Science Week is a new educational format organized by the Department of Art Theory and History at FaVU.

For one week, the department will suspend its regular classes and open its doors to outside voices. Monday’s program takes place on the FaVU campus and is organized by KTDU faculty members.

On the following days, the event will move to the VUT Tržnice Center and the Kino CIT, featuring lectures by invited experts and discussions on the topic of art and class.

Science Week does not have a single overarching theme, but there is a motif that will be present in a significant portion of the program. This theme is the people and folk culture—or popularity—and questions regarding their relationship to culture and art. 

Monday, October 19

12:00–2:00 PM lecture (open class), classroom U1/314

Ladislav Jackson: National Style for Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia Between the Wars and Empires 

2:00–4:00 PM presentation, classroom U1/202

Lenka Veselá: Publishing at FaVU & Eva Jaroňová, Nina Böttcherová: Zines at FaVU 

2:00–4:00 PM Zuzana Jakalová, Classroom U1/314

Screening of Alyson Patsavas’s film *Code of Freaks* and discussion

4:00–6:00 PM Lecture (open class), Classroom U1/314

Jan Zálešák: Pop Art Theory on the Internet 

Tuesday, October 20

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM lecture, BUT Tržnice Center

Marta Filipová: Our Folk Art, Your Folk Art 

2:00–4:00 PM lecture, BUT Tržnice Center

Jiří Dynda: Inventing Pagan Antiquity in the Visual Arts 

5:00–6:00 PM book launch, VUT Tržnice Center

Jiří Žák (ed.), We Love Shooting 

Wednesday, October 21

6:00–8:00 PM roundtable discussion, VUT Tržnice Center

Class Back on the Scene: Why Cultural Criticism Is Returning to Class Issues

Panelists: Ivana Rumanová, Ondřej Špaček

Moderators: Zuzana Jakalová, Jirka Skála 

Thursday, October 22

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Lecture, BUT Tržnice Center

Pavel Pospěch: The Search for Naturalness in an Alienated Society 

4:00–6:00 PM lecture, Kino CIT

Whitney Davis: Pictures and Projection: A Brief History 1900–1950 

Venues: FaVU VUT (Úvoz 33), VUT Tržnice Center (Zelný trh 14), Kino CIT (Radnická 4)

Complete information can be found here.