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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 31 March 2018 to the address: Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, v. v. i. (secretary), Husova 4, 110 00 Prague 1 For details see the attachment.

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The international conference "Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria and His Cultural Patronage between Prague and Innsbruck" will take place on 21–23 February 2018 at the Academic Conference Centre (Husova 4a, Prague 1). Papers to be presented deal with following aspects of Duke's patronage: “Kunstkammer”, Collections, Cultural Transfers / The Fine Arts and their Protagonists / Architecture / Humanism – Science, Literature and Music / The Dynasty and its Festivities. For more details see the attachment.

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Annual meeting on the issues of sepulchre monuments has been organised by the Institute of Art History, CAS since 2000. The aim of the meeting is to mediate an interdisciplinary cooperation within the topic. Welcomed are papers referring especially to the Central European material from Middle Ages up to present. Again, a special panel on Jewish sepulchre monuments is planned. Papers are going to be published in the Artefactum Publishing House, in the Epigraphica & Sepulcralia Monographica series.

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This workshop, organized by the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES), the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚDU AV ČR), the National Gallery in Prague (NG) and the Institute of Art History of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University (ÚDU FF UK) is open to PhD students, post doctoral students and young researchers.

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From 25 January till 29 March 2018 the Galerie Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus in Düsseldorf hosts the premiere of the exhibition project "Josef Sudek: Topography of Ruins". The exhibition presents forty newly-made prints of images which Josef Sudek took in the streets of Prague immediately after the World War II to document the damage sustained by the city. The exhibition will then travel in the same format to Milan, Rome and Warsaw. An expanded version of the exhibition will subsequently be presented in Prague during the summer of 2018.

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We invite you to the lecture of Jürgen Müller (Technische Universität Dresden) "„Cazzon da mulo“. Wit and Irony in Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s Boy Bitten by a Lizzard", which takes place on Wednesday 24 January 2018 at 16.30 at the IAH CAS, Husova 4, room no. 117. For more details see the attachment.

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Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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We would like to invite you to the international workshop "Habsburger Adventus. Stadteinzüge und Kirchenbesuche im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert" which takes place on Tuesday 5 December 2017 in the Academic Conference Centre (Husova 4a, Prague 1). For programme see the attachment.

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Another lecture from the series Collegium Historiae Artium will take place on Wednesday 29 November 2017 at 3.30 at the IAH CAS, Husova 4, room no. 117. This time Megan R. Luke (University of Southern California) talks about "Photoplastik: Max Klinger’s Beethoven".

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The lecture, delivered by Zuzana Frantová from Masaryk University in Brno, belongs to the lecture series Middle Ages in Motion. It will take place at the IAH, Husova 4, room No. 117 on Tuesday 21 November 2017 at 4.00 pm.

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We would like to invite you to the international workshop "Bader Scholars in Art History". The conference is organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of Isabel & Alfred Bader Fund, a Bader Philanthropy, and the Czech Association of Art Historians. Free admission to the conference is limited by the capacity of the conference venue.

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The newly released publication on Troja Château describes the construction history and circumstances of the creation of this well-known Prague Baroque complex. The architecture of Troja Château, the extraordinary quality of its decoration and the social ties of its builder – Wenzel Adalbert, Count of Sternberg – have been for the first time put into the wider context of Central European art at the end of the 17th century. The book, accompanied with ample illustrations and schematic diagrams, has been also conceived as a practical guide to the château, meeting the needs of the general public as well as visitors with professional interest.

We invite you to the lecture of Michael Gubser (James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA) "Riegl, Phenomenology, and the Ethic of Attention", which take place on Wednesday 25 October 2017 at 15.30 at the IAH CAS, Husova 4, room no. 117. For more details see the attachment.

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A Czech-English catalogue to the exhibition "Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964): A Tribute to Invention" has been published by the Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava in cooperation with the Institute of Art History. For the contents, please, see the attachment. Here, crematory in Moravský Ostrava is dealt with special attention. The story of this cubo-expressionist architecture is pursued on the basis of first designs through its realisation (1923-1925) up to its abolishment and demolition in 1979.

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From September 27 2017 until January 7 2018 an exhibition "Vlastislav Hofman (1884–1964): A Tribute to Invention" is opened in the Dům umění in Ostrava. Curator: Mahulena Nešlehová (IAH CAS) in cooperation with Markéta Svobodová (IAH CAS).

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A lecture delivered by Christopher Long (School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin) takes place on Wednesday 4 October 2017 at 15.30 at the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Room No. 117. For more information see the attachment.

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We would like to invite you to the international workshop "(Trans)Missions: Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers" which takes place on 25–26 September 2017 at the Špork Palace, Hybernská 3, Prague 1.

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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.

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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.

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