Research Catalogue

an international database for artistic research

About this portal
The Janáček Academy of Performing Arts (JAMU) is a public university with an artistic focus based in Brno, Czech Republic. It was founded in 1947 and consists of two faculties – Faculty of Music and Faculty of Theatre. Research is an integral part of JAMU. The results of research and theoretical thought of our students and teachers are usually published by the Publishing House JAMU, which has already published hundreds of professional monographs, essays, memoir books and university textbooks. Faculties of JAMU organise international scientific conferences and symposia, some of which are unique in their global context and are frequently attended by leading foreign experts, such as the JAMU Faculty of Music International Conference “JAMUsica” or the Conference in Theatre Practice and Theory at the Faculty of Theatre. In recent years, JAMU has been developing artistic research, which is a methodologically progressive research field where artistic activities are researched and reflected by the artists themselves, who thus discover knowledge that is otherwise difficult to access using traditional methodologies.

contact person(s): Ondřej Musil , Monika Šimková

url: https://en.jamu.cz/about-us/

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  3. SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER SETKÁNÍ/ENCOUNTER is an international non-competitive festival of theatre schools held in Brno. It is organised and regularly held by the Faculty of Theatre at the turn of March and April. Every year, 12–15 ensembles from art universities participate in the festival; their performances are selected on the basis of applications submitted in advance. So far, schools from more than 40 countries across all continents have visited the festival.
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  2. Theatre Conference JAMU 2025 The conference provides a platform on which different concepts of research in the field of theatre practice and theory can be contrasted. The event has been attended by over one hundred professional artists, researchers and doctoral students from Europe, Africa, North as well as South America and Asia who have come to Brno to introduce their research in progress to an international audience and discuss common methodological issues.
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  1. Havel’s One-Act Plays - Competition for the best original short play inspired by Václav Havel's drama The Theatre Faculty of JAMU in cooperation with the Václav Havel Library Foundation and the Czech Centre in Paris announces the Havel’s One-Act Plays Competition for the best original short play inspired by Václav Havel's drama. The aim of the competition is to promote the original dramatic work of the students of the JAMU Theatre Faculty and to make it visible in the professional theatre scene. The competition is announced every year in September, always with a different theme that refers to the dramatic works of Václav Havel.