“Agency and Emancipation: A Decolonial Analysis of the Lived Experience of Hazara Women in Exile in Europe” Contact: seema.sridhar[@]cefres.cz Research area 1: Displacement, Dépaysement and Discrepancies My research focuses on the lived experiences of conflict, international intervention, and displacement of persecuted communities from present-day Afghanistan, by examining the narratives of the Hazara diaspora women living … Continue reading Seema Sridhar – Research & CV→
“References to French, American and British Popular Cultures in Czechoslovak cinema, 1969–1982″ Contact : anastasia.mamaeva(@)cefres.cz Research Area 2: Norms and Transgressions From political thrillers to burlesque adaptations of Belle Époque dime novels, references to French, American and British pop culture characters and tropes abound in the Czechoslovak cinema of the “offensive normalization” era. In line with … Continue reading Anastasia Mamaeva – Research & CV→
“Winning the battle of ideas in Europe. Production and circulation of ideas on Ukraine in a war context (France and Czechia)” Contact: brivejosephine(@)gmail.com Research area 1 : Displacements, “dépaysement”, discrepancies My thesis investigates the upheaval caused by the large-scale invasion of Ukraine for Central and Eastern European specialists in academic, cultural and media circles in … Continue reading Joséphine Brive – Research & CV→
“From a Party Truth to a Class Truth”: Picture of Operaismo in Heresy (1956–1969) Research Area 1 and 2 His PhD research focuses on the Italian branch of the international “new left-wing”, appearing after 1956, as an intellectual network and activist groups in periphery of the partisan left-wing. His subject is more precisely connected to … Continue reading Julien Allavena – Research & CV→
“Jews in Cheb (Eger) in the High and Late Middle Ages” Contact : kajetan.holecek[@]cefres.cz Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces My dissertation examines the Jewish position in the urban space of Cheb (Eger), a town on the Czech-German border. Given that the Jewish community in this town is among the … Continue reading Kajetán Holeček – Research & CV →
“Philosophy of Failure: Negativity and Error in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” contact: josefina.formanova@cefres.cz Research Area 2 – Norms & Transgressions My dissertation project draws on the observation that the current global society revolves around the highly valued ideal of success. In addition, we can witness the declining ability to resign into passivity or doubt on … Continue reading Josefína Formanová – Research & CV→
French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague