“La Fabrique de l’Histoire”—A Radio Show on Central Europe at CEFRES

CEFRES is thrilled to welcome the team of the French radio show devoted to history La Fabrique de l’Histoire for a series of four shows (to be broadcast in December 2017 on France Culture radio station) dedicated to East-Central Europe. A roundtable led by radio host Emmanuel Laurentin gathering four historians will tackle East-Central Europe relationship to nostalgia, the past … Continue reading “La Fabrique de l’Histoire”—A Radio Show on Central Europe at CEFRES

CFP: The Wording of Thoughts: Philosophy From the Standpoint of Its Manuscripts and Archives

The Wording of Thoughts: Philosophy From the Standpoint of Its Manuscripts and Archives—Methodologies, Histories and Horizons Organizer : Benedetta Zaccarello, CEFRES When & Where : 7-9 June 2018, Prague Deadline for applications : 21 January 2018 Language: English Partners: ITEM, IMEC, Patočka Archives (Czech Academy of Sciences), FHS UK Please send your proposal (title and 300 word-long abstract) and bio-bibliographical short notice to the … Continue reading CFP: The Wording of Thoughts: Philosophy From the Standpoint of Its Manuscripts and Archives

Selling Souls: Trafficking German Migrants – Lecture by William O’Reilly

Selling Souls: Trafficking German Migrants, Europe and America, 1648-1780 A lecture by William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) Time & Venue: 5:30 PM at CEFRES (Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor – conference room) Language: English Organizer: Veronika Čapská (FHS UK) William O’Reilly is a senior lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge, associate … Continue reading Selling Souls: Trafficking German Migrants – Lecture by William O’Reilly

Large Scale Use of Oral History Accounts in the Historiography of the Shoah – The Case of the Hungarian-Jewish Slave Labourers in Vienna (1944-45)

A lecture by Éva Kovacs (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies) 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 In the … Continue reading Large Scale Use of Oral History Accounts in the Historiography of the Shoah – The Case of the Hungarian-Jewish Slave Labourers in Vienna (1944-45)