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Fri 25 Oct, 2019 - Sat 26 Oct, 2019 Conference, 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. Contributors include Erika Balsom (academic and critic), Leah Capaldi (artist), Sacha Craddock (writer and curator), Adham Faramawy (artist), Ryan Gander (artist),…
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Thu 10 Oct, 2019 - Fri 11 Oct, 2019 Conference, 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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