Exchange and Circulations: Cultural Contacts and Processes of Transfer

Conveners: Charlotte Krauss (IKG 56, Freiburg University) and Clara Royer (CEFRES). Within the last 30 years, the research on cultural transfer – with its emphasis on processes of selection, distribution and reception – has proven itself as a productive research area. The questions concerning the responsibility of actors, paths of communication and rooms of encounters … Continue reading Exchange and Circulations: Cultural Contacts and Processes of Transfer

Cécile Guillaume-Pey: Research & CV

From Spirit to Letter. Modes of Appropriating Script among Tribal Groups in India Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies Contact: cecile.guillaume-pay@cefres.cz From the 18th century on among colonized populations, many systems of graphic signs were born in the frame of nascent religious movements. Such was the case among the Soras, a tribal group in Central … Continue reading Cécile Guillaume-Pey: Research & CV

Czech-French Seminar in History – FF UK & CEFRES

Since 2007, CEFRES has teamed up with the Institute of Czech History of the Faculty of Arts (Charles University in Prague) around  a weekly seminar in history. Open to Prague’s French-speaking  students and to Erasmus students from France, the seminar hosts French historians around a unifying theme chosen every semester. The theme for Winter Semester … Continue reading Czech-French Seminar in History – FF UK & CEFRES

2015-2016 Seminars

CEFRES epistemological seminar: Exploring Interdisciplinarity Czech-French Seminar in History – FF UK & CEFRES Between Disciplines and Areas – Monthly Research Seminar IMS FSV UK-CEFRES Modernization in 19th century Central Europe. A course at HISO FHS UK