News

2025

Post-doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Modern Art & Theory

The Centre for Modern Art & Theory is announcing the position of post-doctoral researcher within the project Czechs and the Colonial World: Design and Visual Culture since 1848 (https://globalczechs.cz/), funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.

3 Dec

Crossings: Visual Studies Across Borders (PhD Conference)

We are pleased to invite you to the international PhD conference Crossings: Visual Studies Across Borders, which will take place at Masaryk University in the Hans Belting Library, Vevěří 26, Brno (Czech Republic) on Wednesday, the 3rd of December 2025, from 10:00 to 17:00.

3 Dec

Synthetic Data & In/Visual Culture

1 Dec

Silent Objects, Speaking Functions? Uses, Reuses, and Receptions of Late Antique Artifacts

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

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.