What's On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum offers a programme of both online and onsite events, publications and digital assets. Please do visit our YouTube page to catch up on our events from previous years.

Please get in touch with us at researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our programme. Our Autumn semester events will be announced soon.

Autumn Semester

Exhibition Preview

The 16th East Wing Biennial RE:VISION

6:30pm, 24 Sep 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the opening party of The Courtauld Institute's 16th East Wing Biennial, under the theme of RE:VISION. Through a wide-ranging selection of contemporary artwork and an exciting slate of events throughout 2025-2027, RE:VISION urges audience...

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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain

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

Join us to mark the publication of Lynda Nead's latest book, British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain

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Lecture, Research

Ambicoloniality and War: The Ukranian-Russian case

1:00pm, 16 Oct 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us to celebrate the publication of 'Ambicoloniality and War. The Ukrainian-Russian Case', by Svitlana Biedarieva. The book proposes the new notion of “ambicoloniality” to speak about the current situation when Ukraine has become Russia's territo...

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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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Claude Lorrain (around 1604–1682), A Pastoral Landscape, 1645, oil paint on canvas, 101.5 x 134 cm. The Henry Barber Trust, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.

Lecture, Research

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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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

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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Photograph or a coner-side floor to ceiling bookshelf, painted green, filled with books on architectural history.

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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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

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

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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Abstract landscape painting with earthy tones of brown, ochre, and green. The composition suggests a sweeping hillside or ploughed field with rough, textured brushstrokes in the foreground, leading towards a dark horizontal band of land against a pale, almost blank sky. The overall effect is atmospheric and moody, evoking a sense of vast, desolate terrain.

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 preventative 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

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Book cover with a deep purple background featuring the title

Lecture, Research

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, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

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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