. All mammals can suffer from such disrupted development.
The normalized, the normalizers and their cinemas: Czechoslovak and Soviet Films of the 1970s
Created and moderated by Anastasia Mamaeva, PhD student at UMR Eur’ORBEM (Sorbonne University/CNRS, Paris), this webinar is organized with the support of Eur’ORBEM, CEFRES (Prague) and Charles University (Prague).
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 and online (to get the link, please register at cefres@cefres.cz) Date: May 13, May 27, June 4, 2024 at 4:30 pm (CET) Language: English
Program
Every session will take place from 4.30 to 6 PM Prague/Paris time and will include a presentation and a discussion.
Monday, May 13
The Squalid Charms of the Stagnation Cinematic Aesthetics Igor GULIN (independent cultural historian, critic, poet)
Monday, May 27
Visitors and Insiders: The Normalisation-Era Career of Jindřich Polák Jonathan OWEN (independent scholar of Eastern and Central European cinema, avant-gardes, and cult film; author, Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties, 2011)
Tuesday, June 4
Czechoslovak public relations films for export Lucie ČESÁLKOVÁ (editor-in-chief, Iluminace magazine; Charles University, Prague)
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
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
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague
