Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy Research Project: Bewildering Boar Contact: giovanna.capponi(@)cefres.cz Giovanna is trained as a social anthropologist with a particular interest in human-environment relation, human-animal studies, cultural and historical ecology and ‘natureculture’. During her PhD at the University of Roehampton (London), she conducted an extensive multi-sited fieldwork looking at animal … Continue reading Giovanna Capponi: Research & CV →
Lecturer: Benedetta Zaccarello (CNRS / CEFRES) Inscription: Department of German and French Philosophy, FHS UK When & where: Thursdays 4/4, 11/4, 25/4, 9/5, 16/5, 23/5, 11h00-12h20, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 Language: French Élu à la chaire de Philosophie du Collège de France en 1952, Maurice Merleau-Ponty dispensa pendant sa première année d’enseignement le cours intitulé … Continue reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty: phenomenology and Literature →
Lecturer: Benedetta Zaccarello (CNRS / CEFRES) Inscription: Departement of German and French Philosophy, FHS UK When & where: Wednesdays 3/4, 10/4, 24/4, 15/5, 22/5, 9:30-12h20, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 Language: French Syllabus Throughout a close reading of some texts of Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, the course aims to understand the contemporary use of … Continue reading Cultural Industry: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Critical Theory of Media. 2 →
The fifth session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this year will be hosted by Anna Simbartlová (IMS FSV UK) Topic: Civic Integration Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 When: Wednesday 20 February 2019 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm Language: English Text: Sara Wallace Goodman (2010) Integration Requirements for Integration’s Sake? Identifying, Categorising and Comparing … Continue reading Civic Integration →
The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art
Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices
Fedora Parkmann is a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and principal investigator of the five-year grant project Lumina Quaeruntur The Matrix of Photomechanical Reproductions: Histories of Remote Access to Art (PhotoMatrix). She studied art history at Sorbonne University (M.A. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2017) and the École du Louvre in Paris. Since moving to Prague in 2019, she has been an associate researcher at CEFRES. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2019-2021 and at the CEFRES in 2022. Her research interests include the history and theory of photography, 20th century art, and transnational approaches to art history. Her research focuses on Czech photography, which she studies from a transnational perspective. Her recent articles on this topic have appeared in History of Photography and Revue des études slaves. Her current project focuses on photomechanical reproductions of art in art magazines in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Russia from 1900 to 1950. She is particularly interested in their role as vehicles of artistic exchange.
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Lecturer: Thomas Mercier (CEFRES / UK) Inscription: Department of German and French Philosophy, FHS UK When and where: Thursdays 9:30–12:20, CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (dates tbc) Language: French Syllabus Starting with Jacques Derrida’s very first publications, the basic tenets of deconstruction were elaborated through a complex dialogue, loving but antagonistic, with phenomenology. In … Continue reading Deconstruction and Phenomenology →
