What’s On at The Research Forum

Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

A Place in the World with Garth Evans in Conversation

6:00pm, 20 Oct 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a screening of A Place in the World, followed by a conversation with Garth Evans and Sam Cornish, chaired by Indie A. Choudhury.

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Lecture, Research

Japanese Buddhist Art at The British Museum: Collection, Curation, Conservation and Collaboration

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2025 | Free, booking essential

The British Museum holds about 1,000 items of Japanese Buddhist material, ranging from the eighth century to the present day. The majority date from the 18th and 19th centuries, and include sculptures, paintings, portable shrines, and ritual and voti...

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Research, Talks

Episcopal display and the English crozier around the time of the Norman Conquest

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

Join Dr Sophie Kelly for a talk on the making and meaning of medieval croziers in the decades either side of the Norman Conquest. Croziers, the sceptre-like staffs granted to bishops, abbots, and abbesses across Europe as a sign of authority, are one...

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The Barber at The Courtauld: New research on the Barber collection

6:00pm, 23 Oct 2025 | Free, booking essential

To coincide with the current display at The Courtauld Gallery of 18 masterpieces from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, this event will bring together researchers from the Barber and The Courtauld to discuss some of these works, presenting new resea...

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Lecture, Research

On Parasocial Media: The Shoggoth and the Skeuomorph

6:00pm, 28 Oct 2025 | Free, booking essential

In the first event in our 2025-26 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series, artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang will discuss the internet, AI, and the techno-politics of persona through an account of “parasocial media”. Online identity formation and the...

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Comrades in Art, Artists Against Fascism, 1933-43

6:00pm, 31 Oct 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a conversation with Andy Friend to mark the launch of his new book: Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism, 1933-43.

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The Manton Centre for British Art Lecture: Iris Moon

6:00pm, 11 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the inaugural lecture for The Manton Centre for British Art, delivered by Iris Moon

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Conferences, Research

Architectural Historiography in the British Isles: National and International Perspectives

9:30am, 15 Nov 2025 | £35.00, concessions available

Since 1980, studies of the historiography of architectural history, as well as the institutional and cultural frameworks within which it is situated, have grown enormously. The symposium seeks to examine how the discipline has developed over the past...

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Lecture, Research

Filmmaking on the Border

5:30pm, 17 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join artist Eleonore de Montesquiou for an evening of film screenings and conversation on the complexities of filmmaking on the border. Drawing from her own experiences of displacement, Eleonore’s work explores the ambiguities of life on the margins....

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Lecture, Research

Digital spaces of repair: Repatriation and decolonising futures in Southeast Asian Art

6:00pm, 18 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

In the first lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Maria Cristina Juan will draw on case studies that employ digital archiving, 3D modeling, and digital reconstruction tools to examine how collective digital spaces can reorie...

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Research, Talks

Story and Vision: Wonders of Creation

5:30pm, 19 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Ladan Akbarnia for this illustrated talk will explore the story and vision behind Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World, a touring exhibition organised by The San Diego Museum of Art and which was on view in S...

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Lecture, Research

Cubism and Reality

5:30pm, 20 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this book event celebrating Emeritus Professor Christopher Green’s new publication 'Cubism and Reality' (Bloomsbury, 2025). The book presents a fresh look at Braque, Picasso, and Juan Gris, considering their works not as conclusive statem...

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Counter Print: The Alternative Art Press in Britain after 1970

6:00pm, 20 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us to mark the launch of Counter Print: The Alternative Art Press in Britain after 1970, edited by Victoria Horne

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Lecture, Research

Postwar Renaissance: Studying, exhibiting, teaching, and appropriating Early Modern European art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990

6:00pm, 24 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Prof. Sapir for this talk exploring his project 'Postwar Renaissance: Studying, Exhibiting, Teaching and Appropriating Early Modern European Art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990', which investigates the reception of Renaissance and Baroque art i...

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Lecture, Research

The power, the joy and the destruction: Journeys through Modernity

6:00pm, 25 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

In the second event in our 2025-26 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series, artist Ricardo Yui will reflect on the contradictions of modernity through his personal journey as an artist, from his initial excitement about the modernisation of Lima, to t...

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Lecture, Research

Global responsibility: The architect's autobiography in the shadow of Hiroshima

6:00pm, 26 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Shiben Banerji tracks the figure of the migrant in the American architect Marion Mahony’s unpublished memoir, The Magic of America. Mahony composed the text between 1938 and 1949, in the twilight of her five-decade-long career across the United State...

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Lecture, Research

Degas's landscapes: or, traversing picture surfaces and terrains

5:30pm, 27 Nov 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join art historian Dr Michelle Foa for this lecture examining the critical significance of attending to Degas's landscape pictures, positioning his landscapes as the purest distillations of fundamental but long-overlooked features of his practice

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Lecture, Research

HERIe: Digital platform for decision support in preventive conservation

5:30pm, 1 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Łukasz Bratasz for a lecture on HERIe, a powerful digital decision-support tool that helps assess environmental risks to heritage assets. HERIe provides remote access to advanced data analysis and risk assessment modules, supporting in...

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Lecture, Research

'What has Riegl to do with the Perceptron?' Exploring the Place of Art Historical Method in Computer Vision

6:00pm, 2 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

In the second lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Dr Benjamin Zweig will examine the application of art historical methods in computer vision projects from a historiographic perspective to explore how computer vision projects ...

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Surrealism and the Tarot

5:30am, 4 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

Published by Fulgur Press, 'Surrealism and the Tarot: a love story' is a groundbreaking and extensively illustrated collection, bringing together leading scholars to illuminate a fascinating but understudied aspect of surrealist practice.

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Lecture, Research

English Sacred Land and How to Travel by its Image and its Architecture

5:30pm, 8 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar, where artist Dr Sheona Beaumont and theologian Dr Andrew Rumsey will explore how images -particularly photographs - along with ideas of pilgrimage, sanctuary and lived faith, can shed new light o...

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The Medieval Instrumentality of AI

6:00pm, 9 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

In the third lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Professor Lamia Balafrej will examine AI against medieval conceptions of instrumentality, which were applied to both technology and slavery. Through a transhistorical, comparati...

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Frank O'Hara and MoMA, New York Poet, Global Curator

5:30pm, 11 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join art historian Dr Matthew Holman for this book launch and in conversation event celebrating the release of his new book 'Frank O’Hara & MoMA: New York Poet, Global Curator' (Bloomsbury, 2025).

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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Early Reception of Impressionism in Britain, 1870-1917

10:00am, 12 Dec 2025 | Ticketed | £10-20

Join us for a conference exploring the development in Britain of the taste for Impressionism during the period 1870-1917.

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Lecture, Research

Picturing Digital Infrastructures

6:00pm, 16 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

In the fourth lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Professor Anna Näslund will adress the platformization and datafication of picture collections from an informational infrastructural perspective, meaning how both textual and v...

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Research, Talks

A Spectrum of Desires: Queering Medieval Art at The Met Cloisters

5:30pm, 17 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Nancy Thebaut for a talk on her recently co-curated exhibition Spectrum of Desire (on view at The Met Cloisters, New York), which explores the diverse - and sometimes unexpected - ways medieval people understood love, sex, and gender.

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