The Institute of Art History and the Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS would like to invite you to a workshop organized as part of the Strategy AV21 research programme “The City as a Laboratory of Change”: “The Bourgeois Public Discusses Art. Institutions, Networks and Critical Practice in the Czech Lands during the 19th Century” which takes place on 23–24 November 2023 at the Academic Conference Centre in Prague (Husova 4a, Praha 1).

The aim of the conference is to explore, taking the example of the Czech lands and in confrontation with the broader European context, the formation of public or semi-public spaces for discussions about art (the museum, gallery, exhibition hall, shop premises, salon, theatre foyer, concert hall, club and association) and the corresponding media scene in communication networks (criticism, translation, exhibiting, promotion, and magazine exchanges and polemics).

Please send your proposals for papers along with an annotation of up to 900 characters to: dobias@ucl.cas.cz and machalikova@udu.cas.cz by 30 June 2023. You will be notified of the selection of papers during July 2023. Final contributions should not exceed 20 minutes in length. The conference will be a two-day event with international participation. The languages will be English and Czech. We plan to publish the selected and subsequently edited papers in printed form.

More information: https://www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/cfp-mestanska-verejnost-diskutuje-o-umeni