Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces
Contact: kuzvartova@cefres.cz
The main interest of my research is to explore a) the socially engaged role of architects, b) the possibilities of different production of urban space in the cities of the Global South, namely São Paulo, Brazil. Continue reading Lenka Kužvartová: Research & CV
Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces
Contact: katalin.pataki@cefres.cz
My PhD project investigates the implementation of the state-led church reforms carried out during the reign of Joseph II in the Hungarian Kingdom and intends to contribute to a better understanding of the new features of state power unfolding at the end of the 18th century. Continue reading Katalin Pataki: Research & CV
Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions
Contact: filip.herza@cefres.cz
My dissertation project traces the history of freak show culture in the 19th- and 20th-century Prague and the Czech lands from the perspective of disability theory. By studying popular exhibitions of “freaks” and other living “curiosities”, I try to explore reproduction of the 19th– and 20th-century disability discourse, including concepts and images of disability and related forms of socially produced “otherness”, namely class, gender and racial difference. I am particularly interested in the significance of the embodied “Other” in fashioning social norms and imaginary social bodies of the time, namely the collective body of nation. Four case studies from Prague’s freak show stages, ranging from 1860s through 1920s, demonstrate the significance of “abnormal” bodies for the imagined Czech national society. The project thus ventures into a disabled history of Czech nationalism, offering a new perspective on nation building and its interconnectedness with biopolitical reasoning, from the late 19th century up until the interwar period.
Beside representations of disability in popular entertainment culture, Filip works on the history of science, expert cultures and social movements (such as social hygiene and eugenics) in the 19th and the 20th century, mainly from the perspective of gender, disability and postcolonial theory.
His latest research concerns disability, hygiene and health related politics in the colonial setting of interwar Czechoslovakia, particularly the activities of Czech scientists in Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia.
CV
Education
Filip holds a Mgr. in cultural and social anthropology from the Faculty of humanities, Charles university Prague (2012), where he also pursue his PhD, under the supervision of PhDr. Lucie Storchová, Ph.D.
Academic jobs and fellowships
From 2017, Filip works as a researcher at the department of gender studies and from 2018 as an assistant professor at the department of anthropology, Faculty of humanities, Charles University Prague. In the years 2014-2016, Filip received fellowships from the University of Vienna, Central European University Budapest and Collegium Carolinum in Munich.
Research projects
2017-2019 Joint grant project GAČR (Czech Grant Agency) and DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft): (Post)Socialist Modernity and social and cultural politics of disability and disablement
2017-2018 Participation on an international project called Staged Otherness: Human Oddities in Central and Eastern Europe 1850-1939 (Polska Akademia Nauk)
Selected Publications
Herza, Filip. (forthcoming). “Faces of Masculinity: Shaving Practices And The Popular Exhibitions Of “Hairy Wonders” In Early 20th Century Prague”. In Beauty And The Norm: Debating Standardization In Bodily Appearance. Palgrave Macmillan.
Herza, Filip. 2016. “Anthropologists and Their Monsters: Ethnicity, Body and Ab/normality In Early Czech Anthropology”. East Central Europe 43 (1-2). Leiden: Brill: 64-98.
Herza, Filip. 2016. “Black Don Juan and The Ashanti From Asch: Representations Of “Africans” In Prague And Vienna, 1892–1899”. In Visualising The Orient: Central Europe And The Near East In The 19Th And 20Th Centuries, Adéla Jůnová Macková, Lucie Storchová, and Libor Jůn, 95-106. Prague: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU), Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU).
Herza, Filip. 2012. “Tiny Artists From The Big World: The Rhetoric Of Representing Extraordinary Bodies During The Singer Midgets’ 1928 Tour In Prague”. In Exploring The Cultural History Of Continental European Freak Shows And ‘Enfreakment’, 193-210. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions
Contact: magdalena.cabaj@cefres.cz
My dissertation discusses intersex as an emancipatory figure with a great subversive potential, which through the ages has been forced to occupy the unusual border between fiction and pathology.
Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces
Contact: lepeltier-kutasi@cefres.cz
My research project focuses on the social and spatial issues of residual public housing in Hungary. This particular category of housing, inherited from the massive nationalization of joint ownership housing at the end of the 1940s, is managed directly or indirectly by local government. This type of housing has been spared by the massive waves of privatization in the 1990s, generally because of proven “discomfort”. The concentration of this type of housing in the margins of provincial towns or in the peri-central neighbors of Budapest emerged at the end of the 1990s as a public problem related to “degraded municipal housing”. In order to stop the “vicious circle of ghettoization”, district government in Budapest launched around 2000 several programs of urban rehabilitation. The most iconic of them, the “Magdolna program” in the eighth district, touches upon several issues concerning control of residential dynamics in a context of urban transformation. Grounded in an ethnographic approach, the aim of this work is to provide a sharp analysis of the articulation between these regulation policies and subtle mechanics of social exclusion. Continue reading Ludovic Lepeltier-Kutasi: Research & CV
PhD candidate in Art, Language and Cultural studies – School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences/University of Warsaw
Research field: cultural, urban and literary studies, history of art, cultural history (20th-21st centuries), anthropology
Dissertation title: “Literary Explorations of the City: Parisian Identities of Contemporary Novelists”
Period of internship: July 2017
Research interpship
Master in Politic Theory, Faculty of Arts, Charles University / Master in Comparative Politics, Sciences-Po Paris
Research fields: political parties, elections, voting systems
Period of internship: June 2017
Administrative internship
Master in Culture and society, 16th-21st century, faculty of human sciences, University of Bourgogne
Research field: French-Czech relations from 19th century until today
Thesis subject: L’Alliance Française, a Mediator of French culture in Czech lands 1886–1938
Internship period: May 2017
Research internship
PhD student in social psychology – Charles university, faculty of philosophy
Domain of research : The social representation of motherhood in european context
Period of internship : May 2017
Research and administrative internship
Master: comparative literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Research field: poetry (Romanian avant-garde in France), Prague architecture
Period of intership: may—june 2017
Administrative internship
Master Information-Communication speciality esDOC (Documentation, Library, Monitoring) – University of Poitiers
Research fields: digital humanities, research data processing, technical and scientific information, global cooperation
Period of internship: April-June 2017
Administrative internship
Master in Public Administration – Lyon 2 Lumière University – France
Research field: Transnational Cooperation and science diplomacy
Subject of master thesis: Central Europe : the influence of science diplomacy and transnational cooperation in the process of European integration
Period of internship: from march to june 2017
Research internship
MA Interpreting: English-Czech, French-Czech, Institute of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Domain of research: translation, interpreting, intercultural communication
Period of internship in CEFRES: March – April 2017
Administrative internship
Master Translation and Interpretation – Charles University, Prague
Research field: translation Czech-French
Period of Internship: february – april 2017
Administrative Internship
Master Interpreting: French and Czech, English and Czech; Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Fields of research: interpreting in intercultural communication
Internship Period: February-April 2017
Administrative internship (interpreting)
PhD student in German studies – University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
Research fields: German and European cultural history, history of art and architecture
Thesis subject: “Adolf Loos: a Viennese architect with a Connected Career Interwar Europe”
Internship period: February-March 2017
Research internship
Master History Civilization Patrimony – University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne / Bachelor of History – University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne
Field of research: patrimonialisation, history, local memory
Subject of master thesis: Patrimonialisation of buildings of the world exhibition of Prague in 1891
Period of internship: November—January 2016/2017
Administrative internship
Maste
r Tema EHESS/ FF UK/ELTE
Bachelor in History at the University Pierre Mendès-France in Grenoble
Fields of research: heritage, patrimonilaisation, Jewish community
Master’s thesis topic: Heritage as Expression of Jewish History: Walking Tours in Le Marais
Internship Period: October—November 2016
Administrative internship
Master’s degree in Territorial Management of Sustainable Development at Bordeaux Montaigne University / Bachelor of geography – Governance at Lumière Lyon 2 University.
Fields of research: Urban and environmental policies. European politics on a local scale, cartography and GIS. Environment.
Master’s thesis topic: The Uncertainty of Public Spatial Data : their Valuation by the Private Sector for the Land Sector.
Internship period: October—December 2016