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Presentations

“Auteurs afro‑tchèques” – Tomáš Zmeškal – Obonete S. Ubam

International conference “Le Rêve tchèque ? Littérature tchèque d’après 1989 vue du XXIe siècle. Perspectives, enjeux et réceptions”
Date and venue: 05.12.2022, ULB Brussels
Organised by Xavier Galmiche (Sorbonne University), Petra James (ULB, MODERNITAS), Jana Kantoříková (HU Berlin/Sorbonne University)

 

Décadence, noirceur, féminité – une apocalypse ? Représenter l’autre dans l’art et la littérature (František Langer, Otto Pick / sociologie de Břetislav Foustka)

Lecture in the framework of “Semaine centre-européenne”
Date and venue: 14.04.2023, Sorbonne University

 

Artistic Representations of "Racial Mixing" in Czech Modernism 
International workshop “Blackness Imagery and Colonial Fantasies in Central and Eastern European Modernism(s)”
Date and venue: 21.-22.09.2023, Centre Marc-Bloch, Berlin

 

International conference Trente ans d’indépendance des Républiques slovaque et tchèque (1993-2023)
Date and venue: 23.-24.10.2023, Bratislava
Organiser: Slovak Academy of Sciences and CEFRES: Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales
Discussant in a round-table, topic Czech and Slovak literature and representation of minorities

 

South Conveyed by the North/West: The Early Domestication of Colonial Imagery in the Czech Lands
International conference “Nordsüdlicher Divan: Intercultural Worldmaking in Literature and Film from Europe and the Global South”
Date and venue: 02.-03.11.2023, Chicago
Organiser: Department of Germanic Studies University of Illinois Chicago, Nadjib Sadikou, Imke Meyer
 
ASEEES 55th Annual Convention, Theme: Decolonization
a/ Paper: “Blackness Imagery – Elective Affinities of the Czech Avant-Garde”, Panel Global Entanglements: Undoing Racial Stereotypes in Czech Art, Design and Literature (chair Molly Pucci, Trinity College Dublin)
b/ Discussant, Panel Colonial Fantasies and Racial Positions in Interwar Eastern European Culture (chair Łukasz Zaremba, University of Warsaw)
Date and venue: 30.11.-03.12.2023, Philadelphia 
 
“Toyen : dépaysement, exotisme, érotisme”
Date and venue: 14.03.2024, Sorbonne University
Lecture in the framework of the Master’s seminar Displaced creations. Artists, writers, singers from Central Europe, organiser: Clara Royer, Markéta Theinhardt

 

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Master’s seminar in Cultural anthropology and social sciences, Sorbonne University
Globalité, diversités, inégalités / Globality, Diversities, Inequalities (with M. Theinhardt), in the framework of the Master Programme CIMER: Intercultural Communication and Museology in a Renewed Europe, 1st semester 2023
Summary
The seminar examined the paradigm shifts that have taken place in the cultural sphere in recent decades, particularly with regard to Europe-World relations. Alongside theoretical considerations (the concept of Orientalism, colonialism without colonies), concrete responses to these global challenges were addressed in cultural practices in Central Europe and the Balkans – the focus being on the interpretation and mediation of historical objects and works of art in museums and exhibition halls from today’s perspective. Students were encouraged to consider the historical context of the (art)works. The seminar included contributions from experts in the field, especially historiographers and exhibition curators, such as Markéta Křížová (Charles University/Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures), Svetlana Gorshenina (CNRS) and Emilia Epstajn (Belgrade Museum of African Art).