What’s On at The Research Forum

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'Material Illusionism': On the oeuvre of Hans Plock, court embroiderer to Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg

5:30pm, 20 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Dr. Evelin Wetter joins us for a talk on the court embroiderer Hans Plock, examining the material illusionism and technical dexterity behind 16th century sculptural textile...

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Joshua Compston: Factual Nonsense and the Rise of the 1990s Young British Artists

6:00pm, 21 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join artist Darren Coffield and Professor Sarah Wilson as they explore the eclectic world of the early-90s avant-garde London scene, celebrating Baldwin Contemporary’s new publication "Joshua Compston: Factual Nonsense and the Rise of the 1990s Young...

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The Studioli in Urbino and Gubbio: Setting the Stage for the Illustrious Men, the Montefeltro, and the Liberal Arts

5:30pm, 25 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Machtelt Israëls for a talk exploring how a newly discovered late fifteenth-century inventory reveals the evolving function of the studioli and chapels in the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino....

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Art and Management

5:30pm, 26 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Elise Archias for this talk exploring how the artistic shifts of the 1960s—pop, minimalism, and conceptual art—aligned with the professional-managerial class's drive to solve social problems through technical solutions, through the lens of artis...

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Photography - A Queer History by Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon

6:00pm, 28 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join co-authors Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon for a book launch celebrating their recent publication Photography—A Queer History...

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Towards a Tibetan Material Culture of Dissent

5:30pm, 29 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Emma Martin as she explores the intersection of Tibetan social movements and material culture in the Tibet Museum, revealing how the museum's curatorial approach uses non-violent resistance to showcase Tibetan objects as symbols of political...

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Unica Zürn - Surrealism, Trauma, Resistance

5:30pm, 3 Dec 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Patricia Allmer for the fourth lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'....

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Temples to the Buddha and the Gods: transnational Drāvida tradition of architecture in Sri Lanka - Book Launch and Panel Discussion

6:00pm, 5 Dec 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join us for a panel discussion marking the launch of Dr Sujatha Arundathi Meegama's book 'Temples to the Buddha and the Gods: Transnational Dravida Tradition of Architecture in Sri Lanka'...

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Destabilising 20th-century art histories through curatorial practices

5:30pm, 9 Dec 2024 | Free, booking essential

Organised in collaboration with the Barbican on the occasion of the exhibition The Imaginary Institution of India : Art 1975-1998, this panel discussion will consider comparative frameworks outside South Asia and asks how curatorial practices can des...

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The Surrealist Revolution Against whiteness: Contemporary Surrealism and Race Traitor Journal (1993-2005)

5:30pm, 10 Dec 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Abigail Susik for the final lecture in the 2024 - 25 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture series 'A Century of Surrealism: Resistance and the Image Since the Manifesto of Surrealism'....

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Re-encountering the Oldest Original Tibetan Monastery

5:30pm, 6 Jan 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join researcher and photographer Peter van Ham for a captivating talk on the ancient monastery of Tabo, showcasing the images from his newly published book "TABO - Gods of Light"...

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Mapping the Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture in China and Beyond

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

Join Dr. Shih-shan Susan Huang exploring the dynamic spreads of Buddhist print culture in China and beyond, drawing on a wealth of printed books discovered in remote archaeological sites, retrieved from inside statues, or found in museum collections...

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Records of Care:
informing approaches to the conservation of Britain's wall paintings

9:30am, 31 Jan 2025 | £15.00, concessions available

Join us for this symposium to mark the culmination of the first major phase of the grant-funded digitisation project to make the National Wall Paintings Survey publicly accessible through a dynamic new online database ...

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The Four Walks of the Cloister: Paradise and Practice in the Medieval Monastery

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

Join Gabriel Byng for the Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture, reexamining the monastic cloister as a place to be transcended, where the heavenly was made manifest in the everyday lives of monks, friars and nuns....

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The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism

5:30pm, 3 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join author Irene Small and Professor Jo Applin for this book launch and in conversation celebrating the release of Small's The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism....

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"It is noteworthy that in this church there should be such an ancient tusk": elephant tusks in Spanish cathedrals

5:30pm, 19 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join curator Mariam Rosser-Owen as she delves into the use of elephant tusks in Iberian cathedrals and explores their connection to the exquisite crafts practices of Islamic Spain...

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