The third edition of CEFRES Review of Books will take place on Wednesday 5 December at 5:30 at CEFRES library. Join us for a discussion around the latest publications in humanities and social sciences from France. This informal meeting, which gathers CEFRES team, the library readers, and professionals from libraries and publishing, will give an opportunity for … Continue reading CEFRES Review of Books
Time & Venue: 15 December, 16.30-18.30: Room 212, FSV UK, Hollar Building, Prague; 16 December, 9.00-15.00: Conference room, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague Organizers: Paul Blokker (FSV UK) and Nicolas Maslowski (Warsaw University), with CEFRES Partners : Institute of Sociological Studies (FSV UK), Department of Historical Sociology (FHS UK), CEFRES and CCFEF UW—Center for French Civilization and Francophone … Continue reading French pragmatism and the renewal of contemporary sociology
A lecture by Prof. Pierre-Michel Menger, professor at Collège de France This lecture is held in the frame of the Historicko-sociologických konfrontací organized by the Department of Historical Sociology of the Faculty of Humanities, UK. Organizers: HISO FHS & CEFRES Where: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor, conference room Language: English Pierre-Michel Menger (1953) is a French … Continue reading Academic Work. A Tale of Essential Tension Between Research and Teaching
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2016 Date & Place: 15&16 December 2016 Language: English Organizers: Paul Blokker (FSV UK) and Nicolas Maslowski (CCFEF of Warsaw University) French pragmatic sociology will be the main theme in the workshop on “French pragmatism and the renewal of contemporary sociology”, held on 15 and 16 December, and organized by the Institute … Continue reading CFP: French pragmatism and the renewal of contemporary sociology
A lecture by Philippe Descola organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences and CEFRES, in cooperation with the French Institute in Prague. Where: Conference Room, Jilská 1, Prague 1 Language: English Abstract The key concept and methodological tool of Lévi-Straussian structural anthropology is the group of transformation. A structure, understood as … Continue reading From an anthropological to an ontological pluralism
Fifth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by Katalin Pataki (CEFRES & Central European University, Budapest) Texts: MANN, MICHAEL (1986), “The autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms, and results”, in HALL, JOHN A. (ed.), States in History. Oxford: Blackwell. p109-136 FOUCAULT, MICHEL (2001), “Governmentality”, in Power (The Essential Works … Continue reading The Territory of the Modern State: Infrastructural Ties and Dispositions of Power
