EHESS-UMIFRE-EFA Workshop

Organizers: EHESS, EURETES « Faire société », CEFRES (Prague), CRFJ (Jerusalem), IFA SHS (Frankfurt/Main), EFA (Athenes), University of Cyprus (Nicosia)

Date: April 29–30, 2026
Location: 1 Panepistimiou Avenue, Aglantzia 2109, Cyprus, http://library.ucy.ac.cy
Languages of the workshop: English, French

Coordination:

• Falk Bretschneider (EHESS / IFRA-SHS)
• Mateusz Chmurski (Sorbonne University / CEFRES)
• Gilles de Rapper (EFA)

Preliminary program

Wednesday, 29 April

9:30 Bus departure from the meeting point in the city

10:00–11:00 Opening session and roundtable introductions

11:00–13:00 First workshop
Rainer Maria Kiesow (EHESS), The Great Wall.
Mateusz Chmurski  (CEFRES) The Wall of the Warsaw Ghetto.

13:00–15:00 Lunch break at the university

15:00–17:30 – Second workshop: Baudouin Dupret (CNRS–CRFJ): Jerusalem East and West. Drawing the Limits between In-Group and Out-Group: Borders, Identities, and the Law.

18:00 Bus return to the city

Thursday, 30 April

9:30 am – Departure on foot from the meeting point in town.

9:30-13:00 Third workshop
George Kazamias (UCY), Iliana Koulafeti (UCY), Ioanna Alexandrou (UCY), Vassilis Petrou (UCY), and Dr Kasionis
The Cypriot Wall, Visit to the Wall

13:00 – Transfer to the University

13:00–15:00 Lunch break at the University

15:00–17h30 Fourth workshop
Xenia von Tippelskirch (IFRA-Goethe-University Frankfurt), Falk Bretschneider (EHESS), Rainer Maria Kiesow (EHESS)
Stories of the Wall

18:00 Bus return to the city

Group dinner (hosted by CRFJ)

Friday, 1 May

Departure of participants