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

Calls for fellowship applications at CEU IAS (Institute for Advanced Study)

The CEU Institute for Advanced Study (CEU IAS) is pleased to invite applications for its fellowships for the academic year 2015/16. Application deadline for all three fellowships: 26 October, 2015. Calls are open for the fellowships listed below. Applications to more than one of the programs is possible but the application process and the requirements are not … Continue reading Calls for fellowship applications at CEU IAS (Institute for Advanced Study)

Between Disciplines and Areas – Monthly Research Seminar IMS FSV UK-CEFRES

Academic work has long been divided according to disciplines, which can be considered as the major reference frame of the university. Despite this long-lasting management of scientific activities, many researchers consider such a frame a contrived constraint, especially since scientific objects themselves proceed from the defining of a specific problematic, to which a proper methodology … Continue reading Between Disciplines and Areas – Monthly Research Seminar IMS FSV UK-CEFRES