Voltaire Days Deadline for applications: 20 February 2018 Organizer: Guillaume Métayer (CELLF – CNRS) Partners: CELLF (UMR 8599), Société des Études Voltairiennes, CEFRES, CERCLL (Jules Verne University, Picardie) When & where: 22-23 June 2018, Paris-Sorbonne University Language: French and English Contact: gme.metayer@gmail.com Outline No-one among the Enlightened French writers and philosophers entertained such extensive relations with the German-speaking world as Voltaire. Besides his many stays … Continue reading Voltaire between the Rhine and the Danube (18th-19th centuries) →
Organizers: Michal Šípoš and Luděk Brož (Institute of Ethnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences) with the support of Strategy AV21, programme: Global Con icts and Local Interactions: Cultural and Social Challenges Venue: Villa Lana, Prague Click here to register to the workshop! See the pdf of the event Consequences of Ethnography_colloquium. Outline As Sherry Ortner famously argued, … Continue reading Consequences of Ethnography: Knowing Violence via the Self and Its Aftermath →
A lecture by Peter Hallama (EHESS, Paris) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Masaryk Institute (AV ČR). Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 When: from 5 pm to 6:30 pm Language: English Abstract This lecture will … Continue reading Holocaust Memory, Jewish Life, and Generational Dimensions. Czechoslovakia in the 1980s →
A lecture by Karolina Szymaniak (Wrocław University) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Masaryk Institute (AV ČR). Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 When: from 5 pm to 6:30 pm Language: English Abstract When in 1988 … Continue reading A Little Something in Yiddish. Conceptual Framework(s) for the Study of Yiddish Polish cultural contact in the 20th century →
An intern seminar of CEFRES as the center welcomes its new members, post-doctoral researchers Aníbal Arregui, Thomas Mercier (CEFRES & Charles University) and Marianna Szczygielska (Czech Academy of Sciences) Venue: conference room, Na Florenci, building A, 3rd floor Language: English 2:15-3:30 Archives and Interculturality Benedetta Zaccarello (CEFRES/CNRS), PI: an introduction of the research project and a footnote on a mission in an Indian philosopher’s archives Thomas … Continue reading Introduction to CEFRES research projects →
Project within the TANDEM program of The Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Charles University and CEFRES/CNRS based on the CEFRES Platform’s cooperation and endeavour to excellency in social and human sciences. Eurasian wild pigs (Sus scrofa) feature regularly in European public discourse, for their numbers have been rising spectacularly across the continent. While in some … Continue reading Bewildering Boar: Changing Cosmopolitics of the Hunt in Europe and Beyond →
