Research in this area aims at further developing understandings of displacements that impact people, knowledge and practices by exploring the ways they are transformed as they pass through space and time. The term ‘displacement’ covers the whole scope of mobilities, flows and circulations related to people, material and cultural goods and ideas. Displacement entails renegotiating … Continue reading Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices→
Contemporary discourses on freedom of expression, multiculturality, emigration or sexuality persistently toy with the notion of transgression. Transgression can be viewed as a strategy adopted by various actors–religious, cultural, social–to claim and legitimate such norms they deem alternative to the established hierarchies, conventions, traditions, canons and laws. As a discourse, transgression contests the absolute authority … Continue reading Research area 2 – Norms & Transgressions→
This research focus is based on both an empirical and a symbolic definition of space (social, geographical, historiographical), considered as a construction prompted by practices and experiences. Experiencing space is framed by the layout imposed by objects– architectural, instrumental, or common–as demonstrated by current research on the social life of objects, which grasps them in … Continue reading Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces→
An International Workshop proposed by the Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (SIAS FF UK), the French Institute for Research in Social Sciences (CEFRES) and the Institute of Art History of Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR). The collaboration is realized within the Research project “Cataloging and study of the translations … Continue reading CfP: (Trans)missions: Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers→
Every year the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities (InSHS) of the CNRS offers the possibility for researchers to be appointed in a research institute abroad. URL: http://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drh/emploi-nonperm/pratique-3-deleg.htm Application Package of the CNRS researcher includes: a research project an up-to-date CV a letter of intent the letter of support and invitation of the director of … Continue reading Appointment of a CNRS Researcher at CEFRES→
Join the CEFRES for a short mobility! Deadline for submission: 30 September 2024 Duration: from 3 to 9 months in 2025 Information and application form to be filled in: SMI As a part of its support to researchers’ international mobility, the CNRS Social Sciences and Humanities allows for researchers from CNRS and from universities with … Continue reading CNRS Support to International Mobility 2025 | Outgoing→
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague
