We cordially invite you to another lecture in the StředověC JinaX series!

The lecture, entitled Fascism vs. Late Antiquity, will take place on Thursday, October 23, at 7:00 p.m. in the Hans Belting Library on the ground floor of building K of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University (Veveří 470/28, Brno). The lecture will be delivered by Michaela Jánešová, who will guide us on a journey to the Eternal City.

A return to its original form – this is how the restoration of the Roman basilica of Santa Sabina, which took place in the first half of the 20th century under the leadership of art historian and Roman monument administrator Antonio Muñoz, is described. But when you walk through the restored basilica surrounded by white walls dominated by large windows, doesn’t it feel more like Roma Termini station than a Christian temple? What led Antonio Muñoz to return to the 5th century at a time when the fascist regime was coming to power in Italy? Can we consider the final form of St. Sabina to be an attempt to revive late antique visual culture, or is it a modern, primarily fascist invention? And isn’t our interpretation of the past always merely a reflection of our present?

We will attempt to answer these questions in the upcoming SCJX lecture, which you will also be able to watch online on our YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/@center_recent/streams

The lecture will be held in Czech.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The lecture is part of the Contexts of Humanity project by energeia o.p.s.