What’s On at The Research Forum

Research, Talks

Sustainability in Conservation

6:00pm, 15 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the second event in our Sustainability in Conservation series, where Lorraine Finch and Jaap van der Berg will share insights into the sustainable initiatives they are leading in the field...

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Research, Talks

WP7 Webinar: How do we Integrate Green into Conservation Education?

3:00pm, 24 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a webinar on Work Package 7 of the GoGreen project, where we’ll dive into how collaboration has helped shaped innovative course modules focused on green education in conservation. The webinar will highlight key outputs of the work package...

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Research, Talks

With Graphic Intent: German and Austrian modernist works on paper

5:00pm, 24 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

The panel event has been organised to coincide with the exhibition With Graphic Intent at The Courtauld Gallery (1 March – 22 June 2025)...

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Conferences, Research

Subsea Signals: Maritime histories, digital currents

9:30am, 25 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the 2025 Asymmetry International Symposium, offering a dynamic programme of live readings, film screenings, presentations, and panels exploring the shifting currents between maritime history in Asia Pacific, and digital technologies...

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Research, Talks

Sustainability in Conservation

5:00pm, 28 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the third event in our Sustainability in Conservation series, where Kim Kraczon and Vivian Yip will share insights into the sustainable initiatives they are leading in the field...

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Research, Talks

The Impact of Motherhood within Art Schools and Institutions in the UK

6:30pm, 29 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

This event will explore the impact of motherhood on art schools and institutions in the UK. Motherhood is understood in an expanded sense here, encompassing the experiences and challenges encountered during various stages of reproductive journeys and...

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Research, Talks

Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi for the 2025 Annual Lecture of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, as he delves into the interplay between Romanesque sculpture and water through the study of medieval stone vessels...

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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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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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Centre for American Art, Research, Talks

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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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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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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