List of interns at CEFRES 2018-2019

Zineb El Ouassini

Bachelor in Social sciences at EGE Rabat (Ecole de Gouvernance et d’économie) in Morocco. Currently in Prague on exchange at Metropolitan University Prague (International Relations and European Studies department)
Research and study fields: Interest in topics related to global issues in International Relations, contemporary history,  geopolitics and political geography of the MENA region,  development studies, Security studies (migration and refugees) and environmental governance
Internship duration: June-July 2019
Administrative internship

Hoevi Foch

First year of Master program in modern and contemporary civilization (history) at Jean Jaurès University (Toulouse II), currently doing an ERASMUS at Charles University
Research and study field: Contemporary history, history of minorities, medicin and gender during the XIXth century. Interest about the normalization and marginalization process bounded with the history of psychiatry
Master thesis topic: Mania and Melancholia in Toulouse during the XIXth century
Internship duration: June-July 2019
Research and administrative internship

Xavier Vest

Bachelor student at the Institut d’Etude Politique of Rennes, currently in Prague as an exchange student at Charles University, within the Faculty of Sociology
Research and Study fields: General interest for humanities, contemporary history, political philosophy, sociology, International relations
Internship duration: June-July 2019
Administrative internship

Léna Perrin

Bachelor student at the Institut d’Etude Politique of Lyon (Sciences Po Lyon), currently in Prague as an exchange student at Charles University, within the Faculty of Humanities
Research and Study fields: Political science, political philosophy, history of law and institutions, French and comparative constitutional law, cultural anthropology
Internship duration: May-June 2019
Administrative internship

Jacques-Hans Roche

Bachelor in History (Law and Political Sciences) at the University of Lorraine. Currently in Erasmus exchange at Charles University in Prague
Research and Study fields: Contemporary History, History of International relations, History of the European Union construction, Institutional system of the European Union, French political history
Internship duration: May-June 2019
Research and administrative internship

Jade Iafrate

Student at Sciences Po Aix, France, graduated with a double bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Law. Currently an Erasmus student in the Master’s Degree in Social Sciences at Charles University
Research fields: Political science and political decision analysis, international relations, international public law, history of human rights and freedoms, European rights, and history of political thought since 1789
Master thesis topic (provisional title): The impact of private couple-relations on human rights in France’s Fifth Republic
Internship duration: April-May 2018
Research and administrative internship 

Koupaia Corbet

Master Esdoc (Library, Documentation, Research) at Poitiers University, in Information and Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Research fields: open-science, cultural médiation, traditional music, research data management in Scientific and Technical Information
Master thesis topic (provisional title): Open science as a tool for the transmission of ethnomusical heritage
Internship duration : April-July 2019
Administrative internship in library/documentation

Martin Espinas

Bachelor degree in applied human sciences at Grenoble Alpes University currently in exchange at Charles University of Prague
Research and Study fields: Contemporary history, geography, world geopolitics, multidisciplinary and comparative approach on subjects through different human sciences points of views
Internship duration: March-April 2019
Graphic and administrative internship

Hector Marchand

Master’s degree in Political Science at Rennes’ Law University, France. Currently on exchange in Prague at the Metropolitan University Prague‘s International Relations and European Studies department.

Research and Study fields: Interest in broad Political Science topics with an emphasis on questions related to International Politics. International system, governance, structuring ideologies, place and dichotomy of actors (nation-states, supra/infra/inter-state actors…); conceptualization of conflicts and security, among others.

Internship duration: March-May 2019
Research and administrative internship

Coline Perron

Franco-German Master in History and Civilization/Geschichtswissenschaft at EHESS, Paris and Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg; élève normalienne at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, rue d’Ulm.

Research fields: contemporary history, especially the history of the Eastern countries during the communist period; cultural mediation in the field of historical memory, particularly problematics around the opening and making available of archives; administration of cultural institutions, including history museums; translation of literary texts (French /German/English + intermediate level in Spanish and notions of Russian); intercultural communication.

Master thesis topic (provisional title): Independent environmental groups in the GDR in the 1980s
Internship duration: February-April 2019
Research and administrative internship

Marie-Anna Hamanová

Master studies in Interpretation (Czech–French) and Czech Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Research fields: Interpreting, Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Contemporary Czech literature

Master thesis topic: Bilingualism as a disadvantage? Lexical retrieval in the bilinguals’ first language.

Internship duration: July–September 2018
Administrative internship (translation)

Giovanna Capponi: Research & CV

Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy

Research Project: Bewildering Boar

Contact: giovanna.capponi(@)cefres.cz

Giovanna is trained as a social anthropologist with a particular interest in human-environment relation, human-animal studies, cultural and historical ecology and ‘natureculture’. During her PhD at the University of Roehampton (London), she conducted an extensive multi-sited fieldwork looking at animal sacrificial practices and perception of the environment in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé, developing her own perspectives in the fields of anthropology of ritual, material culture and human-animal studies. She worked within the AHRC-funded “Cultural and Scientific Perception of Human Chicken Interaction” interdisciplinary project, which brought together researchers in different fields to study the significance of fowls in human cultures through history and in the present days.

At CEFRES she is starting a second fieldwork within the TANDEM “Bewildering Boar” project, focusing on the management of wild boars in the Central Appenine in Italy.

Project: Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy

This project aims at drawing perspectives on human-environment relations and on the sociology of science, especially in how ‘scientific’ notions regarding the environment intertwine and are constructed together with cultural practices and discourses. In particular, it will focus on the management of wild boars and wild fauna in National Parks in Central Italy (Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi and Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini) and in the surrounding rural areas.  By analysing the conflicts between local farmers, hunting associations, forestry managers, conservationsist and ecologists, this research is meant to provide an Italian ethnographic study on the entanglements between ‘nature’ and society in Europe within the TANDEM Bewildering Boar project.

CV

Education

2018: PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Roehampton)

2013: MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (Università di Bologna)

2011: MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies (SOAS)

2009: BA in Anthropological Sciences (Università di Bologna)

Awards

2017: Radcliffe Brown Trust Fund / Sutasome Award – Royal Anthropological Institute (London)

2014: RAI Horniman Museum Collecting Initiative – Royal Anthropological Institute, Horniman Museum and Gardens (London)

Publications
Peer reviewed chapters and papers
  • in preparation – 2020 Chaos in the Street, Order in the Kitchen:Practices of Consumption and Redistribution Amongst Squatters in London. in Food, Culture & Society, Eds. K. Graf & E. Mescoli
  • 2019 The garden and the market: human-environment relations and collective imaginary in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé between Italy and Brazil,in Latin American Religions and Religiosities, Studia Religiologica, Eds. J. Bahia & R. Siuda-Ambroziak. Jagiellonian University of Krakow: Krakow
  • 2019 Sobre a importância das palavras: breve apologia do termo “sacrifício”, in Araújo P.C., Candomblé sem sangue. Appris Editora: Curitiba.
  • 2018 Skipping, in The Global Encyclopedia of Informality vol. 2. A. Ledeneva UCL Press: London, pp. 41-44
  • 2014 Chaos in the Street, Order in the Kitchen: Pratica gastro-politiche di consumo e ridistribuzione tra gli squatters di Londra, in Pop Food, il cibo dell’etnografia. Z. A. Franceschi & V. Peveri, Odoya Editore: Bologna, pp. 53-80
Selected conference papers
  • 2017 Deuses ou ciborgues? Uma análise multiespécies do conceito de assentamento no candomblé, in Anais da VI Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e Tecnologia. vol. 3, n. 3. USP: São Paulo
  • 2015 “Eu me declaro”: diálogo sobre transformações, autodefinições e reivindicações políticas nos cultos afro brasileiros, In. II Simpósio Sudeste ABHR: Gênero e religião: Violência, fundamentalismos e política, PUC/SP: São Paulo, with Patrício Carneiro Araú

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: phenomenology and Literature

LecturerBenedetta Zaccarello (CNRS / CEFRES)
Inscription: Department of German and French Philosophy, FHS UK
When & where: Thursdays 4/4, 11/4, 25/4, 9/5, 16/5, 23/5, 11h00-12h20, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: French

Élu à la chaire de Philosophie du Collège de France en 1952, Maurice Merleau-Ponty dispensa pendant sa première année d’enseignement le cours intitulé Recherches sur l’usage littéraire du langage. Ces leçons permettent de mieux comprendre le rôle joué par la littérature dans la philosophie de Merleau-Ponty, notamment en ce qui concerne l’élaboration d’une nouvelle méthodologie phénoménologique en dialogue avec (et en opposition à) la pensée critique de Sartre. L’étude de ces textes, ainsi que leur comparaison avec le projet laissé inachevé et publié posthume sous le titre de La Prose du monde, nous aidera à mieux comprendre l’évolution de la pensée de Merleau-Ponty ainsi que le débat philosophique de l’époque sur la question de la littérature.

Cultural Industry: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Critical Theory of Media. 2

LecturerBenedetta Zaccarello (CNRS / CEFRES)
Inscription: Departement of German and French Philosophy, FHS UK
When & where: Wednesdays 3/4, 10/4, 24/4, 15/5, 22/5, 9:30-12h20, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
Language: French

Syllabus
Throughout a close reading of some texts of Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, the course aims to understand the contemporary use of mass media as the result of an historical process of evolution in our approaches to creativity and communication.

Fedora Parkmann: Research & CV

The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art

Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Fedora Parkmann is a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and principal investigator of the five-year grant project Lumina Quaeruntur The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art (PhotoMatrix). She studied art history at Sorbonne University (M.A. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2017) and the École du Louvre in Paris. Since moving to Prague in 2019, she has been an associate researcher at CEFRES. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2019-2021 and at the CEFRES in 2022. Her research interests include the history and theory of photography, 20th century art, and transnational approaches to art history. Her research focuses on Czech photography, which she studies from a transnational perspective. Her recent articles on this topic have appeared in History of Photography and Revue des études slaves. Her current project focuses on photomechanical reproductions of art in art magazines in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Russia from 1900 to 1950. She is particularly interested in their role as vehicles of artistic exchange.

 

photomatrix.cz/people

 

Deconstruction and Phenomenology

Lecturer: Thomas Mercier (CEFRES / UK)
Inscription: Department of German and French Philosophy, FHS UK
When and where: Thursdays 9:30–12:20, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (dates tbc)
Language: French

Syllabus

Starting with Jacques Derrida’s very first publications, the basic tenets of deconstruction were elaborated through a complex dialogue, loving but antagonistic, with phenomenology. In this course, we will examine this tumultuous relationship, and will emphasise deconstruction’s paradoxical indebtedness to phenomenological thought. We will carry out a transversal and selective reading of Derrida’s œuvre by engaging with texts he devoted to mainly five authors, phenomenologists or heirs of the phenomenological tradition: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Patočka. Each of these readings will be focused around one or two specific notions: speech and writing (Husserl), language and technics (Heidegger), violence and alterity (Levinas), Europe and responsibility (Patočka), body or corporeity, and the world (Merleau-Ponty).

The course will thus deal more particularly with the problematics of inheritance and reading, and will provide a presentation of Derrida as a reader and as a paradoxical heir, both faithful and unfaithful, of phenomenological authors.

 

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague