What’s On at The Research Forum

Lecture, Research

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

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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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...

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Lecture, MA Curating, Research

Mediations on the Sacred: Ritual and Contemporary Practice

6:00pm, 1 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this panel discussion marking the exhibition Searching for Lost Rain (on view at St Mary le Strand: 27th May - 4th June). The exhibition serves as a point of departure to explore the lives of cultural artefacts which have been removed fro...

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MA Curating, Research, Talks

Between Voice and Object: Ritual, Heritage, and the Sacred

6:00pm, 2 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this discussion at St Mary le Strand, where Reverend Peter Babington and Victoria Vargas Downing will bring together perspectives from across art, heritage, and scholarship, to examine how ritual and belief systems continue to inform cont...

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Research

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

2:30pm, 4 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the second and final presentation by the 2025 - 26 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme.

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Lecture, Research

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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Conferences, Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Imagining Britain: Postgraduate and Early Career Research in British and Irish Art

10:00am, 9 Jun 2026 | Tickets free, booking essential

Supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership and the Manton Centre for British Art, join this day-long symposium presenting work and discussion by PhD and early career researchers.

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Lecture, Research

Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art meets the Medieval Monastery

5:30pm, 10 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this book launch and panel discussion, celebrating Dr Jessica Barker and Dr Ed Krčma’s new book 'Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art meets the Medieval Monastery' (Lund Humphries, 2026), published to coincide with a major exhibition at t...

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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...

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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...

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Lecture, MA Curating, Research

Artistic mobility and multimedia practice: How residencies provide a home away from home for artists

6:00pm, 15 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a panel discussion with curator Giulia Civardi of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, Robert Leckie, Director of Gasworks, and artists Mar Kristoff and Tai Shani, on the occasion of the exhibition ‘The stairway that separates my room from ...

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Research, The Manton Centre for British Art

Postponed: 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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Lecture, Research

Making/Matter: The Aetiology of Miraculous Images in Venice, c. 1200–1700

5:30pm, 17 Jun 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Jessica N. Richardson for this lecture focusing on two miracle-working sculptures in medieval and Renaissance Venice, addressing a central preoccupation of both early modern writing and current scholarship: the aetiology or origins of miracle...

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Conferences, MA Curating, Research

Substance and Surface at Strawberry Hill: The Heritage and Legacy of Walpole’s Gothic ‘Paper Castle’

2:00pm, 19 Jun 2026 | £15 tickets, concessions available

Join us for a symposium accompanying Paper Castle, an exhibition of contemporary art at Strawberry Hill House exploring artifice and the architecture of visual deception. Bringing together scholars, curators and artists, the symposium will consider h...

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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...

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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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