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Goo news for those interested in monuments and monument care in Central Europe who missed the deadline of this CFP. The organisers are still accepting paper proposals for the conference "Monuments and monument care in Czechoslovakia and other Central European countries during the second half of the 20th century" which is planned for 27 and 28 April 2021 at the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prague 1.

Attached file: CFP_monuments and monument care_2021_FINAL.pdf

From Monday 25 May 2020 both the reading room of the Department of Documentation and Photo-Archive of the IAH CAS will be open for scholars. Also here it is necessary to follow strict hygiene and safety rules:

Dear readers, from 19 May 2020 both the libraries of the IAH CAS (Library of IAH CAS and Library of Musicology) will open reading rooms for public. However, it will be still necessary to follow strict hygiene and safety rules:

We would like to inform those interested in both the lecture series organised by the IAH ("Collegium Historiae Artium" and "Dialogo della Musica") that we are intensively working on rescheduling the programme for a later date. We will keep you up to date about any changes. In the meantime, the lecture room of the IAH CAS remains closed to public. Instead, please, find the recording of Nicholas Sawicki speaking on Douglas Cooper in Prague and Moscow: Behind the Iron Curtain for ‘The Cubist Epoch’.

Dear readers, we would like to inform you that both the libraries, Library of the IAH CAS and the Library of Musicology, will open again from 4 May 2020 with following restrictions.

We would like to inform you that the monograph in two volumes "Imago/Imagines: Metamorphoses of their Function in the Medieval Bohemian Lands" has been just published by the Academia Publishing House. The monograph presents a final outcome of the eponymous project funded by the Czech Science Foundation.

We kindly ask those interested to send their proposals for the international workshop "Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture," which will take place in Prague on 23 October 2020 at the Library of Musicology, Puškin Square, Prague 1. The official languages of the workshop will be English and German. Papers will be twenty minutes in length, followed by ten minutes for questions and constructive feedback. As this is a one-day event and parallel sessions will be avoided, only a limited number of papers can be accepted. However, interested colleagues are encouraged to submit abstracts also with a view to contributing a chapter to an edited volume on the same topic, which is planned for 2021. Proposals including an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent in a format compatible with MS Word to Dr Anja Bunzel (womeninczechmusic@gmail.com) no later than 31 May 2020. For further details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: CFP_Ženy v české hudební kultuře_20_10_23.pdf

The conference will focus on approaches to monuments, the development of monument care, and crucial themes and key personalities in the field of heritage in Central European countries belonging with the East bloc after 1945. It will take place on 27 and 28 April 2021 at the Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Prag 1. We kindly ask those interested to send their proposals by 31 May 2020. For futher infomation, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: CFP_monuments and monument care_2021_FINAL.pdf

We kindly ask those interested to send their proposals for the second continuation of the international conference "The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History II: The 100th Anniversary of Max Dvořák’s Death". The conference will take place on 15 and 16 April 2021.The proposals are to be send by 30 June 2020. For further information, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: CALL FOR PAPERS_The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History II The 100th Anniversary of Max Dvořák’s Death_April 2021.pdf

For the next term 2020/2021, these students were awarded the Bader Scholarship: Tereza Johanidesová - Key Concepts, Terms and Interpretation Strategies of Czech Marxist Iconology; Michaela Hojdysz - Archduke Eugen of Austria-Teschen: Rebuilding and Conservation of the Bouzov Castle in the Context of Collecting and Historic Preservation in Central Europe in the Late 19th Century; Mariana Placáková - The Experience of Emancipation. Feminist Art in the Era of State Socialism. Congratulations!

Considering the actual situation with the coronavirus pandemic we would like to inform you that all the lectures from the series "Collegium historiae artium" as well as "Dialogo della musica" are cancelled. Also the Library of the IAH and the Library of Musicology are closed for the public from 13 March 2020 onwards.

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 by 31. March 2020 to the address: Institute of Art History (secretary), Husova 4, 110 00 Prague 1. For details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: vyzva_postdoc_3_2020.pdf

On Wednesday 11 March 2020 Nicholas Sawicki (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania) will talk on: "Douglas Cooper in Prague and Moscow: Behind the Iron Curtain for ‘The Cubist Epoch’". The lecture within the series Collegium historiae artium will take place at 4.30 pm in the lecture theatre of the IAH CAS, room no. 117. You are cordially invited.

Attached file: 20200311_CHA_Sawicki.pdf

The new issue no. 19 of the bulletin Studia Rudolphina has been just published by the Center for Visual Arts and Culture in the Age of Rudolf II. For the content, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: SR19_contents.pdf

We would like to inform you about the exhibition "Stanislav Kolíbal - London 1969" which will be open on Friday 21 February at 6.30 pm at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in London. The exhibition was prepared by Katarína Mašterová and Pavel Vančát in cooperation with the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

We would like to inform you about another lecture from the Collegium Historiae Artium series. On Wednesday 26 February 2020 Christian Joschke (University Paris Nanterre) will talk on „How German Communists Invented French Radical Photography: Regards and Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (1928–1936)". The lecture starts at 4.30 pm in the lecture theater of the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1, room nr. 117. This will be the opening lecture to the international workshop "Worker Photography in Museums. History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe". For more details, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: 202000226_CHA_Joschke.pdf

We cordially invite you to the international workshop "Worker Photography in Museums. History and Politics of a Cultural Heritage in East-Central Europe", which will be open on Wednesday 26 February 2020 by the lecture delivered by Christian Joschke (University Paris Nanterre) within the series Collegium Historiae Artium at the IAH CAS, Husova 4, Prague 1. On the second day, 27 February 2020, the workshop will take place at the CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, Prague 1. For the programme, please, see the attachment.

Attached file: Workers_programme_105x297_0217_web.pdf

The IAH CAS in cooperation with the Bibliothece Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institute for Art History in Rome and Vivarium - Centre for Research of the Medieval Society and Culture, University of Ostrava organise an international conference "Royal Nunneries at the Centre of Medieval Europe: Art, Architecture, Aesthetics 11th-14th centuries". The conference will take place on 2-4 July 2020 in the Prague’s Na Františku double convent founded by the Přemyslid princess St. Agnes with her brother, king Wenceslas I. We welcome papers from art and architectural historians, as well as from scholars in adjacent fields, focusing on a case study, a region, or royal/courtly entourage, and posing theoretical and methodological questions which could offer a bridge for comparative discussions.

Attached file: CFP Royal Nunneries_fin.pdf

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!