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.
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
Session led by Edita Wolf.
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
Animal Matters: Challenging the Anthropological Difference and Literary Norms Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions Contact: chiara.mengozzi@cefres.cz The general goal of the project is to investigate the political, ethical and aesthetic questions that arise, when 20th and 21st-century literature try to represent non-human animals and to address them by adopting an approach that is both … Continue reading Chiara Mengozzi: Research & CV
The Spatial Control of Central European Concierges Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces. Contact: istvan.adam@cefres.cz István has been awarded the degree of PhD at the University of Bristol. His doctoral project examines the role of an understudied group of everyday Hungarians during and before the Holocaust: the Budapest building managers, concierges, … Continue reading István Pál Ádám: Research & CV