1 Oct

CFP – Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds: Art, Extraction, and Knowledge in Central Europe and Beyond

We cordially invite proposals for papers for the international conference Metals, Minerals, and Material Worlds: Art, Extraction, and Knowledge in Central Europe and Beyond, which will take place from the 19th to 21st of May 2027 at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.

PODCAST 🎙 Czechs and colonies. Is It Time to Return Museum Artifacts?

Matthew Rampley was a guest on Afrika, a podcast by the news and current affairs outlet Voxpot, where he discussed the Czech Republic's relationship with the colonial past.

September 2026

DHS Annual Conference 2026 in Brno!

We are delighted to announce that in 2026, Brno will host the Design History Society Annual Conference. Titled Design in an Age of Uncertainty, the event will explore the urgent issues that shape not only the present of design history, but also its pasts and possible futures. From the 3rd to the 5th of September, the Department of Art History will host an event dedicated to exchange of ideas about design history, theory, criticism and practice and will bring together the best and up-to-date research in the field from established as well as emerging scholars!

18 Jun

Agents of Change: Folk Cultures in the Long 20th Century

We present the program of the workshop Agents of Change: Folk Cultures in the Long 20th Century, which will take place at our department on the 18th and 19th of June 2026. Click on the article to view the full workshop program and abstracts of the individual lectures.

1 May

Call for Applications: ProletGard ERC Starting Grant Project

We are sharing a call for applications for two postdoctoral positions in the ProletGard ERC Starting Grant project, The Cultural Vanguard of Workers' Movements: A Social History of East Central European Avant-Garde between the Two Wars, which has recently begun and is hosted by the Kassák Foundation in Budapest.

1 Apr

CFP – From Comrades to Exotic Others: Global Art in the Exhibitionary Practices of Central and Eastern Europe

We cordially invite proposals for papers for the international conference From Comrades to Exotic Others: Global Art in the Exhibitionary Practices of Central and Eastern Europe, which will take place from the 5th to 7th of November 2026 at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. The conference forms part of Matthew Rampley’s research project Czechs and the Colonial World: Design and Visual Culture since 1848, funded by the Czech Science Foundation.

28 Feb

Getty’s Connecting Art Histories: Modernism’s Future Pasts

We cordially invite you to participate in the workshop Modernism's Future Pasts: Abstraction and Identity in 'East-Central Europe', 1910s–1930s, organised as part of Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative.

Part of the workshop will take place in Brno, where you will be welcomed by our colleague Matthew Rampley and have the opportunity to attend a lecture by the head of our centre Marta Filipová.

Call for Applications: Visiting Research Fellowship 2026

We invite applications for a one-month Visiting Research Fellowship during the Autumn Semester 2026.