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 Programme:

Conferences, Research

Medieval Art on the Move

10:00am, 28 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Now entombed in airless glass vitrines, medieval objects in museums appear static and immovable. But in the Middle Ages artworks were active and mobile: they were manipulated in the hand, processed through towns, and traded or gifted across very larg...

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The Courtauld Gallery

Chronicles: Women in the arts

6:45pm, 4 Apr 2025 | Tickets from £15 / concessions available

Join us for an evening of music and art at the Courtauld Gallery, featuring a musical performance by Katrina Lee and a conversation with Leah Broad...

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Summer Programme:

Research, Talks

Sustainability in Conservation

6:00pm, 15 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the second event in our Sustainability in Conservation series, where Lorraine Finch and Jaap van der Berg will share insights into the sustainable initiatives they are leading in the field...

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Camp amongst the Changpa, nomadic pastoralists from Changthang. Women are weaving on Backstrap looms, while one is laying a warp (left) and another is carding wool (centre). Behind them men are combing pashmina.

Research, Talks

Textiles from the Ladakh Himalayas

5:00pm, 12 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Monisha Ahmed for an online lecture looking at the history of fibres and textiles of the Ladakh region, discussing traditional weaving systems, and their symbolic representations and interpretations of Ladakhi life...

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