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 doctoralconference, which will take place on Wednesday, 28 May.This semester’s theme is: Art and Authority: Visualizing Influence,Negotiating Control
22 May SMArt Talks: Slovenský mýtus?! Niekoľko poznámok k tzv. "slovenskej identite" umenia na Slovensku We cordially invite you to the last spring semester lecture from the SMArt Talks series entitled 'Slovenský mýtus?!... (O paradoxoch slovenskej moderny a neo-moderny, o domove a svete, o miešaní kultúr – niekoľko poznámok k tzv. "slovenskej identite" vizuálneho umenia na Slovensku)', the lecturer of which will be the former director of the Slovak National Gallery Katarína Bajcurová. The lecture will take place on Thursday, the 22nd of May 2025, at the Hans Belting Library at 18:00. The lecture will be in Slovak.
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!
25 Apr 15th Day of Byzantine Studies We warmly invite you to the 15th Day of Byzantine Studies, taking place on April 25, 2025, from 1:30 PM at the Hans Belting Library, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. Join us for an engaging program of lectures focusing on Byzantine topics.
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 isan art historian and doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki,Finland, and specialises in object studies, Early Modern church art, and thematerial culture of death.
8 Apr Pozvánka na veřejnou diskuzi o vztahu humanitních a přírodních věd (nejen na MU), 8. dubna, 17.00
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.
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.