#conference | Architecture and the Power of Bureaucracy
📅 6–7 November 2025
📍 Austrian Academy of Sciences
The conference is organized by @uduavcr.bsky.social and the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, @oeaw.bsky.social.
Program ➡️ www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/arch...
Photo credit: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences.
#CfP from @uduavcr.bsky.social for the conference panel REFORMS, REVIVALS, AND RETURNS REVISITED at the annual conference of the @forarthistory.org.uk, taking place on 8–10 April 2026 at the University of Cambridge.
❗ Deadline: 2 November 2025
Details ➡️ forarthistory.org.uk/reforms-revi...
O práci našeho restaurátorského ateliéru píše Seznam Zprávy! 📸
Daguerrotypie z Městského muzea v Polné prošly detailním restaurováním v #UDUAVCR. Výsledek si můžete prohlédnout na výstavě Nebude nic! do 31. října 2025.
📰 www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/magaz...
A new call for @uduavcr.bsky.social postdoc fellowships has been released. If interested in carrying out research in Prague (esp. at the CVF/Photography Research Centre), don't hesitate. More details at www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/vybe...
14.08.2025 06:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#postdoc
Vyhlašujeme výběrové řízení na zařazení do Programu podpory postdoktorandů/ek.
Uzávěrka přihlášek: 12. září 2025
Více informací najdete na webu.
www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/vybe...
The American Academy in Berlin is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Berlin Prize, a semester-long residential fellowship open to US-based scholars, writers, journalists, and public policy experts who wish to advance independent projects within an interdisciplinary community.
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Happy to share that my article on Metternich's early interest in Daguerre's invention is now available not only to Czech readers: doi.org/10.1080/1756.... If you are interested but don't have access, please don't hesitate to reach out. #daguerreotype #Metternich #photocollection #photohist
03.06.2025 08:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Symposium Future Memories: How Photography Shapes Our Understanding of the World | 14 May 2025 at The Rijksmuseum | A one-day international symposium exploring the impact of photojournalism and documentary photography on our perceptions of the world | Live & online
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/...
Matters of Religion: Raw Materials, Natural Resources and Craftsmanship in the Making of Religious Objects
#roundtable pro zájemce o studium materiality v kontextu raně novověké religiozity a o raně novověké sběratelství a mobilitu objektů se koná 4. 4. v #uduavcr.
www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/matt...
"It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts. The more detainees, the more money they make."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Auf dem Video sehen wir den mutmaßlichen Einsatz einer illegallen Schallkanone gegen die Demonstrierenden in Belgrad. Oder wie die Regierung es nennt, der "Was für eine Schallkanone, da istnichts passiert" Moment.
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The top picture shows large crowds in Budapest. To the bottom right are protestors in Tbilisi. The final photo shows thousands in Budapest waving flags
It isn’t just #SerbiaProtests today. People are taking to the streets across Europe to make their voice heard.
These were the scenes TODAY in:
- Bucharest, Romania🇷🇴
- Tbilisi, Georgia🇬🇪
- Budapest, Hungary🇭🇺
Countries & capitals united against Russia and in support of Europe.🇪🇺
#GeorgiaProtests
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
15.03.2025 16:37 — 👍 77377 🔁 17687 💬 2670 📌 2795So thankful for my Austrian, Czech, German, & Ukrainian Fulbrights. Recently spent time helping evaluate Ukrainian Fulbright proposals. What kind of anti-intellectual know-nothings would put this spectacular program on hold? A plague on akk your houses until the seventh generation.
08.03.2025 03:14 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Thank you! Hopefully later this year.
09.02.2025 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Sara🙂
12.01.2025 21:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm happy to announce that my book on early paper photography in central Europe "Inventors, Pirates, Epigones" is now available as an e-book at a.co/d/cl5PYJX; a sample can be viewed at www.academia.edu/126980382/In...
12.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
#CfP The peer-reviewed journal Umění/Art invites authors to submit article proposals for a special issue entitled Mechanical reproduction of art works and artefacts in the 19thC | Abstract submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Article submission deadline 30 Oct 2025
www.academia.edu/126618718/Cf...
The call for papers for the annual Photographic History Research Centre conference is out! This year we're thinking through the many meanings of value. "Photography, Value, History", 17-18 June, hybrid. Send us your proposal by 10 Jan! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #PhotoHist
18.11.2024 11:01 — 👍 28 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
A new project is born! Next two years, my colleagues and I will enjoy the privilege to research and handle an amazing collection of 19thC photographs from Polna Municipal Museum, including this tremendous daguerreotype tableau 👇 (83 × 64 cm) www.udu.cas.cz/en/projekty-... | www.muzeum-polna.cz
15.11.2024 16:35 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It was such a great pleasure to attend the presentation of #MonikaFaber 's Festschrift last night; and not just because I owe her so much. Thanks to #WalterMoser, #AlbertinaMuseum, #PhotoinstitutBonartes and others who made it happen! (It was honour to contribute a short chapter.)
26.04.2024 10:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday, I was happy to present a paper on photographic counterfeits /1840s-1860s at the conference ucl.cas.cz/udalosti/trh... | Hope the audience enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the research!😀 Thanks to Katerina Piorecka and Martin Hrdina.
02.03.2024 10:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't miss the series of talks on photography/photomechanical topics organized by the PhotoMatrix team in Prague | onsite + online | February-May 2024 photomatrix.cz/outputs
11.02.2024 09:53 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of AI in Museums, cover illustration a network graph in a spiral shape
The book "AI in Museums" is out! Edited by jobernha.bsky.social and sothie.bsky.social.
My contribution is about generating critical information about painting collections with AI. Read it in open access or buy here:
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6...
