The Concept of Ideology

Third session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Ayşe Yuva (CEFRES-FMSH) Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 When: 3:30 pm to 5 pm Language: English Texts to read K. Marx/F. Engels, The German Ideology, 3 shorts extracts: Extract 1: “Social being and social consciousness” (§4) – here … Continue reading The Concept of Ideology

The Concept of Sex

Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Magdalena Cabaj (CEFRES-ENS Ulm-Warsaw University) Texts to read Judith Butler, “Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality”, in idem, Undoing Gender, 2004, p. 57- 74. Alice Domurat Dreger, “Ambiguous Sex: Or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Issues in the … Continue reading The Concept of Sex

The Holocaust and its Aftermath from the Family Perspective

Where: Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague 1 Organizers: Eliyana Adler (The Pennsylvania State University), Kateřina Čapková (ÚSD AV ČR) and Ruth Leiserowitz (German Historical Institute, Warsaw) Check the program and details on the organizers’ website here Program Wednesday 15 March 9:00 – Welcome 9:15 – 11:00 Family and Genocide Chair: Eliyana Adler (Pennsylvania State University) … Continue reading The Holocaust and its Aftermath from the Family Perspective

Disability: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?

First session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Filip Herza (FHS UK & CEFRES). Texts: 1) Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. 2002. “Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory”. Nwsa Journal 14 (3): 1-32. 2) Scott, Joan W. 1986. “Gender: A Useful Category Of Historical Analysis”. The American Historical Review 91 (5): 1053-1075.