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Conferences, Research

Annual Postgraduate Symposium 2025/26

4:30pm, 30 Apr 2026

Join us for our annual Postgraduate Symposium, where researchers in the final stages of their doctoral degrees will deliver papers emerging out of their research projects.

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‘A Compendium of Disparate Imagery’: R.B. Kitaj’s painted collages

6:00pm, 5 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Märit Rausing Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Mark Hallett, for an exploration of R.B. Kitaj

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The Relationship Between Arts Practice and Sacred Writing: two artists engage with traditional Jewish texts

5:30pm, 7 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar, where artists Jacqueline Nicholls and Dr Jess Wood will explore the relationship between arts practice and traditional Jewish texts including Torah, Talmud and Midrash.

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The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s

6:00pm, 11 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Susan L. Siegfried for this book launch event and panel discussion celebrating the publication of her book The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s. On the occasion of this lecture at the Courtauld, Professor Siegfried inv...

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Lecture, Research

Iran: International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Times of War

5:30pm, 12 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a panel discussion bringing together a panel of experts on Iranian heritage, from antiquities to modern times, to offer insights and discuss the destruction of monuments in Iran. The humanitarian loss and disruptions of life during the re...

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Fear, Desire, and the Deep Darkness: The Intellectual Discovery of the Underworld from Leonardo to Kircher

5:30pm, 14 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join the Leonardo da Vinci Society for their annual lecture, this year delivered by Monica Azzolini, Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna. In this lecture, Professor Azzolini will explore Leonardo da Vinci’s transiti...

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Ecologies of Attention: Sensing at the Edge

9:30am, 15 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the 2026 Asymmetry International Symposium, offering a dynamic programme of papers, performances, screenings, and discussions exploring how art and visual culture might shift our understanding of attention from a logic of capture towards ...

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Raphael et alia

6:00pm, 18 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Lisa Pon for this seminar examining Raphael's collaborations in painting and many other media, re-evaluating period and current attitudes towards originality, authorship, artistic practice and value. This research draws from Pon’s ne...

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Home on the Waves: Museum Collections and Caribbean Tidalectics with Professor Marsha Pearce

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

Join Professor Marsha Pearce for an evening talk exploring Caribbean contemporary art

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Judgments in Nuremberg: The 1950s Trade in Medieval Christian and Jewish Manuscripts in the “Most German of All German Cities”

5:30pm, 20 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor William J. Diebold for a lecture examining the reception and sale of medieval illuminated manuscripts in 1950s Nuremberg. Drawing on extensive archival research, he explores how post‑war Germany sought to reconcile its medieval past wi...

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Leonora Carrington: Navigating a world Down Below

10:30am, 29 May 2026 | £15 tickets, concessions available

Join us for this conference, in collaboration with the Freud Musem, where the exhibition Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal is presented from 25 Mar to 28 Jun 2026. The exhibition is the first dedicated to drawings from Carrington’s Santande...

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Authority Unravelling at the Seams: Clothing, Narrative, and Roccabianca’s Griselda

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

Join Professor Timothy McCall for this lecture on the camera di Griselda at Roccabianca castle, near Parma, exploring how the room’s fresco cycle works within a semi‑public space. The talk will examine how visitors moved through and interpreted the s...

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Advancing Green Education in Conservation

10:00am, 11 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

GOGREEN is delighted to announce a two-day workshop in London dedicated to advancing green education in conservation. GOGREEN is an EU-funded project developing sustainable, preventive, and remedial conservation practices. The workshop supports the g...

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Looking at Edward Gibbon

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

Join us for a lecture from Professor Dame Linda Colley on Edward Gibbon

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Research Notes: Surveying Rubens’s late landscapes

6:00pm, 25 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Bert Watteeuw for a lecture on Peter Paul Rubens’s late landscapes, marking the temporary reunion of the Courtauld Gallery’s own Landscape by Moonlight (1635—40) with the Barber Institute of Fine Art’s A Landscape Near Het Steen (1635—40), th...

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