News

6 Nov

Call for Papers: Who Owns Heritage?

(Extended deadline: April 22) Call for Papers: Who Owns Heritage? Local Communities and the Fight for Historical Monuments in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Masaryk University Brno, Czechia, 6 November

28 May

Art and Authority: Visualizing Influence, Negotiating Control

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming doctoral
conference, which will take place on Wednesday, 28 May.

This semester’s theme is: Art and Authority: Visualizing Influence,
Negotiating Control

2025

SMArt Talks: Myths of Modernism

We cordially invite you to the spring lecture series SMArt Talks, organised by the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. SMArt Talks: Myths of Modernism start on the 27th of February!

24 Apr

SMArt Talks: A Positivist Art History? The Natural Sciences in the Works of the Catalan Architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch

We cordially invite you to the following SMArt Talks lecture, which will be given by Dr. Lucila Mallart, a historian of modern European culture and art and currently a visiting researcher at the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. The lecture will take place on Thursday, the 24th of April 2025, at the Hans Belting Library at 18:00.

15 Apr

Invitation to the lecture Objects & Death in Early Modern Finland, 15 April 2025

We cordially invite you to a lecture by our guest, Saila Leskinen, MA. She is
an art historian and doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki,
Finland, and specialises in object studies, Early Modern church art, and the
material culture of death.

10 Apr

zveme na další přednášku z cyklu StředověC JinaX

8 Apr

Pozvánka na veřejnou diskuzi o vztahu humanitních a přírodních věd (nejen na MU), 8. dubna, 17.00

7 Apr

The Two Cultures: Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?“

31 Mar

Czechs and the Colonial World – We are Awarding PhD Studentships

Applications are invited for two full-time PhD student positions for the Czech Grant Agency-funded project Czechs and the Colonial World: Design and Visual Culture since 1848, to start in January 2026 and lasting for 4 years. The project is based in the Department of Art History at Masaryk University, Brno.

26 Mar

R'n'B Petr Brandl a Jaromír Neuman - paralelní světy, 26. 3. 2025

20 Mar

Lecture in the series StředověC JinaX

Dear colleagues,

we cordially invite you to the next lecture in the series StředověC JinaX, this time Michaela Kovářová will speak.

Come on March 20 at 19:00 to hear her reflect on the ongoing dispute over the historical ownership of the church in the Armenian village of Odzun.

13 Mar

SMArt Talks: "When a Woman Does It, It's a Craft But When a Man Does It, It's Art": Knitting In Folk Culture, Fashion & Art

We cordially invite you to another SMArt Talks lecture, which will be given by our colleague and member of the Centre for Modern Art & Theory, Julia Secklehner - historian of modern art, design and visual culture. The lecture will take place on Thursday, the 13th of March 2025, in Hans Belting Library at 18:00.

27 Feb

SMArt Talks: Faking Russia: "Avant-Garde", Misconceptions, Forgeries

We cordially invite you to the first SMArt Talks lecture of the spring semester 2025, organised by the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. The lecture will take place on Thursday, the 27th of February 2024, in the Hans Belting Library at 18:00. Our first spring lecturer is Konstantin Akinsha, an independent art historian, curator, and journalist specialising in art originating from the area of present-day Russia and Ukraine.

20 Feb

StředověC JinaX

We warmly invite you to the opening lecture by Prof. Ivan Foletti, which will once again launch our traditional StředověC JinaX lecture series for this semester.

Come to the Hans Belting Library on 20 February at 19:00 to listen to an inspiring talk and be drawn into a topic that resonates across Europe. Do the restoration interventions on the fire-damaged Notre-Dame Cathedral truly reflect its medieval state? Or are they merely our own perceptions of what the "true" Middle Ages should look like?