October 1-2, 2026

Technology Center UMPRUM, Cinema Room (3rd Floor)

Mikulandská 134/5, Prague 1

In a discipline as object-oriented as art history, the material from which its objects of study are made might seem an obvious starting point for research. Yet learning how to think about objects is inseparable from the discipline’s historiography, methodological approaches, and theoretical vocabularies, in which material itself has not always held as self-evident a place as one might expect. Or is this too sweeping a claim?