We are happy to announce the names of the winners of the first CEFRES Platform Award for best article in social sciences and humanities in an international peer-reviewed journal (see the cfa here): Slavomíra Ferenčuhová (FSS MUNI Brno – sociology), for her article “Accounts from Behind the Curtains: History and Geography in the Critical Analysis of Urban … Continue reading 2017 WINNERS OF CEFRES PLATFORM AWARD and DERRIDA AWARD
CEFRES Epistemological Seminar: Uses and Limits of Concepts in Social Sciences and Humanities Colloquia in Modern Jewish History Cities and Metropolitan Culture in the late 19th century Habsburg Empire Modernization in Nineteenth Century Central Europe: Topics, Problem Areas and Research Methods in historical sociology and social history Culture and Society of Central and South Eastern … Continue reading 2016-2017 Seminars
This conference originates from the encounter of three projects: a Russian-French project on trials in the USSR (FMSH/RGNF), the micro-project of the Labex Création, Arts, Patrimoines ‘Images de la justice”, and the WW2CRIMESONTRIAL1943-1991 project supported by the French National Research Agency. Find out more about the ANR project “Nazi War Crimes in Court” here Partners: CEFRES, March … Continue reading Acts of Justice, Public Events: World War II Criminals on Trial
A workshop organized by the Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (SIAS FF UK), 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 of Spanish and Ibero-American Dominicans”. Venue: Špork Palace, Hybernská 3, … Continue reading (Trans)Missions: Monasteries As Sites of Cultural Transfers
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
