The conference Photo Albums’ Twisted Meanings: Between Nostalgia and Trauma, organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, will be held in Prague, Czech Republic in hybrid format on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 November, 2021. One of the main aims of the workshop is to discuss and highlight obscure, forgotten albums reflecting traumatic or forgotten chapters in

International conference Bringing down the Archive Fever will take place from 20 to 22 October, 2021 at Urania (Trg E. Kvaternika 3/3, Zagreb) and online via Zoom. The conference is organized by the Institute of Art History and is part of the project The Cycle: European Training in Photographic Legacy Management (2020 – 2022), financed by the European Union (Creative Europe programme).   Photography archives are more than just collecting,

Leonida Kovač held a keynote lecture on 3 September, 2021, titled “Nasta Rojc: Subversion of Normative Heterosexuality”. The lecture was introduction to the international conference Not Yet Written Stories in Warsaw. Nasta Rojc (1883 – 1964) was a Croatian artist who in the period from 1908 to 1925 painted a number of self-portraits in which she practiced subversion of gender, or more precisely normative heterosexuality. In 1914 she painted drag

Institute of Art History announces an international scientific conference, which will take place on the 21st – 22nd of October in Zagreb. The conference is held as part of the project The Cycle, in collaboration with Spéos International Photographic Institute, Pariz; Magnum Photos Endowment Fund, Pariz; Ured za fotografiju, Zagreb; Sveučilište Deusto, Bilbao.    We are happy to announce the list of presenters, while the full program will follow in September:   Theopisti

The editorial board invites all interested authors to submit scientific and/or scholarly papers for publishing in the journal Život umjetnosti (109-2021).   The editorial board invites all interested authors to submit scientific and/or scholarly papers for publishing in the journal Život umjetnosti (109–2021). The thematic issue of the journal is dedicated to various aspects of photography, with an emphasis on the meaning and knowledge that this medium transmits and encourages,

Bringing down the Archive Fever – opening and collaborating on photography archives and collections   Call for papers October 21 – 22, 2021, Zagreb Deadline: June 1, 2021 ORGANISED BY: Institute of Art History, Zagreb; Magnum Photos Endowment Fund, Paris; Spéos International Photographic Institute, Paris; Deusto University, Bilbao; Office for Photography, Zagreb     Photography archives are more than just collecting, writing about, and curating. Recent discussions over the world

The international conference Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation was held in Split from 3 to 5 December 2020. The conference call was announced during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. It is precisely for this reason that the organizers set as a central question a re-examination of individual and collective memory of the time that was, of time we live right now, and

This year, the annual Discovering Dalmatia international scientific conference organised by Institute of Art History, will take place virtually, over the course of three days, December 3-5.   This year conference, entitled Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation, is inspired by the Institute of Art History’s project Exposition [Ekspozicija]. Themes and Aspects of Croatian Photography from the 19th Century until Today, which is financed by the Croatian

Extended deadline for submissions – Deadline for submissions extended from June 30th to July 20th 2020 Notification of acceptance August 7th 2020   The Institute of Art History – The Cvito Fisković Centre, Split call for papers for an international conference of academics and professionals organized as part of a week of events in scholarship and research DISCOVERING DALMATIA VI, 3 – 5 December 2020. Inspired by the current situation,