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.
Does the Residential Renewal Stand the Test of Residual Public Housing? Urban Policies and Social Dynamics in a Peripheral Budapest District Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces Contact: lepeltier-kutasi@cefres.cz My research project focuses on the social and spatial issues of residual public housing in Hungary. This particular category of housing, inherited … Continue reading Ludovic Lepeltier-Kutasi: Research & CV
The press review testifies to the center’s scientific activities and the interest raised by its guest researchers in the public debate in the Czech Republic and East-Central Europe. 2025 Ioana Cîrtocea, Cahier des UMIFRE, n° 11, 2025: “Ce que la question du genre dit des sociétés” Doits des femmes et géopolitique. Autour des conférences onusiennes … Continue reading Press Review
A lecture by Gábor Egry (Institute of History – Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Discussant: Rudolf Kučera (Masaryk Institute – AV ČR) Where: Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor, conference room. The end of WWI in East Central Europe brought about similar developments: the collapse of empires and the emergence of nation states. But behind the … Continue reading Firefighters, Gipsy Bands, Peasant Riders, Canteens: East Central European Post-Imperial Local Societies in the World of Nation States 1918-1930
Clara Zgoła PhD candidate in Art, Language and Cultural studies – School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences/University of Warsaw Research field: cultural, urban and literary studies, history of art, cultural history (20th-21st centuries), anthropology Dissertation title: “Literary Explorations of the City: Parisian Identities of Contemporary Novelists” Period of internship: July 2017 Research interpship Eva … Continue reading List of Interns at CEFRES 2016/2017
