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The Institute of Art History, CAS, is pleased to announce a selection procedure for a new research position specialising in Czech music of the second half of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Applications shall be sent by 17 February 2020. For more information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Selection_procedure_research_position_Department_of_Musicology.pdf

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2020!

On Tuesday 17 December another lecture from the series Dialogo della musica will take place. This time Anja Bunzel (IAH CAS) and Melanie Unseld (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien) will talk on "Namen sind Schall und Rauch? Salonkultur im 19. Jahrhundert". The lecture starts at 4.30 pm at the lecture theathre of the IAH CAS, Husova 4, room no. 117. The lecture will be in German.

Attached file: Dialogo della musica_Bunzel_Unseld.pdf

The Institute of Art History CAS announces a new call for applicants for the Bader Scholarship. The deadline for all applications is on 31 January 2020. For more information in English, please get in touch with Tereza Johanidesová, email: johanidesova.at.udu.cas.cz

Attached file: Bader_Stipendium_soutez_na 2020.doc

We cordially invite you to the exhibition "Architect Pietro Nobile (1776–1854): Neoclassicism between Technique and Beauty", which is open at the Gallery of West Bohemia in Plzeň till 9 February 2020. The author of the exhibition is Taťána Petrasová (IAH CAS). The guided tours are scheduled for both 9 and 30 January 2020 from 5 pm.

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On Wednesday 20 November 2019 Dorothea McEwan (The Warburg Institute, University of London) will talk on„Aby Warburg’s and Fritz Saxl’s Assessment of the ‘Wiener Schule.’" The lecture from the Collegium historiae artium series will start at 4.30 at the IAH CAS, For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 20191120_McEwan.pdf

We cordially invite to the opening of the exhibition „Bauhaus • Women Czechoslovakia“ which will take place on Tuesday 19 November 2019 at 7 pm at Villa Tugendhat in Brno. Markéta Svobodová (IAH CAS) is the author of the exhibition, which is curated by Barbora Benčíková & Lucie Valdhansová, and Pavlína Doležalová (Pixle) & Jozef Ondrík are responsible for the architectural and graphic design.

Attached file: Bauhaus-ženy-Československo_pozvánka.pdf

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Stanislav Sucharda 1866–1916: Creative Process" which will take place on Thursday 14 November 2019 at 7 pm at the Trade Fair Palace ("Veletržní Palace"). The author of the exhibition is Martin Krummholz (IAH CAS). This first comprehensive presentation of Sucharda’s mostly unknown work is the outcome of the joint project Footprints of Work: The Legacy of Great Sculptors of the First Half of the 20th Century. The Conservation and Care of Plaster Sculptures (NAKI, DG16P02B052) carried out by the Faculty of Restoration of Pardubice University and the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, which researched Sucharda’s unique estate.

Attached file: Sucharda Vystava Plakat.pdf

On Friday 22 November 2019 an international workshop "Bader Scholars in Art History" will take place at the Academic Conference Centre (Husova 4a, Prague 1). For the program, please see the attachment.

Attached file: bader2019.pdf

We cordially invite you to a reprise of two exhibitions "Josef Sudek: In the Atelier" and "Sudek: Images and Reflections" which will be open on Thursday 7 November 2019 at 6 pm at the Gallery "Pod radnicí" in Ústí nad Orlicí. Both the exhibitions remain open until 30 November 2019.

Attached file: 2019 GPR JS.JPG

A co-lecture of Milada Jonášová (IAH CAS) and Manfred Hermann Schmid (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), scheduled in the series Dialogo della musica to 19 November 2019 has to be canceled because of the illness of one of the presenters. The lecture will probably take place in January 2020. We will inform you of the date. We do apologise for any inconvenience.

We coordialy invite you for presentation of the book "Jan Šépka: Inspiration" on Tuesday 29 October 2019 at 6 pm in v Café Jedna, National Gallery in Prague / Veletržní palác (Dukelských hrdinů 47, Prague 7). The book will be introduced by Jindřich Vybíral, a rector of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and Vendula Hnídková, the editor and author of text, from the IAH CAS.

Attached file: jš-pozvánka.pdf

Photography Research Centre at the IAH CAS is organising a conference "Photo: Science," which will take place on 17–19 September 2020 in Prague. We welcome proposals until 28 February 2020, e-mail address cvf.avcr@gmail.com.

Attached file: konference-CPV_0910-EN.pdf

On 22 October 2019 a workshop "Negatives and Their Storage in (Non)Collections" will take place at the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1. The workshop starts at 9.30 am. You are cordially invited.

We coordially invite you to the international conference "Zelenka Conference 2019", which will take place 19 October 2019 at the Library of the Department of Musicology, Puškin Square 9, Prague 6. For more details as well as for the programme, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Zelenka2019_program.pdf

We are calling for proposals for the international workshop "Worker Photography in Museums. History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe", which is going to take place on 27 February 2020 in Prague. Deadline for submissions is 15 November 2019. For more information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: CFP_Worker_Photography_Museums.pdf

An international conference "Visual Anti-Semitism in Central Europe" will take places on 17 October 2019 at the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1. The conference is one of the main outcomes of the NAKI II - Image of Enemy: Visual-Antisemitism in the Czech Lands from Middle Ages till today.

Attached file: konference_Visual_Anti-semitism_17_10_2019.pdf

On Wednesday 9 October 2019 Professor Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck (KHI Universität Bonn) will give a lecture entitled "Scripture and Image in the Gospels of Henry the Lion and Matilda of England". The lecture from the CHA series will take place at 4.30 pm at the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, room no. 117. For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 20191009_CHA_Knesebeck.pdf

Another exhibition, "Metamorphoses of Rural Architecture" will be open on 8 October 2019 at 6 pm at the Koridor Gallery of the Faculty of Education UJEP in Ústí nad Labem. For more information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: UDU vesnice - Pozvanka - 2019 UDU-web.pdf

We coordially invite you to the opening of an exhibition "Confiscated Fates. Rescuing the Monuments and Other Objects of German Inhabitants Confiscated by the CSR and Their northern Bohemian Owners" which takes place 1 October 2019 at the City Gallery MY in Jablonec nad Nisou. The exhibition is open until 1 December 2019.

Attached file: Konfiskované_osudy.pdf