CEFRES Team

Ayşe Yuva: Research & CV

The Borders of Philosophy and the Writing of its History in 19th century Prague

Research area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies

My research explores the historical, geographical and epistemological borders assigned to 19th century philosophy through the writing of its history. At a time when philosophies were increasingly considered to be “national”, it is worth looking into the place allotted to the geography of philosophy within the Slavic Czech space, and its relationship with the philosophy from Germany.  Prague University’s philosophers, especially those who spoke German, and who are the focus of my research, were set in a singular frame: writing in a multinational state, they chose to do so in German, a language that was philosophically renowned, but in a territory that, branded as Slavic, was at the margin of philosophy.

Through classification and the ranking of systems within the texts themselves—see for instance the debates around “materialism”—such histories of philosophy also involved practical, pedagogical or political aims. I want to understand what the “new philosophy” was, which was hoped to bring forth a “philosophical peace” with possible social counterparts. Special attention will be paid to the period around 1848. Less than a comparison between concepts from different political, national and cultural spaces which tend to be seen as given, I propose to study these concepts through their shifts and displacements, since their borders are themselves a place for various negotiations.

CV

Education

2010: PhD in philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (supervisor: Bertrand Binoche).
Thesis title: L’efficace de la philosophie en temps de révolution. Principes de gouvernement, enseignement, opinion publique en France et en Allemagne (1794-1815) [The Efficiency of Philosophy in Revolution Times. Governing Principles, Education and Public Opinion in France and Germany (1794-1815]. PhD Award of C.I.E.R.A.

2005: 2nd year of MA in philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (supervisor: B. Binoche)
Topic title: Schiller et l’histoire. La leçon inaugurale de 1789 «Qu’appelle-t-on et à quelle fin étudie-t-on l’histoire universelle?» [Schiller and History. The 1789 Lecture on “What Is, and to What End Do We Study Universal History?”

2002: MA from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris

2001: 1st year of MA in philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (supervisor: A. Moeglin-Delcroix)
Topic title: L’intériorité chez Henri Michaud [Inwardness in Henri Michaud’s Work]

2000: BA in philosophy at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

1997-2000: “Classes préparatoires” in Humanities at Lycée Lakanal, Sceaux

Professional and Teaching Experience

2014-2016: Teaching assistant (ATER) in moral and political philosophy at the University of Lorraine

2016: “Qualification” by the CNU—French National Council of Universities—in philosophy (section 17) and in German language and literatures (section 12)

2013-2014: Invited researcher at the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung, Halle/Wittenberg University

2011-2013: Post-doctoral fellow at Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) within the frame of French-German research project on Esthétique. Aisthesis. Histoire d’un transfert d’idées franco-allemand (1740-1810)

2011: “Qualification” by the CNU—French National Council of Universities—in philosophy (section 17)

2008-2010: Teaching assistant (ATER) at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

2005-2008: Allocataire-monitrice at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University

2004: Accepted at the agrégation—national competition to be a high school teacher— at rank 19.

Publications 

Book
  • Tranformer le monde ? L’efficace de la philosophie en temps de révolution, Paris, Éditions de la Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme, 2016.
Edited book
  • With Anne Baillot: France-Allemagne : les figures de l’intellectuel, entre Révolution et réaction (1780-1848), Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014.
Chapters in collective monographies
  • « Le récit historique permet-il de résoudre les questions philosophiques ? Les histoires de la philosophie de Tennemann et Degérando », in D. Fulda, E. Décultot (eds.) : Die Vielfalt der Sattelzeit. Strukturen und Tendenzen des historischen Erzählens um 1800 im deutschfranzösischen Vergleich, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, pp. 272-287.
  • « Comment éclairer le peuple souverain ? Sabahattin Eyuboğlu ou les réflexions d’un intellectuel kémaliste » in P. Pellerin, J. Domenech (eds.) : La place des Lumières dans les pays arabo-musulmans XVIIIè-XXIè siècles. Nationalisme, indépendances et printemps arabes, Classiques Garnier, collection « Rencontres – Le dix-huitième siècle », 2016, forthcoming.
  • « L’utilité indirecte de la philosophie chez J.-M. de Gérando » in J.-L. Chappey, C. Christen, I. Moullier (eds.), Observer, normaliser et réformer la société du premier XIXe siècle. Joseph-Marie de Gérando (1772-1842) au carrefour des savoirs, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014, pp. 63-77.
  • « La raison pure peut-elle être pratique ? La figure du philosophe allemand au début du XIXe siècle en France », in A. Baillot, A. Yuva (eds.), France-Allemagne : les figures de l’intellectuel, entre Révolution et réaction (1780-1848), Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014, pp. 115-134.
  • « Ecriture et histoire : le caractère anti-systématique des Sylves critiques », in E. Décultot (ed.), Herder und die Künste. Ästhetik, Kunsttheorie, Kunstgeschichte, Heidelberg, Carl Winter Verlag, 2013, pp. 121-138.
  • « Philosophie populaire et philosophie popularisée : les critiques à l’encontre de l’opinion publique à la fin du XVIIIème siècle chez Garve, Fichte et Kant », in B. Binoche et A. Lemaître (eds.), L’opinion publique à l’âge des Lumières. Stratégies et concepts, Paris, Armand Colin, 2013, pp. 211-229.
  • « L’efficace politique des discours philosophiques chez G. de Staël, B. Constant et J.G. Fichte, du Directoire aux guerres napoléoniennes », Conference proceedings on La rhétorique démocratique en temps de crise », Nice, 20-21 January 2011, portail des Revues électroniques de l’Université de Nice, URL: http://revel.unice.fr/symposia/rhetoriquedemocratique/index.html?id=848
Articles
  • « La fécondité d’une philosophie et ses effets sur le présent : la réception de Descartes et Leibniz chez Bonald, Staël, Degérando et Chateaubriand », in « La mer retentissante ». Descartes et Leibniz au XIXème siècle – Corpus, n° 68, Paris, Fayard, pp. 57-76.
  • « L’efficace politique des littératures étrangères : G. de Staël et l’Allemagne », Les Cahiers Staëliens, Paris, Honoré Champion, Genève, Slatkine, 2012, pp. 151-176.
  • « Rousseau ou le rôle politique de l’écrivain étranger », Littera edebiyat yazıları, Ankara, n° 30, 2013, pp. 53-65.
  • «Mme de Staël, Benjamin Constant et les “philosophes du XVIIIe siècle” : un héritage contrarié », Philonsorbonne, 2009-2010, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, pp. 85-107. URL : http://edph.univ-paris1.fr/phs4/numero4.pdf.
  • « Les républicains de Thermidor, ou produire du nouveau sans “homme nouveau”», La Révolution française. Cahiers de l’I.H.R.F., 6/2014, issue on « La Révolution ou l’invention de la femme et de l’homme nouveaux ». URL : http://lrf.revues.org/
Translations
  • J.G. Herder, « Kritische Wälder », in Herder. Schriften zur Ästhetik und Literatur. 1767- 1781, Frankfurt/Main, Deutscher Klassikler Verlag, 1993, pp. 11-442, submission in 2017.
  • Fabian Link, « Peuple (Volk) et Race (Rasse) », in Olivier Christin (ed.), Dictionnaires des concepts nomades, vol. 2, Paris, Editions Métailié, 2016, pp. 67-82.
  • « Qu’appelle-t-on et à quelle fin étudie-t-on l’histoire
    universelle? », translation and presentation of F. Schiller’s text, Philosophie, Paris, Editions de Minuit, n° 96, Winter 2007, pp. 3-24.
Review
  • Stephan Jaeger, Performative Geschichtsschreibung. Forster, Herder, Schiller, Archenholz und die Brüder Schlegel, Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 2011, forthcoming in Herder. 

 

Calls for Papers, workshops

CfP: The Emergence of the Business School in Europe: Social, Economic, and Scientific Contexts (1818-1939)

CEFRES Platform Workshop for Young Scholars

Deadline for submission: February 28, 2017
Decision notification due: March 15, 2017
Submission of papers: May 15, 2017
Date & Place: CEFRES, Prague, June 6, 2017
Language of the workshop: English

Organizer: Mátyás Erdélyi (CEFRES & CEU)
Partners: CEFRES and Department of Historical Sociology of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

Confirmed discussants: Marianne Blanchard (University of Toulouse, ESPE Midi-Pyrénées /CERTOP); Marcela Efmertová (ČVUT) ; Jiří Hnilica (Charles University, Faculty of Pedagogy); Victor Karady (Central European University, Department of History)

Please send a paper title, a 400 word-long abstract, and a short academic CV to: matyas.erdelyi@cefres.cz. A limited number of accommodation grants are available.

Call for papers

The emergence of business or trade education makes an essential, although seldom recognized, part of the overall modernization of European societies in the nineteenth century. The significant growth of business schools in the middle of the nineteenth century can be directly connected to the second phase of industrialization and, consequently, to the growing needs of a professionally trained workforce in industry and trade. The present workshop is interested in the history of all types of business education – schools teaching uniquely business courses and other vocational-technical schools offering business courses (e.g. the Technische Hochschulen). It thus seeks to provide a comparative overview of the emergence of business education in its historical context focusing on the following problem areas: the business school in the educational field, its economic context, its social environment, and its scientific pretensions in the Europe between 1818 and 1938.

The workshop will bring together junior researchers (PhD candidates and early career researchers) engaged in the field of the history of science, social history, economic history, the history of ideas, or sociology.

A) The Institutionalization and Systematization of Business Education

In the educational context, the emergence of business education can be studied in relation to the general systematization of secondary and higher education, as part of the social transformation of the educational system in the nineteenth century, and as one of the main forms of institutional diversification. We are interested in case studies of institutions and national systems of business education that reflect upon the historical development and the functioning of business schools, the legislative, economic, cultural environment of their foundation, the origins of the curriculum, the transfer and influence of institutional patterns in the European context, the conflict between state and private institutions, the professionalization of business education (professional associations, teacher training colleges, professional journals, publication of textbooks), and the scope of the business schools and their positioning in relation to other forms of education.

B) The Business School in the Economic Context

This problem area seeks contributions that address the following general questions: what is the contribution of business education to economic transformation, industrialization, and the rise of capitalism? How business methods influence the cognitive content of vocational education; how the connections between the business school and the world of business could be comprehended (direct involvement of businessmen in the management of schools, recruitment patterns in business favoring or not favoring certain qualifications, professors co-employed in schools and business enterprises)? What are the career patterns of business school graduates and how to analyze the connection between the emergence of the large enterprise, the separation of ownership management, and the rise of vocational education?

C) The Business School in Society

The main concept here is the social transformation of secondary and higher education, which refers to the social functions the educational system performed in the frame of larger social change (mobility, social legitimation, etcetera). The aura of secondary and higher education could enhance the social recognition of certain professions (most importantly trade); and most business schools became an important avenue of social mobility as it granted access to secondary education and provided bourgeois social prerogatives to its graduates. We invite contributions dealing with recruitment patterns of business schools (social and denominational) in relation to other educational institutions, the social representation and prestige of the school, the business school as an avenue of mobility, its function in the shift from an emphasis on hereditary rights to meritocracy, the evaluation of the gender proportions in business schools.

D) The Business School and Science

This section of the workshop concentrates on the status and production of knowledge transmitted in business schools. Their emergence is intertwined with a claim over the scientificity of the ‘sciences of trade’ (sciences commerciales, Handelswissenschaften, obchodní nauka, kereskedelmi tudományok). However, there is an increasing gap between the theory and practice of business in the educational setting. It is not by chance that contemporaries vehemently discussed whether the instruction of business and trade should be comprehended as a Bildung or as a vocational training. Contributions may address the following problem areas: how the scientificity of business management is enhanced through the educational system and vice versa; how to conceptualize the contention between theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the field of business education; how the interaction of scientists and business reshape scientific epistemologies, methods, and tools; who the agents are and where the knowledge production of business management takes place.

CEFRES Team

Aurore Navarro: Research & CV

Artisanal Food and Retail Trade in the Czech Republic: Reinventing “Tradition” and Territorial Development

Research Area 1 : Displacements, « Dépaysements » and Discrepancies

aurore navarroAurore Navarro studies rural geography. In her PhD, which she defended in November 2015, she focused on the role played by open-air food markets in the making of public spaces. Despite many factors in the 1980s signaling the quick vanishing of such markets, this form of trade has survived and even knows a revival. In spite of their temporary and itinerant character, open-air food markets play an important part in the narrative of spaces. Using data from qualitative studies conducted in France and Italy with food producers (farmers, crafstmen) and traders, the thesis is a socio-geographical study of the participants in and inner working of these markets.

The post-doctoral project aims to understand the resurgence of food interest and the notion of food “tradition” in the Czech Republic. In the last decade, we can observe the multiplication of small specialized shops and farmer markets, as it happened in the US and Western Europe a few years before. New farmers, food crafstmen and tradesmen offer an alternative to the Great Organized Distribution, because most of them propose goods offer based on “quality”, “local” or “typical” products. By closely studying the discourse, practices, and representations, this research tries to underline how they contribute to the definition and/or to the reinvention not only of food culture but also of sociocultural and spaces dynamics. It will review and analyze the specific role of this new food independent trade in territorial development.

CV

Current situation

Associated to Laboratoire d’études rurales –Lyon 2 University, EA 3728.

Education

2015: Ph.D, Geography, University of Lyon 2, under the supervision of Claire Delfosse. Dissertation title: “The open-air food market and the making of places. A multi-functional local business at the heart of reshaping communities”.

2010-2011: MA in Geography, University of Lyon 2.

2009-2010: BA in History of Art, University of Paris IV-La Sorbonne.

2007-2008: MA in History (medieval), University of Rennes II – Università degli studi di Siena.

2006-2007: BA in History, University of Rennes II.

Professional experiences

September 2016 – January 2017: Post-doctoral researcher, Laboratoire d’études rurales, Lyon 2 University.

March 2016 – May 2016: Research engineer – Associazione As.Ca.MM.

2014-2015: Research engineer – Musée du Revermont /Divagri/ Laboratoire d’études rurales.

2012-2013: Teaching Assistant, Lyon 2 University.

September 2013 – February 2014: Invited Researcher, CNR-CERIS, Torino.

Selected Publications

Book
  • I castagneti della Montagnola senese e della Val di Merse. Sunto storico dal Medioevo ai nostri giorni, 2016, Tipografia senese, Siena.

Chapter in book

  • Claire Delfosse, Aurore Navarro, « Une nouvelle gouvernance pour les marchés de détail ? », in Au plus près de l’assiette…Développer, structurer et pérenniser les circuits courts alimentaires, Anne-Hélène Prigent-Simonin, Hérault-Fournier Catherine (eds.), 2012.
Articles
  • « Les marchés de plein vent. Le cas des commerces de l’alimentations », Ethnologie française, XLVII, no. 1/2017, p. 111-120.
  • « Actualité des marchés de plein vent », Pour, no. 2015-216, November 2012.
  • Lucile Garçon, Aurore Navarro, « La société des territorialistes italienne », Tracés. Revue des sciences humaines, no. 22, 2012.
  • Claire Delfosse, Aurore Navarro, « Spécificité et renouveau des marchés dans le cadre des circuits courts », Les Carnets Pro de Liproco, no. 9, 2011.
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Committee’s Composition 2015-2016

Statutory Members

  • Pavel Baran, Vice President in charge of Research Area III. Humanities and Social Sciences of AV ČR
  • Lenka Rovná, Vice-Rector for European Affairs of UK
  • Clara Royer, director of CEFRES

UK Representatives

AV ČR Representatives

Calls for Papers

CFP: French pragmatism and the renewal of contemporary sociology

Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2016
Date & Place: 15&16 December 2016
Language: English
Organizers: Paul Blokker (FSV UK) and Nicolas Maslowski (CCFEF of Warsaw University)

French pragmatic sociology will be the main theme in the workshop on “French pragmatism and the renewal of contemporary sociology”, held on 15 and 16 December, and organized by the Institute of Sociological Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences), the Department of Historical Sociology (Faculty of Humanities), Charles University, the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) and the CCFEF UW—Center for French Civilization and Francophone Studies of Warsaw University.

Pragmatic sociology – as a distinct, new type of French social science – probably became most well-known in the global academic community because of the publication in English of the landmark publication by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, On Justification. Economies of Worth, in 2006 (original: 1991, Editions Gallimard).  On Justification is, however, probably best understood as a ‘travail d’étape’ , an intermediate stage in a much larger and highly original social-theoretical enterprise, to which evermore scholars in a variety of disciplines contribute (e.g. historians, anthropologists, economists) in a range of research endeavours. The workshop will explore the fundamentals of this approach and the insights it has brought, and still brings, to contemporary sociological and interdisciplinary research. The upshot is to explore the rich potentialities of pragmatic sociology and to discuss its relevance and usage in Czech sociology.

Prof. Laurent Thévenot will open the workshop with a lecture on the recent and current further developments in his work. Much of prof. Thévenot’s work since On Justification draws on earlier insights while developing an innovative and rich perspective on the analysis of social life. Prof. Thévenot explores the dimensions of social life ‘under the public’ as a condition to enlarge the scope of public critique to oppressions, and to understand the required transformations and obstacles to their exposition in common, to the discord of the political community.

Please send your proposition (150-200 words) to the organizers before November 15th.

A workshop organized by:
Institute of Sociological Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Department of Historical Sociology (Faculty of Humanities), Charles University
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES)
Center for French Civilization and Francophone Studies of Warsaw University

Calls for Applications, France > Visegrad, Mobility

IAS CEU Fellowships for the 2017/18 Academic Year

The Institute for Advanced Study at CEU (IAS CEU) is pleased to invite applications for its fellowships for the academic year 2017/18.

The application deadline for all four fellowships is: October 24, 2016.

Calls are open for the fellowships listed below. Applications to more than one of the programs are possible but the application process and the requirements are not always the same.

SENIOR AND JUNIOR CORE FELLOWSHIPS – 12-15 awards
HUMANITIES INITIATIVE JUNIOR FELLOWSHIPS – 2 awards
THYSSEN@IAS CEU FELLOWSHIPS – 2 awards
BOTSTIBER FELLOWSHIP – 1-2 awards

IAS CEU Fellowships are highly competitive and will be awarded on the basis of scholarly excellence.

The Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University (IAS CEU) has as its primary mission to support excellent scholars in their pursuit of knowledge in a multidisciplinary scholarly environment. Each year, IAS CEU invites some 20 researchers in the social sciences and humanities to spend 3 to 10 months as fellows working on their own research projects. Visiting scholars benefit from the University’s academic and technical resources and from the vibrant cultural and intellectual scene in Budapest. IAS CEU seeks to build connections among its fellows, CEU faculty, and local and regional academic institutions to facilitate high-level interdisciplinary cooperation. For further information on IAS CEU, please visit: http://ias.ceu.edu/.

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague