What’s On at The Research Forum

Research, Talks

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

5:30pm, 16 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Bancroft Prize-winning author Jean Strouse for this talk delving into her new book, an account of the dazzling world of the Wertheimers ...

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The Courtauld Gallery, Workshops

The Tutu: Workshop inspired by masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart and Courtauld Collections

10:00am, 18 May 2025 | £30, access to main gallery and temporary exhibition included

To celebrate London Craft week and our temporary exhibition "Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection" we are hosting a special Tutu making demonstration and workshop...

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Conferences, Research

Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture

10:00am, 19 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Organised with Case Western Reserve University, this two-day international conference seeks to expand and highlight how works of art and architecture made by and for Jewish communities in the medieval period can trace the histories of Jewish communit...

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Research, Talks

Signature Style: Leonardo da Vinci and Mirror Writing

5:30pm, 21 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Francesca Borgo for the 2025 Leonardo da Vinci Annual Lecture, looking into the characteristic backwards writing of Leonardo as an object of the visual ...

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Research, Talks

Collecting Impressionism in Winterthur & Wales: Oskar Reinhart and the Davies sisters in conversation and context

5:30pm, 22 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Samuel Raybone for this talk, exploring how the pioneering Welsh collectors, the Davies sisters, intersect with the collecting stories of Oskar Reinhart and Samuel Courtauld, in this talk exploring transnational networks of impressionist collect...

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Research

Year Three PhD Symposium

10:00am, 23 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for our annual Postgraduate Symposium, where researchers in the final stages of their doctoral degrees will deliver papers emerging out of their research projects...

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Research, Talks

Representations of the tree in visual culture. Conception and Execution of the GROW exhibition at the Belvedere, Vienna

6:00pm, 27 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Miroslav Haľák for this talk exploring the tree as a cultural, spiritual, and ecological symbol in modern and contemporary European art, building upon the research behind his exhibition GROW exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna...

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Research, Talks

Into the woods: the British Museum citole and the English forest

5:30pm, 28 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Naomi Speakman for this talk exploring the British Museum citole as both a musical masterpiece and an ecological artefact, revealing how this 14th-century boxwood instrument reflects the ...

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Research, Talks

Painting Pairs 2024 - 25: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:30pm, 29 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the second and final session of the 2024 -25 Painting Pairs programme, where the pairs will present their research findings before compiling an Art Historical and Technical Study Report...

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Research, Talks

The Strand: A Biography of London's Greatest Thoroughfare

6:00pm, 29 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this event celebrating the publication of The Strand: A Biography. Drawing on remarkable archival discoveries, Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin have for the first time uncovered the deep history of this remarkable street...

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Conferences, Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Kienholz: Un/American Violence

5:00pm, 30 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this symposium exploring the ethics and politics of violence in post-1950s art through and beyond the work of Edward and Nancy Kienholz, tracing shifting ideas of Americanness across artists, geographies, and histories...

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Research, Talks

Samye and a Transregional History of Buddhist Architecture in the Late 8th Century

5:30pm, 2 Jun 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Louis Copplestone for this talk, tracing the transregional exchange of Buddhist architectural ideas in the late 8th century, using Samye to explore a network of temples across Asia ...

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The Courtauld Gallery, Workshops

With Graphic Intent - Printmaking Workshop

10:00am, 6 Jun 2025 | £60/£40, access to main gallery included

Join us for this hands-on, print-making workshop, complementing the exhibition With Graphic Intent, running in The Courtauld Gallery Project Space until 22nd June...

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Conferences, Research

The Weaponisation of History: Refracting Soviet Memories in Contemporary Russia and Beyond

3:00pm, 6 Jun 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this symposium exploring the complexities of reinterpreting and learning from Soviet memory through contemporary visual arts practices and practitioners from the nations that once formed the Soviet Union, seeking to shape a framework for ...

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