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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

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!

29 Sep

Conference Shared and Contested Heritage in Greater Eastern Europe and Caucasus, 1870–1991

We warmly invite you to the international scholarly conference Shared and Contested Heritage in Greater Eastern Europe and Caucasus, 1870-1991. Art, Scholarship, and Fragility, which will take place on Monday, September 29, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and on Tuesday, September 30, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Hans Belting Library, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.

25 Sep

StředověC JinaX: Je středověk moderní?

23 Sep

SMArt Talks: What Makes a Historical Monument? Restorations and the Creation of Architectural Heritage in the Balkans (1860–1930)

We are delighted to invite you to the first SMArt Talks lecture of the autumn semester, to be delivered by Cosmin Tudor Minea, researcher at the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. Cosmin Minea is currently leading a project on the formation of architectural heritage and the development of early art historical writings in Romania, Serbia, and Bulgaria. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, the 23rd of September 2025, at the Hans Belting Library at 18:00.

September 2025

Cyklus přednášek StředověC JinaX

10 Sep

Informační schůzka pro studenty prvního ročníku

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!