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Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art meets the Medieval Monastery

5:30pm, 1 Apr 2026

Join this Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar where Dr Jessica Barker and Dr Claire Gilbert discuss the exhibition Living by the Rule (Sainsbury Centre, Norwich), which presents medieval monastic art in dialogue with contemporary works.

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Book Talk: Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain

6:00pm, 2 Apr 2026

Join us for a book talk with Renée Mussai

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“at the name of Jesus every knee should bow”: A Byzantine icon of Christ Pantepoptes and its inscriptions

5:30pm, 22 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr George Bartlett for this lecture, taking the Icon of Christ Pantepoptes as a starting point to explore wider epigraphic and onomastic trends in Byzantine art. He will trace how the varying inscriptions used for images of Christ position these...

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Conferences, Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Beatriz González: Frieze of Comedy / Frieze of Tragedy

3:00pm, 24 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for an afternoon exploring the work of Colombian artist Beatriz González, coinciding with her current monographic exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery. This event will look more broadly at Colombian history and popular culture, as well as w...

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Lecture, Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualising Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement

5:30pm, 27 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black on this lecture presenting new research on the creation of art for the Chicano civil rights movement, el movimiento chicano, in the late 1960s and 70s. It will focus on some of the earliest artists, including ...

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Conferences, Research

Annual Postgraduate Symposium 2025/26

4:30pm, 30 Apr 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for our annual Postgraduate Symposium, where researchers in the final stages of their doctoral degrees will deliver papers emerging out of their research projects.

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‘A Compendium of Disparate Imagery’: R.B. Kitaj’s painted collages

6:00pm, 5 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Märit Rausing Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Mark Hallett, for an exploration of R.B. Kitaj

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Lecture, Research

The Relationship Between Arts Practice and Sacred Writing: two artists engage with traditional Jewish texts

5:30pm, 7 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar, where artists Jacqueline Nicholls and Dr Jess Wood will explore the relationship between arts practice and traditional Jewish texts including Torah, Talmud and Midrash.

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The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s

6:00pm, 11 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Susan L. Siegfried for this book launch event and panel discussion celebrating the publication of her book The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s. On the occasion of this lecture at the Courtauld, Professor Siegfried inv...

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Fear, Desire, and the Deep Darkness: The Intellectual Discovery of the Underworld from Leonardo to Kircher

5:30pm, 14 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join the Leonardo da Vinci Society for their annual lecture, this year delivered by Monica Azzolini, Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna. In this lecture, Professor Azzolini will explore Leonardo da Vinci’s transiti...

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Raphael et alia

6:00pm, 18 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Lisa Pon for this seminar examining Raphael's collaborations in painting and many other media, re-evaluating period and current attitudes towards originality, authorship, artistic practice and value. This research draws from Pon’s ne...

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Home on the Waves: Museum Collections and Caribbean Tidalectics with Professor Marsha Pearce

6:00pm, 19 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Marsha Pearce for an evening talk exploring Caribbean contemporary art

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Judgments in Nuremberg: The 1950s Trade in Medieval Christian and Jewish Manuscripts in the “Most German of All German Cities”

5:30pm, 20 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor William J. Diebold for a lecture examining the reception and sale of medieval illuminated manuscripts in 1950s Nuremberg. Drawing on extensive archival research, he explores how post‑war Germany sought to reconcile its medieval past wi...

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Authority Unravelling at the Seams: Clothing, Narrative, and Roccabianca’s Griselda

6:00pm, 8 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Timothy McCall for this lecture on the camera di Griselda at Roccabianca castle, near Parma, exploring how the room’s fresco cycle works within a semi‑public space. The talk will examine how visitors moved through and interpreted the s...

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Advancing Green Education in Conservation

10:00am, 11 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

GOGREEN is delighted to announce a two-day workshop in London dedicated to advancing green education in conservation. GOGREEN is an EU-funded project developing sustainable, preventive, and remedial conservation practices. The workshop supports the g...

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Looking at Edward Gibbon

6:00pm, 16 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a lecture from Professor Dame Linda Colley on Edward Gibbon

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