Events Archive 2024

Gallery Talks, Open Courtauld, Public Programmes, Research, The Courtauld Gallery

The Big Draw Festival 2024: Drawing in Motion 

10:00am, 30 Oct 2024

Research

Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Work and Legacy of Mark Girouard

10:00am, 26 Oct 2024 | £15.00, concessions available

Research

Byzantine Enamels: status, diplomacy and markets in the twelfth century

5:30pm, 23 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Antony Eastmond for a talk on Byzantine enamels, exploring the role they played in twelfth century diplomacy, spreading from Venice to Moscow....

Research

Finding Queertopia: Book Event and Panel Discussion

6:00pm, 17 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

On the occasion of Gemma Rolls-Bentley's recent publication Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between, artist Rene Matiċ and curator Fiontán Moran join her to explore how queer spaces, bodies, and identities have been shaped and represent...

The Courtauld Gallery, What's on Highlights

After Hours with the Research Forum

6:00pm, 16 Oct 2024 | £0.00 - £16.00

Join The Courtauld for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event and celebrate our latest exhibition Monet and London. Views of the Thames...

Research

Surrealism / Surrealismus: Documentary photography and the conditions of Czechoslovak surrealism 1934-1959

5:30pm, 15 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Krzysztof Fijałkowski for the first lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'....

Research

Christianity before Conversion

5:30pm, 9 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

Helen Gittos proposes a new framework for thinking through how radical changes in faith happened in early medieval England...

Research

Poetry and Politics in Buddhist and Hindu Visions of Self and Other

6:00pm, 7 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join the Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar as Dr. Sujatha Meegama explores kingship in early modern Sri Lanka through rare ivory carvings and Dr. Ankur Barua delves into the paradox of divine love in Hindu devotional poetry, with insights into the...

Research

Modernism in Ukraine: Local Contexts, Intercultural Encounters, Transnational Exchanges

10:30am, 4 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this two-day international conference bringing together established and emerging scholars for a first-ever discussion dedicated exclusively to Ukraine’s visual culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be held outside Ukra...

Research

Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene: Activating Archives (2024) by Bergit Arends

6:00pm, 3 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Bergit Arends for a book launch and panel-discussion exploring how artists use photography and archives to document and reinterpret environmental and historical change. The panel features insights from leading experts and a discussion on the...