International workshop celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Prague Linguistic Circle, organised by the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (Department of Czech and Comparative Literature) in collaboration with Université Libre de Bruxelles (MODERNITAS – Maison des Sciences Humaines) and University of Zürich.

PROGRAM

Thursday, 21 May

9:00 Registration and Institutional Greetings by Eva Voldřichová Beránková and Libuše Heczková

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote lecture

Tomáš Glanc (University of Zürich)

Prague School: Suppressed Practice, Policy, Politics

11:00– 12:30 Session I

Chair: Catherine Depretto (Eur’Obem/Sorbonne Université - CNRS)

Stéphanie Cirac (Eur’Obem/Sorbonne Université - CNRS), Al’fred Ljudvigovič Bem et le Cercle linguistique de Prague. Relations autour de “menues observations”

Pierre-Yves Testenoire (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle/HTL): L’Amérique au CLP et le CLP en Amérique

Anne-Gaëlle Toutain (Bern University): La référence martinettienne aux travaux de l’école de Prague - De l’histoire à l’épistémologie

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Session II

Chair: Eva Krásová (Charles University in Prague)

Patrick Flack (University of Fribourg): The Prague Linguistic Circle and the Netherlands

Lorenzo Cigana (San Raffaele University of Rome): Between Prague and Copenhagen: On Graphems

Martina Mecco (Université libre de Bruxelles/MSH/FNRS): Olaf Broch: A Norwegian Slavist at the Prague School

15:45 – 17:45 Session III

Chair: Isabel Jacobs (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Alexander Dmitriev (Charles University in Prague): Ukrainian Connections of the Prague Linguistic Circle

Galina Babak (University of Konstanz): Transnational Poetics: Čyževs’kyj’s Theory of Poetic Language and the Prague Linguistic Circle

Kateryna Karunyk (Kharkiv National University): The Chronology of ‘Dynamic Synchrony’ as a Theoretical Notion: George Y. Ševelov under Roman Jakobson’s and Nikolaj Trubeckoj’s Impact

Serhij Wakulenko (Société Historico-Philologique de Kharkiv): La présence ukrainienne au sein du Cercle Linguistique de Prague : les personnalités, les idées, les échos

18:00 – 19:00 Round table

Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Prague School

Chair: Tomáš Glanc

Discussants: Patrick Flack, Isabel Jacobs, Martina Mecco, Ondřej Sládek, Lidia Tripiccione

Friday, 22 May

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote lecture

John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)

The Enlightening and Dark Webs of Relations Spun by Mathesius’s Devotion to Deutschbein

10:30 – 12:00 Session IV

Chair: Anna Schubertová (Charles University in Prague/Czech Academy of Sciences)

Irina Wutsdorff (University of Münster): On the relations of Prague School Aesthetics with (German language) Herbartian Formal Aesthetics

Petr Mareš (Charles University in Prague): The Prague School and Concepts of Style and Stylistics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Isabel Jacobs (Czech Academy of Sciences): Living Form: Morphology and the Formation of the Prague School

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:00 Session V

Chair: Catherine Depretto (Eur’Obem/Sorbonne Université - CNRS)

Sylvie Archaimbault (Eur’Obem/Sorbonne Université - CNRS): Lucien Tesnière et le projet d’atlas linguistique des langues slaves : une non-rencontre avec le CLP

Ilona Sinzelle Poňavičová (HTL/CREE): Entre traduction, analyse en temps de crise et transfert : contributions féminines méconnues du CLP

Aya Ono (Keio University of Tokio): Linguistes japonais des années 30 influencés par le Cercle linguistique de Prague

K. K. Leonard Chan (National Tsing Hua University): A Reading of Jaroslav Průšek’s Sinology and the Prague School Structuralism

15:15 – 17:15 Session VI

Chair: Tomáš Glanc (University of Zürich)

Patrick Sériot (Université de Lausanne): Cultural Transfer or Epistemological Hindrance: A Linguistic Terminology Brought into the PLC by Russian Emigrants

Ondřej Sládek (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Academy of Sciences): Jan Mukařovský and Roman Ingarden

Jindrich Toman (University of Michigan): Prague Phonology and its Logicians: Karcevskij, Trubeckoj, Jakobson

17:30 – 19:00 Session VII

Chair: Martina Mecco (Université libre de Bruxelles/MSH/FNRS)

Lidia Tripiccione (Princeton University): René Wellek between Czechoslovakia and the US

Michał Mrugalski (Humboldt University of Berlin): Transferring the Theory of Poetic Language: A Polish Connection

Igor Pilshchikov (University of California, Los Angeles/ Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu): Jakobson’s Three Theories of Puškin’s Poetics and Their Geocultural Localizations (Moscow – Prague – Warsaw)

20:00 Dinner

Charles University, Faculty of Arts
náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1

Le workshop se déroulera en anglais et en français.

Contact : martina.mecco@ulb.be