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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 Call for Papers, 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, 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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