Global Conflicts and Local Interactions

In the latest episode of the podcast Crossroads we invite dr Kristine Krause. Dr Krause is an anthropologist working at the intersections of political and medical anthropology, interested in subjectivities and health, citizenship and care. At the University of Amsterdam she is a member of the Health, Care and the Body Programme and the Long-term Care and Dementia Research Group. Together with Jeannette Pols she runs the Anthropology of Care Network.

In her current, ERC founded research ReloCare, she looks at care outsourcing within Europe, where geographic discrepancies in cost, access and salaries are played out. She analyses care as a social-material practice involving many different actors, driven by flows of people, and capital, but where family, state, and market remain influential.

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In the latest episode of the podcast Crossroads we invite professor Brigitte Aulenbacher. She is a Professor of Sociological Theory and Social Analysis, the Head of the Department of the Theory of Society and Social Analyses at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria and a co-editor of Global Dialogue – the Magazine of the International Sociological Association. In addition, she is the vice-president of the International Karl Polanyi Society.

Her fields of research include social inequalities and justice, and theoretical and empirical work on labour, care, marketization and science. She is a distinguished scholar and author of many academic publications whose work has made important contributions bridging theories of contemporary capitalism, Critical Theory and feminist theory. In 2019 she received the Kurt-Rothschild-Award for her work on Karl Polanyi.

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18 December 2022, 7 pm
Prostor 39
Řehořova 33/39, Prague 3

Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, invites you to a lecture of Frédéric Vandenberghe Rise and Fall of Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Frédéric Vandenberghe is professor of sociology at the Institute of philosophy and social sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Currently, he is the Distinguished Max Weber Fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg of the University of Erfurt.

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19 December 2022, 9 am
Akademic Conference Centre
Husova 4a, Prague 1

The participants of the workshop make use of the vocabulary of civilizational analysis, especially as developed in the work of Johann Arnason, to understand Chinese civilization in comparison with its Western counterpart(s), for instance in the discussion of a shared ‘Axial Age’, the continuities and paradoxes of tradition and modernity, the comparative studies of world empires, and the differing ‘social imaginaries’. The latter term refers to the role of our imagination in articulating our world and our place in it. In this way, society is seen as an institution with a network of imaginary meanings. An important question is what sort of meanings would apply to the Chinese context. To what extent do they differ from comparable Western meanings?

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14 December 2022, 4 pm
Institute of Philosophy CAS, room no. 124a
Jilská 1, Prague 1 / ZOOM (online)

Department of Political Sociology, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites you to the lecture of prof. Roman David (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Political Apologies, their Content, and Protagonists: Experimental Evidence from Victims and Perpetrators Nations.

Political apologies are recognized as a feature of effective diplomacy, projections of soft power, and instances of transitional justice. They have been found to have a positive effect on justice, trust, and reconciliation. However, the efficacy of apologies has also been questioned. This talk examines the acceptance of political apologies, their content and the protagonists in the victim-nation, the perpetrator-nation, and their subgroups.

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7 December 2022, 2 pm
Czech Academy of Sciences, lecture hall 108
Národní 3, Prague 1

The Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences & the Prague Platform for Southeast Asian Studies cordially invite you to an international seminar Indonesia – an Emerging Middle Power and Partner of the EU in the Indo-Pacific.

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The aim of this international seminar is to analyze Indonesia’s position as an emerging middle power in the Indo-Pacific and a major new actor on the global geopolitical scene in general. Indonesia has traditionally been considered – given its size and population – as a natural regional power, but has been perceived globally as a country ‘punching below its weight’. More recently, however, it has also increasingly been seen as a global middle power with influence comparable to the political and economic clout of some European countries. This recognition of Indonesia’s newfound status has been reflected, for example, in its G20 presidency in 2022, which the country’s diplomats and politicians have handled exceedingly well given the turbulent global situation. It is always tricky to predict how exactly Indonesia will succeed but one thing is certain – Indonesia is a country to watch.

Reservations at petru@orient.cas.cz

5 December 2022, 5 am
Institute of International Relations
Nerudova 3, Prague 1

Czech Academy of Sciences and Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research invite to a paper presentation Geopolitical momentum for WB-EU relations: chances and risks for Western Balkans in the context of the war in Ukraine. Three authors of the paper will assess the last six months of geopolitical upheaval in the Western Balkans and inquire into the possibilities of EU-Western Balkan relations in the current context. Will the war in Ukraine negatively affect the stagnating EU-Balkans relations or can it in fact bring some progress in terms of geopolitical alignment, security and energy cooperation and enlargement?

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21–22 November 2022
Seminar room of the Institute of Ethnology CAS (5th floor)
Na Florenci 3, Prague 1

Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CEFRES – French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences cordially invites you to a workshop Plants as/and Humans: Southern Epistemologies and ‘Floral Turn’.

Symbiosis with the plant kingdom is not a possibility, but the very condition of human existence. The intensification of this symbiosis, usually called domestication or development of agriculture, has formed the world in which we live in a radical, hard to overestimate way. Reflecting on the world-making role of plants through the methods of the natural and social sciences reveals plants as mediators of intensifying political and economic transformations of social and ecological relationships in different regions of our planet. Human reflection on this historical agency of plants is just as diverse and dynamic and not limited to the so-called West.

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1 November 2022, 5 pm
Zoom (online)

Institute for Contemporary History CAS, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS and Prague Centre for Jewish History invite you to the seminar Chance Collectors of Refugees: Local and International Humanitarian Interventions in the Bohemian Lands, 1938–1939 with Laura Brade.

The seminar will be held in virtual form only, log in here.

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The podcast Crossroads invites Oksana Dutchak who is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Social and Labour Research (Kyiv) and a co-editor of Commons: Journal of Social Criticism. She is an activist of Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational or E.A.S.T. and one of the initiators of the manifesto “The right to resist”: A feminist manifesto. She holds a PhD in sociology from the Department of Sociology in Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (Kyiv) and an MA in sociology and social anthropology from the Central European University. She is now a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research. She has published extensively on labour issues, labour protests, gender inequality, socio-economic inequality.

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