“The Bourgeois Public Discusses Art III: Transnational Media, Mediators and Art Practices in Central Europe” is a workshop organised by the Institute of Art History and the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. This workshop seeks to explore the intricate relationship between the bourgeois public (Reinhart Koselleck, Jürgen Habermas) and literature and the arts, with a particular focus on the transnational role of the media, mediators and art practices in Central Europe from the late 18th century until the end of the 19th century. The organisers seek a transnational perspective based on the methods of art and literary history, cultural and media history, and aesthetics and sociology, which will help them to shed light on the positions and emergence of the public aspect of art in the socially, linguistically, and nationally differentiated Central Europe of the long 19th century.

The workshop is a continuation of previous meetings on Central European art publics: https://www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/mestanska-verejnost-diskutuje-oumeni; https://www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/the-bourgeois-public-discusses-art-ii

Submission guidelines: Please send your abstract of max. 1800 characters/250 words to dobias@ucl.cas.cz (Dalibor Dobiáš) and machalikova@udu.cas.cz (Pavla Machalíková) by April 30, 2025. You will be notified about the selection of
submissions in May 2025. We expect the final papers to be 20 minutes long. The preferred language will be English.

The organisers offer accommodation and travel grants to selected participants without institutional background.
Learn more: https://www.udu.cas.cz/archiv/content_cz/cfp_bourgeois_public_iii.pdf