Lectures

▪ January 2017: Dr. Petr Balcárek delivered a series of lectures and led seminars on Carpathian Christian Art at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University in Alba Iulia, Romania, as part of the bilateral agreement of cooperation between IBYZ o.p.s. and this university.

▪ On 4th August 2016, Dr. Petr Balcárek delivered a lecture at the Moravian diocesan assembly of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia on the question of Christian Mission and the Orthodox Church.

▪ October 2015: Dr. Petr Balcárek delivered a series of lectures and led seminars on Carpathian Christian Art at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University in Alba Iulia, Romania, as part of the bilateral agreement of cooperation between IBYZ o.p.s. and this university.

▪ January 2014: Dr. Petr Balcárek delivered a series of lectures and led seminars on Carpathian Christian Art at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the “1 Decembrie 1918” University in Alba Iulia, Romania, as part of the bilateral agreement of cooperation between IBYZ o.p.s. and this university.

▪ Tuesday 29th April 2014. 18.00 p.m.: Dr. Mihailo Popović from the Abteilung Byzanzforschung at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, delivered a lecture on SKOPJE – A Sacred Cityscape of the 14th Century on the IBYZ premises at Dolní náměstí in Olomouc.

▪ On Tuesday 12th November, at 7 p.m., a lecture on Philippus Arabs – první Křesťan na římském trůnu? (Philippus Arabs – The First Christian on the Throne of Rome?) was delivered by Dr. Vlastimil Drbal from Mainz, Germany (as part of his research within the European project on pilgrimage places), on the IBYZ premises at 166/22 Dolní náměstí, Olomouc. The lecture was based on examples of mosaic decorations related to the topic.

Weekly IBYZ Course
IBYZ organised, on a weekly basis, a course on Ikona a kult ve východním křesťanství (Icon and Cult in Eastern Christianity), led by Dr. Petr Balcárek, A group of 5-6 students from the departments of Philosophy, Philology, and Art History at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc attended this course on the IBYZ premises during the autumn semester in the academic year 2013/2014. The series of lectures given by Dr. Balcárek in the first part of the course was followed by seminar works presented gradually by the students themselves on topics of their own choice in fields of research related to the overall theme of the course. The course took place each Tuesday, beginning on 1st October until 26th November 2013.

▪ 17 October 2011, on the premises of IBYZ o.p.s. at 166/22 Dolním náměstí in Olomouc, Dr. Vlastimil Drbal of the Czech Academy of Sciences delivered a paper on the funeral mosaics of Edessa.

▪ In October 2010, IBYZ organized two lectures given by Sebastian Brock from the University of Oxford (one on the premises of IBYZ o.p.s. and one at the Department of Classics, at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc) and one lecture given by archaeologist Helen Brock from Oxford (at the Department of Art History of the same faculty).