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CEFRES Team

Halyna Shumytska – Research & CV

Consciousness in Transition: Forced Migration, Identity, and Language Integration in Transcarpathia Across the 20th–21st Centuries

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

Contact: halyna.shumytska@gmail.com

Prof. Dr. Halyna Shumytska is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work and Coordinator of the Research Center for Sociology of Language at Uzhhorod National University. Her research project, entitled Linguistic Consciousness in Transition: Forced Migration, Identity, and Language Integration in Transcarpathia Across the 20th–21st Centuries, contributes to CEFRES Research Area 1. The project examines how forced migration reshapes linguistic consciousness, identity negotiation, and social integration in Transcarpathia, one of Ukraine’s most multilingual regions. By comparing political displacement between 1919 and 1939 with contemporary displacement caused by the Russian-Ukrainian war (2014–ongoing), the research traces long-term patterns of linguistic adaptation and explores the role of language in processes of belonging and identity formation. Continue reading Halyna Shumytska – Research & CV →

CEFRES Team

Magdaléna Hadjiisky – Research & CV

Everyday Experiences of Politics: A Study in Two Ordinary Cities in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic

Research Areas 2 and 3: Norms & Transgressions and Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces

Contact: mhadjiisky@cefres.cz

A Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Sciences Po Strasbourg since September 2005, Magdaléna Hadjiisky teaches comparative politics, the Sociology of International Relations and European Studies. Both her teaching and her research focus on the processes of creating and representing the political and the public sphere, with a dual empirical specialisation centred on Central and Eastern Europe and international organisations.

In recent years, she has been in charge of the Master’s programme in European and International Studies at Sciences Po Strasbourg, as well as the new specialisation created in 2024 (‘European Politics and Governance’). She founded the Observatory of European Political Societies, for which she holds the position of scientific director. https://mastereurope.fr/observatoire/.

Her time at CEFRES will be devoted to a new area of research in her career: the analysis of secular politics in smaller towns. She will conduct her empirical research through observation, documentary analysis and interviews in the two towns selected for this project, in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. In line with one of CEFRES’s missions – which is to build networks between researchers in France and the Czech Republic, as well as in other Central European countries – she plans to organise academic events on the theme of ‘Secular Experiences of Politics: European Perspectives’, with the aim of facilitating exchange between researchers from France, Central Europe and the Balkans.

Hadjiisky’s research career began at CEFRES and in the Czech Republic. Defended at Sciences Po Paris, her thesis, “From Citizen Mobilisation to Party Democracy: Political Participation and Delegation in the New Czech Democracy (1989–1996)”, analyses the social and political mobilisations and demobilisations that accompanied the political transformation and the demand for democracy in the Czech Republic between 1989 and the mid-1990s.

The research that formed the basis of this work required learning the Czech language (at INALCO and then at Česká škola in Prague) and a research fellowship at CEFRES from 1994 to 1997, in order to carry out fieldwork in Prague, Brno and Ostrava. Combining the sociology of mobilization with the localised sociology of partisan circles, this research analyses the collective actions of 1989 and 1990 in the Czech lands, the emergence and internal evolution of the Civic Forum, its paradoxical partial transformation into the ODS, alongside the gradual ‘partisanisation’ of the Czech political scene in the 1990s. This research has resulted in several publications in French, English and Czech (Hadjiisky, 1999, 2001a, 2007a, 2007c, 2008b, 2008c, 2005a, 2011, 2019a).

At the same time, Hadjiisky has developed a second area of specialisation focusing on the transformations of the post-communist state, through research into the (short-lived) reform of the Czech civil service in the 1990s and 2000s. Although seemingly technical, the question surrounding the status of the central civil service takes on considerable political significance in the post-communist context. She analyses the morphology of the state and its place in society as indicators that reflect the transformation of the frameworks through which the political and the communal are understood in post-socialist societies (Hadjiisky, 2004). In exploring this area of research, Hadjiisky has examined the role played by certain international actors, as well as the context of pre-accession to the European Union, in shaping the way in which civil service reform was carried out in the Czech Republic (Hadjiisky, 2007b, 2008d).

Her subsequent work led her to the sociology of international relations, with a view to situating political change within its relationship to international directives and support (Hadjiisky, 2020a, 2017a, 2017b, 2023). By studying in detail the work of the SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management) programme (Hadjiisky, 2017e) and the emergence of the OECD’s PUMA (Public Management) Programme (Hadjiisky, 2016a, 2017c), she sought to capture the gradual transformation of a democratic state project into an expert-led endeavour – a process she had previously explored in her thesis by reconstructing the dynamics of the actors mobilised in Prague, Brno and Ostrava. As with her doctoral thesis, she has focused her empirical research on actors at the middle hierarchy level – those ‘go-betweens’ through whom the narrative becomes real, moves beyond pre-constructed teleological narratives, and reintroduces uncertainty and randomness, even within institutionally constrained environments.

By uncovering certain paradoxes and tensions within international aid, her research – like her teaching at Sciences Po Strasbourg – has encouraged her to return to Central and Eastern Europe to continue exploring the various meanings, practices and uses of ‘democracy’. Thus, having explored democracy and the rule of law in the Czech national and political context, and subsequently from the perspective of their international expert assessment within the OECD and SIGMA-EU, she now wishes to analyse everyday politics within secular social contexts, in order to compare Central and Eastern European social transformations with international imperatives and, ultimately, to offer a reflection on the tensions within contemporary European governance.

CV

EDUCATION

2004 : Doctorat de science politique, Institut d’Etudes Politiques (I.E.P.) de Paris, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (C.E.R.I.).

Intitulé de la thèse : De la mobilisation citoyenne à la démocratie de partis. Participation et délégation politiques dans la nouvelle démocratie tchèque (1989-1996), sous la direction de Jacques Rupnik, directeur de recherche au C.E.R.I., F.N.S.P.

Jury de soutenance : Jean-Michel DE WAELE, Professeur de science politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles ; Pierre GREMION, Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Centre de sociologie des organisations ; Erik NEVEU, Professeur de science politique, IEP de Rennes ; Miroslav NOVÁK, Professeur de science politique à l’Université Charles (Prague)

Mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury à l’unanimité et soutien à la publication, accompagnée du label « thèse européenne ».

1998 : Boursière Robert Schuman de la Fondation Robert Schuman, Paris.

1997 : Boursière Lavoisier du Ministère français des Affaires étrangères, Paris.

1993 – 1997 : Séjour de recherches doctorales en République Tchèque accueillie au Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (C.E.F.R.E.S.), Prague.

1993 : D.E.A. de science politique, I.E.P. de Paris, cycle d’Etudes est-européennes.

Titre du mémoire : L’imaginaire de l’Occident chez les migrants potentiels bulgares après 1989, dirigé par Anne de Tinguy (C.E.R.I.), Mention très bien avec félicitations du jury.

1993 : Maîtrise de science politique, Université Paris I – Sorbonne.

CAREER PATH

Since 2005 :

Maîtresse de Conférences en Science Politique à l’Université de Strasbourg (Sciences Po Strasbourg)

Membre du laboratoire SAGE (Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe, UMR 7363 – CNRS-Université de Strasbourg), hébergé à la MISHA (Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme d’Alsace, USR 3227).

2024-2026 : Co-Responsable du Parcours Politique européenne et Gouvernances (GOV) du Master 2 Etudes européennes et internationales, Sciences Po Strasbourg

Sept. 2023-Sept 2025 : Directrice de la mention Etudes européennes et internationales (EEI), Sciences Po, Université de Strasbourg.

Scientific responsibilities and collaborative activities (since 2016)

2021 – 2025 : Membre nommée de la Section 40 (Politique, Pouvoir, Organisation) du Comité national de la Recherche Scientifique. A ce titre, participation aux 2 sessions annuelles de suivi des carrières de chercheurs et chercheuses, et aux jurys de recrutement au concours de chargé.e de recherche sur la base de l’examen préalable des dossiers.

2021 – : Membre des commissions formation et recherche de l’Institut Thématique Interdisciplinaire MAKeRS sur « La Fabrique de la société européenne »

2022-2025 : Membre du Conseil scientifique du CEFRES (Centre français de recherches en sciences sociales, Prague)

2017-2023 : Co-Responsable, avec Wiebke Keim (CNRS), de l’Axe 3 de SAGE, « Production, circulation et critique des savoirs » et organisatrice du Séminaire de l’Axe 3. Organisation d’un séminaire de recherche mensuel

27-29 June 2018, directrice de l’IOGLOB project, Reviewing Workshop “MicroPolitics in International Organizations: Shaping Governance in an Era of Globalization” Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme d’Alsace. Université de Strasbourg

Since 2024 : membre du réseau de recherche international LoCi (Lower classes and institutions) coordonné par Vincent Dubois (Sciences Po Strasbourg-SAGE), https://lowerclassinstitutions.com/events/.

Since 2018 : Membre du réseau de recherche international Policy Diffusion. Partenaire de l’organisation et des travaux de International Conference on Policy Diffusion and Development Cooperation, Sao Paulo, 16-19 mai 2018. https://policydiffusion.com/ et Sao Paulo 25-27 mai 2020 : https://policydiffusion.com/icpddc-2020/ Coopération avec les Universités de Liverpool, Carleton (Canada), South Australia, Alberto Urtado (Chili), PUC (Pérou)…

2018-2019 : Lauréate et responsable du Programme MISHA « Construction et circulation des savoirs “experts” sur l’action publique dans l’espace européen : le rôle des organisations internationales ». Budget de 6000 Euros par an.

Dans ce cadre, partenaire de la Journée d’Etudes « Le registre scientifique des Organisations internationales », Lyon, 6-7 juillet 2018.

2016 : organisatrice et responsable scientifique, avec Romuald Normand et David Dolowitz, du Colloque international IOGLOB, International Organizations and the Globalization of Public Instruments and Ideas : Micro-Processes and Actors’ Configurations, 1-3 September 2016, MISHA, Strasbourg

A selection of educational initiatives

2024- : Cours Decentralising the Classroom, decentring the social sciences. Democracy and the people, here and there. Cours optionnel de 4è année du diplôme de Sciences Po. Cours monté avec Wiebke Keim (CR CNRS, SAGE) et, à Santiago (Chili) et à Brasilia (Brésil), avec Leandro Rodriguez Medina (Professor, Center for the Study of Science, Technology and Society, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile) et Stefan Klein (Professor, Department and Graduate Programme of Sociology, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil). Dispositif inspiré de la pédagogie de l’apprentissage en expérimentant (learning by doing) visant à l’internationalisation et à la dé-standardisation des contenus.

2024- : « Incubateur d’innovations publiques et politiques », M2 Politique européenne et Gouvernances. Dispositif tutoré autour d’un cas pratique d’actualité, élaboré et mis en oeuvre en étroite collaboration avec des praticiens de l’UE (CJUE, CE), visant à la professionnalisation par l’expérimentation directe encadrée par des praticiens et par des pédagogues, en français et en anglais. Associé à l’Incubateur : séjour d’étude à Luxembourg pour assister à l’audience de l’affaire étudiée à la CJUE, où plaide l’un des praticiens engagés dans l’Incubateur.

POPULARISING RESEARCH

11 Septembre 2025 : organisation, à Sciences Po Strasbourg, du lancement de l’Observatoire des sociétés politiques européennes, par une table ronde ouverte au public, sur « Conservatismes en action : tensions sociales, fractures électorales et recompositions européennes » : deux parties : 1/ Le Parlement européen et la droite radicale : Stratégies de vote européennes et nationales ; 2/ Migrations contestées, sociétés fracturées ? Entre politiques d’accueil, discours médiatiques et réalités sociales. https://mastereurope.fr/11-septembre-2025-lancement-officiel-de-lobservatoire-des-societes-politiques-europeennes/

22 Septembre et 10 décembre 2025 : organisation de deux conférences inaugurales du Master Etudes européennes de Sciences Po, sur le thème « Les sciences sociales face aux sociétés en guerre ». Conférence 1 sur l’Ukraine (22 septembre) ; Conférence 2 sur Gaza et la Cisjordanie (10 décembre). https://www.sciencespo-strasbourg.fr/agenda/evenement/conferences-de-rentree-du-master-etudes-europeennes-et-internationales-de-sciences-po-strasbourg

Novembre 2023 : participation à l’organisation d’une série de conférences sur le thème des universités en exil, à l’occasion des « Temps fort » du Jardin des Sciences « Libertés scientifiques et exil », en partenariat avec la Caravane des libertés scientifiques pour la libération de Fariba Adelkhah (http://www.fasopo.org/caravane).

https://www.misha.fr/agenda/evenement/libertes-scientifiques-et-exil

2 novembre 2022 : Interviewée dans l’émission de France Culture, Sans oser le demander, « Comment renverser un régime sans verser de sang ? », 58 minutes d’interview https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/sans-oser-le-demander/revolution-de-velours-comment-renverser-un-regime-sans-verser-de-sang-9338900

15 et 24 mars 2022 : organisation et participation à deux conférences-débats ouvertes au public pour décrypter la situation ouverte par l’attaque armée de la Russie contre l’Ukraine : « Décryptage interdisciplinaire : le conflit armé en Ukraine » et « Des voix de l’Est sur la situation en Ukraine » – cette dernière conférence avec le concours, en visioconférence, des collègues centre-est européens de Pologne, Bulgarie, Roumanie. https://evenements.unistra.fr/agenda-unistra/detail-evenement/19811-decryptage-interdisciplinaire-conflit-arme-en-ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIAcrmmL4nU

https://evenements.unistra.fr/agenda-unistra/detail-evenement/19875-des-voix-de-lest-sur-la-situation-en-ukraine

17 novembre 2020 : Interview accordée à Radio Praha à l’occasion de la commémoration de la « révolution de velours » : https://francais.radio.cz/a-la-difference-de-la-pologne-ou-de-la-hongrie-1989-reste-globalement-une-8700311

13 février 2020 : organisation d’une conférence-débat dédiée à Fariba Adelkhah (FNSP-CERI) et Roland Marchal (CNRS-CERI), « Chercher en terrain « miné » ? Accès aux sources et liberté de la recherche », MISHA.

2019 : Organisation d’une série de trois conférences sur « Retour sur le ‘clivage Est-Ouest’, 30 ans après », en coopération avec les Jeunes Européens de Strasbourg et le Grand Continent.

PUBLICATIONS

Books or special issues of journals

(with David Dolowitz and Romuald Normand, eds.), Shaping Policy Agendas. The Micro-Politics of International Economic Organizations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020a. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/shaping-policy-agendas-9781788976985.html

(with Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker, eds.), Public Policy Transfer. Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017a, 360p. http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/public-policy-transfer

(avec Claire Visier), Circulation des modèles d’administration, numéro spécial, Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 161, no. 1, 2017b, 234 p. http://www.ena.fr/Recherche-et-documentation/publications/rfap

Politix, « Les hommes d’affaires en politique », coordonné avec Jean-Louis Briquet, 21 (84), 2008a https://www.cairn.info/revue-politix-2008-4.htm

ARTICLES (PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS)

“Explorando una conversión. La Nueva Gestión Pública en la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE), entre 1970 y 1980 », Estudios Sociales del Estado – volumen 3, número 5, pp. 55 a 98, 2017c, p.55-98. http://www.estudiossocialesdelestado.org/index.php/ese/article/view/107/78

(avec Visier Claire), « Circulation internationale et fabrique européenne de l’administration publique », Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 161, no. 1, 2017d, pp. 5-18. http://www.ena.fr/Recherche-et-documentation/publications/rfap

« SIGMA : un programme international de renforcement des capacités administratives en terres européennes (1992-2012) », Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 161, no. 1, 2017e, pp. 73-88. https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-administration-publique-2017-1-page-73.htm

« La better regulation entre coordination européenne et relations triangulaires : OCDE, États membres et Union européenne », Revue française d’administration publique, vol. 158, no. 2, 2016a, pp. 561-575. https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-administration-publique-2016-2-page-561.htm

“Občanská demokratická strana a prosazení stranickosti v české demokracii devadesátých let” [The Civic Democratic Party and the Ascendance of the Professional Party Organisation in the Czech Democracy in the 1990s], Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 2011, 47 (1), p.89-114. . http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/en/issue/116-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-1-2011/2101

« De la mobilisation citoyenne à la délégation partisane. L’émergence du Parti civique démocratique (ODS) en République tchèque », Transitions, numéro spécial Les élites intermédiaires dans les partis politiques d’Europe centrale et orientale, XLVIII (1), 2008b, p.57-84. http://dev.ulb.ac.be/cevipol/dossiers_fichiers/4-hadjiisky.pdf

« The Failure of Participatory Democracy in the Czech Republic », West European Politics, 24 (3), July 2001a, p.43-64. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01402380108425452

« La démocratie par le marché. Le cas tchèque (1989-1996) », in Changer de régime, dossier coordonné par A. Collovald et B. Gaïti, Politix, (47) automne 1999, p.63-88. http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/polix_0295-2319_1999_num_12_47_1793

« République tchèque : la fin annoncée du ‘miracle tchèque’ de Vaclav Klaus ? », Revue internationale et stratégique, in Europe de l’Est, la nouvelle donne, dossier dirigé par E. Kulesza, (26) été 1997, p.75-87.

« L’image de l’« Occident » chez les migrants bulgares », Migrations société, 5 (27), 1993a, p.55-63.

« La Bulgarie et la recherche sur l’histoire du temps présent », Bulletin de l’Institut d’histoire du temps présent, 54, décembre 1993b, p.27-41.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE WORKS, INCLUDING HANDBOOKS

(avec Muriel Surdez) “L’internationalisation des problèmes publics : reconsidérer l’articulation entre organisations internationales et espaces nationaux », in Collovald Annie, Guionnet Christine, Le Bart Christian, Renou Gildas, Pour une science politique nomade. Autour des travaux d’Erik Neveu, Rennes, PUR, à paraître 2026, p. 122-137

« Political Analysis », in Radaelli C., De Francesco F., Edward Elgar Companion to the OECD, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Northampton 2023, p.50-66.

« International Organizations as complex agents in policy transfer processes », in O. Porto de Oliveira, dir., Handbook of Policy Transfer, Diffusion and Circulation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, Northampton, 2021a, p.121-154.

(avec O. Porto de Oliveira et P. Hassenteufel) « Circulação internacional e comparação transnacional de políticas públicas », in O. Porto de Oliveira, P. Hassenteufel, dirs., Sociologia Política da Ação Pública. Teorias, Abordagens e Conceitos, Escola Nacional de Administração Pública, 2021b, p.315-334.

(with David Dolowitz and Romuald Normand), “Introduction”, in Shaping Policy Agendas. The Micro-Politics of International Economic Organizations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020b, p.1-14.

(with David Dolowitz and Romuald Normand), “Conclusion”, Shaping Policy Agendas. The Micro-Politics of International Economic Organizations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020c, p.184-194.

“When Prophecy Succeeds. The Political Failure of Dissidents in the New Czech Democracy”, in Fillieule Olivier and Neveu Erik, eds., Activists Forever? Long-Term Impacts of Political Activism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019a, p.224-250.

“Le rôle des organisations internationales dans la diffusion du New Public Management”, in N. Matyjasik et M. Guenoun, dirs., En finir avec le New Public Management ?, Paris, Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, 2019b, p.29-46.  https://books.openedition.org/igpde/5798

(with Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker, eds.), “Traversing the terrain of policy transfer: Theory, methods, and overview”, in Public Policy Transfer. Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017f, p.1-26.

(with Leslie A. Pal, Christopher Walker, eds.), “Conclusion”, Public Policy Transfer. Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017g, p.271-278.

“Policy Tranfers in Europe. The European Union and Beyond”, in Normand Romuald, Derouet Jean-Louis, European politics of Education? Perspectives from Sociology, Policy Studies and Politics, Routledge, 2016b, p.31-51

« Circulation des modèles d’action publique », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, dirs., Dictionnaire des acteurs de l’Europe, Bruxelles, Editions Larcier, 2015, p.63-66
« Circulation of  Policy Models », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, eds., Dictionary of European Actors, Brussels, Larcier, 2015a, pp.48-50

« Assistance internationale », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, dirs., Dictionnaire des acteurs de l’Europe, Bruxelles, Editions Larcier, 2015b, p.32-36 ; « International Assistance », in E. Lambert Abdelgawad, H. Michel, eds., Dictionary of European Actors, Brussels, Larcier, 2015b, pp.191-194

« Vznik Obcanske demockraticke strany : pokus o sociologickou analyzu » [L’émergence du Parti civique démocratique : essai d’analyse sociologique], in A. Gjuricova, M. Kopecek (eds.), Kapitoly z dejin Ceske demokracie po roce 1989 [Chapitres de l’histoire de la démocratie tchèque après 1989], Paseka, Praha, Litomysl, 2008c, p.70-90. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00364063

« Europe et réforme de l’administration : le statut des agents de l’Etat en République tchèque », in J. Beck, F. Thedieck, The European Dimension of Administrative Culture, Nomos, Baden Baden, 2008d, p.309-328. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00364039

« Les économistes au pouvoir. De l’usage d’une expertise professionnelle dans la construction des nouvelles démocraties centre-européennes », in W. Andreff, La transition vers le marché et la démocratie, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 2007a, p. 146-172. http://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=DEC_ANDRE_2006_01_0146

« Européanisation et réforme de l’Etat. L’influence de l’Union européenne sur la réforme des administrations publiques centrales tchèques (1993-2004) », in R. Pasquier, O. Baisnée (dirs.), L’Europe telle qu’elle se fait. Européanisation et sociétés politiques nationales, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2007b, p.167-193. http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00307250/fr/

« La culture ‘civique’ en Pays tchèques. Généalogie d’une référence politique », in C. Neveu (dir.), Cultures et pratiques participatives. Perspectives comparatives. Paris, L’Harmattan, Logiques politiques, 2007c, p.331-351.

« Des leaders ‘sans parti’. Engagement résistant et désengagement dirigeant : les anciens dissidents en République tchèque », in L. Arnaud, C. Guionnet (dirs.), Les frontières du politique, 2005, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005a, p.293-323. http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00307364/fr/

« ‘Démocratiser’ un système administratif. Les paradoxes de la réforme des administrations publiques centrales en République tchèque (1989-1998) », in F. Dreyfus (dir.), L’Administration dans les processus de transition démocratique, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004, p.91-138. http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00307377/fr/

« République tchèque », in P. Perrineau, D. Reynié (dirs.), Le Dictionnaire du Vote, Presses Universitaires de France, 2001b, p.895-898.

« Pologne, Hongrie, Bulgarie : victoires et limites du ’pragmatisme’ », in G. Hermet, L. Marcou (dirs.), Des partis comme les autres ? Les anciens communistes en Europe de l’Est. Editions Complexe, coll. Espace international, 1998, p.33-75.

Other Publications

« Vaclav Havel : portrait de l’homme politique en prophète », Savoir/Agir, 19, mars 2012.

« Europeanisation and the reform of the State: The influence of the European Union in the reform of the Czech public administration (1993-2004) », Working Paper, GSPE-PRISME, 27/01/2009. http://prisme.u-strasbg.fr/workingpapers/WPHadjiisky.pdf

« Les formes de la démocratie en Europe post-communiste. Le débat tchèque », Transcontinentales, 1, 2ème semestre 2005b, p.107-124. http://www.revues.msh-paris.fr/Modele2/articlesite/resume.asp?id_pub=1416&id_perio=71

« La fin du Forum civique et la naissance du Parti civique démocratique : la construction d’une entreprise politique et le reniement du mouvement civique de 1989 » Documents de travail du CEFRES (6) mai 1996, 53 p.

« L’émigration des intellectuels bulgares : entre l’exode professionnel et le retrait du politique » L’Autre Europe, 1995.

« La Bulgarie : le problème des Turcs et la tentation de l’ailleurs » et « Portrait de l’émigrant bulgare », Panoramiques, in Est : ces immigrés qui viendraient du froid… dossier coordonné par C. Withol de Wenden et A. de Tinguy, 1994 (14), p.48-52 et p.53-63.

CEFRES Team

Ewa Tartakowsky – Research & CV

Places, Habits and Practices of Jewish Memory in Central Europe: Educational Systems, Urban Spaces, and Museums

Contact: ewa.tartakowsky@cnrs.fr

Ewa Tartakowsky is a sociologist and a research fellow at the CNRS. Her research focuses on contemporary forms of Jewish identity, the transmission and social uses of memory and history, and the processes by which the past is transformed into cultural heritage. In particular, she has studied French writers of Jewish-Maghrebi origin in the context of postcolonial France. Her work also examines the transmission of Jewish history in school and after-school settings in Poland since 1989, as well as Bukharian Jewish diasporas in the post-Soviet era. She is also interested in the epistemology of research-creation, as well as the pedagogical practices that stem from it. In this perspective, she draws on creative forms of knowledge production and presentation, notably comics and creative cartography.

During her stay at CEFRES, she plans to develop a research program focused on the sites, habits, and practices of Jewish memory in Central Europe, from a comparative perspective that examines Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Her project aims to analyze the processes by which Jewish history is transmitted in school and after-school contexts, museums, and urban spaces, in order to understand how these various mechanisms have contributed to the construction of representations of the past, collective identities, and national narratives since the political transitions of the late 1980s. Particular attention will be paid to the former Jewish quarters of Kraków, Prague, and Budapest, to the processes of heritage preservation and gentrification in these areas, as well as to the social uses of history and memory in public spaces, particularly through urban art and material culture.

CV

Publications (selection)
Personal Work

  • Les Juifs et le Maghreb. Fonctions sociales d’une littérature d’exil, Tours, Presses universitaires François Rabelais, coll. « Migrations », 2016, 330 p.

Editing of Collective Works

  • In other words: Opening research to creative practices, avec Piera Rossetto, Nanterre, Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2026.
  • Dans la fabrique du sentiment national. L’histoire à l’école en Europe depuis 1945, avec Patricia Legris, Arcidosso, Effigi, coll. « Humana Scientia. La recherche en actes », 2024, 304 p.
  • School historical knowledge in Europe: transnational circulations and debates / Savoirs scolaires et historiens en Europe : circulations et débats transnationaux, Arcidosso, Effigi, coll. « Humana Scientia. La recherche en actes », 2023, 416 p.
  • Jewish Europe Today. Between Memory and Everyday Life, avec Marcelo Dimentstein, Cracovie/Budapest/Syracuse, Austeria, 2020, 296 p.
  • Juifs d’Europe. Identités plurielles et mixité, avec Marcelo Dimentstein, Tours, Presses universitaires François Rabelais, coll. « Civilisations étrangères », 2017, 278 p.

Editing Articles in Scientific Journals

  • Creative Cartography: Transmitting Literature and Knowledge. Teaching Eastern European Jewish History, un sous-dossier sur les cartographies créatives produites à partir de la lecture de l’ouvrage de Olga Tokarczuk, Les livres de Jacob, Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, n° 27 (1), 2025, https://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/creative-cartography-transmitting-literature-and-knowledge-teaching-eastern-european-jewish-history/
  • The Materialities of Be-longings. Objects in Exile, avec Piera Rossetto, Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, n°7, 2021, https://unipub.uni-graz.at/download/pdf/8082181.
  • Production et transmission des savoirs historiques en Europe centrale et orientale, avec Valentin Behr, Passés Futurs, n°9, juin 2021, https://www.politika.io/index.php/fr/numero-revue-pf/lhistoire-a-lecole-europe-lest-jose-artigas-heros-debat.
  • Minorités en Europe : droits et dynamiques socio-politiques, avec Emmanuel Naquet, Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps, n°137-138, 2020, https://www.cairn.info/revue-materiaux-pour-l-histoire-de-notre-temps-2020-3.htm.
  • La Migration au miroir des arts et des questions d’éthique, avec Cécile Giraud, Josepha Milazzo et Betty Rouland, Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios. International journal of migration studies. RIEM, n°9(1), 2019, https://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/RIEM/article/view/3807

Articles in scientific journals

  • « Auschwitz et les formes sensibles d’enquête en temps de pandémie. Une double absence », Ethnologie française, n°3, 2025, p. 205-219.
  • « Kraków-Paris-Maghreb-Cracovie : circulations, images et usages d’une main. Une ego-histoire », Ethnologie française, 2024/1, vol. 54, p. 87-103.
  • « Récits éducatifs sur la Shoah en Pologne : producteurs, productions et transmissions », avec Valentin Behr, Passés futurs, n°9, 2021, https://www.politika.io/fr/article/recits-educatifs-shoah-pologne.
  • « L’enseignement de l’Histoire en Pologne depuis 2016. De la “décommunisation” à la centralité d’un nationalisme catholique », Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest (RECEO), 2020/1, vol. 51, n°1, p.105-134.
  • « Lieux institutionnels, territoires symboliques : Quels espaces de rencontre pour les écrivains d’origine judéo-maghrébine en France ? », Hommes et Migrations, n°1329, avril-juin 2020, p. 71-79.
  • « “Être avec les Arabes. Point final” : Parcours et œuvre de Rolland Doukhan », Archives Juives. Revue d’histoire des Juifs de France, n°53, 2020/1, p. 127-146.
  • « Deux mythes d’une coexistence judéo-musulmane au Maghreb », Littératures plurielles, n°36, 2017, p. 49-71, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/babel/4944.

Chapters in edited volumes and conference papers

  • « Pologne : Changements politiques et permanences nationales », dans Patricia Legris et Ewa Tartakowsky (dir.), Dans la fabrique du sentiment national. L’histoire à l’école en Europe depuis 1945, Arcidosso, Effigi, 2024, p. 109-127.
  • « Les Juifs, pierre de touche de l’enseignement de l’histoire nationale en Europe centrale et orientale depuis 1945 », dans Piero Colla, Bénédicte Girault et Sébastien Ledoux (dir.), Histoires nationales et narrations minoritaires, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2024, p. 259-273.
  • « Quels liens la littérature entretient-elle avec la mémoire ? », dans Sarah Gensburger et Sandrine Lefranc (dir.), La mémoire collective en question(s), Paris, PUF, 2023, p. 289-295.
  • « L’enseignement de l’histoire de la Shoah en Pologne depuis la réforme de l’Éducation de 2017 », dans Audrey Kichelewski, Judith Lyon-Caen, Jean-Charles Szurek et Annette Wieviorka, Les Polonais et la Shoah. Une nouvelle école historique, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2019, p. 259-273.
  • « Politique et religion dans le tournant autoritaire de la Pologne », avec Paul Zawadzki, dans Alain Dieckhoff et Philippe Portier (dir.), L’enjeu mondial. Religion et politique, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2017, p. 297-305.
  • « The literary work of Judeo-Maghrebi authors in postcolonial France », dans Dario Miccoli (dir.), A Literary Diaspora: Perspectives on Contemporary Sephardic and Mizrahi Literature, Londres/New York, Routledge, 2017, p. 10-30.
CEFRES Team

Zsófia Bacsadi – Research & CV

Invisible Veins of Europe: The Circulation of Blood Plasma and the Narratives of Gift and Commodity in the EU

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

Contact: Bacsadi_Zsofia@phd.ceu.edu

Zsófia Bacsadi is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in Vienna. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Invisible Veins of Europe: The Circulation of Blood Plasma and the Narratives of Gift and Commodity in the EU, contributes to CEFRES research area 1.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of medical anthropology, the anthropology of the EU and policy, and economic anthropology. In her master’s thesis she explored the interconnections between the ideas of gift and commodity in the practice of compensated plasma donation in Hungary. She continued to investigate this topic during her doctoral studies in the context of policymaking in the European Union. The main theme of her dissertation is the formulation of the discourses of gift and commodity, as well as the question of self-sufficiency and supply of blood plasma as raw material for pharmaceutical manufacturing in the EU. Having spent 1,5 years in Brussels doing fieldwork, she followed the “social life” of policies and studied through the shifting networks of policymakers and lobbyists. To understand how blood- and plasma-related policies emerge as social and moral artifacts, she combined the methods of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and discursive document analysis. In her work, she analyzes the role diverse epistemic communities (consisting of patient advocates, pharmaceutical representatives, EU bureaucrats, and medical experts) play in shaping policies through lobbying and advocacy. Their conflicting and converging lobbying efforts generate a surge in specialized knowledge about medicine, economy, as well as morality that feeds the European policymaking machine. Her research examines the way these experts form alliances and negotiate the role of the public sector and the industry through moralized arguments about care, the role (and boundaries) of the market, and the circulation of bodily materials within the EU which is (re)imagined as an economic, (bio)political, and moral community.

Furthermore, she is interested in film and visual studies, autobiographical and trauma narratives in graphic novels and memory studies.

CV

Education

  • 2021 – ongoing: Central European University (Vienna)

PhD student in Sociology and Social Anthropology

  • 2019 – 2021: Central European University (Budapest and Vienna)

MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology

  • 2014-2016: Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)

Master of Arts in Media and Communication

  • 2011-2014: Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)

Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication (minor in Film Theory and History)

Teaching experience

  • 2025 January – 2025 April: Central European University

Teaching Assistant in the mandatory course titled Ethnographic Methods

  • 2024 September – 2024 December: Teaching Assistant in the course titled Key Issues in Anthropology
  • 2015/2016: Lecturer of the course ‘Változó identitásképek az amerikai képregényben’

[Changing Identities in American Comics] at the Department of Media and

Communication (Eötvös Loránd University)

Recent academic activities

  • June 2026: “Caught up in the Web – Agonsitic Epistemic Communit(ies) around Policymaking about Plasma Collection in the European Union” paper presented at the annual Council of European Studies conference, Dublin
  • June 2026: „Patient, Consumer, Advocate: Forging Alliances and Expertise among Plasma Protein Using Patients in the European Union” paper presented at the Democracy as Health workshop. Geneva Graduate Institute
  • November 2025: „Sharing Body, Sharing Knowledge – Getting Woven into the Network of Experts around Plasma Collection and Policymaking in the EU” guest lecture given at KU Leuven, Belgium
  • July 2025: „The Invisible, Caring Hand of the Market – Discourses of Care, Efficiency, and Morality among Pro-Market Advocates in the EU Plasma Field” paper presented at annual Economy and Society Summer School – Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
  • 2024 July: “Invisible Veins of Europe: Fostering Markets and Taking Care in the European Union through Policymaking around Plasma Donation” paper presented at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference, University of Barcelona
  • 2024 June: “Paid Plasmapheresis from a Donor Point of View” paper presented at the annual congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, Barcelona
  • 2022 June: Extraction: Multiple Frontiers of Power and Resistance – co-organizer, Central European University, Vienna, Austria.
CEFRES Team

Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė – Research & CV

Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associated researcher at CEDEJ in Cairo. Trained as sociologist (EHESS, 2015), her research focuses on marginal literary and intellectual communities in Egypt, examined through the study of the practices and sites of sociability that sustain them. In her previous project, she examined the Egyptian man of letters-turned Islamic activist Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) to understand how the Arab intellectual canon has been constructed in opposition to literary cultures cast as unmodern on account of their religious character. Using archival research, the project aimed to uncover his networks and sites of intellectual sociability in interwar Egypt, revealing how they shifted over the course of his career and ultimately lead to his exclusion from Egypt‘s official intellectual history. This work culminated in the publication of Sayyid Qutb: An Intellectual Biography (Syracuse University Press, 2021).

In her current research, she maintains her interest in marginal literary cultures beyond established circuits of recognition by focusing on amateur literary communities in Cairo constituted within the associative world of literary clubs. Through the site of a literary club, she examines how writing and publishing fiction, as well as attending literary clubs, open up new life possibilities for middle-aged Egyptians living under the post-revolutionary regime. Provisionally titled Enchanted Lives: Midlife and Literary Self-Making in Cairo, this research will be published as a monograph by Syracuse University Press. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Critique, the Journal of Middle East Women‘s Studies, Middle East – Topics & Arguments, L‘Année du Maghreb, Critique Internationale, and Egypte, Soudan, Mondes Arabes (ESMA). She has also published chapters in edited volumes.

During the next two years (2026-2028), she will be working with Hélène Martinelli (ENS Lyon) and Ali Al-Moussaoui (Charles University) within the Tandem Program AV ČR-CNRS on the project Paper Bonds: Bookmaking for Kin, Friends and the Self in Contemporary Europe and the Middle East.

Within this project, she will explore the self-publishing practices of marginalized literary communities in Cairo.

CV

Employment:

· 2020 – present: Research Fellow, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

· 2019 – 2022: Lecturer, Charles University, Department of Middle Eastern Studies.

· 2015 – 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences.

· 2015 – 2016: Lecturer, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University

· 2015 – 2016: Lecturer, Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus University.

Education and Academic Qualifications

· 2015: Ph.D, sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

· 2008: M. A, sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

· 2006: B. A, Arabic Language and Literature, Sorbonne IV-Paris.

· 2004: B. A. Arabic Studies, Oriental Institute, Vilnius University.

Awards and Grants

· 2025 – 2007: 2 year grant for a project Paper Bonds: Bookmaking for Friends, Kin, and the Self in Europe and the Middle East (2026-2028), TANDEM by CNRS, Czech Academy of Sciences, and CEFRES (with Hélène Martinelli).

· 2022 – 2025: 3 years grant for a project Pathways of Literary Professionalization in Twenty-First Century Egypt (2023-2025), GAČR (The Czech Science Foundation).

· 2022 – The Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the outstanding scientific results for the monograph Sayyid Qutb, an Intellectual Biography (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021)

· 2021-2023 – Mobility Grant Barrande French-Czech Mobility Grant. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. Funding for mobility and scientific exchange between the Oriental Institute (Prague), IREMAM (Aix-en-Province), and Paris-8 Vincennes (Paris)

· 2016, 2019, 2021 – Awarded grants Strategy AV21 -Czech Academy of Sciences to organize cultural events and conferences in Prague.

· 2011-2013: Ph.D. scholarship, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CNRS, hosted by

CEDEJ (Cairo).

Selected List of Publications (from 2018)

Monographs:

· Sayyid Qutb. An Intellectual Biography (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2021).

Edited Journal Issues:

· “Ruins of the Welfare State. Material Legacies of a Socialist Middle East”, Egypte, Soudan, Mondes Arabes, CEDEJ, nr. 25, 2025 (with Carl Rommel, Uppsala University)

Peer-reviewed Articles (selection)

· 2025. “The High Art Unites Us’. Staging Unity through Honoring in Cairo’s Literary Clubs, Middle East Critique, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2025.2488081

· 2024. “Creating Spaces for Culture: Self-Efforts and the Production of Marginality in Cairo’s Cultural Palaces,” ESMA, Issue 25, 202, 163-182.

· 2024. « Introduction: Ruins of the Welfare State. Material Legacies of a Socialist Middle East », ESMA, n° 25, 163-182 (with Carl Rommel).

· 2023. “Women Writing in Cairo: Midlife, Self-Care, and the Informal World of Literature”, Journal of Middle East Women Studies, November, Vol. 20, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-10815483

· 2020. “Sociabilités et ruptures biographiques. Retour sur la conversion islamiste de Sayyid Qutb», Critique Internationale, no. 88 (2020/3), 131-150. https://doi.org/10.3917/crii.088.0131

· 2018. “Sayyid Qutb and the Crisis of Culture in Late 1940s Egypt”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 50 (1), 85-101.

Book Chapters:

· 2021 “When a Coterie Becomes a Generation. Intellectual Sociability and the Narrative of Generational Change in Sayyid Qutb’s Egypt”, in Yasmine Berriane et al (eds.) Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation. How to Make Sense of Change (Palgrave Macmillan).

Selected Conference Presentations (from 2022)

· 2025 – “The Code of Karam. How Literature Shapes Post-Revolutionary Spaces in Cairo?” Middle East Centre, St. Anthony’s, Oxford University, December 4.

· 2025 – « Produire de “vrais livres”: l’essor de l’autoédition et la valeur de l’objet-livre en Egypte » in the conference « Le livre fait par tous : actualités et perspectives de la recherche sur l’autoédition », Bibliothèque Nationale de France-Richelieu, Paris, November 28.

· 2025 – “Working for Pleasure, not Money: Cairo’s Associative Literary Scene and its Alternative Value System”, 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, 11 July.

· 2025 – “In the Interstices of a Changing City: Literary Place-Making Practices in Cairo”, 10th European Conference of African Studies, Prague, 27 June.

· 2025 – “Between Gatekeeping and Self-Making. The Book in Cairo’s Economy of Self-Publishing”, international conference Entrer en Littérature/Entering Litterature ENS Lyon, 27-29 March.

· 2025. “In the Cracks of the Welfare State. Midlife and Literary Self-Reinvention in Egypt”, CEDEJ, February 11, Cairo.

· 2023. “Writers, Not Civil Servants. Running Culture Palaces in Cairo”, MESA, Montreal, Canada, November 2.

· 2023. “Cultural Life in the Cracks of the Projects. The Development of Culture Palaces under Nasser and al-Sisi.” The BRISMES Conference, Exeter, UK, 3-5 July

· 2022. “Out of Place. Class Aspirations and Mobilities Among Egyptian Fiction Writers”. Congress SeSaMO, Naples, Italy, 23 June.

· 2022. “The Currency of Literature. Writers and the Practice of Takrim in Cairo’s Literary Clubs”, EGYCLASS Conference, CEDEJ, Cairo, November 5.

· 2022 – “L’Etat se retire: la fabrication du “soi littéraire” au sein des Palais de la culture au Caire”, Insaniyyat Congress, Tunis, Tunisia, September 22.

Academic Service:

· 2020-Present. Member of the Administrative and Editorial Board of Egypte, Soudan, Mondes Arabes, published by CEDEJ, Cairo.

· 2020 – Present: Co-editor of the “Sources and Documents” in Egypte, Soudan, Mondes Arabes.

· 2025-2028: Member of the Scientific Committee of BULAC (La Bibliothèque des Langues et Civilisations), Paris.

CEFRES Team, Non classé

Sabina Vassileva – Research & CV

“Gender of metabolism: enacting sexed bodies at the intersection of metabolic and sex hormones”

Research Area 2 – Norms and Transgressions

Contact: sabina.vassileva@soc.cas.cz

Sabina Vassileva is a doctoral candidate at Charles University, Prague. Her PhD dissertation, entitled Gender of metabolism: enacting sexed bodies at the intersection of metabolic and sex hormones contributes to CEFRES research area 2.

My dissertation project draws on the growing recognition that the increasing prevalence of metabolic conditions such as diabetes and obesity is shaped by a complex interplay of biosocial factors. These include (epi)genetics, contemporary food environments saturated with ultra-processed foods, socioeconomic precarity, psychosocial distress, and as I argue gender norms, roles, and relations, including gendered reproductive labor. I am particularly interested in how bodies undergoing hormonal fluctuations face heightened risks of metabolic complications due to the intra-actions between declining estrogen and testosterone levels, glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, insulin sensitivity, microbiome shifts, and gendered norms of care. These dynamics remain underexplored, as biomedical research has historically privileged stabilized (male) bodies in clinical trials and research design.

In my dissertation, I explore how biosocial gendered relations shape metabolic health and diagnoses such as diabetes and obesity. I examine how gender is enacted in metabolic health along three axes: self-care practices, clinical care, and biomedical research. My focus is on the hormonal intra-actions between metabolic and sex steroid hormones. I draw on a Baradian material-semiotic framework and build on critical feminist anthropology of hormones, which has foregrounded how hormones not only carry gendered imaginaries but also function as technoscientific tools of sex regulation and bodily governance. While sex hormones such as estrogen and testosterone are often studied in isolation, their intra-actions with metabolic hormones like insulin or glucagon-like peptides remain largely sidelined in sociological research. To address this gap my work combines feminist anthropology of hormones with the notion of postindustrial metabolism that enables me to trace the mutual constitutions of gender and metabolism.

Methodologically, my PhD adopts a mixed-methods approach. I combine qualitative ethnography (semi-structured interviews and participant observation)—exploring embodied experiences and everyday practices of “doing metabolism” and “doing gender”—with critical discourse analysis of biomedical research on metabolism. My ethnographic partners include people with diabetes or obesity who undergo synthetic hormonal therapies: individuals navigating menopause, andropause, or gender-affirming hormone treatments. These bodily transitions are critical sites where gendered and metabolic regulation is negotiated. Through this research, I investigate how gendered metabolic norms are not only discursively repeated but also materially metabolized—becoming embedded in the design of metabolic technologies and medications used in care. For this purpose I use visual ethnography tools like hormonal mapping.

By tracing how gender is materially metabolized in bodies, care practices, and biomedical knowledge, my project offers a feminist rethinking of metabolism as a deeply gendered and politically regulated process. By focusing on hormonal intra-actions, the project foregrounds fluid and dynamic bodily processes and gives voice to bodies that are marginalized in biomedical research on metabolism and whose mutual shaping of sexed embodiments and living in gendered social relations is not sufficiently considered.

CV

Education

  • from 2024 till present: PhD student, Sociology, Prague.
  • 2021-2024: MA, Anthropology, Charles University, Prague
  • 2017-2021: BA, Philosophy, Charles University, Prague.

Participation in research projects

  • Since 2024: PhD-participant Technocultures of extended metabolism, [GA24-12497S], project based at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
  • Since 2025: Junior researcher, Strategie AV21: Umělá inteligence pro vědu a společnost, Využití AI při managementu diabetu 1. typu, project based at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
  • Since 2025: Junior researcher, Platform workers on the czech labour market, project based at the Czech Academy of Sciences

Recent academic activities (selected)

  • June 2025: “Looped in within algorithms: A biosocial case study of a diabetic living with artificial pancreas,” paper presented at STS nordic conference, Stockholm, Sweden
  • June 2025: “Unwriting design injustice: hormonal-algorithmic tinkering
  • with open-source diabetes care technology,” paper presented at SIEF conference, Aberdeen, UK
  • May, 2025: “Attending to risky attachments: a study of a DIY loop for diabetes care, paper presented at an academic workshop “STS concepts for the life as aftermath”, Munich, Germany
  • March, 2025: “Queer metabolism: de/stabilizations of sex and gender binaries in biomedical research on gender affirming care and metabolism”, paper presented at STS HUB conference, Berlin, Germany
  • November, 2024: “Opening the black box of algorithms,” invited lecture within undergraduate course “Společnost, technologie, tělenost,” Faculty of humanities, Charles University, Prague
  • July, 2024: “Digital interfaces, real inequalities: exploring algorhitmic opacity in the platformised Czech delivery sector,” paper presented at EASA conference, Barcelona, Spain.
  • July, 2024: “Chrononormativita z perspektivy genderu a politiky těla, “ invited lecture at Woods sympozium “Time at the tips of conifers”, Orlické mountains, Czech republic
  • June, 2024: “More than Numbers: Health, Digitalization, and Bioethnography,” paper presented at the 15th MAYS Annual Meeting, Bologna, Italy.

Recent publications

  • Borisova V., Vassileva S. 2025. „Caring for more-than-human metabolic health: Self-tracking technologies as tools of calculation and communication in obesity and type 1 diabetes care“. Archivio antropologico mediterraneo. 27 (1). http://journals.openedition.org/aam/10112

Canovas O, Conan L, Gille P, Martinez A, Miranda CK, Palmea K, Roubi T, Suarez M, Vassileva S & Aline Wiame, 2024. « La nature en guerre contre la vie. Une expérimentation d’écriture cyborg entre Guattari et Haraway », Sextant, 41. http://journals.openedition.org/sextant/11409