Diversity Week

 From 23 to 26 November 2015 Changing Point of View to Reposition PROGRAM Monday 23 November Opening 2 PM Place: Patriotic Hall, Carolinum, Ovocný trh 3-5, Prague 1. Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian, French Ambassador in the Czech Republic. Martin Kovář, vice-rector of Charles University (UK). Mirjam Friedová, dean of the Faculty of Arts (FF UK). Diversity: the … Continue reading Diversity Week

The Popularization of Entertainment, From the Enlightenment to Modernism: From West to East?

ABSTRACTS Jean Boutan (Paris-Sorbonne University / EUR’ORBEM) – Sterne and Wieland: Western Patterns of Šebestián Hněvkovský’s Mock Epic Děvín Written at the very beginning of the Czech National Revival, Šebestián Hněvkovský’s ‘heroicomical’ epic Děvín (1805) met with the heartfelt approval of both the Praguian literary circles and the general public, including the lower levels of the … Continue reading The Popularization of Entertainment, From the Enlightenment to Modernism: From West to East?

CEFRES Epistemological Seminar: Exploring Interdisciplinarity

Convener: Filip Vostal (CEFRES & FLÚ AV ČR) Language: English Seminar is open to students and scholars from CEFRES’s partner institutions. Each session will begin by an overview of one selected reading in French or English to be chosen from the list by a CEFRES fellow. The reader with texts will be available in electronic … Continue reading CEFRES Epistemological Seminar: Exploring Interdisciplinarity

CEFRES Platform Inauguration on 7-8 October 2015

On 7 and 8 Octobre 2015 CEFRES Platform and its new premises within the Czech Academy of Sciences were inaugurated. In 2015, the AV ČR built a brand new library in order to host CEFRES’s more than 6,000 volumes along with its team and Prague’s Francophone readers. The new library was inaugurated during a ceremony on 7 October at 5PM, in the presence … Continue reading CEFRES Platform Inauguration on 7-8 October 2015

Social Presences: Toward an Approach of Interdependency Enhancing Time and Gender

A lecture by French sociologist Marc Bessin, head of IRIS – Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stakes  (UMR 8156 CNRS – EHESS – U997 Inserm – UP13), organized by CEFRES Platform. Language : French with simultaneous Czech translation. Venue : CEFRES, Národní 18, Prague 1, conference room, 7th floor. Outline This lecture is grounded in empirical research on health, social, and … Continue reading Social Presences: Toward an Approach of Interdependency Enhancing Time and Gender

Exchange and Circulations: Cultural Contacts and Processes of Transfer

Date and place: 27 November 2015, from 1:30pm – 6pm, conference room of the Institute of Czech Literature, Na Florenci 3. Partners: IGK 56 (Freiburg University) – CEFRES – Charles University in Prague. Language: English. Program 1:30: Charlotte Krauss and Clara Royer – Welcome and Introduction. Panel 1. Moderator: Veronika Čapská (FHS UK) 1:45: Tomáš … Continue reading Exchange and Circulations: Cultural Contacts and Processes of Transfer