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We would like to invite you to the second Czech-Israeli Colloquium Jerusalem: Eternal Source of Artistic Inspiration. The colloquium takes place on Tuesday 5 September 2017 in the Academic Conference Centre (Husova 4a, Prague 1). For programme and paper abstracts see the attachment.

Attached file: jeruzalem_prog3.pdf

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A new issue of the journal Umění / Art has been published. From the content: Jan Dienstbier, Vain and Transitory Love: Mural Paintings in the Žirovnice Chamber and Mural Decoration in Late Gothic Secular Interiors; Pavel Kalina, The New Solomon: Architecture as the Embodiment of State Ideology and Political Practice in Early Modern Prague ; Vendula Hnídková, The Hlávka Bridge: A Product in Concrete Marking A Change of Generations.

The Institute of Art History of the CAS invites junior researchers, PhD holders, to apply for a postdoc scholarship funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences. All applications must be submitted until 4 September 2017 to the address: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, v. v. i., secretary, Husova 4, 110 00 Praha 1.

Attached file: vyzva_postdoc_2_pol_2017_CZ.pdf

An International Workshop proposed by the Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (SIAS FF UK), the French Institute for Research in Social Sciences (CEFRES) and the Institute of Art History of Czech Academy of Sciences (IAH CAS). The aim of the workshop is to set into focus the monastic space as a multifaceted research theme from a global and interdisciplinary perspective. We invite papers that address the questions how monastic institutions contributed to the flow and exchanges of cultural practices and how their role as cultural mediators shaped their material culture and spatial politics. The scope of the workshop has no timely, geographical or confessional limitations as it intends to generate dialogue between researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds.

Attached file: Workshop_Transmissions_CFP_en.docx

The IAH CAS together with the National Gallery in Prague organises an international conference "Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1529–1595) and his cultural patronage between Prague and Innsbruck". The conference will take place on 21–23 February 2018 in Prague. Those interested, please, send your paper proposals by August 31 2017 to archduke.ferdinand@post.cz.

Attached file: CFP–Ferdinand-II.pdf

The new issue no. 16 of the bulletin Studia Rudolphina has been just published by the Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II.

Attached file: SR16_contents.pdf

Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 15.30 Sarah Lynch from Princeton University will talk about Bonifaz Wolmut and the European Renaissance. The lecture will take place as usual at the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, room nr. 117. For more information see the attachment.

Attached file: CHA_Lynch.pdf

On Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 5 pm Tomáš Dvořák, active at the Philosophical Institute CAS and Film and Perfoming Arts Academy, will present his talk entitled "Lucretius on the Nature of Photography". The lecture will take place in the Academic Conference Centre within the international conference Shaping Identities / Challenging Borders: Photographic histories in Central and Eastern Europe. The entrance is free.

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A new book "Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938: Students, Concepts, Contacts" has been published by Markéta Svobodová (IAH CAS) in the Publishing House KANT. For the content, please, see the attachment.

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We invite you to the conference "Shaping Identities | Challenging Borders: Photographic Histories in Central and Eastern Europe", which will take place on 9–11 May 2017 in Prague at the Academic Conference Centre.

Attached file: shaping identities_programme_FINAL.pdf

Gallery of the Czech Centres coordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition "Otte Wallish: Forgotten Greeting from Israel" which takes place on Wendnesday 5th April 2017 at 7 pm in Rytířská St 31, Prague 1. The curator of the exhibition is Eva Janáčová from our institute.

Attached file: Pozvánka AJ-1.pdf

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The "Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe" (BCPCE), the Institute of History of Art and Musicology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the IAH CAS together with the Hradec Králové Region and the Omnium Association organise an international conference "Baroque Parish Churches and Their Decoration: A New Field of Research". The conference will be held in Vienna on 23–25 October 2017. We invite those interested in the topic to send their proposals until 30 April 2017.

Attached file: CFP_Parish_Churches_Vienna_2017_16.pdf

On Friday 24 March 2017 at 5 p.m. a discussion will be held on the Rudolphine Art. The meeting takes place in the lecture room of the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1, Nr. 117

The Institute of Art History CAS organises on 5 September 2017 a Czech-Israeli colloquium "Jerusalem: Eternal Source of Artistic Inspiration". We hereby call on all those interested in taking an active part in the colloquium to send an outline of their presentation (the title of the paper and a brief summary) by 15 April 2017 at the latest. Contact: janacova.at.udu.cas.cz. For more details see the attachment.

Attached file: CFP_jeruzalem_en.pdf

On Wednesday, 1 March 2017, the cycle "Medieval Conceptual Conflicts and Contrasts: Text and Image" goes on with another lecture. This time Alixe Bovey from the Courtauld Institute will present her paper with the title: "The Smithfield Decretals: The Art of Storytelling in Fourteenth- Century London". The lecture starts at 17.30. For more information see the attachment.

Attached file: Text and Image_Bovey.pdf

The Institute of Art History of the CAS invites junior researchers, PhD holders, to apply for a postdoc scholarship funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences Applicants must have obtained a PhD degree in the past 2 years (before the beginning of the scholarship) with the exception of time spent on maternal / parental leave. All applications must be submitted until 31 March 2017 to the address: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, v. v. i., secretary, Husova 4, 110 00 Praha 1. For more information, please, see the file attached.

Attached file: UDU_vyzva_postdoc_cervenec_2017EN_CZ.pdf

On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 our colleague Lenka Panušková will present a paper with the title “Who was the Reader of the Passional of the Abbess Cunigonde? Passion Imagery and Devotion in St George Monastery, Prague”. The lecture is the first one in the cycle "Medieval Conceptual Conflicts and Contrasts: Text and Image" and will take place at 17.30 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. For further information and for program see the attachment.

Attached file: Text and Image poster white_small.pdf

Attached file: Text and Image_Panuskova.pdf

On Wednesday, 22 February 2017, the Window Gallery of IAH CAS will open a new exhibition. The opening will be held in the courtyard of IAH CAS at 5 pm. For invitation, please, see the attachment.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Francesco Lovino is giving a lecture with the title "De Baye Unveiled. Goths, Russia and an Unpublished Essay from the Kondakov Institute Archive". It starts at 3.30 pm in the meeting room of IAH CAS, Husova 4. For more information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: CHA_Lovino.pdf

On 18 January 2017 the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, had the honour to welcome to its premises a group of female ambassadors led by Her Excellency Michèle Pranchère-Tomassini, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Czech Republic, Estonia, and the Ukraine. The following female ambassadors and chargées d’affaires to the Czech Republic also took part in the visit: Ms. Albertine M. Kabambi, chargée d’affaires of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Her Excellency Ms. Ines Troha, Ambassador of Croatia, Ms. Rola Hamdan, chargée d’affaires of Lebanon, Her Excellency Ms. Souriya Otmani, Ambassador of Morocco, Her Excellency Ms. Liliana De Olarte de Torres-Muga, Ambassador of Peru, Her Excellency Ms. Manuela Franco, Ambassador of Portugal, Her Excellency Ms. Vera Mavrić, Ambassador of Serbia, Her Excellency Ms. Franki Verwey, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa, and Her Excellency Ms. Anna Viktoria Li, Ambassador of Sweden. Also invited was Prof. RNDr. Eva Zažímalová, CSc., who was elected President of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the period 2017–2021 at the Academy’s Assembly in December 2016. During the group’s two-hour morning visit the research staff of the Institute presented to their guests some of the projects and themes of the various departments and the background resources for art-historical research: the Photo Archive and Photographic Studio, and the Department of Documentation with its collection of prints and photographs and its collection of restoration work. Our academic workplace can also take pride in the fact that among the specialists in mediaeval art who work here is PhDr. Klára Benešovská, CSc., who in 2015 was awarded the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in recognition in particular of her many years of research relating to John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia