We cordially invite you to the final lecture of this semester’s StředověC JinaX series, which this time will not be limited to art history – philologist Marie Okáčová, Ph.D., will take us on a fascinating journey through the intertwining of visual and linguistic communication across the centuries in her lecture Text as Image and Image as Text – from (Late) Antiquity to Modernity.

Text and image – the two main media of interpersonal communication – have interacted with each other practically since the beginning of their existence. Sometimes they competed with each other, or even openly raced against each other, while at other times they functioned in complete synergy. Together, we will look at various examples of their perfectly symbiotic relationship, and not only in visual poetry. From its beginnings in ancient Greece, we will move on to the technically sophisticated literary “crossword puzzles” of late antiquity, which even Emperor Constantine could not resist, and through Christian-themed verse mosaics, we will head to modern calligrams. We will reflect on what this work reveals to us about the principles of linguistic and visual communication and what challenges it poses for its readers-viewers, let alone translators.

📅 Thursday, December 18, at 7:00 p.m.
📍Hans Belting Library, ground floor of the K building of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (Veveří 470/28, 602 00-Brno)

You can also watch the lecture online on our YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/@center_recent/streams

The lecture will be held in Czech.

We look forward to seeing you!

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