Mihai-Dan Cîrjan: Research & CV

Indebtedness and Credit Relations in Times of Crisis: Reinventing the State by Governing Economic Life in Post-Liberal Romania (1929-1944) Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices Contact: mihai-dan.cirjan@cefres.cz As a comparative social historian, most of my work focuses on the history of interwar capitalism in Eastern Europe and Latin America. … Continue reading Mihai-Dan Cîrjan: Research & CV

Mathieu Lericq: Research & CV

Troubling Intimacies in Communist Poland Films (1968-1989): the Birth of a Bio-Cinema? Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions Contact: mathieu.lericq@cefres.cz My research project deals with the presence and values granted to bodies in East-Central European cinema during the Communist era (1968-1989). At the crossroad between aesthetics and anthropology, it aims at showing how the images … Continue reading Mathieu Lericq: Research & CV

Martin Pjecha: Research & CV

Discourses of Violence within the Hussite Movement Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions Contact: martin.pjecha@cefres.cz My Ph. D. project explores the intellectual, theological, and discursive methods and arguments used to encourage and legitimize religious violence, as well as their historical variability and radicalization. My research is focused on the context of late-medieval Bohemia, particularly … Continue reading Martin Pjecha: Research & CV

Florence Vychytil-Baudoux: Research & CV

Between Citizenship, Ethnicity and the Politics of Exile: The Logics of Polonia‘s Political Integration. France, the United States and Canada, 1945-1980 Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices Contact: florence.vychytil-baudoux@cefres.cz My research explores the strategies of political inclusion designed and implemented by Polish communities (Polonia) in the United States, Canada … Continue reading Florence Vychytil-Baudoux: Research & CV

Yuliya Moskvina: Research & CV

State, Squat, Society Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions Contact: yuliya.moskvina@cefres.cz In my dissertation, I focus on the conflicting imaginaries which are produced by critical actors and institutions in the civic polity. Those conflicting imaginaries are represented by the squatters, who occupy a decaying building in Prague, on the one side, and state institution … Continue reading Yuliya Moskvina: Research & CV