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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.

11 Dec 2023

Christmas party of SDU

We would like to warmly invite you all to the Christmas party of SDU, whichwill take place on Monday, 11th December 2023, at Pivní stáj Pub on GrohovaStreet.

11 Dec 2023

Excursion to Slovak National Gallery with Alexandra Kusá

Centre for Modern Art and Theory organises an excurion for the students of the Department of Art History to the newly reconstructed Slovak Nation Gallery. The tour will be guided by the general director Alexandra Kusá.

5 Dec 2023

SMART Talks: Post-Communist Art in Post-Communist Europe

We cordially invite you to another evening lecture of the SMArt Talks series. Magdalena Radomska, an art historian from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, will be giving a lecture on post-communist art in post-communist Europe on Tuesday 5 December 2023 at 6:00 pm at the Hans Belting Library (Faculty of Arts, Veveří 28, Brno).

28 Nov 2023

Ženy u oltáře? Matka Boží a gender v raném křesťanství

The Medievalism (Otherwise) podcast takes a look at a new book by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies, entitled Ženy u oltáře? Matka Boží a gender v raném křesťanství. The author of the book, Ivan Foletti, and archaeologist Jiří Macháček will be the hosts. Their special guest this time will be Catholic theologian, priest and church historian Tomáš Petráček.

21 Nov 2023

SMART Talks - Sculpture and the Haptic Imagination

We cordially invite you to the next evening lecture of the SMArt Talks series. Jason Gaiger, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory of the University of Oxford, will be lecturing on Sculpture and the haptic imagination.

16 Nov 2023

Workshop „In and Outside Venice. Circulation of Objects, Texts, Languages, techniques, and Cultures (13th-15th Centuries)“

We would like to invite you to the international workshop "In and Outside Venice. Circulation of Objects, Texts, Languages, techniques, and Cultures (13th-15th Centuries)", which will take place within the framework of the GACR project of Dr. Ilaria Molteni. The aim of the workshop is to explore how Venetian objects, texts, languages, techniques, and cultures circulated to the major centres of the medieval West and East, and to reflect on the ways in which Venetian commercial intelligence and technical know-how served the purposes of cultural domination and political domination.

16 Nov 2023

International workshop “In and Outside Venice. Circulation of Objects, Texts, Languages, techniques, and Cultures (13th–15th Centuries)“ (1)

We would like to invite you to the international workshop “In and Outside Venice. Circulation of Objects, Texts, Languages, techniques, and Cultures (13th–15th Centuries)“

15 Nov 2023

„Ungemein“: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel a hudba první čtvrtiny 18. století

Evening soirée with a lecture by Prof. Jiří Kroupa and Prof. Miloš Štědron on
architecture and music together with photographs by doc. Irena Armutidisová on the anniversary of the death of two
great figures of Baroque culture in Central Europe

14 Nov 2023

Lecture Obrazy vítězí!

The November lecture from the series Medieval Jinax is already knocking on the door and we would like to invite you to it. The lecture Obrazy vítězí! will be presented by Veronika Dzhugan-Herman and will introduce us to the art and cult of 7th century Armenia.

12 Nov 2023

CFP: Fall 2023 PhD conference: Community

We invite you to participate in the doctoral conference focused on communitie. Communities of various common denominators participated throughout ages in the conception and perception of artworks as authors, sponsors, and audiences. Our aim is to reflect on the circumstances that condition the creation of an artwork as a result of broader interactionsand complex relationships, and conversely on the contributions of the artwork to the formation of societies.
Application deadline 12 November.