International Conference organised on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Ethnology SAS under the auspices of the European Commission Representation to the Slovak Republic. Where: SAS Congress Centre, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia Organizers: T. Podolinská, G. Kiliánová, M. Vrzgulová, K. Popelková (Bratislava, Slovakia), Z. Uherek (Prague, Czech Republic), G. Bárna (Szeged, Hungary), T. … Continue reading Ethnology in the 3rd Millenium: Topics, Methods, Challenges →
The One Who Sings Needs to Dwell. Experiments in Residential Architecture in Brazil from the 1980s Research Area 3: Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces Contact: kuzvartova@cefres.cz The main interest of my research is to explore a) the socially engaged role of architects, b) the possibilities of different production of urban space in the cities … Continue reading Lenka Kužvartová: Research & CV →
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 →
