A lecture by Professor Yaacov Ro’i (Tel Aviv University) Where: CEFRES library Language: English Professor Yaacov Ro’i from the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies at the Tel Aviv University is a leading expert on history of Jews in the Soviet Union. Among his recent publications are however also books on Islam in … Continue reading Developments in Post-Soviet Studies on Soviet Jewry
International Conference organised on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Ethnology SAS under the auspices of the European Commission Representation to the Slovak Republic. Where: SAS Congress Centre, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia Organizers: T. Podolinská, G. Kiliánová, M. Vrzgulová, K. Popelková (Bratislava, Slovakia), Z. Uherek (Prague, Czech Republic), G. Bárna (Szeged, Hungary), T. … Continue reading Ethnology in the 3rd Millenium: Topics, Methods, Challenges
The One Who Sings Needs to Dwell. Experiments in Residential Architecture in Brazil from the 1980s 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 … Continue reading Lenka Kužvartová: Research & CV
The Place of Faith. The Implementation of Joseph II’s Monastic Policies in the Hungarian Kingdom 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 … Continue reading Katalin Pataki: Research & CV
Imaginations of Bodily “Otherness” and Prague’s Freak Show Culture 1860-1939 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 … Continue reading Filip Herza: Research & CV
Intersex Writing 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.
