What’s On at The Research Forum

Research, Talks

(Dis)integration and Resistance: Contemporary Art of the Yugoslav Diaspora

5:00pm, 7 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Jasmina Tumbas for this lecture examining Yugoslav diasporic contemporary art from the 1990s to today through the lens of queer and feminist...

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Research, Talks

Collecting Impressionism: Samuel Courtauld, Oskar Reinhart and other early collectors of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings

5:30pm, 8 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

This event is timed to coincide with the exhibition currently on display at the Courtauld Gallery 'Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart collection', on view until the 26 May....

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Conferences, Research

Henri Michaux, Mescaline and the use of psychedelics in the creative act and as treatment for psychiatric disorders

10:30am, 9 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Timed to coincide with The Courtauld Gallery current exhibition "Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings", this Study Day aims to investigate Henri Michaux’s approach to the use of psychedelics, and reveal how they transformed his artistic creativity, ...

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Research, Talks

Textiles from the Ladakh Himalayas

5:00pm, 12 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Monisha Ahmed for an online lecture looking at the history of fibres and textiles of the Ladakh region, discussing traditional weaving systems, and their symbolic representations and interpretations of Ladakhi life...

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Research, Talks

Fontainebleau - the New Rome of Francis I: dream of a king / reality of a curator

5:30pm, 12 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Muriel Barbier for a lecture exploring the rich history and architectural evolution of the Fontainebleau Palace over the centuries. The talk will delve into how heritage experts approach the preservation and management of this historic site toda...

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Research, Talks

Art and the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Woman

5:30pm, 12 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

In this meeting of the Sacred Traditions & the Arts seminar, Dr Heather Munro and Dr Karen Skinazi will give papers on the role that visual and performance art play in the lives of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women...

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Research, Talks, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Situated at the Edge of the Tide

5:30pm, 13 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Macarena Gómez-Barris for this lecture considering colonial oceanic transits and the generative space between land and the Pacific Ocean...

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Research, Talks

Word/Play: Interiority, Performance, and Reading in Late Medieval Flanders

5:30pm, 14 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Alexa Sand for a lecture exploring the vibrant world of late medieval manuscripts, where devotional texts, playful marginalia, and performance culture intersect to reveal...

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Research, Talks

Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist art histories from Turkey

5:30pm, 15 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join art historian Dr Ceren Özpınar for this book launch and in conversation event celebrating the release of her book Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist Art Histories from Turkey, 1973-1998 ...

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Research, Talks

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

5:30pm, 16 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Bancroft Prize-winning author Jean Strouse for this talk delving into her new book, an account of the dazzling world of the Wertheimers ...

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The Courtauld Gallery, Workshops

The Tutu: Workshop inspired by masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart and Courtauld Collections

10:00am, 18 May 2025 | £30, access to main gallery and temporary exhibition included

To celebrate London Craft week and our temporary exhibition "Goya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection" we are hosting a special Tutu making demonstration and workshop...

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Conferences, Research

Tracing Jewish Histories: The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture

10:00am, 19 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Organised with Case Western Reserve University, this two-day international conference seeks to expand and highlight how works of art and architecture made by and for Jewish communities in the medieval period can trace the histories of Jewish communit...

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Research, Talks

Signature Style: Leonardo da Vinci and Mirror Writing

5:30pm, 21 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Francesca Borgo for the 2025 Leonardo da Vinci Annual Lecture, looking into the characteristic backwards writing of Leonardo as an object of the visual ...

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Research, Talks

Collecting Impressionism in Winterthur & Wales: Oskar Reinhart and the Davies sisters in conversation and context

5:30pm, 22 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Samuel Raybone for this talk, exploring how the pioneering Welsh collectors, the Davies sisters, intersect with the collecting stories of Oskar Reinhart and Samuel Courtauld, in this talk exploring transnational networks of impressionist collect...

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Research, Talks

Representations of the tree in visual culture. Conception and Execution of the GROW exhibition at the Belvedere, Vienna

6:00pm, 27 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Miroslav Haľák for this talk exploring the tree as a cultural, spiritual, and ecological symbol in modern and contemporary European art, building upon the research behind his exhibition GROW exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna...

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Research, Talks

Into the woods: the British Museum citole and the English forest

5:30pm, 28 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Naomi Speakman for this talk exploring the British Museum citole as both a musical masterpiece and an ecological artefact, revealing how this 14th-century boxwood instrument reflects the ...

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Research, Talks

Painting Pairs 2024 - 25: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

2:30pm, 29 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the second and final session of the 2024 -25 Painting Pairs programme, where the pairs will present their research findings before compiling an Art Historical and Technical Study Report...

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Research, Talks

The Strand: A Biography of London's Greatest Thoroughfare

6:00pm, 29 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this event celebrating the publication of The Strand: A Biography. Drawing on remarkable archival discoveries, Geoff Browell and Eileen Chanin have for the first time uncovered the deep history of this remarkable street...

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Conferences, Research, The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Kienholz: Un/American Violence

4:30pm, 30 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this symposium exploring the ethics and politics of violence in post-1950s art through and beyond the work of Edward and Nancy Kienholz, tracing shifting ideas of Americanness across artists, geographies, and histories...

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Research, Talks

Samye and a Transregional History of Buddhist Architecture in the Late 8th Century

5:30pm, 2 Jun 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Louis Copplestone for this talk, tracing the transregional exchange of Buddhist architectural ideas in the late 8th century, using Samye to explore a network of temples across Asia ...

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