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Reflections on the International Conference  ‘Samuel Beckett in Central Europe: Staging and Reception Beyond Censorship’

Review written by Astrid Greve Kristensen (PhD student, CEFRES)

This two-day international conference was held in Prague on April 20-21st, first at the CEFRES library, then at the Faculty of Letters, and brought together Beckett scholars of various disciplines and stages of research; theatre scholars, stage directors, actors, writers and performers, as well as other participants with different approaches to the world of theatre in the 20th and 21st centuries. The conference consisted of an opening speech, an introductory roundtable discussion, a keynote speech and a total of three panels. Instead of compiling a list commenting on each intervention, this review teases out some of the essential aspects that this conference has brought to Beckett scholarship. First and foremost, one feels compelled to congratulate the two organisers, Alice Clabaut and Charles Guillorit on a successful and well-executed conference. Based on the observations of this reviewer as well as testimonies from the many participants, the level of satisfaction among those present (and online) can only be said to have been high. Continuer la lecture de Reflections on the International Conference  ‘Samuel Beckett in Central Europe: Staging and Reception Beyond Censorship’ →

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Les défis de l’accueil des réfugiés de la guerre en Ukraine en Europe centrale – Les webinaires du CEFRES pour l’Ukraine #1

(English version coming soon)

Un compte rendu par Paul-Henri Perrain et Luis-Ollivier Boisdron, stagiaires au CEFRES

Le CEFRES a organisé le 22 mars 2022 le premier « Webinaire du CEFRES pour l’Ukraine » en partenariat avec le Groupement de recherche (GDR) du CNRS « Connaissance de l’Europe médiane ».  

Coordonné par Jérôme Heurtaux (directeur du CEFRES), Michèle Baussant (CNRS-CEFRES) et Ronan Hervouet (CEFRES), il avait pour thématique les enjeux de l’accueil des réfugiés de la guerre d’Ukraine en Europe centrale. Le CEFRES, dont l’aire de recherche comprend plusieurs pays frontaliers de l’Ukraine (Slovaquie, Hongrie, Pologne), propose ce séminaire afin d’alimenter la réflexion scientifique sur ce conflit et sur ses effets en Europe centrale.    Continuer la lecture de Les défis de l’accueil des réfugiés de la guerre en Ukraine en Europe centrale – Les webinaires du CEFRES pour l’Ukraine #1 →

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Security Issues in Post-Brexit Europe: Views from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Poland

Report of the conference “Security Issues in Post-Brexit Europe: Views from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Poland” organized by the Center for French Studies at the University of Warsaw and the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), June 18, 2021.

By Pierre Aymard, intern at CEFRES

This conference moderated by Marek Madej, political scientist and assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, dealing with the Security Issues in Post-Brexit Europe, gathered different speakers such as Monika Brusenbauch-Meislova, assistant professor at the Masaryk University, specialized in Czech foreign Policy and Brexit, Delphine Deschaux-Dutard, University lecturer at the University of Grenoble–Alpes and specialist on European and transatlantic security issues; and Amélie Zima researcher at the Center for French Studies at the University of Warsaw, expert on NATO and defense issues. This conference aimed to put forward the different perceptions of four European member states, namely the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Poland, towards the post-Brexit issue. Therefore, the approach questions the idea that Brexit represents a turning point for the defense strategy in Europe.

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Central Europe facing risks: reinventing solidarity?

Report of the round-table discussion
“Central Europe facing risks: reinventing solidarity?”
Nuit des Idées 2021, CEFRES, IFP,  January 28, 2021

by Jeanne Besse-Corfa, student at l’ESSEC, intern at CEFRES

On January 28, 2021, CEFRES, in collaboration with the French institute in Prague, held a conference in the presence of the French ambassador to the Czech Republic, Alexis Dutertre, at the occasion of the annual event called Nuit des Idées 2021. This year, the theme was “Close”. The subject of the debate, “Central Europe facing risks: reinventing solidarity?” brought together Thomas Serrier, historian, professor at the University of Lille, co-author (with Etienne François) of Europa. Notre histoire, published by Editions des Arènes in 2017, Michał Kozłowski, philosopher, associate professor at the University of Warsaw, contributor to the Polish edition of the French magazine Le Monde diplomatique and Saša Uhlová, freelance journalist based in Prague. This conference, moderated by Jérôme Heurtaux, director of CEFRES, aimed to identify the challenges facing European countries, particularly in Central Europe, and to think together about ways of confronting and overcoming them by reflecting on renewed, ambitious and inclusive forms of solidarity. In fact, these are multiple: global warming, migratory pressure due to war, poverty and environmental changes, resurgence of nationalism, terrorist phenomenon. While some of them are long-term, others are striking by their novelty: this is the case of the current pandemic and its social, economic and psychological effects. The countries of Europe have always been confronted with crises, but today, for the first time since 1945, there is a sense of accumulation and entanglement.

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Local Contexts / International Networks: Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe

Kassak Museum 17-19.9.2015

Local Contexts / International Networks: Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910–1935) – International conference in the Kassák Museum, Budapest (17–19 September 2015)

The Kassák Museum is the only Hungarian museum devoted entirely to the avant-garde. It aims to become an internationally recognized research institute for East-Central European avant-garde art. In 2011, the Museum launched a programme centred around the presentation of archives and private collections, contemporary reflections on the avant-garde, and a reconsideration of Kassák’s oeuvre. Continuer la lecture de Local Contexts / International Networks: Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe →