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.
Click here to learn more about Courtauld Connects
Upcoming Research Forum Events:
All of our events are free and open to all, unless otherwise stated.
Click here to sign up for updates, so you never miss an event!
Search Events by Date & Topic
Open27 of 27 results.
-
Wed 24 Apr, 2019 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…
Find out more about From invention to inventory: object lessons from the courts of France Book Now
-
Thu 25 Apr, 2019 Research Forum, Visiting Expert
‘Orientalism’ after 40
Speakers include: Professor Elisabeth Fraser, Professor Mary Roberts
This term’s Visiting Expert series is a joint collaboration with Professor Mary Roberts (University of Sydney) and Professor Elisabeth Fraser (University of South Florida). This series of events was curated by The Courtauld Institute of…
-
Fri 26 Apr, 2019 Research Forum
RES | FEST 19
Confirmed Contributors Museum Detox, Melanie Keen, Travis Alabanza, Dean Atta , Aviva Burnstock , Rachel Ara, Charlie Craggs, Barberette, Dat Brass Soundsystem, Alice Procter, PLUS MANY MORE TBA
RES|FEST – The Courtauld Institute of Art’s festival of art history – is back on 26 April! Join The Courtauld for a packed programme of short pop-up talks from leading figures in art historical research, culture…
-
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…
-
Mon 29 Apr, 2019 CRSBI annual lecture, Research Forum
And let perpetual light shine on them. The Romanesque resurgence o...
Speaker: Dr Xavier Dectot
The history of medieval tomb sculpture usually focuses on the Gothic era. It is true that, from the 13th century onwards, there is a multiplication of the number of monuments of a very defined, nearly…
Find out more about And let perpetual light shine on them. The Romanesque resurgence of tomb sculpture Book Now
-
Wed 1 May, 2019 Book launch, Research Forum
Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki, a Par...
Speaker: Dr Andrey Shabanov, Dr Nicky Kozicharow, Professor David Solkin
Please join us for the UK launch of Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists (New York; London: Bloomsbury Academics, 2019). Contemporaries of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and predecessors of…
Find out more about Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists Book Now
-
Wed 1 May, 2019 Conservation and Technology, Painting Pairs, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Painting Pairs 2019
This is the second of two presentations by this year’s ‘Painting Pairs’. Five pairs of Research Associates, each composed of a graduate student from the department of Conservation and Technology and one studying art history or…
-
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…
-
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,…
Find out more about Same Old Things? Re-Telling the Italian Renaissance Book Now
-
Tue 7 May, 2019 Lecture, Research Forum, Visiting Expert
A Luminous Line: Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing
Speaker: Susan Schwalb
Susan Schwalb has worked in silverpoint and metalpoint drawing for over 40 years. Metalpoint drawing, briefly discussed in the fourteenth century by Cennino Cennini in Il Libro dell’Arte, saw its first heyday during the Florentine…
Find out more about A Luminous Line: Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing Book Now
-
Thu 9 May, 2019 Bahari Lecture, Research Forum
The Shah and the ‘Ulama: A Tale of Two Mosques in Safavid Isfahan
Speaker: Dr Ruba Kana’an
Safavid art of the sixteenth century is celebrated for its exceptional painted manuscripts and the monumental architectural patronage of its dynastic shrines. Yet the same period did not produce a single Safavid Friday mosque. This…
Find out more about The Shah and the ‘Ulama: A Tale of Two Mosques in Safavid Isfahan Book Now
-
Fri 10 May, 2019 Conference, Modern and Contemporary, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
Thinking Drawing 1960 to Now
Speaker: Tania Kovats, Lucy Skaer, Margaret Iversen , Stephanie Straine, Ed Krcma, Anna Lovatt, Briony Fer, Mary Doyle
This day-long symposium takes as its subject the status of drawing since 1960 as a complex and dynamic medium. Bringing together artists, curators, and art historians, the symposium will explore drawing’s status as a significant…
-
Sat 11 May, 2019 Conference, History of Dress, Research Forum
Fashion, Self-Reflexivity and the Question of Inspiration
Speaker: Judith Clark, Dr Agnès Rocamora, Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, Andrew Tucker, Lou Stoppard, Professor Caroline Evans, Sarah Mower, MBE, Supriya Lele, Priya Ahluwalia, Bianca Saunders, Ariana Waiata Sheehan, Rahemur Rahman, Sonnet Stanfill
The ancient symbol of the Ouroboros offers an apt image for fashion’s self-reflexive character. Like the snake that devours itself in an eternal cycle of birth, death and rebirth, fashion frequently refers back to itself…
Find out more about Fashion, Self-Reflexivity and the Question of Inspiration Book Now
-
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…
Find out more about ‘The World is My Palette’: Rauschenberg’s Overseas Culture Interchange Book Now
-
Tue 14 May, 2019 Conference, Research Forum
CAS Annual Conference: Re-Writing the Canon?
Speaker: Christopher Bedford, Dr Sook-Kyung Lee, EJ Scott, Denise Murrell, Heike Munder
Join us for the CAS Annual Conference, bringing together scholars, curators and museum professionals to consider significant recent initiatives in collecting, exhibitions and display, and the issues they raise. In recent decades, notions of a…
Find out more about CAS Annual Conference: Re-Writing the Canon? Book Now
-
Wed 15 May, 2019 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.…
Find out more about Buildings in Bits: Lessons from the English Baroque Book Now
-
Wed 15 May, 2019 Renaissance, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Giorgione as a Reader of Dante
Speaker: Professor Jaynie Anderson
Jaynie Anderson will discuss a recently discovered inscription about Giorgione and a drawing that appear on the last page of an edition of Dante’s Commedia, published in Venice in 1497. The inscription gives Giorgione’s age at…
-
Thu 16 May, 2019 Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Research Forum
The Odd Couple: Conversing and Connecting Over Time
The Courtauld’s Postgraduate Research Symposium is a platform for third-year doctoral candidates to present their research to their peers, the wider scholarly community and the public. The symposium showcases the breadth of research being undertaken…
Find out more about The Odd Couple: Conversing and Connecting Over Time Book Now
-
Fri 17 May, 2019 Addressing Fashion Discussion Group, Research Forum
Addressing Images
Speaker: Nadya Wang
This session of Addressing Images will be based on a clip from the Philippine-Singaporean film They Call Her… Cleopatra Wong to discuss how costume, body, pose and movement worked together to portray strong female characters such as Wong in…
-
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…
Find out more about Picturing Perception in Nineteenth-Century America
-
Wed 22 May, 2019 Artist in Conversation: Contemporary Iranian Practices and Aesthetics, Research Forum
Reza Aramesh in Conversation with Sussan Babaie
Speakers include: Reza Aramesh , Dr Sussan Babaie
A new lecture series hosted by Dr. Sussan Babaie and co-organised by Iran Heritage Foundation and in association with the independent curator Vali Mahlouji. The inaugural event will bring Reza Aramesh in Conversation with Sussan…
Find out more about Reza Aramesh in Conversation with Sussan Babaie Book Now
-
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…
Find out more about Art Institutions and Race in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850 Book Now
-
Wed 29 May, 2019 - Mon 29 Apr, 2019 American Art, Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism, Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
UN/COMMON RITUAL
Speakers include: Dr Rizvana Bradley, Dr Amy Tobin
This event focuses on Barbara McCullough’s pioneering short film Water Ritual 1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1979) including a screening of the film. Rizvana Bradley (History of Art and African-American Studies, Yale University) will…
-
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…
Find out more about Dark Mines, Dusty Workshops: Silver beyond the Smith
-
Mon 3 Jun, 2019 Modern & Contemporary 2nd Year PhD symposium, Research Forum
Dimensions of the ‘Modern’: Exploring Critical Approaches
The Courtauld’s annual Modern and Contemporary Second Year Postgraduate Symposium is an opportunity for second-year doctoral candidates to present their research to their peers and the wider academic community. The symposium presents a rage of…
Find out more about Dimensions of the ‘Modern’: Exploring Critical Approaches Book Now
-
Sat 22 Jun, 2019 Modern and Contemporary - Centre for American Art, Research Forum
‘This Transitional Age In Art’, Modernism and American...
The 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, often referred to as the Armory Show, has been credited with introducing Modern Art to an unprepared American public, with lasting impact on the American Art that followed.…
Find out more about ‘This Transitional Age In Art’, Modernism and American Art Discussed Book Now
-
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…