What’s On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum offers a programme of both online and onsite events, publications and digital assets. Please do visit our YouTube page to catch up on our events from previous years.

Please get in touch with us at researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our programme.

Summer Semester

Conferences MA Curating Research

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 Museum, 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 Santand...

Conferences Research

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...

Conferences Research

Art and Populism

6:00pm, 12 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for day two of Art and Populism, in collaboration with the University of Oxford. For over a decade, populism has dominated headlines and ignited debate across the political spectrum; few words give a more enticing, and murky, indication of th...

Lecture Research

The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep

6:00pm, 24 Jun 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

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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