News

11 Apr 2024

The premiere of the film "The Silver Shield of Georgia: Svanetia and its Hidden Treasures"

We cordially invite you to the premiere of a new documentary film by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies. The film tells the story of the great cultural wealth hidden in the unassuming churches of the most remote parts of the Caucasus.

10 Apr 2024

R'n'B Prameny, řeky, moře a slzy: Diskotéka s hudbou 15. až 17. století

We would like to invite you to the second lecture of the spring series R'n'B
Senses, Our guest from the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Music,
Vladimír Maňas, will guide us through the ways, how emotions and experiences are expressed through musical forms associated with the element of water from the end of 15th Century to the 18th Century.

9 Apr 2024

Křest knihy Od myšlenky k architektuře

24 Mar 2024

CFP – 'Cognitive Art Histories' Workshop

We cordially invite scholars to send their contributions for the 'Cognitive Art Histories' workshop organised by Dr Ancuta Mortu and Dr Jakub Stejskal, which will take place on the 28th of May in Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, MU, Veveří 28, Brno). The workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in studying art histories through the lens of mental processes involved in creating and apprehending artefacts. The submission deadline is the 24th of March, 2024.

14 Mar 2024

Lecture StředověC JinaX: Classical Rhetoric in Barbarian Architecture?

We cordially invite you to the March lecture of the series StředověC JinaX. Zuzana Urbanová will give us an insight into what can influence the dating of architectural monuments.

12 Mar 2024

SMArt Talks: A Curatorial Turn in Architecture?

We cordially invite you to another lecture evening from the SMArt Talks cycle. The talk, A Curatorial Turn in Architecture?, will be given by Helena Huber-Doudová, a curator of the Architecture Collection in the National Gallery Prague. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 12th of March 2024, from 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, MU, Veveří 28, Brno). The lecture will be held in the Czech language.

March 2024

Femininity and Design at Work: Online Workshop Series Programme

We cordially invite you to the series of online workshops, 'Femininity and Design at Work,' organised by Julia Secklehner (Masaryk University) and Leah Armstrong (University of Applied Arts Vienna).

29 Feb 2024

The presentation of the new photographic book Wonders in stone

The Centre for Early Medieval Studies cordially invites you to the presentation of the new photographic book Wonders in stone.

The event will take place on Thursday 29 February at 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library.

The book presents monuments of Georgia and Armenia, captured by art historians from different parts of the world during their travels.

27 Feb 2024

SMArt Talks: Chittaprosad’s Famine Sketches in Light of Decolonial Aesthetics

We cordially invite you to another lecture evening from the SMArt Talks cycle. The talk, Chittaprosad’s Famine Sketches in Light of Decolonial Aesthetics, will be given by Avishek Ray, a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Modern Art & Theory. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 27th of February 2024, from 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, MU, Veveří 28, Brno).

22 Feb 2024

Lecture StředověC JinaX: On the Road

We would like to invite you to the opening lecture of the StředověC JinaX series this semester. Prof. Ivan Foletti will tell the story of the church of Ateni Sioni.

6 Feb 2024

SMArt Talks: En plein air: The Visibility of Women’s Work in the Interwar Avant-Garde and Antifascist Resistance

We cordially inviteyou to the first lecture of the series SMArt Talks in this semester. The lecture will be given by Meghan Forbes, a scholarship holder from New York, who is a guest at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences where she's working on Photo Matrix Project. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 6 February 2024 at 18:00 in the Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, Veveří 28, Brno).

29 Jan 2024

Státní závěrečné zkoušky a obajoby 29. 1. 2024

18 Jan 2024

Obhajoba disertace Heleny Musilové

20 Dec 2023

New documentary film by the Center for Early Medieval Studies

It tells the story of the incredible capital of the medieval kingdom of Armenia, which, at the time of its greatest glory in the 10th and 11th centuries, was one of the commercial and political centers of the Silk Road, but also a crossroads of the world where different cultures, religions and arts coexisted, and its wealth was legendary. The Mongol invasion, together with the devastating earthquake of 1319 and especially the changes in trade routes, were the beginning of the decline of Ani.

14 Dec 2023

Lecture Středověc Jinax: Obrazy v mlhavém oparu

With the end of the semester approaching, the last autumn lecture of the JinaX Centre is knocking on the door. Before the Christmas holidays, we will say goodbye together with an evening dedicated to Lenka Vrlíková's lecture entitled Obrazy v mlhavém oparu: Kolonialisums, mýty a středověké umění v Etiopii.

12 Dec 2023

PhD Conference – Fall 2023: Community

You are cordially invited to this semester’s doctoral conference focusing on communities in the visual arts. The keynote will be given by Tereza Stejskalová from tranzit.cz, a network of autonomous initiatives in contemporary art.