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Fri 8 Feb, 2019 Call for Papers, Conference, Research Forum
Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium – Scaling t...
The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 24th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium invites speakers to consider issues and opportunities encountered by medieval artists and viewers in relation to size and scale. From micro-architectural reliquaries and minute boxwood prayer beads to colossal sculpture and the built spaces of grand cathedrals and civic structures,…
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Sat 19 Oct, 2019 Call for Papers, Conference, Research Forum
Imagining the Apocalypse: Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote: Professor Robert Mills, UCL 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 cultural moments…
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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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