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

September 2025

State Final Exams and Defenses (3.–4. 9. 2025)

Exams will be held on the 3rd and 4th of September 2025.

16 Jul

Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939

Some of the most striking examples of modernist architecture are churches, yet they have seldom been subject to extended critical analysis. In the book Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 (published by Penn State University Press), Matthew Rampley provides just such an analysis, focusing on the Catholic Church in interwar Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.

12 Jun

State Final Exams and Defenses (12. 6. 2025)

Exams will be held on the 12th of June 2025.

6 Jun

His artibus | 4th Biennial of the Centre for Early Modern Studies

We cordially invite you to the fourth edition of the His artibus biennial, which will take place on 6 June 2025 in Olomouc. This year’s edition is dedicated to the emerging generation of art historians and their perspectives on the opportunities and challenges involved in researching early modern visual culture.

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

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!

16 May

Pozvánka na multižánrový festival libre:

15 May

Závěrečná přednáška cyklu StředověC JinaX

15 May

Studentská konference Paragone

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 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