Events Archive 2024

Lee Kai Chung: Espionage and Disposable Lives

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Artist and researcher Lee Kai Chung shares excerpts from his recent moving image work exploring the roles of intelligence operatives in British Hong Kong and Guangzhou during the Cold War, weaving in themes of historical erasure, colonialism, ecology...

Research

Modern Sculpture, Essence and Difference: Reflections on the Work of Constantin Brâncuşi

11:00am, 26 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Organised with the Henry Moore Foundation, this symposium will re-examine Brancusi's work and reception in Britain, while coinciding with The Courtauld's upcoming summer exhibition Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall ...

Research

Material Power: Embroidery, Dress, and Resistance in Palestine

5:30pm, 24 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join curator Rachel Dedman and artist Osman Yousefzada for a lecture on the cultural history of Palestinian embroideries as sites of craftsmanship, themes of gender, national heritage, and politicisation...

Research

The Visual Order of the Promenade: The Chaharbagh of Safavid Isfahan and its Sensory Experiences

5:00pm, 23 Apr 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Farshid Emami for an online lecture on the Chaharbagh, a four-kilometre-long, tree-lined promenade that served as the primary venue of urban leisure in the capital of Isfahan, early modern Safavid Iran ...