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2025

SMArt Talks: Building Histories

We cordially invite you to the autumn lecture series SMArt Talks, organised by the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. SMArt Talks: Building Histories start on the 23rd of September!

September 2026

DHS Annual Conference 2026 in Brno!

We are delighted to announce that in 2026, Brno will host the Design History Society Annual Conference. Titled Design in an Age of Uncertainty, the event will explore the urgent issues that shape not only the present of design history, but also its pasts and possible futures. From the 3rd to the 5th of September, the Department of Art History will host an event dedicated to exchange of ideas about design history, theory, criticism and practice and will bring together the best and up-to-date research in the field from established as well as emerging scholars!

19 Dec

CFP – Agents of Change: Folk Cultures in the Long 20th Century

We’re delighted to share that colleagues from Centre for Modern Art & Theory – Valéria Bláha, Marta Filipová, and Julia Secklehner – are organising a workshop titled Agents of Change: Folk Cultures in the Long 20th Century, taking place on the 18th and the 19th of June 2026 at Masaryk University in Brno. The workshop is part of their research project Beyond the Village: Folk Cultures as Agents of Modernity, 1918–1945, funded by the Czech Science Foundation.

3 Dec

Synthetic Data & In/Visual Culture

13 Nov

StředověC JinaX: Umění na konci světa. Příběh záhadného kalichu z Ušguli

12 Nov

SMArt Talks: Embodied Modernism: Experiential Living in an Experimental House

We are delighted to invite you to the next SMArt Talks lecture of the autumn semester, which will be delivered by Robin Schuldenfrei, a Tangen Professor in 20th century modernism at The Courtauld (University of London). The lecture will take place on Wednesday, the 12th of November 2025, at the Hans Belting Library at 18:00.

11 Nov

Workshop kritiky s Artalkem

11 Nov

Pozvánka na přednášku (Baderovo stipendium)

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

6 Nov

"Who Owns Heritage?"

We would like to invite you to the conference "Who Owns Heritage? Local Communities and the Fight for Historical Monuments in the 19th and 20th Centuries, November 6–7, in the Hans Belting Library. No need to register in advance. Please find attached the program.

5 Nov

SMArt Talks: Five Photographs for Franz Joseph: The Great Fire of 1879 and the Urban Transformation of Sarajevo

We are delighted to invite you to the second SMArt Talks lecture of the autumn semester, which will be delivered by Aida Murtić, joining Brno as a visiting researcher within the Visiting Research Fellowship program organised by the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, the 5th of November 2025, at the Hans Belting Library at 18:00.

1 Nov

Dvojí ocenění Santinimu

Publikace Jan Blažej Santini a svět jeho architektury, která byla roku 2024 vydána k třístému výročí smrti jednoho z našich nejvýznamnějších barokních architektů nakladatelstvím Karolinum spolu s Národním technickým muzeem, obdržela v letošním roce dvě ceny.

29 Oct

Seminar & Guest Lecture by Prof. Andrew Patrizio

We are pleased to invite you to two upcoming events – the seminar New Horizons for Art History: Ecocritical Approaches and the guest lecture Roads to Nowhere: Methods of Ecocritical Art History, both led by Prof. Andrew Patrizio, a leading figure in ecocritical approaches to art. For more details, please read the full article.

23 Oct

StředověC JinaX: Fašismus vs. pozdní antika

20 Oct

Call for Papers – Crossings: Visual Studies Across Borders (PhD Conference)

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the upcoming international PhD conference, which will take place at Masaryk University in the Hans Belting Library, Vevěří 26, Brno (Czech Republic) on Wednesday, the 3rd of December 2025.

1 Oct 18:30

CRAACE Project Books Launch!

We are pleased to announce the launch of four new publications written by the members of Centre for Modern Art & Theory as a part of the CRAACE project!