The fifth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this year will be hosted by Anna Simbartlová (IMS FSV UK) Topic: Civic Integration Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 When: Wednesday 20 February 2019 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm Language: English Text: Sara Wallace Goodman (2010) Integration Requirements for Integration’s Sake? Identifying, Categorising and Comparing … Continue reading Civic Integration →
The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art
Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices
Fedora Parkmann is a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and principal investigator of the five-year grant project Lumina Quaeruntur The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art (PhotoMatrix). She studied art history at Sorbonne University (M.A. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2017) and the École du Louvre in Paris. Since moving to Prague in 2019, she has been an associate researcher at CEFRES. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2019-2021 and at the CEFRES in 2022. Her research interests include the history and theory of photography, 20th century art, and transnational approaches to art history. Her research focuses on Czech photography, which she studies from a transnational perspective. Her recent articles on this topic have appeared in History of Photography and Revue des études slaves. Her current project focuses on photomechanical reproductions of art in art magazines in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Russia from 1900 to 1950. She is particularly interested in their role as vehicles of artistic exchange.
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Lecturer: Thomas Mercier (CEFRES / UK) Inscription: Department of German and French Philosophy, FHS UK When and where: Thursdays 9:30–12:20, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (dates tbc) Language: French Syllabus Starting with Jacques Derrida’s very first publications, the basic tenets of deconstruction were elaborated through a complex dialogue, loving but antagonistic, with phenomenology. In … Continue reading Deconstruction and Phenomenology →
International Conference Dates and place: from 16 to 18 September 2019, Villa Lanna, Prague Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2019 Organizers: Prague Forum for Romani Histories, in collaboration with CEFRES Language: English The Prague Forum for Romani Histories at the Institute of Contemporary History (Czech Academy of Sciences) invites proposals for an international conference on Romani migrations and mobilities, with particular … Continue reading CFP: Trajectories of Romani Migrations and Mobilities in Europe and Beyond (1945–present) →
A lecture by Carmen Reichert (Augsburg University) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Masaryk Institute (AV ČR). Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 When: from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Language: English Abstract Narrations on … Continue reading How Yiddish Writers Became Yiddish Writers →
A lecture by Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Masaryk Institute (AV ČR). Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 When: from 5:30 pm to 7:00 … Continue reading Who Will Edit Our History, or Challenges of Editing Holocaust Sources. The Case of Emanuel Ringelblum’s Ghetto Notes →
