“From a Party Truth to a Class Truth”: Picture of Operaismo in Heresy (1956–1969) Research Area 1 and 2 His PhD research focuses on the Italian branch of the international “new left-wing”, appearing after 1956, as an intellectual network and activist groups in periphery of the partisan left-wing. His subject is more precisely connected to … Continue reading Julien Allavena – Research & CV
“Jews in Cheb (Eger) in the High and Late Middle Ages” Contact : kajetan.holecek[@]cefres.cz Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces My dissertation examines the Jewish position in the urban space of Cheb (Eger), a town on the Czech-German border. Given that the Jewish community in this town is among the … Continue reading Kajetán Holeček – Research & CV
“Philosophy of Failure: Negativity and Error in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” contact: josefina.formanova@cefres.cz Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions My dissertation project draws on the observation that the current global society revolves around the highly valued ideal of success. In addition, we can witness the declining ability to resign into passivity or doubt on … Continue reading Josefína Formanová – Research & CV
“The Quest for a Lost Meaning: Work and Workers in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia. A Story of Flying Literature” Contact: valentin.auger[@]ff.cuni.cz Research Area : 1 My doctoral research focuses on the notion of meaning in the work experienced by workers in socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. It is being carried out at the … Continue reading Valentin Auger – Research & CV
“Thanatographies and the Modes of Literary Mourning” Contact : me@janmusil.net Research Area 2 In my research at the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature, Charles University, I am looking at autobiographical narratives concerned with the death of a close person and mourning, which I call thanatographies. In the contexts of claims that death had been … Continue reading Jan Musil – Research & CV
In keeping with the traditions of CEFRES, the interdisciplinary seminar proposes to bring together one Friday per month, researchers, doctoral students, alumni and French-speaking friends of the Center to discuss issues at the crossroads of their respective disciplines. In 2023-2024, we would like to begin by questioning the very act of delimiting and representing (a … Continue reading CEFRES Francophone Interdisciplinary Seminar 2023–2024. Map and Border