From January 2019, Research Forum events will take place at The Courtauld’s new site:
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Vernon Square
Penton Rise
Kings Cross
London
WC1X 9EW
Our temporary move to Vernon Square coincides with the transformative Courtauld Connects project – an ambitious venture that will make The Courtauld’s world-class artworks, research and teaching accessible to more people – in the UK and internationally.
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Upcoming Research Forum Events:
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Tue 19 Feb, 2019 Modernities: Architecture, Design, Theory, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Some Roles of Drawing
Speaker: Tony Fretton, Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner, Niall Hobhouse
Some Roles of Drawing is an evening dedicated to architectural drawing. With guest speakers Tony Fretton, Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Niall Hobhouse, it will explore some of the many and shifting roles played by…
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Wed 20 Feb, 2019 Coll & Cortés Medieval Spain, Research Forum, Research Seminars
The Prayerbook of Alfonso of Aragon and Manuscript Illumination in...
Speaker: Dra. Núria Ramón Marqués
The Psalter-Book of Hours of Alfonso V the Magnanimous is one of the most important illuminated books commissioned by this Valencian monarch. The king used the book as an instrument of propaganda concerning his royal…
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Mon 25 Feb, 2019 Conservation and Technology, Friends, Research Forum
The Girl in the Spotlight: A technical examination of Vermeer’s Gi...
Speaker: Dr. Abbie Vandivere
Abbie Vandivere will give a lecture about the recent technical examination of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665). This is the most beloved painting in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The…
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Mon 25 Feb, 2019 Research Seminars, Sacred Traditions and the Arts
Protestantism: The Death of Art or the Birth of Art History?
Speakers include: Dr Kate Kirkpatrick FRSA, Dr Michael Squire
Hegel’s Aesthetics claims that it is a legacy of Protestantism that we ‘no longer venerate works of art’. The novel plays an important role in his historical account, since the Reformation emphases on inwardness and the individual led…
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Tue 26 Feb, 2019 Friends, Professorial Lecture
From invention to inventory: object lessons from the courts of France
Speaker: Professor Susie Nash
In the late 14th century, the kings of France and the princes of the blood constructed, commissioned, purchased, gave, appropriated, pawned and liquidated some of the most extraordinary and magnificent objects of the late medieval period, in a…
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Wed 27 Feb, 2019 Renaissance, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Leonardo da Vinci’s Female Genitalia and the Limits of Representation
Speaker: Dr Jill Burke
The advent of observational, naturalistic representation around the turn of the fifteenth century caused issues about what can and cannot be represented for decades to come. How long should Christ’s fingernails be? Should they be…
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Thu 28 Feb, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Out of the Woodwork
Speaker: Prof Jennifer L. Roberts
The nineteenth century saw the rise of a new text-image economy, one defined by the mass reproduction and dissemination of pictures, together with text, in lucrative and popular illustrated newspapers, weeklies, and books. The explosion…
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Fri 1 Mar, 2019 Modern and Contemporary Postgraduate Colloquium, Research Forum
Queer Conversations: Looking to Art History and Visual Culture
Queer readings of books, novels, films, paintings, and performances give us our maps, our user’s manuals for finding pleasure in a world more often than not organized around that pleasure’s annihilation. — Jennifer Doyle, ‘Queer…
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Tue 5 Mar, 2019 History of Photography, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Susan Meiselas on ‘Mediations’
Speaker: Susan Meiselas
In this talk, part of The Courtauld Institute of Art’s History of Photography lecture series, Susan Meiselas will give an overview of her career as it was presented in her recent retrospective exhibition Mediations, shown in 2018 at…
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Mon 11 Mar, 2019 Modern and Contemporary, Research Forum, Research Seminars
The Market for Munch
Speaker: Frances Carey
Over a fifty-year period from 1894, Munch produced some 850 different printed compositions with as many as 30,000 impressions. His prints were exhibited on at least 268 occasions between 1895 and 1942 and a catalogue…
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Tue 12 Mar, 2019 Friends, Professorial Lecture
Buildings in Bits: Lessons from the English Baroque
Speaker: Professor Christine Stevenson
The ‘English Baroque’ was an economic phenomenon more than a stylistic one. Construction was the second-biggest industry in London, and much went on elsewhere, too, but few people made their livings as architects in our sense.…
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Wed 13 Mar, 2019 ICMA lecture, Research Forum
A Beast of a Project: Curating an Exhibition on Bestiaries at the ...
Speaker: Dr Elizabeth Morrison
The prospect of curating a major international loan exhibition is equal parts thrilling and intimidating. After eight years of intense research, loan negotiation, design development, and thousands of emails, Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in…
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Thu 14 Mar, 2019 Persian and Islamic Arts, Research Forum, Research Seminars
From Persepolis to Isfahan: interrogating Safavid ‘antiquarianism’
Speaker: Dr Lindsay Allen
This paper asks whether and how material appropriations of pre-Islamic antiquity occurred in 16th to 17th-century Iran. We look for new perspectives on the spoliation and creative visioning of imperial Achaemenid (6th to 4th centuries…
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Mon 18 Mar, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
American Standards
Speaker: Dr Stephanie Schwartz
This talk is about editing and the afterlives of photographs. It takes as its subject the photographic book 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. A collaboration between the novelist…
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Thu 21 Mar, 2019 Artists on Brexit, Research Forum
Brexit’s Political Imagination
Speaker Martin Rowson
What does Brexit look like? Political cartoons are at the very forefront of crafting Brexit’s political imagination: giving shape and form to the fears and anxieties that colour a fast-moving and turbulent political landscape. Martin…
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Fri 22 Mar, 2019 - Sat 23 Mar, 2019 Conference, Research Forum
Psychoanalysis and American Art
Speaker: Keenote: Gregg Bordowitz , Jo Applin , Whitney Davis , Michael Green , Rye Holmboe , Margaret Iversen , Jason D. LaFountain , Kimberley Lamm , Levi Prombaum , Christa Robbins , Nicholas Robbins , Catherine Spencer , Theodore Triandos , Christian Whitworth
‘…I shall avoid the temptation of entering upon a critique of American civilization; I do not wish to give an impression of wanting myself to employ American methods.’ Sigmund Freud, Civlization and its Discontents (1931).…
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Mon 29 Apr, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Andrew Wyeth and the Landscape of War
Speaker: Dr Cécile Whiting
During World War II American artists recast the terms of landscape painting as it had been practiced in the 1930s, broadening its scope from the local to the international, and from the pastoral to the…
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Thu 2 May, 2019 Artists on Brexit, Research Forum
Brexit and the Apocalypse
Speakers Prof Jon Thomson, Alison Craighead
In 2016 artists Thomson & Craighead made a perfume-artwork called Apocalypse: re-creating the olfactory description of the end of the world from the King James Bible’s Book of Revelation. A work as timely as it…
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Fri 3 May, 2019 Renaissance Postgraduate Symposium, Research Forum
Same Old Things? Re-Telling the Italian Renaissance
Even today, the history of art is largely dominated by narratives that are for the most part style-based. They tell a story that is teleological, ever-progressive, and structured around influential artistic centres. Within this framework,…
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Mon 13 May, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
‘The World is My Palette’: Rauschenberg’s Overse...
Speaker: Prof John R. Blakinger
At a press conference organized at UN headquarters in 1984, the artist Robert Rauschenberg announced the formation of an ambitious new program: the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, known as ROCI. The initiative would take the…
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Mon 20 May, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Picturing Perception in Nineteenth-Century America
Speaker: Peter John Brownlee
When philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that “Our Age is Ocular,” he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America’s cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American…
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Fri 24 May, 2019 - Sat 25 May, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
Art Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850
Speaker: Caitlin Beach,, Esther Chadwick, Nika Elder, Cheryl Finley, Ray Hernández-Durán, Rachel Grace Newman, Sadiah Qureshi, Geoffrey Quilley, Catherine Roach, Nicholas Robins, Sarah Thomas, Daryle Williams
The long eighteenth century gave rise to a host of art institutions throughout the Atlantic world, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and the Academia…
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Mon 3 Jun, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Dark Mines, Dusty Workshops: Silver beyond the Smith
Speaker: Dr Ethan W. Lasser
The history of silversmithing in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain and Europe takes the maker’s mark as its starting point. This talk, and the forthcoming exhibition upon which it is based, will build on past scholarship to…
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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) 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 salvation. These contradictory…