What’s On at The Research Forum

Research

The Visual Order of the Promenade: The Chaharbagh of Safavid Isfahan and its Sensory Experiences

5:00pm, 23 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Farshid Emami for an online lecture on the Chaharbagh, a four-kilometre-long, tree-lined promenade that served as the primary venue of urban leisure in the capital of Isfahan, early modern Safavid Iran ...

Research

Material Power: Embroidery, Dress, and Resistance in Palestine

5:30pm, 24 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join curator Rachel Dedman and artist Osman Yousefzada for a lecture on the cultural history of Palestinian embroideries as sites of craftsmanship, themes of gender, national heritage, and politicisation...

Research

Modern Sculpture, Essence and Difference: Reflections on the Work of Constantin Brâncuşi

11:00am, 26 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Organised with the Henry Moore Foundation, this symposium will re-examine Brancusi's work and reception in Britain, while coinciding with The Courtauld's upcoming summer exhibition Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall ...

Lee Kai Chung: Espionage and Disposable Lives

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Artist and researcher Lee Kai Chung shares excerpts from his recent moving image work exploring the roles of intelligence operatives in British Hong Kong and Guangzhou during the Cold War, weaving in themes of historical erasure, colonialism, ecology...

Research

"Do Not Serve Every State": Ethico-Aesthetic Strategies of Retreat from Antiquity to the ČSSR of the 1970s

6:00pm, 8 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Hana Gründer for a transhistorical lecture on the critical theories and ethical conditions of 'retreat as resistance', spanning from Antiquity to the contemporary ...

Research

'Describe the jaw of a crocodile': Leonardo da Vinci's Animal Anatomies

5:30pm, 9 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Please join the Leonardo da Vinci Society for a lecture given by Martin Clayton LVO FSA that explores the artist's anatomical works ...

Research

"Artist's Things" Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun in conversation with Katie Scott and Hannah Williams

5:30pm, 10 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Artists Cornelia Parker and Christopher Le Brun join Katie Scott and Hannah Williams for an in conversation on the role of the objects they possess and consume, in their creative lives and at their studios, and how these relate to preoccupations and ...

Research

Metropolises in the Mud: Innovation in Building Technology in the Low Countries

5:30pm, 15 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Prof. Merlijn Hurx for a lecture on the building practices and technologies employed in the Low Countries for the construction of large structures in marshy conditions...

The Courtauld Gallery

Meet the Makers: Mixed Media Workshop with Jane McCall of Bloomsbury Revisited!

1:00pm, 17 May 2024 | Free

Research

The Avant-gardists! The rise and fall of revolutionary artists in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

5:30pm, 24 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Sjeng Scheijen's lecture on the personal stories behind the avant-garde artists of early 20th c. Russia, celebrating the release of his new book The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935...

Research

Pose, Power, Practice: New Perspectives on Life Drawing

9:00am, 20 Jun 2024 | Free, booking essential

Pose, Power, Practice is a one-day symposium that seeks to reassess the scope of life drawing, applying new critical frameworks to this sustained and complex practice within art history...