Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Armenofobie: Umění [a] marginalizace by Margarita Khakhanova. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
we cordially invite you to the premiere of a new documentary film by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The call for papers for the international conference The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts. From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries) is open. The Conference will be held in Brno at the Centre for Early Medieval Studies on November 11–12, 2024.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Klasická rétorika v barbarské architektuře? Reprezentace moci v Cividale del Friuli by Zuzana Urbanová. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
we cordially invite you to the presentation of the new photographic book Wonders in stone.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture On the Road: Ateni Sioni jako kulturní křižovatka by Ivan Foletti. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
we cordially invite you to watch a new documentary film Ani navěky. Příběh pozapomenutého města středověké Arménie. by the Center for Early Medieval Studies.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Obrazy v mlhavém oparu: Kolonialismus, mýty a středověké umění
v Etiopii by Lenka Vrlíková. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Obrazy vítězí! Umění a kult v Arménii 7. století by Veronika Džugan Hermanová. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the international workshop “In and Outside Venice. Circulation of Objects, Texts, Languages, techniques, and Cultures (13th-15th Centuries)“ that will take place within the frame of the GAČR project of dr. Ilaria Molteni.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the international peer-reviewed journal Convivium, which is going to take place on October 24 at 5.00 p.m. at Hans Belting Library (Veveří 28, Brno).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Na pouti do neznáma. Orkneje, katedrála sv. Magnuse a svět nordických ság by Filip Šimek. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to a workshop and interdisciplinary conference entitled Entangled Histories at Conques: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition on the cultural heritage of medieval Armenia, which is quite unique in the Czech environment.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
please accept our invitation to the first of three international colloquia held to honour the legacy of Professor Hans Belting, entitled Cult / Space / Presence of Images: Three Workshops on the Art and Cultural Historical Impulses of Hans Belting.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Kult (mrtvých) celebrit. Nejen relikvie by prof. Ivan Foletti. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Trůn Boží moudrosti: stříbrná socha Panny Marie u Beaulieu v liturgickém dramatu by Zuzana Frantová. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference Peripheral Vision, which is going to take place on April 24–25 at Hans Belting Library (Veveří 28, Brno).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Odvrácená strana diptychu: Boethius a sakrální transformace slonoviny by Denisa Kadlčíková. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
we would like to cordially invite you to the joint workshop of graduate students of Byzantine literature from the Universities in Brno, Olomouc and Vienna, organized in the frame of the Project Postdoc2MUNI.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to a gala meeting at the Scala university cinema on Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 6 pm. We would like to present the second part of the results of our four-year work on the project The Potential of Migration, and the Contribution of (not only) Russian Emigrants to Interwar Europe, supported by TAČR.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Úhly pohledu: portál Staré radnice v Brně a problém stylové "čistoty" by Jakub Kříž. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the opening ceremony of the Cabinet for Armenian Art and Culture, which is going to take place on Thursday, February 23 at 6.15 pm at Hans Belting Library (Veveří 28, Brno).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Příběh tisíce a jednoho kostela: Ani. Hlavní město středověké Arménie by Ivan Foletti. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the CEMS, which is going to take place on December 14 at 5.00 p.m. at Hans Belting Library (Veveří 28, Brno).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference Inventing Past Narratives, which is going to take place on December 12–13 at Hans Belting Library (Veveří 28, Brno).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Mezi nebem a zemí: Klášter v Moisaccu by Jana Černocká. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to a gala meeting at the Scala university cinema on Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 6 pm. We would like to present the results of our four-year work on the project The Potential of Migration, and the Contribution of (not only) Russian Emigrants to Interwar Europe, supported by TAČR.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Islámská mísa pro křesťanského krále: „Křtitelnice svátého Ludvíka“ a druhý život islámských artefaktů by Adrien Palladino. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the 10th Day of Byzantine Studies.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Znamení vítězství: Desideriův Kříž z Brescie a zářící drahokamy by Adéla Lisáková. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Obrazy z podzemí: Galerie portrétů v Katakombách San Gennaro by prof. Ivan Foletti. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Conference organized within MSCA–RISE project Conques in the Global World (GA 101007770).
CUNY Graduate Center / Hunter College

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the opening ceremony of Shota Rustaveli Cabinet, which is going to take place on Monday, May 30 at 5.00 pm at Hans Belting Library (Veveří 28, Brno).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Na první pohled: visuality poutníků ve středověku by Martin Drlíček. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture 12 Stones. 4 Elements. Tracts, Theories, and Representation by Beate Fricke. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture The Role of Colors in the Middle Ages: Materiality and Theories by Alberto Virdis. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the thematic lecture 190 let ruského imperialismu, umění a obyčejní lidé by Ivan Foletti. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture Středověký Disneyland 19. století: město Conques a poutní cesta do Santiaga by Ivan Foletti. Lecture is part of spring cycle of StředověC JinaX.

In the aim to promote excellence and international multilingual research, the Association of Friends of the Center for Early Medieval Studies (afcems) decided to establish a yearly prize for the best book in medieval art (all pre-modern world cultures included).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The members of the Center for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference Re-Constructing Late Antique Armenia (2nd–8th Centuries CE): Historiography, Material Culture, Immaterial Heritage , which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 20th to the 22th February 2022.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture The Angel in the Square - Silence in Medieval Images by Vincent Debiais. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public lecture Viděné a neviděné: chrám svatého Demetria ve Vladimiru v Rusku by Lucie Lienerová. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear colleagues and friends, We would like to kindly invite you to the lecture by the Israeli artist and curator Yanai Toister "Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine". The lecture will occur on Wednesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:30 pm in Hans Belting Library.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public lecture Paměť v kameni: druhý život artefaktů skrze opětovné použití by Kristýna Mikešová. Lecture is part of autumn cycle of StředověC JinaX.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, The members of the Center for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference A Radical Turn? Subversions, Conversions, and Mutations in the Postclassical World (3rd–8th c.), which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 18th to the 19th October 2021.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the first lecture of the jubilee series of the StředověC JinaX. It is exactly 10 years since the first lecture of the series took place. We will start as usual with a lecture by prof. Ivan Foletti, who this time will talk about whether the Middle Ages are the Dark Ages or not.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of professor Jiří Kroupa which will be streamed live via our YouTube channel. Lecture is part of spring StředověC Jinax cycle…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of our doctoral student Veronika Pichaničová which will be streamed live via our YouTube channel. Lecture is part of spring StředověC Jinax cycle…

Dear friends and colleagues, we would like to cordially invite you to the conference Maska a identita v transkulturní perspektivě [Mask and Identity in a Transcultural Perspective], co-organized by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies, which will take place on the 25^th and 26^th of October 2021 at the University of Hradec Králové.…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of our master student Veronika Borůvková which will be streamed live via our YouTube channel. Lecture is part of spring StředověC Jinax cycle…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of our master student Veronika Hermanová which will be streamed live via our YouTube channel. Lecture is part of spring StředověC Jinax cycle…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of profesor Ivan Foletti which will be streamed live via our YouTube channel. It will be the first lecture of this year spring StředověC Jinax cycle…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of our master student Jana Černotská which will be streamed live via our YouTube channel…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of our master student Martin Drlíček which will be streamed live via our YouTube channel. It will be the third lecture of this year autumn StředověC Jinax cycle…

The Christianization of the Roman Empire has no parallel in European history: in less than 150 years, the vast majority of the population in the Mediterranean area was Christianized. We believe—and this is the key hypothesis of this workshop—that…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of Gajane Achverdjan which will be streamed live via YouTube channel. It will be the second lecture of this year autumn StředověC Jinax cycle…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of Ivan Foletti which will be streamed live via YouTube channel. The lecture will be the first one from this autumn StředověC Jinax cycle…

Dear friends and colleagues, dear pilgrims, we kindly invite you to join us on a short pilgrimage towards the churches of St. Markéta in Loukov, St. Martin in Dolní Město, and the Church of St. Jiří in Řečice…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of Klára Doležalová Existuje hranice kultur? which will be streamed live via YouTube channel…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of Ivan Foletti Pád civilizace? which will be streamed live via YouTube channel…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of Ivan Foletti which will be streamed live via YouTube…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public online lecture of Ivan Foletti which will be streamed live via YouTube…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public lecture of Ivan Foletti which will be an opening event for new-semestr set of well established cycle of lectures for broad public StředověC JinaX...

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Center for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the public lecture of profesor of archeology from the Trinity College of University of Oxford...

What are the reasons to discover, teach, preserve, exhibit, and experience an art so distant and yet so close to the twenty-first century?...

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Center for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference entitled Rome in a Global World: Visual Cultures during the Carolingian Transition, which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 14th to the 15th October 2019...

On the occasion of this celebration, we would like to personally invite you to a reception which will be held during the International Medieval Congress 2019 in Leeds...

Dear friends and colleagues, The art historical journal Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean published by Masaryk University, the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of Lausanne celebrates its fifth anniversary...

Dear friends and colleagues, The Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History (Masaryk University) would like to kindly invite you to the lecture From Trace to Print: Histories of an Islamic Image Relic by Prof. Finbarr Barry Flood (New York University)...

Dear friends and colleagues, The Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History (Masaryk University) would like to kindly invite you to the lecture series Islam and Image: Beyond the Bilderverbot of Prof. F. Barry Flood held from May 13 to 17 in Hans Belting Library. The lectures will take place each day from 10 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 3 p.m...

We would like to kindly invite you to a lecture of professor Yves Gallet Re-thinking 13th-century Mont-Saint-Michel. It will take place on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7 p.m. in Hans Belting Library (the ground-floor of building “K” of the Faculty of Arts at the Masaryk University, Veveří 28). The event is organized by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies within the frame of StředověC JinaX lectures...

Dear friends and colleagues, The members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference entitled Spaces of Initiation. Objects, Images, and Rituals in the Middle Ages, which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 11th to the 13th March 2019...

Dear friends and colleagues, The members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference entitled TRANSFORMED BY EMIGRATION. Welcoming Russian Intellectuals, Scientists, and Artists 1917–1945, which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 11th-13thFebruary 2019. ........

On Thursday December 13, we had the unique opportunity to organize a round table entitled Transcultural Spaces in Mediterranean, which consisted of contributions of two specialists currently post-doc at the Centre for Early Medieval Studies. Chiara Croci offered a lecture ........

The organisers of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture by Dr. Francesca Dell'Acqua from the University of Salerno titled "The Power of Wisdom: The Virgin Mary and Moral–Doctrinal Authority in the Middle Ages". The lecture will take a place on Thursday, November 29th, in the Hans Belting Library. This lecture will explore a fundamental issue in the western society of the past as well as of the present: female leadership and authority........

On Thursday October 18 took place a lecture of Chiara Bordino, MSCA fellow of the Centre, entitled Byzantine Painting in the 13th Century: Constantinople, Asia Minor and the Balkans.......

From October 8 to October 10, the international conference “Liminality and the Medieval Art II” was held at the Hans Belting Library. Following up on a first conference in 2017, this year, the contributions regarding physical or imaginary places of transition in medieval art were conceived in pairs......

The International Summer School (Moravian) Middle Ages in the Mirror of the 20th century takes place at Masaryk University at the Hans Belting Library. The summer school is held in cooperation with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the University of Zagreb in Croatia.

More than a year has passed since the group of Migrating Art Historians got off the train at the railway station in Brno, after having walked 1500 km on foot. Today, we are setting off for a new journey: far less long and with a considerably smaller group, but interesting nonetheless. This year, our pilgrimage is going to start in Arles.

After the gathering in Scala, which was devoted to the topic of the Armenian cultural genocide, the organisers of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies have prepared a new field trip to explore the monuments in the Caucasus. The journey which will take place from May 26th to June 2nd will be already our fourth expedition into the region.

Dear colleagues,
on behalf of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies we would like to cordially invite you to the conference Step by Step towards the Sacred: Ritual, Movement and Images in the Middle Ages, which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday (May 16-17th) in the Hans Belting Library.

The organisers of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture by prof. Daniela Mondini titled Furtum Sacrilegum. The “Holy Heads” of Peter and Paul and a Lost Fresco Cycle in the Lateran Basilica in Rome. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 15th, at 18.00, in the Hans Belting Library. It will be devoted to the reliquaries containing the remains of St. Peter and St. Paul as well as to the currently-already-lost cycle of frescos in the Lateran Basilica.

The event, which took place at the university cinema of Scala in the early evening of May 10th, was marked by a shared consideration about the beauties of the Caucasus. The students of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies were trying to convey their experiences which they have gathered during several field trips into the region since 2016 to the attendees. In particular, they presented various pieces of information about Armenia - a country with a rich cultural history.

Since 2016, the Centre for Early Medieval Studies have already organised several study trips to explore the monuments of the medieval Caucasus. During these trips, we have not only collected a lot of new pieces of knowledge and intriguing questions, but also rich visual material - as well as considerations about how to share at least a part of it with you all. And so, we would now like to invite you all to our multi-genre meeting titled On Cultural Genocide, Memory and Beauty: The Art of Medieval Armenia.

After the introductory words by prof. Kroupa, the Head of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Ivan Foletti, presented his inaugurating professor-to-be lecture titled Step out of the Shade. Constantinople, Ravenny, Rome and the year 500 in the premises of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, on May 3, 2018.

On April 9-13th, a lecture series/block course by Katharina Meinicke (Universität Wien) titled The Umayyad Visual Culture between Continuity and Change took place in the Hans Belting Library. The course presented an overview of the visual culture of the empire of the first islamic dynasty, the Umayyads (AD 661-750), which was, figuratively speaking, a superpower on the crossroads, in the sense of both geography and history.

On Thursday, April 5, a public lecture from the series "Middle Ages, differently" took place in the Hans Belting Library. The lecture titled On the Path towards Eternity: The Face of the Empress between Illusion and Representation was presented by Teodora Georgievova.