Contact: dominik.kulcsar[@]cefres.cz
Research area 2: Norms and Transgressions
Dominik Kulcsár is a Research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He has completed his PhD dissertation “Albert Camus and the Spirit of Anarchy: The Philosophical Concept of Revolt” and presently continues his research into the concept of revolt, which contributes to CEFRES research area 2.
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 recent works on the concept of “porous Iron Curtain” and the remapping of Cold War media Anastasia’s PhD thesis aims to show that pop culture references abide by their own rules and travel along different routes than those indicated by the political maps of the time. Continue reading Anastasia Mamaeva – Research & CV
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 the group magazines associated with “Operaismo” or “Workerism”, namely Quaderni rossi and Classe operaia, whose archives he discusses (work notes, letters, mettings reports, personal papers) with hybrid methods. He thus uses tools from social history of political ideas, socio-history of parties, sociology of political crisis and transnational mobilisations. Continue reading Julien Allavena – Research & CV
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 the one hand, as well as the increasing tendency to lethargy where action proves vital on the other. In the broader scope of my research, I explore the notion of passivity in action, and claim it to be the foundation for living in meaningful relationships with others and the world. Specifically, I adhere to the idea of reinventing the understanding of activity according to its inherent uncontrollability, which appears to be present in each human act or relation. My research embarks from the most common situation, in which controllability is open for observations: from human failure. Continue reading Josefína Formanová – Research & CV
This PhD Students Workshop is organized within the cooperation agreement signed by EHESS, CEFRES, Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Date: 22 November, 2024
Location: CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (and online)
Deadline for application submissions: 30 September, 2024
Deadline for paper submissions: 8 November, 2024
Language of the workshop: English
When we talk about the forms of resistance and protest that developed in the face of the authoritarian system we are primarily concerned with demonstrations that were quickly and brutally interrupted, acts of desperation such as immolation by fire, or the development of clandestine publications, copied and passed from hand to hand. This is the case for example in the USSR and the countries under its domination, but also in any other authoritarian state, While much research today has renewed the study of these actions, particularly what is referred to as dissidence, there remain many more individual forms of action which, without being an explicit confrontation with the authorities, can be likened to protests, profound questioning of the foundations of the system, attempts to extricate oneself from a repressive process felt to be unjust or expressing unacceptable forms of political violence.
Continue reading CFP – The “Voice from Below”. Workshop EHESS–CEFRES
A project funded by the 4EU+ University Alliance, developed by Sorbonne University (Paris), the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague), the Universities of Copenhaguen, Milan and Warsaw, and CEFRES.
Project coordinators:
Josef Šebek, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature – principal investigator of the 4EU+ minigrant
Mateusz Chmurski, CEFRES – French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague / Sorbonne Université
Carlotta Cossutta, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale / FUEL – Feminist and Queer Philosophy Lab
Libuše Heczková, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Czech and Comparative Literature / Centre of Gender Studies
Anton Juul, University of Copenhagen / Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Difference
Iwona Kurz, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Kultury Polskiej
Jean-François Laplénie, Sorbonne Université / Initiative Genre Philomel
Abstract
The project intends to develop a network of 4EU+ colleagues working on LGBTQ+ cultural and literary history around a book project for the International Comparative Literature Association series’ Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (ICLA CHLEL). Continue reading Representing same-sex desire
