9th 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, April 21, 2026, 16:30
Language: English
Speaker: Dominika DROBNÁ (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava)
Discussant: Richard BIEGEL (Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)
Abstract
Continue reading Theory and Practice of Architecture in Bratislava around 1800 →
Agency of Presence and Absence of Religious Buildings
Kick-off meeting of a research project developed within CU-CNRS Tandem Program supported by Charles University, CNRS and CEFRES
Date: Thursday, 19 March 2026 | 10:00–13:00
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 and online
(to receive the online link, please write us at: cefres@cefres.cz)
Language: English Continue reading Tandem Kick-off | Religious Buildings →
2nd 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, October 14, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English
Speaker: Nina PAPCUNOVÁ (CEFRES / SAS)
Discussant: Eva KRÁSOVÁ (CEFRES / Charles University)
Abstract Continue reading The Spaces of Nature in Slovak Literary Modernism (1890-1925) →
1st 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, September 23, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Language: English
Speaker: Andrej VAŠÍČEK (CEFRES / FiF UK)
Discussant: Markéta ŠANTRŮČKOVÁ (Department of Cultural Landscape and Sites, Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening – VUKOZ v.v.i)
Abstract
The lecture approaches the sacred landscape as a dynamic network of places and routes shaped by Baroque piety, diocesan reorganization and everyday practice. It combines historical geography with GIS to reconstruct how churches, chapels, Calvaries, crosses and cemeteries formed spatial hierarchies and itineraries. Cartographic sources are treated interpretively and cross-checked against canonical visitations, schematisms, municipal and parish records, epigraphy and field observation. A micro-case from the town of Púchov demonstrates hydrological and transport thresholds, the relocation of burial grounds extra muros and the dating power of chronograms. The talk proposes a transferable workflow for the historical-geographical reconstruction of sacred layers in Central Europe and reflects on practical uses in heritage management, spatial planning and public engagement.
Please find the complete program of 2025–2026 seminar here.
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)
Abstract Continue reading (Czecho)slovak History and French Colonial Space in Africa →
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)
Abstract Continue reading Armenian Chronicles from Ukraine →
