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Micro-practices of societal transformation? Mid-term conference of the CESCAME project

Time and Place of Event: Zasedačka Florenc, 5th floor, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Florenci 3, Prague, and online
Event Date: 14.10.2024 - 15.10.2024

Category: Workshops

CESCAME invites you to the Mid-term Conference in Prague, where we will explore the micro-practices driving societal transformation in the face of global environmental change, particularly within urban populations. Our confirmed guests are Luca Sára Bródy, Laura Berger, Jonas van der Straeten, Bianka Plüschke-Altof. Please register if you want to participate.

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Foraging for planetary health: exploring multispecies metabolism in postindustrial landscape

Time and Place of Event: Prague
Event Date: 03.10.2024 - 06.10.2024

Category: Workshops

The event will begin on Thursday, October 3, with a public lecture by Will LaFleur at the Institute of Sociology, titled “Rethinking Beer: Histories and Futures of Tastes, Practices, and Reproduction for a Post-Growth World.” Registration is not required for this lecture. The following 3-day workshop focuses on using the methods and concepts of social sciences and arts to explore foraging as a mode of coexistence in multispecies relations.

Foraging involves activities that not only complement but also subvert existing distribution chains and encourage the search for non-industrial food production. “Edible commons” are sometimes proposed as a measure against crises threatening conventional industrial food distribution chains (Sardeshpande et al. 2021). Furthermore, Chang and Bai (2020) contrast foraging to “capitalistic food culture” since the industrial production and buying of food off the shelf obscures the chain of activities needed to create a product. Consumers often ignore the conditions under which products are made due to the disconnection between production and consumption, as scholars of feminist commons observed (Mies and Bennholdt-Thomsen, 2001; Federici, 2012). Foraging, in contrast, makes the food production processes visible and tangible. Annemarie Mol (2021) noted that during the act of eating, the world moves through the body. While building upon her approach, the workshop will pursue the following questions: What is metabolised when we eat food that we have gathered, prepared, and reflected on together? What new entanglements between people and non-human forms of life emerge when food is obtained through foraging? How does eating change if the labour and joy—and, perhaps even pain—of foraging is part of the food preparation?

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Summer school: Tracing & dwelling in post-anthropocentric landscapes

Time and Place of Event: Ralsko
Event Date: 12.08.2022 - 14.08.2022

Category: Workshops

Call for applications for the Training school of the COST action TRACTS: Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice.

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International Workshop: Parliaments in Pandemics

Event Date: 26.05.2022 - 27.05.2022

Category: Workshops

During the Covid-19 pandemic, democracy worldwide continued to deteriorate. As established and new democracies faced unprecedented challenges to public health and the economy, their democratic quality declined. While established democracies could largely prevent pandemic erosion of democratic quality, democracies in transitions could not. Pandemic is an opportunity for executive aggrandizement –strengthening governments, weakening parliaments, and testing the judiciary.

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Post-Communist Party Systems: Revisiting Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Contemporary Europe

Time and Place of Event: Academic Conference Centre Husova 4a, Prague 1
Event Date: 11.05.2020 - 12.05.2020

Category: Workshops

Date: 11-12 May 2020 Place: Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1, Czech Republic Keynote speaker: Professor Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Duke University, North Carolina, USA

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Management dat v sociálněvědním výzkumu a GDPR

Time and Place of Event: od 8.45 v Ústavu státu a práva AV ČR Národní 18, Praha 1, konferenční sál v 7. patře
Event Date: 05.12.2019 - 05.12.2019

Category: Workshops

Český sociálněvědní datový archiv (ČSDA) Sociologického ústavu AV ČR Vás zve na informační den na téma: Management dat v sociálněvědním výzkumu a GDPR

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Russian DIY and DIY in Russia: Stereotype and social practice

Time and Place of Event: 15:00, Zasedací místnost Etnologického ústavu AV ČR, Na Florenci 3, 5. patro
Event Date: 16.09.2019 - 16.09.2019

Category: Workshops

The workshop with following discussion is promoted under research project NAKI - "Do-It-Yourself culture and its importance for Czech national and cultural identity: Current situtation in social, cultural, historical and political perspective, typology and potential for regional development".

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Democracy and non-democratic alternatives in the globalized world

Time and Place of Event: Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1
Event Date: 21.06.2019 - 21.06.2019

Category: Workshops

This international workshop seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate about the de-consolidation of democracy. It will explore the contemporary disappointment with the ways how democracy is functioning, manifested in the falling confidence in democratic institutions.

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CESSDA Workshop: Exploring Data in Europe - with a Focus on European Attitudes and Values

Time and Place of Event: 10am-3.45pm, Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1, Czech Republic
Event Date: 29.05.2018 - 29.05.2018

Category: Workshops

The Czech Social Science Data Archive invites to free of charge workshop, which explores the potential of research data available in Europe.

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Workshop 'New Housing Challenges: Families and Financialization'

Time and Place of Event: Jilská 1, Prague
Event Date: 09.05.2018 - 11.05.2018

Category: Workshops

To reflect and critically respond on the processes of financialization of housing across European countries the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Housing and Family Dynamics Working Group under European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) invite early-career researchers to submit papers for workshop New Housing Challenges: Families and Financialization taking place in Prague, May 9-11, 2018.

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Workshop on Challenges in the Organisation of International Comparative Social Surveys

Time and Place of Event: 8.30-15.10, Academy of Sciences, Národní 3, Prague
Event Date: 30.11.2017 - 30.11.2017

Category: Workshops

The Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites you to the international workshop

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Workshop on Challenges in the Organisation of International Comparative Social Surveys

Time and Place of Event: od 8.30 hodin, budova Akademie věd, Národní 3, Praha 1, místnost 206
Event Date: 30.11.2017 - 30.11.2017

Category: Workshops

Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i. si Vás dovoluje pozvat na mezinárodní workshop

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International migration – new challenges for Central and Eastern Europe

Time and Place of Event: AKC, Husová 4a, 110 00 Praha 1, 9:00 - 16:00
Event Date: 12.12.2016 - 12.12.2016

Category: Workshops

The Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague cordially invites you to the workshop focused on migration challenges in Central and Eastern Europe. The main aim of this international workshop is to facilitate networking in strategically important research areas it is financially supported by Strategy AV21 within the research programme “Global Conflicts and Local Interactions”.

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Susan Madsen: The Confidence Gap Between Men and Women

Time and Place of Event: 5.30 p.m., Czech Academy of Sciences, room 205, address: Národní 1009/3, 117 20 Prague 1
Event Date: 08.04.2015 - 08.04.2015

Category: Workshops

The latest research continues to say that girls and women struggle more with confidence than boys and men. Why is this the case? Why is confidence so important in all aspects of our lives? Internationally recognized leadership expert, Dr. Susan R. Madsen, will provide an engaging workshop that will help us understand the confidence gap between genders and how we can strengthen our confidence to be prepared to contribute in more meaningful ways in the world.

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