Master and research seminar
Anne Madelain and Jana Vargovčíková
Contacts: [email protected]; [email protected]
This collective seminar is part of a multidisciplinary perspective (history, cultural history, political science, geography, sociology) on a transregional theme chosen for the year. Without linguistic prerequisites, it is open to all.
It can be chosen by INALCO master’s students (UE2 or UE4), as well as by students of other institutions, within the framework of agreements with INALCO, or as a minor in a master’s or doctoral degree course. , and allows you to validate 4 ECTS per semester.
For the second consecutive year, the seminar questions the ways in which entry through techniques renews our vision of the history and current affairs of Central European societies.
The relationships between technique (e) and culture (e) are primarily of concern to anthropologists, but present fruitful questions for history, sociology, political science, and even cultural studies. The attention to materialities has given rise for several years to innovative research that will be fruitful to discuss in a comparative perspective.
Interrogating the space of middle Europe through this question is particularly heuristic as it allows us to approach long-term phenomena (such as utopias and modernization conflicts, the place of techniques in the transformations of the ways of governing territories and populations) or contemporary ( post-socialist social and cultural transformations and the information revolution, the uses of the Internet), questioning the specificities of this cultural area and its relations with other parts of the world, starting with Western Europe.
The theme also presents a useful reflection in the period of the pandemic that has upset our ways of working and living through the digital and the “remote”.
Particular attention will be paid to the sources, the archives, the land used for the research work.
In the 1st semester: Tuesday from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm, room 3.12 or 3.15 pm (with the possibility of following by videoconference)
September 20
Semester introduction
- Rise and Fall of Chinese Medicine in the Czech Republic: A Stratified History of Ontologies, Technologies, and Geopolitics, Tereza Stöckelová (Czech Academy of Sciences),
- discussing: Laurent Pordi (EHESS, CNRS), Room 3.12
October 4th
- The peasants who work in socialist Poland and Yugoslavia, Bruno Drweski (INALCO) e Goran’s music (Research Platform for the Study of Transformations and Eastern Europe, University of Vienna), Salle 3.12
October 11th
- Reading session of technical texts and cultures, Cecile Folschweiller (INALCO), Room 3.15
October 18
- Wetlands of Eastern Europe, Fragments of Interdisciplinary History, Laurent Coumel (INALCO) e Bernard Lory (INALCO), Room 3.12
November 8
- The national factory through the prism of mobility: the gymnastics of the Sokol among the “South Slavs”, Jovana Papović (EHESS), Room 3.15
November 15th or 22nd
- Methodology session (for master students), Room 3.15
November 29
- Minarets in Bosnia and Herzegovina in a long-term perspective: material, stylistic and architectural developments, Robin Hatchet (INALCO, University of Sarajevo), Room 3.15
December 6
- Do something new with something old? Strategies and tools for the acquisition of the administration in Slovakia in the immediate postwar period (1918-1920), Etienne Boisserie (INALCO), Room 3.12
13 December
- Presentation of the students’ work, Room 3.12
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