Culture, Urban Society, and Representation of Territories. The Architecture of Public Theaters in the Eastern Lands of the Habsburg Monarchy (1770-1812) Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices Contact: raluca.muresan@cefres.cz (from 1st September 2018) My research seeks to understand the mechanisms behind the rise of public theater buildings in various towns … Continue reading Raluca Muresan: Research & CV →

National belonging, transnational localities and ideologies of language: Discursive practices at the Greek-Albanian borderlands Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces Contact: ekaterina.zheltova@cefres.cz (from 1st September 2018) In my PhD project I explore how people living in the Albanian-Greek borderland region imagine and narrate their lives on the border, their relations with … Continue reading Ekaterina Zheltova: Research & CV →

Rise of a Merchant Nation: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Bazaar Economy in Central Europe Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practice Contact: felipe.fernandes@cefres.cz As a third-year PhD student in Anthropology at Ehess and a Phd fellow at Cefres, I conduct a participant observation of Sapa marketplace, situated in the suburbs … Continue reading Felipe Kaiser Fernandes: Research & CV →

Food, Gender, Identity, and their Entanglements in Contemporary Czech Prose Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions Contact: olga.slowik@cefres.cz (from 1st September 2018) My Ph.D. project explores ways in which food motifs intervene in the broad problem of searching for or attempts to construct a personal identity of female characters (and narrators) in contemporary Czech … Continue reading Olga Słowik: Research & CV →

“The Gypsy Scourge!” Creation and Implementation of Anti-Gypsy Measures in Czechoslovakia and After, 1918-1942 Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions Contact: pavel.baloun@cefres.cz (from 1st September 2018) My PhD deals with the long-term process of criminalization of those inhabitants who were labelled as “Gypsies”. It focuses on exploring continuities and discontinuities in enforcing anti-Gypsy measures … Continue reading Pavel Baloun: Research & CV →