CEFRES Team of Researchers 2018-2019

Aníbal Arregui

Contact: anibal.arregui(at)cefres.cz

is presently researcher at the University of Barcelona, Department of Social Anthropology, and at the University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and associate researcher at CEFRES. In 2018, Aníbal Arregui was post-doctorant at CEFRES financed by Charles University. His research project, entitled Animating the Wild Pig: Bows and Arrows in European Ecopolitics, is developed within the TANDEM research program “Bewildering Boar” and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Daniel Baric

Daniel Baric studied History and completed German, Slavic and Hungarian studies in Paris, Berlin and Budapest. A former associate professor at the Department of German studies of Tours University, he is currently working at the Department of Slavic studies of Sorbonne University and is since January 2019 associated to CEFRES.
His researches focus on cultural transfers and interculturality in Central Europe, especially within the Habsburg Empire and contributes to research areas 1 and 3.

Ludĕk Brož

Contact: broz(at)eu.cas.cz

is from February 2018 a part-time senior researcher at CEFRES within the TANDEM program. He works with Virginie Vaté on the TANDEM project “Bewildering Boar” as its PI.

Giovanna Capponi

Contact: giovanna.capponi(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2019 until December 2019 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES benefitting from the support of the Charles University in Prague. Her research project, entitled Perceptions and politics of wild boar management in Central Italy, is developed within the TANDEM research program “Bewildering Boar” and contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Paul G. Keil

Contact: paul.keil(at)cefres.cz

is from January 2019 a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES and member of the TANDEM program “Bewildering Boar“. His research focuses on human and feral pig relations in Australia.

Chiara Mengozzi

Contact: chiara.mengozzi(at)cefres.cz

is after two years of post-doc an associate researcher at CEFRES from January 2018. She contributes to CEFRES’s research area 2.

Thomas C. Mercier

Contact: thomas.mercier(at)cefres.cz

has been since January 2018 a post-doctoral researcher at CEFRES and since March 2018 at the Department of German and French Philosophy of Charles University. His research, entitled Derrida’s Europes: Deconstruction, Marxism, Democracy, is developed within the research program on “Archives and Interculturality” and contributes to  research area 1.

Kannan Muthukrishnan

is from March 2018 an associate researcher at CEFRES within the “Archives and Interculturality” research program. He is a permanent researcher of the Pondicherry French Institute, India.

Fedora Parkmann

Contact: fedoraparkmann(at)aol.com

is from January 2019 a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate researcher at CEFRES. Her research project, entitled « A Transnational Perspective on Czech Social Photography. A Case Study of Czech International Exhibitions from 1933 to 1934 between Germany, France and the USSR » contributes to CEFRES’s research area 1.

Marianna Szczygielska

Contact: szczygielska(at)cefres.cz

is since 2018 an associate researcher at CEFRES within the TANDEM research project “Bewildering Boar“. She is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III Artifacts, Knowledge, Action. Her research project is entitled Wild Pigs and Proud Elephants: Engendering Wildlife in Central Eastern Europe.

Virginie Vaté

Contact: Virginie.VATE(at)cnrs.fr

is a CNRS associate researcher at CEFRES  from February 2018 within the TANDEM research project “Bewildering Boar: Changing Cosmopolitics of the Hunt in Europe and Beyond” with Ludĕk Brož.

Benedetta Zaccarello

Contact: benedetta.zaccarello(at)cefres.cz

is a CEFRES senior researcher from January 2017. She works on “Hybridations of Paradigms and Circulation of Traditions in the Writing of Contemporary Philosophy” looking through the manuscript archives of such philosophers as Jan Patočka and Aurobindo Ghose. Her research is embedded in CEFRES research area 1.