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Thu 4 Jun, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
‘Remarkable women’: Female patronage of religious i...
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: Friday 10 April 2020 This conference seeks to explore the ways in which women patronised and interacted with monasteries and religious houses during the late Middle Ages, how they commissioned devotional and commemorative art for monastic settings, and the ways in which these donations were received…
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Fri 26 Jun, 2020 - Sat 27 Jun, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Research Forum
Art History in Climate Change
CALL FOR PAPERS Art History in Climate Change Historians of art and visual culture, artists, and activists are warmly invited to submit proposals for papers and presentations at this summer conference. What are the stakes of art and art history in the climate crisis? In recent years, climate change has…
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Fri 5 Jun, 2020 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
Jay DeFeo: A Symposium
From the 1950s the avant-garde artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was a member of a vibrant bohemian community of artists, musicians, poets and writers based in San Francisco. Best known today for her magisterial painting titled The Rose (1958-1966), which the artist described as ‘a marriage between painting and sculpture’, over the course…
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Fri 7 Feb, 2020 Conference, Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
Working Materials and Materials at Work in Medieval Art a...
Materials mattered in the Middle Ages. Only with the right materials could artists produce works of art of the highest quality, from jewel-encrusted crosses, gilded and enamelled chalices and ivory plaques to large-scale tapestries, wooden stave churches and stone cathedrals. This conference seeks to explore the qualities and properties of…
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Fri 19 Jun, 2020 - Sat 20 Jun, 2020 Call for Papers, Conference, Research Forum
Prints in their Place: New research on printed images in ...
We solicit papers that address printed images in relation to their early modern and modern contexts in the broadest sense. We hope to include papers that cover the full span of the history of prints, and the range of disciplines in which print is now studied, from art history, the…
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Fri 29 May, 2020 - Sat 30 May, 2020 Conference, Medieval and Renaissance, Research Forum
Travelling Objects, Travelling People: Art and Artists of...
Travelling Objects, Travelling People aims to nuance our understanding of the exchanges and influences that shaped the artistic landscape of Medieval and Renaissance Iberia. Traditional narratives hold that late fifteenth-century Iberian art and architecture were transformed by the arrival of artists, objects and ideas from France and the Low Countries,…
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Fri 15 May, 2020 - Sat 16 May, 2020 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
The 1940s in Focus: American Art during the Decade of Tra...
The concept for this conference is motivated by a singular assumption—that the 1940s was one of the most significant decades in the history of the United States and that it dramatically transformed the country’s self-image and position in the world. The decade, which saw the end of the Second World…
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Fri 1 May, 2020 - Sat 2 May, 2020 Conference, Research Forum
Crossing Borders; Constructing Canons: Post-Impressionism...
“Post-Impressionism,” a term invented and used by Roger Fry in the exhibition he organized in London in 1910, became a deeply influential critical and historical construct that was (and sometimes is still) used widely in Britain and America. Critics and historians often uncritically deployed the highly selective, Franco-centric and exclusively…
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Sat 9 Nov, 2019 Conference, Research Forum
1989 This is Tomorrow: de-canonisation and decolonisation
The pivotal year of 1989 has become a coda of political turbulence and art history, marking an emergence of curatorial and programmatic interventions in the making of multiple histories. The 1989 Collective have investigated formations of events to understand how ideas permeate and are circulated between artistic agencies and solidarities…
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Fri 25 Oct, 2019 - Sat 26 Oct, 2019 Conference, Open Courtauld, Research Forum
New Contemporaries 70th Anniversary Conference
Marking its 70th anniversary this year, New Contemporaries will celebrate its legacy and future direction with a two-day conference with The Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The conference programme will address the development of New Contemporaries as it continually evolves to support the needs of emerging artists…
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Thu 10 Oct, 2019 - Fri 11 Oct, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
Conceptualism and Materiality. Matters of Art and Politics
Conference and Book Launch This conference celebrates the publication of Conceptualism and Materiality: Matters of Art and Politics (ed. by Christian Berger, Brill, 2019). The aim is to underscore the significance of materials and materiality within Anglo-American Conceptual art, as well as conceptualism more broadly. It challenges the notion of conceptualism as…
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Fri 10 May, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
Thinking Drawing 1960 to Now
This day-long symposium takes as its subject the status of drawing since 1960 as a complex and dynamic medium. Bringing together artists, curators, and art historians, the symposium will explore drawing’s status as a significant medium in its own right, beyond notions of the preparatory and private. Through a series…
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Tue 14 May, 2019 Conference, Research Forum
CAS Annual Conference: Re-Writing the Canon?
Join us for the CAS Annual Conference, bringing together scholars, curators and museum professionals to consider significant recent initiatives in collecting, exhibitions and display, and the issues they raise. In recent decades, notions of a fixed “canon”, or a single narrative in modern and contemporary art has come under question…
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Sat 11 May, 2019 Conference, History of Dress, Research Forum
Fashion, Self-Reflexivity and the Question of Inspiration
The ancient symbol of the Ouroboros offers an apt image for fashion’s self-reflexive character. Like the snake that devours itself in an eternal cycle of birth, death and rebirth, fashion frequently refers back to itself in its constant process of creation, destruction and recreation. Put simply, fashion itself is a…
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Fri 24 May, 2019 - Sat 25 May, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
Art Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850
The long eighteenth century gave rise to a host of art institutions throughout the Atlantic world, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. Vibrant markets for paintings, sculpture, decorative arts,…
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Fri 8 Feb, 2019 Conference, Research Forum
Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium – Scaling t...
Size mattered in medieval art. Whether building a grand gothic cathedral or carving a minute boxwood prayer bead, precisely how big to make it was a principal concern for medieval artists, their patrons, and audiences. Examples of simple one-upmanship between the castles and palaces of lords and kings and the…
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Fri 18 Oct, 2019 - Sat 19 Oct, 2019 Conference, Research Forum
Imagining the Apocalypse
Keynote: Professor Robert Mills (University College London) #ImaginingTheApocalypse | @CourtauldRes Shaped by different religious traditions, the apocalypse has been called upon throughout history to articulate collective anxieties, act as a warning, or a yearned-for spiritual salvation. These contradictory and competing aims behind imagining the end of the world in specific…
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Sat 24 Nov, 2018 Conference, Early Modern, Research Forum
Perceiving Processions – Early Modern Postgraduate ...
In recent years, a renewed interest in Early Modern rituals, festivals, and performances has prompted a reconsideration of ceremonious processions with a particular focus on their impact on social, cultural, artistic and political structures and practices. Simultaneously, scholars have increasingly acknowledged the mobility of Early Modern artists across geographical, religious…
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Fri 22 Mar, 2019 - Sat 23 Mar, 2019 Conference, Research Forum
Psychoanalysis and American Art
‘…I shall avoid the temptation of entering upon a critique of American civilization; I do not wish to give an impression of wanting myself to employ American methods.’ Sigmund Freud, Civlization and its Discontents (1931). ‘…some intellectuals go so far as to relate the demise of the intellectual community in…
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Thu 7 Jun, 2018 Conference
Annual Postgraduate Symposium
The Courtauld’s Postgraduate Research Symposium is a platform for third-year doctoral candidates to present their research to their peers, the wider scholarly community and the public. The symposium showcases the breadth of research being undertaken at the Courtauld in both art history, and conservation and technology. The papers encompass a wide range…
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Thu 14 Jun, 2018 Conference, Research Forum
Alfred Cohen: An American Émigré in Europe
Alfred Cohen (1920-2001) was an American whose art was firmly rooted in the European tradition, and who lived and worked in Europe after the war, settling in England in 1960. He exhibited successfully in London through the 1960s and 70s. His paintings and drawings are represented in numerous major national…
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Fri 19 Oct, 2018 Conference, Research Forum
Art of the Invisible
An interdisciplinary conference at The Courtauld Institute of Art exploring art’s relationship with the invisible. ‘He even painted things that cannot be represented …’, Pliny eulogized Apelles in his Naturalis historia. ‘How can we with mortal eyes contemplate this image whose celestial splendour the host of heaven presumes not to…
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Fri 16 Feb, 2018 Conference, Research Forum
23rd Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium: Col...
The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 23rd Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium invites speakers to consider the nature of medieval collections, the context of their creation and fruition, and their legacy – or disappearance – in the present. Existing approaches to the subject help to understand the formation, dispersal, and reassembly of…
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Fri 9 Mar, 2018 Conference, Research Forum
Filippino Lippi: Beauty, Invention and Intelligence
Following the international conference on Filippino Lippi at the Dutch Institute (the NIKI) in Florence last December, some of the speakers have kindly agreed to deliver their papers at the Courtauld. Despite Vasari’s characterisation of Filippino Lippi as ‘a painter of most beautiful intelligence and most lovely invention’ his status…
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Sat 17 Mar, 2018 Conference, Research Forum
Worlding Art History: Negotiating the Global and the Local
The Courtauld Institute of Art’s Modern and Contemporary Postgraduate Colloquium invites speakers to navigate the local and the global through their diverse areas of research, not only in art, but in broader cultural fields. The historical period that this event will cover is from the 19th century to the present day.…
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Fri 25 May, 2018 Conference, Research Forum
Art and Ideas on the Move, 1400-1600, the Annual Renaissa...
‘[H]e who changes his country or place of habitation seems to change his nature, talents, character, and personal habits, insomuch that sometimes he seems to be not the same man but another, and all dazed and stupefied’ Giorgio Vasari on Rosso Fiorentino, trans. Gaston du C. Vere (1909) In tracing…
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Fri 2 Nov, 2018 - Sat 3 Nov, 2018 Conference, Modernities: Architecture, Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum
Sites of Interchange: Modernism, Politics, and Culture in...
Early twentieth-century Germany was a site of extremes, in which art and architectural production were entangled in the swiftly changing political and social landscape. Radical utopias and pragmatic solutions for art and life were proposed, creating a crossroads of unparalleled burgeoning cultural outpouring in the midst of extreme politics. Britain…
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Fri 1 Dec, 2017 - Sat 2 Dec, 2017 Conference, Research Forum
New Approaches to Ruskin on Art and Architecture
Please note there are 2 days of this conference that require separate bookings. You can book the second day, at The Courtauld, by using the link to the right. You will need to register for day one, at UCL, by clicking here. ‘Nature always looks strange when she is truly…
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Fri 10 Nov, 2017 Conference, Research Forum
Modern Classicisms: Classical Art and Contemporary Artist...
What is it about Greek and Roman art that still captivates the modern imagination? How can contemporary art help us to see the classical legacy with new eyes? And what can such modern-day responses – situated against the backdrop of others over the last two millennia – reveal about our own…
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Sat 9 Dec, 2017 Conference, Research Forum
CHASING AMERICA: The CHASE Doctoral School in American Ar...
This third event organised by the CHASE Doctoral School in American Art and Visual Culture is intended to bring together faculty and doctoral students from the consortium to present and debate work in progress. The purpose of this event is to showcase the range and detail of interest in American…
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Fri 23 Mar, 2018 - Sat 24 Mar, 2018 Conference
Experience and American Art
What does it mean to experience a work of art? What does it mean for a work of art to register—even enact—an experience? Would it be possible for an art historian working now, in experiencing a work of art, to sense some aspect of lived experience from another time, another…
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Sat 5 May, 2018 Conference
Passing: Fashion in American Cities
The idea of ‘passing’ and the issues it raises in relation to contemporary and historical notions of self-fashioning and identities is of central importance in a period of political, social and cultural upheaval. The notion of passing also speaks to current discrimination and civil rights issues, and this conference seeks…
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Thu 12 Oct, 2017 - Fri 13 Oct, 2017 Conference, Research Forum
The Art of Independence: Visions of the Past and Future i...
At Midnight on the 15th of August 1947 India and Pakistan achieved their freedom from British Rule. This Conference commemorates the 70th anniversary of that independence. Artists, curators, filmmakers and academics stage a multidisciplinary and multi-media discussion that asks: What futures did the citizens of these new nations envision for…
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Sat 18 Nov, 2017 Conference
Recasting Reproduction (1500–1800)
The contested concept of “reproduction” stands at a critical nexus of the conceptualisation of Early Modern artistic thought. The early modern period has been characterised by the development of novel and efficient reproduction technologies, as well as the emergence of global empires, growing interconnectedness through trade, warfare and conquest, and…
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Thu 18 May, 2017 Conference, Research Forum
The Courtauld Second Year Modern and Contemporary PhD Sym...
The Courtauld Second Year Modern and Contemporary PhD Symposium provides an opportunity for second-year doctoral students to present elements of their research to their peers and the public. The forum will consist of four speakers split into two panels. Reflective of the Courtauld’s ever-growing interest in non-Anglophone Art History research, the four…
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Sat 8 Jul, 2017 Conference
The Garden at War: Deception, Craft and Reason
Bringing together world-leading academics, art-historians, and contemporary artists, The Courtauld Institute of Art and Aganippe Arts present a day-long symposium held at Stowe House to open the exhibition The Garden at War. The collaborative event aims to provide a forum for exploring issues and ideas raised by the exhibition on…
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Thu 8 Jun, 2017 - Fri 9 Jun, 2017 Conference
Annual Third Year Postgraduate Symposium
The Courtauld’s New Research Symposium 2017 is a platform for third-year PhD candidates to present and exchange their research to their peers, the wider scholarly community and the public. Ranging from medieval England to contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina via Renaissance Florence the conference will bring questions concerning materiality, identity and institutions to bear on…
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Sat 10 Mar, 2018 Conference
Imago multitudinis. The Image of the Multitude in Art and...
The Courtauld Institute of Art, The British Academy and the Collège International de Philosophie are pleased to announce a one-day interdisciplinary conference focusing on the philosophical representation and the artistic conceptualisation of the multitude and its associated concepts: the many, the masses, the crowd, the mob and the commonality. A…
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Mon 5 Jun, 2017 Conference
35th Gerry Hedley Student Symposium
This annual one-day symposium is named after its founder, Gerry Hedley, who was a Reader at The Courtauld Institute of Art and a leader of pioneering research in conservation, inspiring generations of students. It is an opportunity for students and interns training in conservation of paintings at The Courtauld Institute…
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Fri 12 May, 2017 - Sat 13 May, 2017 Conference
From Gandhāra to Gupta
Gandhāran art is well known for the Hellenistic legacy in its art and architecture, and its emergence and flourishing under the Kushan rulers has been the subject of numerous studies. Less attention has been paid to its gradual demise in the area covered by modern Pakistan and neighbouring regions, and…
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Thu 22 Jun, 2017 - Fri 23 Jun, 2017 Conference, Research Forum
‘A fearful sense’: Ruskin’s pathetic fallacy and the non-...
A two-day international conference. Day 1: Thursday 22 June, taking place at Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. Free and Open to all, but please book with the Rothermere. Day 2: Friday 23 June, taking place at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Free to all, but advance booking required When John Ruskin…
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Sat 6 May, 2017 Conference
Reading Fashion Magazines: celebrating The Courtauld’s Hi...
In celebration of The Courtauld’s recently catalogued History of Dress journals archive, this one-day symposium examines how the fashion magazine has constructed and circulated social, cultural and political ideas concerning dress, body and identity. In opening up the collection, we will examine fashion magazines more broadly as documents of the…
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Thu 16 Mar, 2017 Conference
Gothic Architecture in Spain: Invention and Imitation
The afternoon sessions of this event will be LIVE-STREAMED. Tune in from 2pm on our YouTube channel. Gothic architecture in Spain or the Spanish kingdoms has traditionally been assessed in terms of its imitation of French and Netherlandish architecture, dismissed for its ‘old-fashioned’ or provincial quality, and condemned for its…
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Fri 3 Nov, 2017 - Sat 4 Nov, 2017 Conference
Writing Impressionism Into and Out of Art History, 1874 t...
Impressionism continues to be celebrated in blockbuster exhibitions worldwide: in the last few years alone, Impressionism, Fashion, Modernity (Art Institute of Chicago, Musée d’Orsay, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013); Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye (Kimbell Art Museum and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2015-2016); and Inventing Impressionism: Paul…
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Fri 24 Feb, 2017 - Sat 25 Feb, 2017 Conference
Art Born in the Revolution: Russian Art and the State 191...
An international two-day conference jointly organised by The Courtauld Institute of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts Please note that each day requires a separate booking. This conference explores the extraordinary diversity of art made in Russia during one of the most turbulent periods in modern history. Turned overnight…
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Fri 20 Jan, 2017 - Sat 21 Jan, 2017 Conference
Coding and Representation
This interdisciplinary conference examines the way that coding and representation are enmeshed. Cultural instances will be examined from the nineteenth century to the present. Fine art, graphic imagery, film and photography, literature, scientific concepts and political form will be considered. In an era of electrical, and eventually digital, communication, the…
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Thu 15 Jun, 2017 - Fri 16 Jun, 2017 Conference
Fantasy in Reality: Architecture, Representation, Reprodu...
From the capriccios of Piranesi and Canaletto to Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, Archigram’s drawings in the 1970s, and contemporary video game architecture, architectural fantasies have been produced and reproduced for centuries. On the one hand, architectural fantasies stir the imagination, represent future possibilities, and utopian dreams, on…
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Fri 28 Apr, 2017 Conference
The Art of the Network: Visualising Social Relationships,...
In recent years, the analysis of social networks has generated a fruitful field of scholarly enquiry. Research addressing the dynamics that govern personal relationships within and without communities of various kinds has permeated through historical, anthropological, and sociological studies. These investigations have traced the ways in which societies structured according…
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Fri 11 Nov, 2016 - Sat 12 Nov, 2016 Conference
The Inexplicable and the Unfathomable: China and Britain,...
The ‘Chinese character seems at present inexplicable’, observed Lord Macartney during his celebrated embassy to China in the 1790s, while the Chinese themselves at this time often described ‘western ocean barbarians’ as ‘unfathomable’. The failure of Macartney’s embassy is well known, not least the Emperor Qianlong’s dismissive comment that ‘we…
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Sat 4 Feb, 2017 Conference
22nd Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium: Med...
The traditional art-historical concern of attribution of works of art to specific masters has given way to more nuanced approaches to the artistic production of the Middle Ages that focus on collaborative working practices. Collaborations like that of Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, the illuminators of the Winchester Bible, or the…
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Fri 7 Oct, 2016 - Sat 8 Oct, 2016 Conference
Comics Crossroads
‘Comics Crossroads’ is an emerging scholars conference that brings together a diverse group of early career researchers, artists and leading scholars working on comics, cartoons and caricature from different perspectives and different fields in the humanities. As the burgeoning field of Comics Studies risks fragmentation as scholars entrenched in one…
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Fri 2 Jun, 2017 - Sat 3 Jun, 2017 Conference
Towards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200-1399
Paul Binski, in his 1999 Studies in Iconography article, “The English Parish Church and its Art in the Later Middle Ages,” asked “how, and in what ways, we might place the imagery of the parish church at the centre of the study of medieval visual culture rather than seeing it…
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Wed 7 Sep, 2016 Conference, Research Forum
Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings Study Day
This one-day symposium which is being held in conjunction with the Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings exhibition will bring together a range of artists, curators, art historians and historians of spiritualism to explore the connections between art, spiritualism and creativity in the nineteenth century to the present day. The day will…
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Thu 29 Sep, 2016 Conference
Heraldic Badges: From Miniature to Monumental, 1300–1500
The question of how to represent a person was of great importance to artists and patrons in the later Middle Ages. While much attention has focused on the development of facial likeness in portraiture, the concurrent fashion for expressing identity through symbolic codes has been comparatively ignored. Heraldic badges –…
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Thu 20 Oct, 2016 - Sat 22 Oct, 2016 Conference, Research Forum
Regionality: looking for the local in the arts of Islam
The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Historians of Islamic Art Association celebrates the European ‘roots’ of the study of the arts that fall under the cultural umbrella of Islam, and the formation of the important early collections and exhibitions that launched its scholarship. Those early, mostly connoisseurial categories of regional…
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Sat 10 Dec, 2016 Conference, Research Forum
The Voice of the Artist
For more than twenty-five years, Artists’ Lives has been capturing the lives of artists through their own words. This unique project documents artists’ words, and the recollections of those surrounding them, in the context of their lives. Capturing social history as well as art history, each recording begins with the…
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Fri 20 May, 2016 Conference
Modern and Contemporary Second Year PhD Symposium
The Courtauld Second Year Modern and Contemporary PhD Symposium provides a platform for the current research of second year PhD candidates, consisting of projects spanning the late nineteenth century to current artistic practice. In order to initiate critical discussion with a broad scholarly audience, six sessions will cover such diverse themes as…
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Sat 2 Jul, 2016 Conference
Making Britain Modern
This conference will celebrate the scholarship of Professor David H. Solkin and his outstanding contribution to the study of British art. Convening a younger generation of academics and curators whose work has been marked by David Solkin’s teaching and writing, the day will encapsulate the diverse ways in which his…
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Fri 29 Apr, 2016 Conference
Frazzled and Dazzled
Frazzled and Dazzled brings together scholars from literature, art history, media studies and archaeology to focus on the flow of data and scrambling of information as historical sites take on new functions, imagery reaches new audiences and social and natural appearances are understood to be liable to blur and deceive. …
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Fri 15 Apr, 2016 - Sat 16 Apr, 2016 Conference
Sergei Eisenstein: His Legacy in Film, Psychology and the...
This conference provides a platform for leading Eisenstein experts from around the world to present their current research and to initiate critical discussions about Sergei Eisenstein and his legacy in film, psychology and the visual arts. Hailed as one of the greatest directors of the twentieth century, Sergei Eisenstein is…
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Tue 10 May, 2016 Conference
In the Age of Giorgione
Organised in connection with the Royal Academy’s exhibition ‘In the Age of Giorgione’, this study day will focus on the revolution that took place in Venetian art in the early sixteenth century when a new type of painting was developed by the elusive artist, Giorgione. Although Giovanni Bellini remained the…
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Thu 10 Mar, 2016 - Fri 11 Mar, 2016 Conference
The 2016 Courtauld Institute of Art Postgraduate Symposi...
The Courtauld Postgraduate Symposium 2016 Showcasing New Research is a platform for third year PhD students to present their research and to initiate critical discussion about their materials, media and approaches with a broad scholarly audience. The papers tabled cover artefacts and images as diverse as medieval bronze tombs and…
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Sat 27 Feb, 2016 Conference
Symposium on Art and Terrorism
Bringing together scholars of the image, art and violence with experts on counter-terrorism and conflict antiquities, the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) present a day-long symposium on the subject of Art and Terrorism. The collaborative event aims to provide a forum…
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Sat 20 Feb, 2016 Conference, Research Forum
Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology: a day seminar...
Richard K. Morris (1943- 2015) lectured at the University of Warwick for 27 years during which time he taught countless students and demonstrated his breadth of knowledge in architectural analysis. He is best known for his work on the Middle Ages and his creation of the unique 10,000 item strong…
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Fri 4 Dec, 2015 - Sat 5 Dec, 2015 Conference, Research Forum
The Painter John Golding and 20th Century Art History
When he delivered the A.W.Mellon lectures in Washington D.C. before publishing his Paths to the Absolute in 2000, John Golding described himself simply as ‘painter’. Internationally, he is remembered more widely as an art historian and exhibition maker, whose shows and writings took on major artists and movements of the…
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Fri 12 Feb, 2016 - Sat 13 Feb, 2016 Conference, Research Forum
Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Print, 1...
Traditionally, the history of printmaking has fallen in the space between art history and the history of the book. Often ‘reproductive’ and multiple in nature, prints have long been marginalized in art historical scholarship in favour of the traditional ‘high’ arts. The inherent complexities in the manufacture and sale of…
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Fri 6 May, 2016 - Sat 7 May, 2016 Conference
Posing the Body: Stillness, Movement, and Representation
Posing has been central to art, dance, and sculpture for thousands of years. In recent years, the growing interest in fashion media and modelling has also focused attention on questions of pose and posing. Incorporating notions of movement and stillness, posing can be understood in terms of historical modes of…
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Sat 5 Mar, 2016 Conference
Fabrications: Designing for Silk in the Eighteenth Century
Joubert de la Hiberderie’s Le Dessinateur d’étoffes d’or, d’argent, et de soie (1765) was the first book to be published on textile design in Europe. In preparation for the publication of an English translation and critical edition of the text this one day conference calls for papers that will analyse,…
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Fri 19 Feb, 2016 Conference, Research Forum
21st Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium: The...
The Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium offers the opportunity for research students at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present and promote their research. This year’s theme for papers is the “Medieval Viewer”. Works of art from the Middle Ages have retained their allure over the many centuries…
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Wed 16 Dec, 2015 Conference, Research Forum
Nocturnes in Modern Visual Culture: Depicting Night in th...
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the visual experience of nighttime was transformed. A series of new lighting technologies—notably gaslight, arc light, and incandescent electric light—permeated city streets, theatres, restaurants, stores, factories and affluent homes, bringing brilliant illumination to the urban night. The symposium will explore the relationship between…
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Fri 5 Feb, 2016 - Sat 6 Feb, 2016 Conference, Research Forum
The Transformative Power of Art – Richard Wagner...
The aim of this conference is to explore Christoph Schlingensief’s participatory art project Opera Village Africa against the backdrop of Richard Wagner’s idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk. We wish to approach this topic from the perspective of multiple disciplines including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, history, musicology, philosophy, postcolonial studies and…
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Mon 26 Oct, 2015 Conference, Lecture, Research Forum
Matthew Bown: The Secret of the Ideological Age
The theme for the symposium was developed from an article by Matthew Bown ‘Traces of the Holy’ (Times Literary Supplement, 10 April 2015) which argued for the idea of the contemporary artwork as crypto relic. The extreme veneration of art in a hyper inflated market is the focus of…
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Sat 12 Dec, 2015 Conference, Research Forum
Art History 40 – Image and Memory: 40 Years of Art-Histor...
This day of papers brings together for the first time the past and present editors of the Association of Art Historians journal, Art History, in a collective engagement with the role of memory and the image in art-historical writing. As a celebration of the journal approaching 40 years of publication…
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Sat 7 Nov, 2015 Conference, Research Forum
The Fabric of India – Day 2: ‘The Politics of Craft...
The conference accompanies The Fabric of India exhibition at the V & A Museum. Day 2 at The Courtauld, titled The Politics of Craft, will discuss the way the textile industry has shaped contemporary art and politics in India. It will take place in two parts, with 30-minute papers in…
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Fri 19 Jun, 2015 - Sat 20 Jun, 2015 Conference, Research Forum
Piero della Francesca and Disegno
The role of design (disegno) is fundamental to understanding the working practice of Piero della Francesca. While none of his works on paper survive, research conducted in the past decade by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has…
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Fri 5 Jun, 2015 - Sat 6 Jun, 2015 Conference, Research Forum
Crash and Burn: Destruction in American Art
Destruction has long occupied a central position in the construction of an American national image. From Cotton Mather’s description of Boston as ‘the City of Destruction’ to the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, the sheer visual force of destruction has repeatedly left an indelible mark on the collective psyche. As…
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