Eastern Bohemia in the First Globalization (1870s-1940s) Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies. Contact: s.plyer@cefres.cz My research focuses on Eastern Bohemia from the 1870s to the 1940s. Despite its fringe position at the Silesian border, between the Elbe and Moravia, this territory developed the most modern textile industry within the Double Monarchy and fully integrated … Continue reading Ségolène Plyer: Research & CV
Program Thursday 25 February – Prague 11:00-12:30 AM Lecture by Michel Wieviorka within the frame of the cycle “Socio-Historical Confrontations” of the Department of Historical Sociology (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University). Topic: Violence and Democracy. Language: English. Where: U Kříže 8, Praha 5 – Jinonice, auditorium 1034. 5-7 PM Lecture and debate organized by CEFRES … Continue reading Visegrad Forum: Michel Wieviorka, between Prague and Warsaw
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
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
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