Some Less Well-Known Relations of the Prague School: Networks and Dynamics of Cultural Transfer
Co-organised by Charles University in Prague, MODERNITAS (MSH, ULB), University of Zürich
21 – 22 May 2026
Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Thursday, 21 May (room 300)
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 (room 300)
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