CEFRES is hiring a Communications Manager

CEFRES in a nutshell

  • a French public research institution with partnerships throughout Central Europe
  • an international research and administrative team (12 nationalities by 2024), developing cutting edge research projects in the humanities and social sciences
  • twenty in-house researchers & fifty associates
  • about fifty events a year
  • some twenty funding grants.

Responsibilities and tasks

  • Maintaining a dynamic content calendar with the administrative team;
  • Administrating CEFRES’s trilingual website, ensuring it is updated with the latest information, www.cefres.cz (WordPress);
  • Writing and producing engaging content for CEFRES’s trilingual accounts on social media (FB, Instagram, LinkedIn, X);
  • Producing visual contents (website, social media, posters and programs) for scientific events
  • Analyzing data to gauge content performance and proposing communication strategy in accordance

Expected skills

  • Exceptional written Czech skills (C2), French (C1 or B2) and English (C1 or B2),
  • In-depth knowledge of social media and their monitoring tools
  • Experience in translation
  • Experience in updating websites using content management systems
  • Experience in creating visual contents – video cuts if possible

Required qualities

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, proactive
  • Exacting and precise written skills,
  • Esthetic visual taste,
  • Reliable and autonomous,
  • Collaborative team player with a positive attitude.

Qualification

  • Degree in communication management / digital marketing / languages OR equivalent experience,
  • Enthusiastic interest in communication and translation;
  • A strong curiosity toward Humanities and Social Sciences is more than welcome.

Conditions & benefits

  • 1-year fixed-term Czech law contract, with possibility of extension
  • Part-time job according to candidate’s profile and needs: 15h attendance / week preferred
  • Flexible working schedule apart one fixed day at CEFRES
  • 14 days’ annual leave
  • Long Summer breaks with no scientific event,
  • Professional training offered by CEFRES according to the profile and needs of the employee
  • French language courses offered by CEFRES at the French Institute in Prague
  • An office in Prague city center, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
  • Reduced prices of access to the cinema Kino 35 at the French Institute in Prague

How to apply

  • The position is to be filled on 1/2/2025 · Send your CV and motivation letter in French to: Claire.madl@cefres.cz Subject:« Candidature au poste de chargé/e de communication et de traduction »; Cc mateusz.chmurski@cefres.cz.

Only selected applicants will be invited to be interviewed, in French.

Katarína Bednárová – Research & CV

Research area 1: Displacement, ‘dépaysements’, and discrepancies: people, knowledge, and practices

Contact: katarina.bednarova[@]savba.sk

Katarína Bednárová works as senior researcher at the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) and as professor at the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. She has cooperated with the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences CEFRES since September 2024 on her research on social studies and humanities translations, history of literary translations, and surveys of cultural transfers and literary reception in the 20th century.  Since 2022 she has lead the APVV-21-0198 research project Translation and aspects of reception of social science and humanities texts as cultural and literary transfer in the 20th century at the Institute of World Literature SAS. Her work falls into the scope of the 1st CEFRES research area, Displacement, ‘dépaysements’, and discrepancies: people, knowledge, and practices. Continue reading Katarína Bednárová – Research & CV

CFP | A European Middle Ages | Doctoral Workshop EHESS–CEFRES

A European Middle Ages. Circulation of objects, practices, and techniques between Central and Western Europe (1000–1600)

Fourth PhD Students Workshop organized within the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Date: 24 April, 2025
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online)
Deadline for application submissions: 31 January, 2025
Notification to authors: 28 February, 2025
Language of the workshop: English

Convenors:

  • Lise Saussus, Center of historical research, UMR 8558, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences
  • Jakub Sawicki, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
  • Tomasz Cymbalak, National Heritage Institute, Prague
  • Nicolas Thomas, National Institute of Preventive Archeological Research, Laboratory of Western Medieval Studies, Paris

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EBCO Access | French Ressources on Central Europe and the Balkans

Reporting, promoting and digitising French resources on Central Europe and the Balkans

 

Libraries

Bibliothèques

Bibliothèque Nationale Universitaire
Bibliothèque Malesherbes
La Contemporaine
BULAC
Institut d'études slaves
Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur

 

Digital Ressources

Projects

Nom du rojetDescription du projetLienOrganisateurs et partenaires
NUMERISLAVProjet d'inventaire, de numérisation, de diffusion et de mise à disposition des archives de l'Institut d'études slaveshttps://numerislav.huma-num.fr/Institut d'études slaves -
Eur'Orbem, Sorbonne université, Huma-Num (hébergement), CNRS, Dim Sciences du texte et écriture nouvelle
DISSINVENTProjet d'inventaire et de valorisation des collections produites par les dissidences de "l'Est" en France https://www.collexpersee.eu/projet/dissinvent/Université Paris Nanterres -
La contemporaine, Université de Paris, BULAC, BNU, CERCEC, Institut des sciences sociales du politique, Institut d'études slaves, CREE, Eur'Orbem

Research Centers

Research group (GDR) “Connaissance de l’Europe médiane”

 

To find more about the latest publications from members of this GDR, please search:

For example : Publications from CEFRES

Journals specializing on Central Europe

Digitized journals

Austriaca
Les Cahiers Anatole Leroy Beaulieu
Cahiers d'études hongroises
Revue Communisme
Etudes tchèques et slovaques
Regard sur l'Est
Revue des études slaves
Le Monde Slave
Les Cahiers slaves
Kultura
Rhin-Danube-Baltique
La nation tchèque
La Revue française de Prague
Preuves
Revue d’études politiques et Constitutionnelles Est-Européennes
Est Europa (Revue d'Etudes politiques et constitutionnelles est-européennes)
Revue de justice constitutionnelle Est-Européenne
Europe centrale
L'Europe nouvelle
France Bohême
France - Europe Orientale
Nouvelles tchécoslovaques
Paris-Balkans
Revue d'Orient et de Hongrie
Annales de l'Institut français de Zagreb
L'Europe nouvelle (notes du service de documentation)

Non digitized ressources on Central Europe

  • AFTS
  • L’autre Europe
  • Cahiers de l’observatoire de Berlin (ongoing digitalization)
  • Collegium Budapest Discussion Papers
  • Collegium Budapest, Public Lectures
  • Le Courier des pays de l’Est
  • Etudes danubiennes
  • Europe
  • Messager Européen
  • Nouveaux cahiers de l’Est
  • Revue d’études comparatives Est/ouest
  • Revues d’Europe centrale
  • Transeuropéennes
  • Les travaux du centre Marc Bloch
  • 300 Monographie environ
  • 140 thèses et mémoires en partie numérisées
  • Danube
  • Est Europa – Revue d’Etudes politiques et constitutionnelles est-européennes (anciennement Revue d’Etudes Politiques et Constitutionnelles Est-Européennes
  • France-Europe Centrale
  • La lettre internationale
  • L’alternative / La nouvelle alternative
  • La revue d’Europe centrale (ongoing digitalization)
  • Europe centrale 1926-1939
  • L’Europe nouvelle
  • Le Monde slave 1917-1918/1924-1938
  • Le Petit Journal de Prague 1918-1919
  • Rencontres 1934-1984
  • La Revue française de Prague 1922-1938
  • Stepanska 35 1991-2001
  • La Tchécoslovaquie économique et financière
  • Françoise [Hours] “La vision des Tchèques et des Slovaques en France au XIXe siècle: sources”. 1992

Iwona Janicka. Research & CV

Living on Earth: Philosophies of Habitability in the 21st Century

Axis of research 2. Norms and transgressions.

Contact: Janicka(@)flu.cas.cz

Iwona Janicka is Research Team Leader at the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics – Prague (CETE-P) and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She works in contemporary environmental and political philosophy. Her CEFRES project entitled “Living on Earth: Philosophies of Habitability in the 21st Century” contributes to axis 2: Norms and transgressions. For more information, please consult CETE-P and her personal webpage.

CFA – Research and teaching stay at the EHESS in Paris in 2025

Call for applications: one month visiting professor at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris

As part of the cooperation agreement between EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University in Prague and the Czech Academy of Sciences and the partnership between EHESS and CEFRES, concluded with the aim of intensifying Franco-Czech scientific exchanges in the field of humanities and social sciences, EHESS proposes the hosting of a teacher/researcher from a Czech academic institution for one month between February and June, or between October and December 2025, thanks to the support of the French Embassy in the Czech Republic.

Duration: One month
Period: February-June, October-December 2025
Applications are to be sent no later than: November 30, 2024

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French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague