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Categories of Identification and Representation of Self

Second session of IMS / CEFRES epistemological seminar of this semester led by

Florence Vychytil-Baudoux (EHESS / CEFRES)
Categories of Identification and Representation of Self

Where: CEFRES Library – Na Florenci 3, Prague 1
When: Wednesday 24 October 2018 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Language: English

Texts:

  • Brubaker Rogers, Frederic Cooper: „Beyond Identity“, Theory and Society, 29 (2000): 1-47.
  • Traduction française: Brubaker Rogers, „Au-delà de ‘l’identité’“, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 139 (2001-4): 66-85.

Porcine Futures 1: Re-negotiating “Wilderness” in More-than-human Worlds

Workshop

Organized by the team of Bewildering Boar project at CEFRES – Aníbal Arregui, Luděk Brož, Marianna Szczygielska and Virginie Vaté together with Erica von Essen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) kindly supported by the Swedish Hunting Association through the grant “Challenges Facing Swedish Hunting Ethics in Post-Modernity”.
When: 16-17 October 2018
Where: Prague, AV ČR, Národní 18, Prague 1
Language: English

See the call for paper here.

Programme

TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2018

(joint programme with Anthropology of Hunting & Conservation Network)

9.00 – 9.10 Welcome address (T. Petrasova, J. Woitsch)

9.10 – 9.20 Introduction (A. Arregui, L. Broz, M. Szczygielska, V. Vaté & E. von Essen) 

9.20 – 10.35 Session 1 (chair: E. von Essen)

9.20 – 9.45  Engaging with Hunting: Mosaic Pieces of Larger Pictures
Garry Marvin (University of Roehampton, London)

9.45 – 10.10 Hunters and Wild Boars: the (inter)corporeality of a relationship
Thorsten Gieser (University of Koblenz-Landau)

10.10 – 10.35 Wild boar hunting in the French Alps: between “objectivation” and “subjectivation” of animals
Coralie Mounet (University of Grenoble)

Coffee break

10.55 – 12.35 Session 2 (chair: A. Arregui)

10.55 – 11.20 “Ça c’est pas d’la chasse ! – That’s not hunting!” Perspectives on wild boar hunting in Southern Champagne and Northern Burgundy
Virginie Vaté (CNRS, CEFRES)

11.20 – 11.45 Wild boar hunting and population control in France. An analysis of public policies and their consequences for the relationship between hunters and wildlife
Alain Gigounoux  (Departmental Federation of hunters of Lot and Garonne)

11.45 – 12.10 Transgressing the ‘wild’:  duck trapping machines and wild boar spaces in the Netherlands
Eugenie van Heijgen (Wageningen University)

12.10 – 12.35 Hunting of wild boar in Uruguay: global discourses and local conflicts
Juan Martin Dabezies (Universidad de la Républica, Montevido)

Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Session 3 (chair: P. Du Plessis)

13.45 – 14.10 How Wild Boar Hunting is Becoming a Battleground
Erica von Essen (Swedish Biodiversity Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala

14.10 – 14.35 Animal Welfare Evaluation of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Trapping
Åsa Fahlman (Johan Lindsjö, Therese Arvén Norling, Odd Höglund, Petter Kjellander, Erik O. Ågren, Mats Stridsberg, and Ulrika A. Bergvall

14.35 – 15.00 Adapting Hunting and its Conservation
KAVBH Avi (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent)

Coffee break

15.30 – 17.00 Discussion 1 (chair: L. Broz)

(coffee available, stretching pauses will be made ad hoc)

19.30 The evening programme

WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2018

9.15 – 10.45 Session 4 (chair: M. Szczygielska)

9.15 – 9.40 Climatic effects on wild boar population dynamics
Sebastian G. Vetter (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna), Thomas Ruf, Claudia Bieber, Walter Arnold

9.40 – 10.05 Editorial Boar. Animal Amendements on Barcelona Urban Relationality
Anibal G. Arregui (CEFRES-Charles University)

10.05 – 10.30 Urban Wild Boar Conflict in Barcelona
López-Olvera Jorge R. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animal), Castillo-Contreras Raquel, Mentaberre Gregorio, González-Crespo Carlos, Conejero Carles, Fernández-Aguilar Xavier, Colom-Cadena Andreu, Lavín Santiago

Coffee break

10.50 – 12.30 Session 5 (chair: KAVBH Avi)  

10.50 – 11.15 A Tale of Two Boars: Ungulate Management in Italy and Germany
Michael Gibbert (University of Lugano), Stefano Giacomelli, Roberto Viganò

11.15 – 11.40 Mess, Risk and Enchantment: disturbing place with reintroduced wild boar
Kieran O’Mahony (Cardiff University)

11.40 – 12.05 Boar(der) Control. Governing Mobile Wild Boars in the European Border Regime
Larissa Fleischmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

12.05 – 12.30 Fences of “Self-Devouring Growth”: Infrastructures of Containment and their Unintended Effects
Pierre Du Plessis (Aarhus University)

Lunch – Lunchtime address (J. Heurtaux) 

14.00 – 15.15 Session 6 (chair: L. Fleischmann) 

14.00 – 14.25 Wild Thing: Lessons from Wild Boars Featured in Polish and Czechoslovak Cinema
Marianna Szczygielska (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)

14.25 – 14.50 Of past and present pig slaughters: changing consumption trajectories and reconfiguring the future in a Romanian mountainous commune
Teodora Goea (University of Manchester)

14.50 – 15.15 Facing the Pig Multiple: Knowledge Drift Towards Porcine Futures
Ludek Broz (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, CEFRES)

Coffee break

15.45 – 18.00 Discussion 2 (chair: V. Vaté)

(coffee available, stretching pauses will be made ad hoc)

19.00 Dinner

Stereotypical Representations of Roma and Jews in Photographs

International Workshop

When: 15 October 2018
Where: French Institute in Prague (Štěpánská 35, Prague 1)
Organizers: Prague Forum for Romani Histories (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences), Seminar of Romani Studies (Faculty of Arts, Charles University), CEFRES and French Institute in Prague
Language: English (simultaneous translation into Czech will be available)

PROGRAMME

16:30-18:00
HISTORICAL SURVEY
Ilsen About (National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris and member of the Centre Georg Simmel, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Counter-Image and Self-Image
Roma and Sinti in the History of the Photographic Medium

How Roma and Sinti have been represented through the lens of photography interrogates the making of stereotypical iconographies and the functions of such iconography in political processes of stigmatisation, exclusion or repression. It also questions the ambivalence of negotiated and self-constructed images, the professionalization of modelling and of a specialised production of specific photographic motives. Behind the screen made by objectified bodies and faces, individuals and social groups have also used and contributed to make other types of photographic images: some are testifying of social life and territorial implementation, other have played significant roles in emancipation strategies, acting as major shifts in political visibility.

Karolina Szymaniak (Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wroclaw, and research fellow at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw)
In and Out of the Shtetl
Photography and (De)Constructions  of the Eastern European Jewish Difference

In both Jewish and non-Jewish discourses and visual practices, the shtetl came to epitomize the Eastern European Jewish culture, constructed as radically different from the neighboring cultures. In these constructions, photography played a crucial role. The presentation will look at the history of photographing Jews in Eastern Europe and Jews photographing back, both reproducing and reconstructing stereotypical images. It will discuss different modalities and uses of photography, and their political ramifications. Finally, it will briefly point out to the meanings and uses of the pre-Holocaust photography both in the post-Holocaust era and in the late 20th-century context of the so-called Jewish revival in Eastern Europe.

18:00-18:30
Break with refreshments

18:30-20:00
CURRENT REPRESENTATIONS
Sabin Badžo (Photographer and Artist)
Irene Stehli (Photographer and Artist) – TBC
Comments of Ilsen About and Karolina Szymaniak

CEFRES Epistemological Seminar

The first introductive session will be hosted by Jérôme Heurtaux (CEFRES’ director), Chiara Mengozzi (FF UK, associate researcher at CEFRES) and Mitchell Young (IMS FSV UK).

Jerôme Heurtaux and Mitchell Young will introduce the seminar and present general remarks about concepts and their uses in humanities and social sciences.

Chiara Mengozzi will review the achievement of the epistemological seminar so far, propose some ideas for the present academic year and briefly introduce the question of “migration” of concepts and theories from one discipline or context to another.

To introduce this session, we shall base our discussion on the following texts:

  • John Gerring, “What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences”, Polity 31-3, 1999, p. 357-393.
  • Bastien BOSA, „Des concepts et des faits. La double contradiction des sciences sociales“, Labyrinthe 37 2011-2, p. 121-147.

To get the texts, please write to Claire Madl (claire[at]cefres.cz)

During this session, the program of the winter semester will be set up.

Minority Perspective and the Trouble with Liberal Discourses. Thinking History of Jewish/Yiddish Culture in Polish Context

A lecture by Karolina Szymaniak (Wroclaw University) in the frame of the seminar on Modern Jewish History of the Institute of Contemporary History (AV ČR) and CEFRES in partnership with the Masaryk Institute (AV ČR).

Where: CEFRES library, Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Prague 1
When: from 5:30 pm to 7 pm
Language: English

Abstract

When in 1988 poet Marcin Świetlicki formulated in the now famous poem his sharp criticism of the rhetorics of cultural opposition and its possession by history, he wrote: „Instead of saying: I have a toothache, I’m/ hungry, I’m lonely (…)/ they say quietly: Wanda/ Wasilewska, Cyprian Kamil Norwid,/ Józef Piłsudski, the Ukraine, Lithuania/ Thomas Mann, the Bible, and at the end a little something/ in Yiddish” (trans. W. Martin). As Eugenia Prokop-Janiec has shown, in the 1980s Yiddish came to be treated as a part of the code of independent culture, and investment with it became a form of resistance. But what was this undefined „little something” and what tradition was underlying its presence in the Polish discourse? What meaning and content was it endowed with? How does this tradition bear on contemporary representations of the Jewish Polish past and the way we write the history of culture in Poland?

The talk is a discussion of existing and possible approaches to the study of Yiddish Polish cultural contacts in the 20th century, their limits, and ramifications. It is a working presentation of an on-going project. By turning to the history of Yiddish Polish cultural relations and their discourse, and interpreting them through a different lens of cultural studies, the study also seeks to think other ways of conceptualizing history of culture in Poland. An approach that includes the minority perspectives and respects their independence, and create a space where the „little something” turns into a complex polyphonic phenomenon in its own rights.

Concluding seminar 2017/2018

Program

9:30 Clara Royer: Introduction

10:00 Martin Pjecha: The Táborites in Christian apocalypticism

10:35 Adéla Klinerová: Reception of French Early Modern Architecture within 19th-Century Historicism in the Czech Lands and Central Europe

11:05 Break

11:20 Dan Cîrjan: Regulating Citizenship through Debt in 1920s Romania

12:05 Florence Vychytil-Baudoux: Studying Polonia from a transnational perspective: reconciling unity and diversity

12:40 Lunch break

14:00 Julien Wacquez: The Implementation of Fiction Within Science: the Case Study of the Dyson Sphere

15:35 Yuliya Moskvina: State, Squat, Society: the limits to urban commons

16:10 Aníbal Arregui: Editorial Boar: Animal Amendements on Barcelona Urban Relationality

16:45 Break

17:00 Anna Gnot: Indirect and direct autobiographism in the late work of Ota Filip (2000-2018)

17:35 Thomas Mercier: The Threshold of Europe: Derrida in Prague