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Human Agency and Apocalyptic Violence

Second session of 2018 common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by

Martin Pjecha (CEFRES – CEU)
Human Agency and Apocalyptic Violence

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 08.03.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text:

  • Matthias Riedl, “Terrorism as ‘Apocalyptic Violence’ On the Meaning, and Validity of a New Analytical Category”, Social Imaginaries 3.2 (2017), pp. 77-107.

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Framing the ‘Crisis’: Between Vernacular Conflicts and Expert Disputes

First session of Summer semester common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by

Mihai-Dan Cirjan (CEFRES – CEU)
Framing the ‘Crisis’: Between Vernacular Conflicts and Expert Disputes

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 22.02.2018 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text :
Guyer, Jane I. “Terms of Debate versus Words in Circulation: Some Rhetorics of the Crisis.” in Carrier, James G. (ed.),  A Handbook of Economic Anthropology, Second Edition. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 612-626.

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Illustration: Pandemonium by George Grosz, 1914

On the Use and Abuse of the concept of World Literature

Fifth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by

Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES – FF UK)
On the Use and Abuse of the concept of World Literature

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: Thursday 14.12.2017 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English
Text :

  • Franco Moretti: “Conjecture on World Literature”, New Left Review, Jan. 2000, p. 54-68.

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The Concept of Cultural Transfer

Fourth session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK led by
Adéla Klinerová (CEFRES & FF UK-EPHE)
The Concept of Cultural Transfer

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: Thursday 7.12.2017 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text:

  • Štefanová Dana: Cultural Transfer, Regional History and Historical Comparison as Research Concepts. Comparing Research Between Western and Eastern Europe, in: Čapská Veronika et al.: Processes of Cultural Exchange in Central Europe, 1200-1800, Opava 2014.

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New approach to the concept of Translation and the notion of Literary Inscription. From linguistics to the Actor-Network Theory.

Third session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK, led by
Julien Wacquez (CEFRES – EHESS):
New approach to the concept of Translation and the notion of Literary Inscription. From linguistics to the Actor-Network Theory.

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: 23.11.2017 from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Texts:
— Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Sage Publication, 1979), p. 43-90.

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Critical Actor and Political Critique

Second session of the common epistemological seminar of CEFRES and IMS FSV UK,

Yuliya Moskvina (FSV UK & CEFRES)
Critical Actor and Political Critique

Where: CEFRES library – Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1 (to be confirmed)
When: from 3:30 pm to 5 pm
Language: English

Text:

  • Paul Blokker: European Crisis and Political Critique of Capitalism. in: European Journal of Social Theory, 17 (3) 2014, p. 258-274.

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