Research groups
London Renaissance Consortium
The London Renaissance Consortium has been established to take advantage of the wealth of Renaissance teaching and research in London and to create a network through which information about seminars and Renaissance events can be shared. The consortium intends to facilitate a community amongst the researchers, teachers and students active in this field of study.
The consortium circulates regular email bulletins to its members providing a calendar of Renaissance seminars taking place across London. Examples of events that the London Renaissance Consortium have hosted include: an event on which brought together teachers and students with a panel discussion that asked the question, ‘What does interdisciplinarity mean to your research?’; and a postgraduate student study day at the Victoria and Albert Museum, focusing on the new Medieval and Renaissance permanent galleries, that included seminars led by gallery professionals, object-handling sessions and open discussions surrounding museum, research and exhibition issues. July 2011 also saw the Consortium co-organise a symposium to mark the opening of the exhibition Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500, with the Material Life of Things Project at the Courtauld, and in collaboration with the National Gallery, UCL and the University of York.
This year, the London Renaissance Consortium is involved in the First Annual Renaissance Postgraduate Symposium.
The Symposium will be held at The Courtauld Institute in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, on Saturday 28 April. The theme is 'Beyond the Frame: portraits and personal experience in Renaissance Europe c.1400 - c.1650', and we would like to encourage all postgraduate students or recent graduates from Courtauld and beyond to consider contributing. The deadline for proposals is 20 January.
Please see the Call for Papers for more information.
Participating Institutions:
Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art
For further information or to sign up for email bulletins of forthcoming events please contact renaissance.consortium@courtauld.ac.uk and include ‘London Renaissance Consortium’ in the subject line.