CEFRES Team

Jakub Střelec: Research & CV

How to cure the war? The development of psychiatric knowledge and its impact on the construction of social norms in Europe between 1945 and 1968

Research Area 1 & 2: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices & Norms and Transgressions

Contact: jakub.strelec(@)cefres.cz

This research project will deal with development of psychiatric knowledge and its impact on the social stability of post-war European societies between 1945 and 1968. The main aim of this project is to examine how this knowledge – in the interaction with the criminal justice system – shaped the social stability of different post-war European societies.

The research project will be divided into three main parts: The first part analyses the production of psychiatric knowledge and ‘deviant’ behaviour within the European psychiatric network. The main aim of this part is to study the exchange of knowledge and ideas, as well as knowledge transfers across the Iron Curtain amongst psychiatrists.

The second part examines how psychiatric knowledge was used in psychiatric expert testimonies of ‘deviant’ behaviour in criminal proceedings at the courts of three different European cities (Prague, Düsseldorf & London). Those cities were selected because all of them were situated within different political and social contexts in which psychiatric knowledge and the law system interacted. 

The third part examines how these criminal proceedings were covered in the local media, for instance, in newspapers and journals. It furthermore examines the negotiation between psychiatry, law and the public about the boundaries of socially acceptable behaviour. From this point of view, the social consensus between state and society was permanently renegotiated.

This PhD project combines transnational and comparative approaches and it conducts a macro analysis of psychiatric discourse, as well as a micro analysis of case studies. This together builds the methodological framework of this research project.

CV

Education

2018- : Ph.D., Modern History, Institute of International Studiesm Charles University in Prague

2018: Mgr., History – Economic and Social History, Institute of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

2015: Bc., History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

Fellowships and Scholarships

  • 09/2019-08/2020: CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowship
  • 06/2019, 09/2017-02/2018: DAAD Lehrstuhl für Geschichte und Kulturen Osteuropas, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
  • 09/2016-06/2017: Erasmus, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK

Research Grants

  • 2018-2022: Charles University Grant Agency “How to cure the war? The development of physiatric knowledge and its impact on the construction of social norms in Europe between 1945 and 1968?”

Working Experience

  • 10/2018-06/2019: Research Assistant, Herzl Center of Israel Studies, Charles University in Prague

Publications

  • Střelec, Jakub. In the Name of Unions and Nation. The Development of Welsh Labour Historiography in the 1950s – 1990s, in Prager wirtschafts- und sozialhistorische Mitteilungen – Prague Economic and Social History Papers, 2017, 26, 2, s. 62-74.
Other Activities

2019 WINNERS OF CEFRES PLATFORM AWARD AND DERRIDA AWARD

We are happy to announce the names of the winners of the third CEFRES Platform Award for best article in social sciences and humanities in an international peer-reviewed journal (see the cfa here):

  • Václav Janeček (Charles University and Oxford University), for his article “Ownership of personal data in the Internet of Things.”

The third Derrida Social and Human Sciences Prizes rewarded three PhD students:

  1. Lucie Drechselová (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague): Women and local power: processes of mobilization and female political pathways in Turkey
  2. Vojtěch Kaše (Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno): Tracing the Origins of Eucharistic Magic : On the Role of Cognitive Attraction in the Cultural Transmission of Collective Rituals
  3. Ľudmila Lacková (Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc): Linguistic Approach to Protein Folding. Towards a Semiotic Description of Living Systems

The award ceremony took place on 26 June 2019 at the National Theatre in Prague in the presence of  the Ambassador Roland Galharague and one Nobel Prize laureate: Jean-Marie Lehn. The prizes were supported by Mgr. Karel Janeček, PhD., MBA.

Mobility

CEFRES MOBILITY GRANTS WINNERS – YEAR 2019-2020

The interdisciplinary selection jury of the CEFRES mobility grants auditioned 14 candidates on May 28, 2019. It congratulates all the candidates for the high quality of their file and their hearing.

After deliberating, the jury have decided:

  1. To give a one-year « Young fellow » grant to M. Eraldo Souza dos Santo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ), to support his research entitled “Désobéissance civile : Un essai de généalogie conceptuelle”.
  2. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to M. Jakub Střelec(FSV UK), to support his research entitled „How to cure the war? The development of psychiatric knowledge and its impact on the social stability of post-war European societies between 1945 and 1968: A comparison of ‘deviant’ crimes in Prague, Düsseldorf, and London“.
  3. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to M. Felipe Fernandes (EHESS) to support his research entitled „Les migrants vietnamiens en République tchèque: une étude sur les lignées familiales et les réseaux économiques au marché de Sapa (Prague)“.
  4. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to Mrs Františka Zezuláková Schormová (FF UK) to support her research entitled „African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia“.
  5. To give a one-year « CEFRES Platform » grant to Mrs Yulia Moskvina (FSV UK) to support her research entitled „State, Squat, Society“.

It has also decided to propose a contract of Phd Student Associate to the following candidates:

– Mrs Ekaterina Zheltova (FSV UK): „National belonging, transnational localities, and ideologies of language: Discursive practices at the Greek-Albanian borderlands.

– Mrs Anna Simbartlová (FFV UK): “Civic Integration of Immigrants in Central Europe: Case of Austria and the Czech Republic“.

– M. Vojtěch Šarše (FF UK), „The Image of Cultural Decline in the Anticolonial Francophone Sub-Saharan Novel: The processes of subjectivation, objectivation, reification and identity emptiness“.

– Mrs Tereza Sedláčková (FSV UK): „Multiple Responsibilities in the Context of Compulsory Vaccination System in the Czech Republic“.

– M. Pavol Kosnáč (Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University in Brno): „Paramilitary Groups in Slovakia: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Structure, Motivation and Environment“. 
  

All the winners are asked to contact me (jerome.heurtaux@cefres.cz) without delay (copy to landova@cefres.cz) to inform me of their decision regarding the scholarship or the contract of association.

CEFRES Team

The director and the researchers of CEFRES express their support to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The director and the researchers of the French Centre of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) are deeply worried about the dismantlement threatening the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the biggest academic institution of the country. They express their full support to the president of the Academy, Mr. Laszlo Lovasz, and to the whole academic community of Hungary, concerned with the respect of academic freedom and intellectual independence.

One of the CEFRES’ main missions is to promote research in Humanities and Social Sciences and to build long-term cooperation with universities and academic institutions in the four Visegrad’s countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland). The CEFRES’ team is alarmed at the current discourse stigmatizing partners whose intellectual relevance and academic excellence cannot be questioned and at the succession of reforms aiming at weakening them. They express their full support to their colleagues of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, to the Central European University and to all the academic institutions which are currently threatened.

Prague, the 10thof March 2019

CEFRES Team, Non classé

Claire Madl – CV & research

 Deputy director and librarian at CEFRES  at the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), Prague

Research administration
From 2018 – coordination, with the director, of the Center’s scientific activities and development of a platform for French-Czech scientific cooperation: “CEFRES Platform”.

Edition and communication
From 2006 – Editorial manager: Managing paper and digital scientific publications (series and monographs, HAL SHS series, web site, online videos and blog). Communication: manager of CEFRES’s accounts on social networks; publishing on institutional trilingual website

Librarianship and scientific information management
From 1994 – Chief Librarian: Supervising scientific information inputs of all types (books, journals, on-line resources), scientific information monitoring, public events around book reviews.

RESEARCH

Claire Madl’s research focuses on the history of the book and on the practices of the written word in the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th and 19th century, a pivotal moment when historiography observed a paradigm shift between the Enlightenment and the national affirmation.
 
Her work on the history of reading seeks primarily to reconstruct reading as a social practice which enables to express membership of social groups, to impose an integration activity on a population but also to assert an autonomous way of thinking and a distance from shared or dominant corpuses and practices. By combining the archival sources and the sources from castle libraries, she has worked on the collections of the nobility and on readers, whom she has endeavoured not to reduce to their social affiliation.
 
Her work on the international book market enables her to place Bohemia on the map of European bookshop networks and to examine the place of political and commercial centres such as Vienna and Leipzig. Her work on local publishing in Bohemia and its clientele allows her to examine the crucial period between 1780 and 1830 which marked the transition from the book market dominated by imports to establishment of a more autonomous publishing market.
 
Lately, she has been examining the introduction of compulsory school attendance in the Habsburg monarchy (1774, 1777) as the founding moment in the affirmation of reading as a “total social fact” and the spread of “reading for all”. This significant reform of the Enlightenment was exceptional in its extent and it was supported by a highly ambitious policy of producing and ditributing official school textbooks.
 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • 2024–2028 – Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500–1800) : COST Action led by Mona Garloff (U. Innsbruck), Marion Romberg (U. Bonn).
  • 2022–2024 – „De-centering the history of reading. The perspective of the Czech Lands 1750–2021“; a project supported by the Czech Science Foundation (No GA22-14665S) at the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences. PI: Michael Wögerbauer.
  • 2018-2022 – „Krásný Dvůr in the context of European early landscape parks“, a project supported by the Czech Science Foundation (No 18-07366S 2018-2020) at the Institute Silva Taroucy for Landscape and Gardens (PI Markéta Šantrůčková); member of the teatm for the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

LAST PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

  • Buchwesen in Böhmen 1749-1848. Kommentiertes Verzeichnis der Drucker, Buchhändler, Buchbinder, Kupfer- und Steindrucker. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz (Buchforschung 11), 2019. with Petr Píša et Michael Wögerbauer.
  • Na cestě k výborně zřízenému knihkupectví. Protagonisté, podniky a sítě knižního trhu v Čechách (1749-1848). [Toward a « well functionning book market ». Networks, firms and protagonists in the Bohemian book market. 1749-1848]. Prague, Academia-Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v.v.i., 2019. with Petr Píša & Michael Wögerbauer.
    6 individual chapters:
    –„Ekonomické a sociální podmínky knižní kultury“ [Les métiers du livres. Conditions économiques et sociales], p. 69-102
    –„Zahraniční souvislosti knižního trhu v Čechách“ [Les réseaux internationaux du marché du livre de la Bohême], p.  103-126
    –„Topografická a funkční diferenciace knižního trhu“ [La construction d’un réseau de professionels du livre au service de la Bohême] p. 127-142
    –„Tiskárna normální školy v Praze. Vládní nástroj osvícenského despotismu i impuls ke vzniku občanské společnosti“ [L’imprimerie des écoles normales. Un instrument du despotisme éclairé comme préalable à une société de citoyens] p. 179-217
    –„Jak rozšířit a diverzifikovat čtenářskou obec. Reklamní strategie nakladatelů a knihkupců“ [Élargir et différencier le lectorat. Les stratégies publicitaires des éditeurs-libraires] p. 279-300
    –„Čtenářské kabinety, půjčovny knih a proměny způsobů čtení“ [Cabinets de lecture et bibliothèques de prêt. La transformation des pratiques de lecture]. p. 301-320.
  • « Tous les goûts à la fois ». Les engagements d’un aristocrate éclairé de Bohême, Genève, Droz, 2013, 467 p. ISBN 978-2-600-01357-4

Articles & Chapters

  • « Voltaire produit de librairie dans la monarchie des Habsbourg », Revue Voltaire, n° 21, 2022, p. 283-299.
  • „Ještě jednou k Voltairovu ‘dílu’ v Čechách, anebo proč jeho četbu Dobrovský odložil“ [Once more on Voltaire’s oeuvre in Bohemia, or Why did Dobrovsky postpone its reading], in : (ed. Taťána Petrasová a Pavla Machalíková) Dílo a proměna myšlení v české kultuře 19. století [The “oeuvre” and the transformation thought in 19C Czech culture]. Prague, Academia, 2023, p. 25-41.
  • “Dva pražští nakladatelé a knihkupci mezi evropským obchodem, habsburským státem a lokálním angažmá” [Two publishers and booksellers in Prague: the European market, Habsburgs’ state and local committment]s, in (ed. Kateřina Bobková-Valentová, Jiří M. Havlík, Zdeně Hojda) Amicitiae Vinculum Potens et Praevalidum. Vějíř pohledů do náboženského a kulturního života barokní společnosti k poctě Ivany Čornejové a Marie-Elizabeth Ducreux, Praha, Karolinum, 2022, p. 421-436.
  • « Knihovna a četba Jana Rudolfa Černína » [J. R. Czernin’s libary and readings] in (Markéta Šantrůčková, Zdeněk Hojda, Martin Krummholz et al.) Jan Rudolf Černín a jeho Krásný Dvůr, Praha, NLN, 2023, p. 73-103.
  • « Le Saint-Empire », in (dir. Éric Suire) Le monde de l’imprimé en Europe occidentale (vers 1480-vers 1680), Paris, Armand Colin (Horizon), 2020, p. 276-294.
  • « L’imprimé, vecteur de diffusion du jardin paysager vers l’est de l’Europe. Modèles, traductions, médiatisations », Revue française d’histoire du livre n° 141, 2020, p. 113-136.

Book reviews & other publications

  • Christoph Schmitt-Maaß (dir.) : Der Jansenismus im deutsch-sprachigen Raum, 1670-1789. Bücher, Bilder, Bibliotheken. Berlin – Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2023, (Frühe Neuzeit), 233 p. Dix-Septième siècle (à paraître)
  • “L’édition française en sciences humaines et sociales consacrée à l’Europe centrale”, Forum Recherche du CEFRES, 22/10/2021, https://cefres.hypotheses.org/1873.

Translations

  • With Zdeněk Hojda et al. “Cestovní deník J. R. Černína z let 1779-1780” [French part of a travelogue by J. R. Czernin] & “Anonymní cestopis do Anglie (1776-1778)” [An anonmyn guide to travel to England 1776/1778], in : (coll.) Jan Rudolf Černín a jeho Krásný Dvůr. Krajinářský park v Čechách v ohnisku vlivů a cestovních inspirací 1770-1830 [J. R. Czernin and his Krásný Dvůr. Landscape garden in Bohemia and its European inspiration sources]. Prague, NLN, 2023, p. 296-311, 340-349.
  • Klara Benešovská, « Disparition, réouverture et clôture du chantier cathédral de Prague (1419-1933) », in : Le Chantier cathédral en Europe. Diffusion et sauvegarde des savoirs, savoir-faire et matériaux du Moyen Age à nos jours. (dir. Isabelle Chave, Etienne Faisant, Dany Sandron), Paris-New York, Le Passage, 2020, p. 125-135.
  • Daniel Špelda, « Les soleils et leurs observateurs au XVIIe siècle » Revue des Questions Scientifiques, 2018, 189 (4), p. 531-577.

Complete CV and list of publications here.

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague