Conveners: Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES), Tomas Weiss (FSV UK), Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK), Claire Madl (CEFRES)
Where: CEFRES (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1) or online
When: Wednesdays from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
24 February, 10 & 24 March, 7 & 21 April, 5 May 2021
Language: English
This seminar wants to provide young researchers with a theoretical background and help them to reflect upon how they use and elaborate relevant concepts for their PhD research. It will also highlight the differences and similarities in using concepts in different disciplines.
Each session will be led by a young researcher, who will comment on a key-concept for his/her field and open it for discussion. Therefore, various concepts will be presented through their definitions, uses and limits. Concepts can’t be considered as a permanent “tool box” to which a social scientist could turn each time he/she conducts research, hence the necessity to think upon concept formation. The seminar aims at preventing the pitfalls of flat empiricism, words confusion, over-theorization, and at thinking through the uses and misuses of concepts. It could touch upon concepts such as “identity”, “modernity”, “moral behaviour”, “security”, “society”, “culture”, “form”, “gender”, “church”, “capitalism”, “professionalism”, and so forth.
Seminar is open to PhD students and post-doctoral scholars. Each session will begin with an overview of one selected reading mainly in English, followed by a discussion. The reader with texts will be available in electronic form. Please write to Claire Madl to get the reader and register to online sessions: claire@cefres.cz.
The complete program of the Seminar is published on the Agenda of CEFRES’s activities.
24 February 2021
Lukáš Kotyk, PhD candidate at FSV UK, associated at CEFRES
“Prefiguration”
10 March 2021
Zach Lavengood, PhD candidate at FSV UK
Concept : “Core-periphery”
24 March 2021
Zuzana Krulichová, PhD candidate at FSV UK
Concept: “Human Rights”
7 April 2021
Barbora Chaloupková, PhD candidate at FSV UK
Concept: “Inequality”
21 April 2021
Adrien Bauduin, PhD candidate at CEU, associated at CEFRES
“Situated knowledges”
5 May 2021
Véronique Gruca, PhD fellow CEFRES / Paris-Nanterre University
“Homeland / Nutag”