BADER SCHOLARS IN ART HISTORY International Workshop

– Wednesday, November 22
Academic Conference Center, Husova 4a, Prague 1

9.00–9.30 opening by Tomáš Winter, Director of the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences

9.30–11.30
Barbora Holečková
Between Italy, Bohemia, and Hungary: Representation, Style, and Artistic Exchange in the Court Environment
Discussion chaired by: Romuald Kaczmarek, University of Wrocław

11.30–13.30
Ondřej Hojda
Do the Japanese Know Space? Western Architectural Modernism and Its View of Japan, 1945–1970
Discussion chaired by: Sandy Isenstadt, University of Delaware, Newark

13.30–14.30 break

14.30–16.30
Hana Benešovská
Egyptian Art through the Lens of Art Hstory: In Search of the ‘Egyptian’ in Us
Discussion chaired by: Whitney Davis, University of California, Berkeley

17.00, evening lecture
Whitney Davis (University of California, Berkeley)
Hegel's Symbolic Art and Cosmological Perspectivism

– Thursday, November 23
Conference room at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Husova 4, Prague 1, 1st floor, room No. 117

17.00, evening lecture
Sandy Isenstadt (University of Delaware, Newark)
Driving through the American Night: The Social Space of the Headlight

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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