In the frame of the Visegrad Forum program, CEFRES is pleased to host in cooperation with the Institute of Polish Culture (coordinator: Paweł Rodak) and the Center of French Civilization and Francophone Studies (coordinator: Paul Gradvohl) of the University of Warsaw, the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences (coordinator: Michael Wögerbauer) and the Department of history of the Pedagogical Faculty at Charles University (coordinator: Jiří Hnilica) French historian Roger Chartier from 16 to 19 May 2016!

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Prof. Roger Chartier has been teaching the history of “Written and Cultures in Modern Europe” since 2007 at Collège de France. A scholar from EHESS from 1984, he has also been an Annenberg Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia since 2001. Alongside his outstanding research on the history of books, publishing and reading in early modern history, Prof. Chartier has also dedicated part of his work to epistemological questions in history.

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In the frame of the Visegrad Forum program, CEFRES is pleased to host in cooperation with the Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University (coordinator: Libuše Valentová) and the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (coordinator: Libuša Vajdová) sociologist Ioana Popa from 11 to 15 April 2016!

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Ioana Popa is a researcher at CNRS and a member of the Institut des Sciences sociales du politique (ISP, UMR 7220). Trained as a sociologist, she works on cultural and scientific circulations between East and West during the Cold War. Her book, Traduire sous contraintes. Littérature et communisme (1947-1989) [Translating Under Duress. Literature and Communism 1947-1989], published in 2010, intertwines several approaches—from the sociology of translation to that of literature and of intellectuals. Ioana Popa is also part of the European project on “International Cooperation in the Social and Human Sciences: Comparative Historical Perspectives and Future Possibilities (INTERCO-SSH)”, in the frame of the 7th program of the European Commission (2013-2017).

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Latest Publications

• Traduire sous contraintes. Littérature et communisme (1947-1989), Paris, CNRS Éditions (coll. Culture & Société), 2010.
• « Aires culturelles et recompositions (inter)disciplinaires. La 6e Section de l’ÉPHE et les études sur l’espace russe, soviétique et est-européen », Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, no. 210, 2015, pp. 60-81.
• “‘Discreet Intermediaries’. Transnational Activities of the Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne 1966-1991”, in Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunen eds., Beyond the Divide : Entangled Histories of the Cold War Era Europe, New York, Berghahn, 2015, pp. 151-173.
• « Insoumission et art de publier », Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, no. 100-101, 2015, pp. 210-217.
• “A comparative and differentiated analysis of the East/West literary transfers during the Cold War”, in Larisa Schippel, Magda Jeanrenaud, Julia Richter (Hg.), Rumänische Übersetzungsgeschichte – Prozesse, Produkte, Akteure, Frank und Timme (coll. TransÜD)/ Editura Universitatii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iaşi, 2014, pp. 61-76.
• « La circulation transnationale du livre : un instrument de la Guerre froide culturelle », Histoire@Politique. Politique, culture, société, no. 15, « Contribution à l’étude des circulations littéraires et scientifiques », Sept.-Dec. 2011.
• « De l’exportation officielle au transfert clandestin », dans Anne Dulphy, Robert Frank, Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, Pascal Ory (eds.), Relations culturelles internationales au XXe siècle, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2010, pp. 277-290.