Inside the Lobbying Regulation Processes in Central Europe: Negotiating Public and Private Actors’ Roles in Governance

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines”, Jana Vargovčíková (CEFRES-FF UK) will present her PhD work on Modes of Legitimating Lobbying in Central Europe and their Ambivalences. Her presentation will be discussed by CNRS Research Professor Pierre Lascoumes, a member of the European Studies Center (CEE), and a specialist … Continue reading Inside the Lobbying Regulation Processes in Central Europe: Negotiating Public and Private Actors’ Roles in Governance

Making Life and Death Quantitative: Social Statistics and Life Insurance in the Dualist Monarchy

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Areas and Disciplines”, Mátyás Erdélyi (CEU, Budapest & CEFRES) will present a chapter of his PhD work on The Making of a Productivist Middle Class in the Habsburg Monarchy. His presentation will be discussed by CNRS researcher Wolf Feuerhahn, co-director of the Alexandre Koyré Center … Continue reading Making Life and Death Quantitative: Social Statistics and Life Insurance in the Dualist Monarchy

Czechoslovak-Portuguese Relations in 1960-1980

In the frame of IMS and CEFRES’s common seminar “Between Disciplines and Areas”, Barbora Mencová (FSV UK) will present her work on Czechoslovak-Portuguese relations in 1960-1980. Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3. Language: English.  

CEFRES Interdisciplinary Seminar

Session led by Mátyás Erdélyi. The present seminar session investigates how social statistics were created, comprehended, and used for commercial and public purposes in Dualist Hungary. It explores different modes of quantification, the inter- or pre-disciplinary sights of scientific production, and power relations between competing expert and nascent professions. Central to this line of inquiry … Continue reading CEFRES Interdisciplinary Seminar

Architecture and Art as Historical Sources: On the Borders of Humanities and Social Sciences

Session led by Monika Brenišínová. Readings Clifford Geertz. ‘Art as Cultural System.’ MLN 91(6): 1473–1499, 1976. George Kubler. ‘History: Or Anthropology: Of Art?’ Critical Inquiry, 1(4): 757-767, 1975. In various theoretical discussions on architecture, we may notice that there is not a singular way of approaching it. From the classical perspective of the history of … Continue reading Architecture and Art as Historical Sources: On the Borders of Humanities and Social Sciences