CEFRES’s monthly seminar aims at fulfilling CEFRES’s mission to train PhD students and young researchers. Since Autumn 2021, CEFRES gathers in a Research Seminar all its PhD fellows and researchers opened to young researchers and to MA and PhD students of its partners, within “CEFRES Platform” and in the four Visegrad countries.

Presentations focus on the conceptual and methodological framework of each research with the inscription within one of CEFRES Research Areas. We invite participants to explain how their research sheds light on, refines and critiques one or more aspects of these topics and the way they are usually conceptualised, through their own questionings, embedded in one or several disciplines, their empirical field and the methodology they use.

Location: CEFRES Library and online
Dates: once a month, on Tuesday, 16:30–18:30
Language: English
Contact: cefres[@]cefres.cz

Schedule for 2025–2026 Winter semester

15 September |
Zsofia Bacsadi CEFRES / Central European University (CEU, Vienna)
Uncomfortable Family Dinners. Cultivating Expertise, Debating and Collaborating in the EU Plasma Field
Discussant: Ema Hřešanová (Institute of Sociological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University)

20 October |
Lucia Brazdilová, CEFRES / Comenius University, Bratislava
Navigating Multilingualism. Linguistic Code-Switching in the Context of Algeria
Discussant: Ali Al Moussaoui, CEFRES

24 November |
Eliška Härtelová, CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Space in a Poetry Collection: Questions of Coherence
Discussant: Maïka Nguyen, CEFRES

15 December |
Zuzana Goleinová, CEFRES / Art Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava

The schedule for the summer semester will be published later.

See past CEFRES Seminars

2025–2026 Seminar
2024–2025 Seminar
2023–2024 Seminar
2022–2023 Seminar
2021–2022 Seminar
2020–2021 Seminar
2019–2020 Seminar
2018–2019 Seminar
2017–2018 Seminar