seminars

Colloquia in Modern Jewish History

A joint project of the Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES in partnership with the Jewish Museum in Prague.

When & where: the colloquia are held in the library of CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1, always at 5 p.m. Check on CEFRES calendar the next sessions.

Language: Czech and Slovak in Fall – English in Spring

Hosts: Kateřina Čapková & Michal Frankl

The colloquia are intended to provide a platform for academic discussion about the latest research on Jewish history especially of the last three centuries. Though primarily focused on the Jews of central and east central Europe, the colloquia also include topics related to the Jews of other regions. The colloquia will be further enriched by including topics not directly concerned with Jews, but enabling one to see Jewish history from other perspectives (for instance, the perspective of other ʻminoritiesʼ).

Despite our preference for the methods of historical research, the organizers welcome multidisciplinary approaches to the topics, including those of sociology, political science, religious studies, and art history.

Among the people leading the colloquia are scholars from institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad, senior scholars as well as PhD students.

Contacts: Kateřina Čapková (capkova@usd.cas.cz) & Michal Frankl (michal.frankl@gmail.com)

Visegrad > France

Hosting Program “Research in Paris”

Since 2003, the City of Paris has been proposing hosting programs in research institutes situated in Paris. The conditions of applications were modified in 2015 and post-doctoral researchers only are eligible now. The applications are to be sent by the hosting Parisian laboratory itself.

See the description of the program and the results of 2015 campaign on the website of the City of Paris (in French only).

CEFRES Team

PhD Fellows Team 2015-2016

Lara Bonneau

Contact: lara.bonneau@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at Paris I University under the supervision of Danièle Cohn. Her dissertation in philosophy is entitled Form and orientation in Aby Warburg’s thought and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.

Monika Brenišínová

Contact: monika.brenisinova@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowship), under the supervision of Markéta Křižová. Her dissertation is entitled From Monastery to Man – the Meaning of Monastic Architecture and its Art in 16th Century New Spain, is at the crossroad between art history, cultural anthropology and history, and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.

Mátyás Erdélyi

Contact: matyas.erdelyi@cefres.cz

is a third-year PhD student at the Central European University in Budapest under the supervision of Karl Hall and Susan Zimmermann. His dissertation is entitled The Making of a Productivist Middle Class in the Habsburg Monarchy, is at the crossroad between history and sociology, and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.

Jana Vargovčíková

Contact: jana.vargovcikova@cefres.cz

is a PhD student under the joint supervision of Milan Znoj at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and Georges Mink at Paris-Nanterre University (CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowship). Her dissertation in political sciences is entitled Modes of Legitimating Lobbying in Central Europe and their Ambivalences and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Edita Wolf

Contact: edita.wolf@cefres.cz

is a PhD student at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (CEFRES Platform PhD Fellowship) under the supervision of Milan Bažil. Her dissertation is entitled Seneca, Tragedy and Judgment, is at the crossroad between philosophy, history and law, and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Lectures

Local Contexts / International Networks – Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910–1935)

Abstracts are available here.

Programme

Thursday, 17 September 2015

  9.30–10.00 Registration
10.00–11.00 Plenary I. Edit Sasvári, Kassák Museum: The Kassák Museum in the Central and East European perspective.

Eszter Balázs, Kodolányi János University of Applied Arts: ‘Artist and Public Intellectual, Artist or Public Intellectual’ – Polemics of the Hungarian Avant-Garde on New Art, 1915–1918.
11.00–11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.30 Session I.Oliver Botar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Moholy-Nagy: Art as Information / Information as Art.

Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Moholy Nagy’s idea of a Synthetic Journal.

Sonia de Puineuf, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest: “Syntetische Zeitschrift” – Study cases Nová Bratislava and Nový Svet.
13.30–15.00 Lunch
15.00–17.00 Session II.Lucie Česálková, Masaryk University, Brno: Artuš Černík between national and media contexts.

Vendula Hnídková, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague: Styles of Styl – Platform for Czech Modern Architecture.

Przemysław Strożek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw: Chaplin goes viral – Avant-garde publications and the images of popular culture.
18.00–20.00 Dinner at the Petőfi Literary Museum.

Friday, 18 September 2015

10.00–11.00 Plenary II. Gábor Dobó – Klára Rudas – Merse Pál Szeredi, Kassák Museum: Curators’ introduction to the exhibition ‘Signal to the World – War ∩ Avant-Garde ∩ Kassák’

Merse Pál Szeredi, Kassák Museum: The Politics of Artistic Utopia – Lajos Kassák and MA in Vienna (1920–1925).

Gábor Dobó, Kassák Museum: “Extraterrestrials in Budapest” – Self-description of Kassák’s avant-garde magazine Dokumentum (1926–1927).
11.00–11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.30 Session III.Kinga Siewior, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: From aesthetics to anthropology – The concept of East in Zenit magazine.

Jakub Kornhauser, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: From repulsion to attraction – A long story of surrealism in Romanian avant-garde magazines.

Dušan Barok, Monoskop, Bratislava: Body of Thought – Artists’ texts and their contribution to theory.
13.30–15.00 Lunch
15.00–16.30 Session IV.Klára Prešnajderová, Slovak Design Museum, Bratislava: Two magazines with two different concepts – Slovenská Grafia and Nová Bratislava.

Michał Burdziński, University of Warsaw, Warsaw: How much did our graphic arts fly aloft? On defining the spirit of avant-garde pretensions in an impecunious world.

Hanna Marciniak, Charles University, Prague: The D Programme and the Czech Avant-Garde in the 1940s.
16.30–17.00 Coffee
17.00–18.30 Session V.Markéta Theinhardt, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris: L’Art et les Artistes: Revue mensuelle d’art ancien et moderne (1905–1939) – Central European art between modernism and conservatism.

Vojtěch Lahoda, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague: Global Art History “avant la lettre” – The Case of Umělecký měsíčník (1911–1914).

Lenka Bydžovská, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague: On the extreme left? The Devětsil monthly ReD in international networks (1927–1931).
20.00–22.00 Dinner

Saturday, 19 September 2015

10.00–12.00 Session VI. Piotr Rypson, National Museum in Warsaw: Tadeusz Peiper’s strategy for Zwrotnica magazine.

Michalina Kmiecik, Jagiellonian University, Kraków: The aftermath of Zwrotnica? Kraków avant-garde and its magazines in the 1930s.

Michał Wenderski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań: Between Poland and the Low Countries – Mutual relations and cultural exchange between constructivist magazines and avant-garde formations.
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–14.30 Roundtable: On the research of Central-European avant-garde magazines.

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague