Upcoming Research Forum Events
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Sat 5 Oct, 2019 Conservation and Technology, Curator's Talk, Research Forum
The Big Draw Festival
The Courtauld Institute of Art is thrilled to invite you to The Big Draw Festival, #DrawnToLife: Creativity and Wellbeing. About this Event This year the Research Forum will encourage people to get back to the…
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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…
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Thu 17 Oct, 2019 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum
Weimar’s Others: Art History, Alterity and Regionalism in Inter-Wa...
Speakers include: Prof Dorothy Price, Dr Camilla Smith
Dorothy Price and Camilla Smith discuss what Weimar culture has contributed to the discipline of art history, one hundred years after the Republic’s formation. We explore where art-historical research on Weimar might be heading and…
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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…
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Wed 23 Oct, 2019 Lecture, Research Forum
Gender and Ritual in the Baptistery of Padua
Speaker: Anne Derbes
One of the most remarkable fresco programmes of the later Trecento can be found in the baptistery of Padua. The frescoes, painted by the Florentine artist Giusto de’ Menabuoi in the mid-1370s, include a dazzling depiction…
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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…
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Fri 25 Oct, 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Research Forum
Paper, Ink, Vodun, and the Inquisition: Tracing Power in the Early...
Speaker: Cécile Fromont
Please join us for the first Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series of the year. In 1730, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested José Francisco, an enslaved man raised in West Africa, who had learned in Brazil…
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Mon 28 Oct, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
“Visions of Great Usefulness and Progress”: A Chicago Photog...
Speaker: Amy M. Mooney
In 1928, when interviewed for a Chicago-based publication, photographer William E. Woodard stated that he was motivated to migrate to this city in order to realize “visions of great usefulness and progress.” Like many other…
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Mon 4 Nov, 2019 Research Forum
Worldbuilding for 2065
Speaker: Lawrence Lek
Interlaced with conspiracy theories and speculative fiction, Lawrence Lek’s CGI films and virtual worlds explore the geopolitical impact of automation and simulation. His universe is populated with dreamers – intelligent satellites, freedom fighters, fading superstars…
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Tue 5 Nov, 2019 Modern and Contemporary, Research Forum
Sussan Deyhim: Performance and Practice
Speaker: Sussan Deyhim
This is the second lecture in a series hosted by Dr Sussan Babaie and co-organised by Iran Heritage Foundation with The Courtauld Institute of Art, and in association with independent curator Vali Mahlouji Sussan Deyhim…
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Wed 6 Nov, 2019 Research Forum
Myths, Memories and Miniatures: The Art of Shahzia Sikander
Speaker: Shahzia Sikander
The New York-based Shahzia Sikander will speak about her multi-media artworks. Sikander’s pioneering practice takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting…
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Tue 12 Nov, 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Research Forum
Material Journeys: Mamluk Metalwork in West Africa
Speaker: Raymond Silverman
The Arts of Pre-Colonial Africa Please join us for the third Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series of the year. Africa south of the Sahara has received little attention from scholars studying global exchange networks before…
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Wed 20 Nov, 2019 Research Forum
Questioning topographies in word and image: Pierre Alechinsky and ...
Speakers include: Dr Caroline Levitt, Dr Sheila McTighe
This seminar marks the first public event of the newly formed ‘Word and Image’ research cluster, and showcases the importance of word and image relationships across different periods and cultures. The speakers will present work…
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Thu 23 Jan, 2020 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum
Poe, Printmaking, and Intellectual Property
Speaker: Prof. Andrei Pop
Andrei Pop brings together two of the peculiarities of French avant-garde art in the late 19th century: its nostalgic embrace of the American romantic Edgar Allan Poe and of the “dark and stormy” aesthetic of…
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Wed 25 Mar, 2020 Lecture, Research Forum
A Greek Lady from Persepolis: A statue of Penelope and her Roman s...
Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Settis
Rumble Fund Lecture in Classical Art 2020, presented by the Centre of Hellenic Studies and the Department of Classics (King’s College London) in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Institute of Classical…
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