The Place of Faith. The Implementation of Joseph II’s Monastic Policies in the Hungarian Kingdom Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces Contact: katalin.pataki@cefres.cz My PhD project investigates the implementation of the state-led church reforms carried out during the reign of Joseph II in the Hungarian Kingdom and intends to contribute to a … Continue reading Katalin Pataki: Research & CV
Imaginations of Bodily “Otherness” and Prague’s Freak Show Culture 1860-1939 Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions Contact: filip.herza@cefres.cz My dissertation project traces the history of freak show culture in the 19th- and 20th-century Prague and the Czech lands from the perspective of disability theory. By studying popular exhibitions of “freaks” and other living “curiosities”, I … Continue reading Filip Herza: Research & CV
Intersex Writing Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions Contact: magdalena.cabaj@cefres.cz My dissertation discusses intersex as an emancipatory figure with a great subversive potential, which through the ages has been forced to occupy the unusual border between fiction and pathology.
Does the Residential Renewal Stand the Test of Residual Public Housing? Urban Policies and Social Dynamics in a Peripheral Budapest District Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces Contact: lepeltier-kutasi@cefres.cz My research project focuses on the social and spatial issues of residual public housing in Hungary. This particular category of housing, inherited … Continue reading Ludovic Lepeltier-Kutasi: Research & CV
The press review testifies to the center’s scientific activities and the interest raised by its guest researchers in the public debate in the Czech Republic and East-Central Europe. 2025 “Partenariats clés pour les UMIFRE” New incubator and scientific mobility programmes coordinated by CEFRES. Cahier des UMIFRE 2024-2025, n° 11. Louisa Martin-Chevalier was a guest on … Continue reading Press Review
A lecture by Gábor Egry (Institute of History – Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Discussant: Rudolf Kučera (Masaryk Institute – AV ČR) Where: Na Florenci 3, building C, 3rd floor, conference room. The end of WWI in East Central Europe brought about similar developments: the collapse of empires and the emergence of nation states. But behind the … Continue reading Firefighters, Gipsy Bands, Peasant Riders, Canteens: East Central European Post-Imperial Local Societies in the World of Nation States 1918-1930
