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.

Spring Semester

Large-scale outdoor installation of interlaced strings, ropes, shoelaces, and plant materials stretched between wooden poles, forming a colorful, web-like structure that evokes a garden canopy within an open park setting.

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

Hot Mess Formalism: (Queer) Intelligence in the Age of the Artificial

6:00pm, 21 Jan 2026

Join artist Sheila Pepe for a lecture exploring her wide-ranging practice, her lesbian feminist activism and the longstanding conceptual pursuit of her making, teaching, research, and writing to contest received knowledge and expand ways of being in ...

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A large three‑panel video screen stands inside an ornate, dimly lit hall. The screen displays a bright image of a person waving a white flag against a clear blue sky. The hall’s marble floor and carved architectural details frame the glowing installation.

Lecture, Research

Outside the Black Box: Curating Artists’ Moving Image

5:30pm, 26 Jan 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a talk with Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi, artistic director and curator, respectively, at Fondazione In Between Art Film. In this talk, Rabottini and Bigazzi will share their experiences organising the “Trilogy of Uncertainti...

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Lecture, Research

Queer Modernism/Queer Curating

6:00pm, 29 Jan 2026 | Free, booking essential

In this lecture and panel discussion, Anke Kempkes will be joined by queer Modernism expert Thomas Kennedy and artist Than Hussein Clark to explore questions surrounding the curatorial framing of queer art in the Modern era. The conversation will dra...

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Oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting a riverside landscape by moonlight. The sky is very richly textured, and painted in dark blue tones. The moon lights the scene, and in the foreground you can spot a horse grazing by the riverside.

Lecture, Research

Research Notes: Surveying Rubens’s late landscapes

6:00pm, 9 Feb 2026 | Free, booking essential

On the occasion of the temporary reunion of the Courtauld Gallery’s Peter Paul Rubens’s Landscape by Moonlight (1635—40) with the Barber Institute of Fine Art’s A Landscape Near Het Steen (1635—40), join Dr Bert Watteeuw for a lecture exploring the l...

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Lecture, Research

Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Japan

6:00pm, 4 Mar 2026 | Free, booking essential

This lecture by Yuki Russell will appraise the issues around operation of heritage preservation in Japan. While experiencing upheavals such as mass vandalism in the 19th century and World War II, the management of cultural heritage preservation has b...

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A medieval manuscript illustration showing a genealogical diagram. At the top, a crowned figure sits enthroned within a circular frame, from which decorative lines extend downward to five individual roundels, each containing a painted portrait with a coloured border. Below, the branching line continues to a larger roundel depicting another seated crowned figure. The background parchment includes handwritten Latin text, stylised flowering plants, and two trees flanking the lower section of the page. The artwork features rich reds, blues and golds typical of illuminated manuscripts.

Conferences, Research

Memory and Medieval Material Culture

9:30am, 6 Mar 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for our annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium. This year, we will explore the complex and dynamic relationship between memory and the material culture of the Middle Ages. In our digital age, memory is both permanent and fleeting: forever en...

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

Kara Walker, Contemporary Art, and the Black Female Bottom

6:00pm, 9 Mar 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Tiffany E. Barber for this lecture examining the material and affective implications of artist Kara Walker’s recent turn to public sculpture, and the connections she draws between the rawness of slavery's memory in the US and the UK.

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Research, Talks

Whole in the part: medieval experiments in transcendence

5:30pm, 11 Mar 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Anya Burgon for a talk introducing the phenomenon of downscaled worlds in late-medieval culture – from the many images of the salvator mundi with the world in his hands, to prayer nuts, to the ‘atomic’ prayers of the Cloud of Unknowing, and s...

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