Transnational Governance of Displacement, Sexuality and Gender Identity: UNHCR as the Main Actor in Creating a Legal Basis for Asylum-Seeking for LGBT Refugees in Turkey Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices Contact: mert.kocak(@)cefres.cz My research focuses on the following question: how can LGBT refugees ‘legally’ register with migration authorities within … Continue reading mert koçak: research & cv →

Family Stories. Sociability, Rituals and Everyday Life among the Mongolian Buryat Herders Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices Contact : veronique.gruca(@)cefres.cz My research focuses on Mongolian Buryat herders’ sociability, shamanic and funeral rituals and daily family affairs. I explore the particular texture of social relations specific to the pastoral way … Continue reading véronique gruca: research & cv →

Roma as an Object of Science and State Polices. Knowledge and Citizens in the Making in Post-war Czechoslovakia, 1945–1989 Research area 2: Norms & Transgressions Contact : nikola.ludlova(@)cefres.cz My dissertation project traces the history of the knowledge production on Roma in Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1989. This history is inextricably linked with the so-called ‘Gypsy … Continue reading Nikola Ludlová: Research & CV →

Re-articulations of gender, sexuality, race and class in the populist radical right in Czechia and Poland Research Area 2 & 3 – Norms and transgressions & Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday experience of spaces Contact: adrien.beauduin(@)cefres.cz Adrien Beauduin is a PhD student at the Central European University, where he devotes his researches to radical right populist … Continue reading Adrien Beauduin: Research & CV →