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Lecture, Research

Borobudur as Living Heritage: Historical Precedents and Futures of (Non-) Intervention

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

Join Panggah Ardiyansyah as he discusses three pivotal moments in the historical life of Borobudur.

Lecture, Research

The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2026 | Free, booking essential

The Courtauld is delighted to host the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland for the 2026 Annual Lecture. The doorway into the great hall of Norwich castle keep is the grandest early Romanesque portal in England both in terms of scale...

Lecture, Research

The Romance of Architectural Classicism

5:30pm, 26 Oct 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join leading classical architect George Saumarez Smith for a discussion of his work, ranging from the thoughtful renovation, repair and extension of historic properties to new houses and major urban master planning schemes (including Poundbury, the e...

Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Why Constable Didn’t Give Up Figure Painting

6:00pm, 3 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Nicholas Robbins for an exploration of John Constable’s relationship to figure painting

Lecture, Research

Green: Salman Toor and South Asian Literary Production In Detail

6:00pm, 10 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

In the first lecture in our 2026-27 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series we are delighted to welcome Evan Moffitt and Aziz Sohail.

Research, Talks

The portals of Notre Dame in Paris. Findings from the current construction site

5:30pm, 11 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Stephen Albrecht for the Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture, where he will examine how newly acquired 3D datasets from Notre Dame in Paris, obtained during the restoration works, are transforming art-historical research on the cathedral. P...

Conferences, Research

Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish Architectural History

13 Nov - 14 Nov 2026 | £35.00 (including sandwich lunch), concessions available

Join us for the Third Mark Girouard Symposium 'Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish Architectural History'

Lecture, Research

Sacred Flowscapes: Negotiating and Imagining the Spaces of Chinese Religion in Singapore

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

Join Terence Heng as he maps out the making of Chinese Religion sacred spaces, showing how such spaces are a product of “spiritual imagination”, a material and embodied process through which individuals and groups find ways to co-exist with state pol...

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

Robert Ryman: A New Way of Seeing symposium

3:00pm, 20 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this half-day symposium marking the major retrospective of American painter Robert Ryman’s work at the Barbican Art Gallery.

Lecture, Research

Super-Sized Holy Women: Books, Authority and Scale in Medieval Art

5:30pm, 23 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar with Prof. Laura Saetveit Miles & Dr Maryanne Saunders Klein.

Lecture, Research

Public Intimacies and Wig Spaces: Entangled Migrations of Korean and African Americans

5:30pm, 24 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Min Kyung Lee discusses the Korean-owned wig store as an overlooked urban space through which Korean and African American migrations became materially entangled in the late twentieth-century United States.

Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Art Monthly at 50

6:00pm, 24 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for an event celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Art Monthly

Lecture, Research

The Making of an Exhibition: Inventing Nature. Leonardo, Arcimboldo, Caravaggio

5:30pm, 25 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Dr Barbara Furlotti and Prof Guido Rebecchini will discuss their recent experience of curating an exhibition on the relationship among the natural world, scientific interests, artistic production and courtly culture during the sixteenth and early sev...

Lecture, Research

The Metabolism of Landscape: Ecology and Natural Philosophy in the Prints of Hercules Segers

5:30pm, 26 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Elizabeth J. Petcu for a reinterpretation of Segers’s prints through seventeenth-century natural philosophy and its Aristotelian theories of metabolism as a mechanism of creative destruction.

Lecture, Research

Art Beyond the Nation: “Statehood in Contemporary Art from Kazakhstan”

5:30pm, 30 Nov 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Sven Spieker as he examines artworks by contemporary Kazakh artists who work with the material trappings of statehood, including flags and maps.

Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

A Matrilineal Descent: Racial Inheritances in Victorian Paintings of Mothers and Their Children

6:00pm, 2 Dec 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a lecture presented by Keren Hammerschlag

Lecture, Research

Queer Sites in South Asia: Cruising and Worldbuilding in India and Sri Lanka’s Gardens and Beaches

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

Join anthropologist Dr Brian A. Horton (Brandeis University) and art historian Dr Edwin Coomasaru (University of Bristol) for a discussion of queer sites in South Asia, from gardens to beaches, to mark Salman Toor’s exhibition Someone Like You (2026-...

Lecture, Research

Singulariter afficitur … ad gloriosissimum lignum crucis: Jean duc de Berry and the Cross

5:30pm, 9 Dec 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Susannah Kingwill as she discusses Jean duc de Berry and the Cross.

Lecture, Research

A Book Talk: Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome

6:00pm, 10 Dec 2026 | Free, booking essential

Following the publication of Women Artists and Abstract Art in Postwar Rome: Connected by Travel in summer 2026, co-editors Jelena Stojković and Daniel Sturgis talk about their research of a transient community of abstract women artists who lived and...

Lecture, Research

Migrant Forms: Contemporary Art, Colonial Pasts

6:00pm, 19 Jan 2027 | Free, booking essential

In the third lecture in our 2026-27 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series we are delighted to welcome Professor Saloni Mathur.

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

Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller and Love-in-Pieces, Alice Butler

5:30pm, 1 Feb 2027 | Free, booking essential

Join Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History and Director of American Studies at Stanford University as he demonstrates how Andy Warhol's attention to daily life sparks possibilities for us to rethink our own.

Research, Talks

An Unknown Architectural Drawing from the Workshop of Peter Parler

5:30pm, 10 Feb 2027 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Jakub Adamski for a lecture which explores a parchment sheet with a presumed sketch of the canopy tomb of Pope Innocent VI from the Charterhouse in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

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