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CEFRES Team

Maika Nguyen – Research & CV

VAEDID : ‘”Vietnamese” Across “Europe”: Displacement, Identity and Dis/connections’

Výzkumná osa 1: Přemístění, vykořenění, odchýlení: lidé, vědění, praktiky

Maika Nguyen is a literary researcher and joined CEFRES in January 2026 for two years. She is interested in migrant literature, diaspora studies and postcolonial studies. She holds a doctorate in French and Francophone Studies (University College Dublin, 2025), where she wrote her thesis on representations of the return home in the autofiction of Dany Laferrière (Haiti) and Anna Moï (Vietnam). In it, she argued for a re-evaluation of the relationship between understandings of the self and current conceptions of home in postcolonial autofiction.

At CEFRES, she will be undertaking a postdoctoral project on the Vietnamese diaspora in Europe, during which she will analyse the works of Vietnamese directors and writers across four countries: the UK, France (including its overseas territory, Martinique), Germany and the Czech Republic. The project examines, on the one hand, the question of identity in the Vietnamese diaspora, whose members have experienced and remember differing “Vietnams” (notably North/South Vietnam); on the other, it compares the representation of migrant experiences in (post)socialist European countries to those in Western European ones, thereby shedding light on the intersections between our collective memory, in its contested and plural forms, of North/South (Vietnam) and East/West (Europe) divides.

CV

Education

  • 2025: PhD in Literature (French and Francophone Studies), Université College Dublin, Ireland. Thesis: ‘Writing Home: Haiti and Vietnam in the Autofiction of Dany Laferrière and Anna Moï’, supervised by Prof Mary Gallagher. 
  • 2021: MA in French Philology and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Czech Republic.
  • 2018 : BA in French Philology, Charles University, Czech Republic. 

Conference Papers (selection)

  • 2025 : Roundtable, ‘Legacies of 1975 in Southeast Asia and Its Diasporas: Fifty Years Afterward’, Modern Languages Association, New Orleans. 
  • 2024 : ‘The Returnee as Tourist (Guide) in the Autoficiton of Dany Laferrière and Anna Moï’, Research Seminar, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin.
  • 2023 : ‘Viết, Việt: relating and translating Vietnam in Anna Moï’s autofiction’, Society for French Studies Annual Conference, Newcastle University.
  • 2023 : ‘Returning to my water(s)? Considerations of “home” in Nostalgie de la rizière by Anna Moï’, Passages, University College Dublin 
  • 2022 : ‘The Lens of ‘Home’ in Migrant Writing: Memory and Identity in Vietnamese Migrant Literature’, Faculté de lettres, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Vietnam National University).

International Research Exchanges

  • 2023: University of the French Antilles, Martinique. Erasmus+ doctoral exchange.
  • 2022 : University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam. Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility.

Publications

  • ‘Returning to Home Water(s) in Nostalgie de la rizière by Anna Moï’, Irish Journal of French Studies, 2025.
CEFRES Team

Valeriya Korablyova – Research & CV

A Subaltern That Sings:
From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine

CEFRES Research Area 1: Displacements, “dépaysements” & discrepancies

Contact: valeriya.korablyova[@]fsv.cuni.cz

Dr Valeriya Korablyova is a sociologist and political theorist working on post-Soviet transformations in Ukraine and the region, with the research focus on performative politics and entangled imperial/colonial legacies. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Russian and East European Studies and the Leader of the Research Centre “Ukraine in a Changing Europe” at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Dr Korablyova received her habilitation (D. of Sc. degree) in 2015 from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, with the book Social Meanings of Ideology (Kyiv University, 2014) that covers transformations of the European modernity, where the ethos of solidarity underpinning the Maidan uprising stands as a specific case in point. She has held fellowships and visiting professorships at Stanford University, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, the University of Basel, Justus Liebig University Giessen, and other institutions. Most recently, she has presented on broader implications of the Russian war of aggression for European political imaginary and structures of knowledge production. Her latest publications on the matter include: “Fighting Russia’s ‘Dark Power’: The ‘Bright Power’ of Enacted Values” in Putin’s Europe. Russian Influence in European Democracy (European Liberal Forum, 2023); ‘Why Is Ukraine Important? Challenging the colonial and Cold War legacies in European social sciences’ in Soziologie (vol. 52, no. 3, 2023); ‘Russia vs. Ukraine: A Subaltern Empire Against The “Populism of Hope”’ in Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Studia Territorialia (# 2 2022); and editing the special Topos issue “Transformations of Society and Academia in the Wake of the Russian War in Ukraine: Urgent Notes” (#2 2022). 

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Research

Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices

Research in this area aims at further developing understandings of displacements that impact people, knowledge and practices by exploring the ways they are transformed as they pass through space and time. The term ‘displacement’ covers the whole scope of mobilities, flows and circulations related to people, material, cultural goods and ideas. Displacement involves renegotiating and reshaping that which it affects. Indeed, displacement involves crossing borders, whether symbolic or concrete, where interactions, exchanges, contacts and frictions can occur. Continue reading Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies: People, Knowledge and Practices →