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Lecture, Research

Picturing Digital Infrastructures

6:00pm, 16 Dec 2025

In the fourth lecture in our 2025-26 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Professor Anna Näslund will adress the platformization and datafication of picture collections from an informational infrastructural perspective, meaning how both textual and v...

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Research, Talks

A Spectrum of Desires: Queering Medieval Art at The Met Cloisters

5:30pm, 17 Dec 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Nancy Thebaut for a talk on her recently co-curated exhibition Spectrum of Desire (on view at The Met Cloisters, New York), which explores the diverse - and sometimes unexpected - ways medieval people understood love, sex, and gender.

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Hot Mess Formalism: (Queer) Intelligence in the Age of the Artificial

6:00pm, 21 Jan 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join artist Sheila Pepe for a lecture exploring her wide-ranging practice, her lesbian feminist activism and the longstanding conceptual pursuit of her making, teaching, research, and writing to contest received knowledge and expand ways of being in ...

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Research, Talks

The portals of Notre Dame in Paris. Findings from the current construction site

5:30pm, 28 Jan 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Stephen Albrecht for the Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture, where he will examine how newly acquired 3D datasets from Notre Dame in Paris, obtained during the restoration works, are transforming art-historical research on the cathedral. P...

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Painting Pairs 2025 - 26: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

10:00am, 29 Jan 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the first presentation by the 2025 - 26 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme

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Lecture, Research

Queer Modernism/Queer Curating

6:00pm, 29 Jan 2026 | Free, booking essential

In this lecture and panel discussion, Anke Kempkes will be joined by queer Modernism experts Thomas Kennedy and Gemma Roll Bentley to explore questions surrounding the curatorial framing of queer art in the Modern era. The conversation will draw on K...

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The Weight of Ephemeral Things: Paper, Memory, and Women Makers in Medieval Japan

6:00pm, 3 Feb 2026 | Free, booking essential

This lecture by Dr Halle O’Neal will explore the rich epistolary culture of medieval Japan, through reused, recycled, and reframed letters. With the death of a loved one, family members gathered the dead’s letters and transcribed sacred scripture on ...

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Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Japan

6:00pm, 4 Mar 2026 | Free, booking essential

This lecture by Yuki Russell will appraise the issues around operation of heritage preservation in Japan. While experiencing upheavals such as mass vandalism in the 19th century and World War II, the management of cultural heritage preservation has b...

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Research, Talks

Whole in the part: medieval experiments in transcendence

5:30pm, 11 Mar 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Anya Burgon for a talk introducing the phenomenon of downscaled worlds in late-medieval culture – from the many images of the salvator mundi with the world in his hands, to prayer nuts, to the ‘atomic’ prayers of the Cloud of Unknowing, and s...

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