Ivan Gerát - activities

Participation in international conferences:

2016 - "Eternal Values and Historical Situations in the Visual Cult of St. Elizabeth", international conference "Time and Temporality in Medieval and Early Modern Art", The Open University of Israel, Ra´anana and IMAGO: The Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages; Tel Aviv, May 18 – 19
2016 - "The Princess at Work – Some Questions Concerning the Vita of Saint Elizabeth in Cod. Vind. 370 (Liber depictus)", international conference "Unity and Diversity of Medieval (Central) Europe. Social Order and its Cohesive and Disruptive Forces": the second biannual conference of the MECERN held by the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University and Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava; Olomouc, March 31 – April 2
2015 - "The Role of Saintly Personalities in Popular Discourses on Baroque around 1970", international conference „Barock für ein breites Publikum. Konstruktionen der Epoche in populären Medien diesseits und jenseits des Eisernen Vorhangs“, Lehrstuhl für die Kunstgeschichte Osteuropas am Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, June 11 – 14
2015 - „Kinderehe und Heiratspolitik in der Ikonographie des Spätmittelalters“, international conference „Wiener Kongress 1515. Zentraleuropa zwischen Jagiellonen und Habsburgern“, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Universität Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Poľská akadémia vied, Maďarská akadémia vied, Collegium Hungaricum, České centrum vo Viedni, Slovenský inštitút vo Viedni; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, April 15 – 17
2015 - „Die Sigismundkapelle in Krakau oder die Renaissanceforschung zwischen dem wissenschaftlichen Diskurs der Stalinzeit und dem venezianischen Spiegel des eisernen Vorhangs“, international conference „Renaissancen der Renaissance. Die Aneignung einer Epoche in der marxistischen Kunstgeschichtsschreibung“, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen, Halbach Stiftung Essen und Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Leipzig; Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, March 19 – 21
2014 - “Notes on War Momuments in Slovakia”, international conference “War Monuments in the Public Space of European Cities: Art and Memory of 20th Century Wars”, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München and France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana in collaboration with the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art; Ljubljana, December 16 – 17
2014 - “Modern Art, Value Theory and Totalitarianism. Research Questions in and around the Work of Marian Váross”, international conference “Art Historical Research in Context. Teaching and Exhibiting Modern Art before and after 1945”, France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana in collaboration with the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art; Ljubljana, December 15 – 16
2014 - “Some Structural Comparisons of Pictorial Legends from Medieval Hungary”, international conference „Les saints et leur culte en Europe centrale au Moyen Âge [3]: Saints d´implantation et saints de souche, Université Paris 13 – Paris-Nord, November 14
2014 - “St George on Late Medieval Central European Altarpieces”, International Medieval Congress, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, July 7 – 10
2014 - “The Power of Deceased in Panel Paintings from Central Europe (c. 1474 – 1507)”, 21st International IRCLAMA Colloquium “Performing Power through Visual Narrativity in Late Medieval Europe. An Interdisciplinary Approach”, International Research Center for Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University of Zagreb; Poreč, May 28 – June 1
2014 - “Smiles of the Tortured”, 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 8 – 11
2014 - „Struktur, Strukturen und die Frage nach Werten der barocken Architektur zwischen Wien und Trnava (Tyrnau)“, international conference „Asymmetrische Kunstgeschichte? Erforschung und Vermittlung ˌprekärerˈ Denkmälerbestände im Kalten Krieg“, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April 24 – 25
2013 - „Zvieratá v obrazových legendách stredoveku“, international conference „Človek a svet zvierat v stredoveku“, Historický ústav SAV; zámok Topoľčianky, September 30 – October 2
2013 - “Burning Desires: St. Anthony and Dangerous Women in the Paintings from Central Europe around 1500”, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, June 30 – July 4
2013 - “Tormented Bodies in Late Medieval Paintings”, transregional conference on the move Croatia and Hungary “Iconology Old and New”, organized by The Center for Iconographic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Rijeka; The Department of History of Central European University, Budapest; The Cultural Iconology and Semiography Research Group, University of Szeged, May 27 – 31
2013 - „Zázraky v obrazových legendách stredoveku – problémy interpretácie“, international conference „Vedy o umeniach a dejiny kultúry“, project European dimensions of the artistic culture in Slovakia, Bratislava, March 20 – 21
2012 - “Iconography and Styles between Lübeck and Košice around 1450”, international conference “Les transferts iconographiques et stylistiques à l époque gothique”, organized by INHA Paris; project “Transferts et circulations artistiques dans l´Europe de l´epoque gothique (XIIe-XVIe siècles)”; Liège, November 16
2012 - “Visual Cults of Saints between the Kingdoms of Hungary and Poland – the Case of Medieval Spiš (1412 – 1526)”, international conference “Cuius patrocinio tota gaudet regio. Saints’ Cults and the Dynamics of Regional Cohesion”, Centre for Advanced Academic Studies Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, October 18 – 20
2012 - “Visions and Apparitions in the Late Medieval Pictorial Hagiography of Slovakia”, 6th international conference of iconographic studies “Visions”, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, May 31 – June 1
2011 - “Constructing the image of poverty – the pictorial legends of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary”, International Mediaeval Congress, University of Leeds, July 10 – 14
2011 - “The Migration of Artistic Models in Pictorial Hagiography Around 1400”, international conference “Art and Architecture around 1400”, University of Maribor, May 9 – 14
2010 - “Fragmented cycles. The fate of some less known pictorial cycles with Saint Ladislas”, international conference “Dying Monuments in East Central Europe”, Balatonfüred, April 22 – 25
2009 - “Meeting the ultimate friend – visions and auditions in the images of dying St. Francis and St. Elisabeth”, international conference on Franciscan Iconography, Rijeka, May 21 – 22
2009 - “Historical Functions of the Ladislas cycles in the 14th c. Scepusia (Spiš / Szepes / Zips)” international conference Mediaeval Wall Painting in Central Europe, Balatonfüred, March 23 – 25
2008 - “Dismantling the Empire, deconstructing universalism: national discourses, art history and the end of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy”,International conference La Nation - Enjeu de l’histoire de l’art en Europe 1900-1950 Paris, November 18
2008 - “Holy Wars and Holy Patrons – the Teutonic Order and the Pictorial Legends of its Patrons in Central Europe (c. 1235 – 1350)” on the CEU Summer School “From Holy War to Peaceful Co-habitation. Diversity of Crusading and the Military Orders”, Budapest, July 14 – 25
2008 - “The trials of the martyrs – legal and cosmic aspects of late mediaeval visual topoi”, International conference “Iconology of Law and Order (Legal and Cosmic)”, Szeged, June 7 – 10
2008 - “Individual and collective narratives about artistic past” International conference Central European Heritage – Common Heritage, Balatonfüred, April 23 – 26
2008 - “Einige Interpretationsprobleme der Elisabethlegende im Krumauer Bildercodex (Cod. Vind. 370)” International conference “Praha a velká kulturní centra Evropy v době lucemburské”, Prague, April 2 – 4
2007 - “Traditions and Innovations - Pictorial Lives of Saint Elizabeth in Central Europe before and around 1500”, International conference East Meets West at the Crossroads of the Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex, September 6 – 7
2007 - “Key Scenes of the Painted Legends in the Middle Ages: Anthropological, Semiotic, and Phenomenological Aspects of the Visual Narratives”, International workshop of European Science Foundation Global Theory, Local Practices, and the Research of Visual Matter, Vilnius, September 20 – 22
2007 - “Die Bildlegende am Hauptaltar der Heiligen Elisabeth in Kaschau – natürliche und übernatürliche Aspekte”, International conference to the 800th Universary of the Birth of St. Elisabeth of Hungary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, October 20
2007 - “La légende picturale de sainte Élisabeth à Košice – les aspects naturels et surnaturels”, International conference Sainte Élisabeth (1207-1231) : Huit Siecles de Rayonnement Européen, CNRS (Département Sciences Humaines et Sociales), Paris, November 16 – 17
2007 - “Between anthropology and regional politics – some questions of pictorial legends in Central Europe”, International conference CIHA 2007 How to Write Art History – National, Regional or Global?, Budapest, November 21 – 25
2005 - “The afterlife of Stoss style and its contexts – the high altar of St. George in Spišská Sobota“ (Muzeum Narodowe, Krakow)
2004 - “Redefining the ´National´”– Medieval Pictorial Legends of Saint Ladislas and their Interpretations“, 31st Congress of CIHA, Montreal
2004 - “Angels, demons and the politics of the late mediaeval pictorial hagiography” (HAS Research Institute for Art History, Budapest)
2004 - “Paralely, analógie a kontrasty: poznámky k tematike a funkciám obrazových legiend sv. Václava a sv. Ladislava v 14. storočí” (Institute for Art History AS ČR, Prague)
2003 - “Tschechoslowakische Staatssymbolik und slowakische Nationalmythen im Werk von Ľudovít Fulla” (GWZO Leipzig)
2002 - “Das Hochaltarretabel der Elisabethkirche zu Kaschau", (HAS Research Institute for Art History, Budapest)
2001 - “Ladislauszyklen und nationale Mythen - Suche nach dem Archetypischen als Deutungsmethode” (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
2000 - “Urban Culture as a Factor of Change in Dynastic Pictorial Hagiography in 15th Century Northern Hungary” (Moravská galerie, Brno)
1999 - “Epitaph des jagiellonischen Diplomaten in Preßburg” (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg)
1995 - “Der Traum vom heiligen Land in mittelalterlichen Darstellungen der Ladislauslegende” (University of Poznan)
1990 - “Dvořák and Kokoschka” (Conference center, Dubrovnik)

International grants and fellowships:

2011, Aug. - Mellon Research Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
2004, Oct. - Kress Foundation research grant, University of Vienna
2000, Sept. - Nov. - Fulbright research grant, Princeton University, Princeton
2000, July - DAAD research grant, Philipps-Universität, Marburg
1997, July - Sept. - visiting scholar, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas, Leipzig
1996, Sept. - Nov. and 1998, Febr. - Mellon Research Fellowship, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
1991 - 1994 - DAAD scholarship grant, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg

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