What’s On at The Research Forum

Lecture, Research

Fear, Desire, and the Deep Darkness: The Intellectual Discovery of the Underworld from Leonardo to Kircher

5:30pm, 14 May 2026

Join the Leonardo da Vinci Society for their annual lecture, this year delivered by Monica Azzolini, Associate Professor of History of Science at the University of Bologna. In this lecture, Professor Azzolini will explore Leonardo da Vinci’s transiti...

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Conferences, Research

Ecologies of Attention: Sensing at the Edge

9:30am, 15 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the 2026 Asymmetry International Symposium, offering a dynamic programme of papers, performances, screenings, and discussions exploring how art and visual culture might shift our understanding of attention from a logic of capture towards ...

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Lecture, Research

Raphael et alia

6:00pm, 18 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Lisa Pon for this seminar examining Raphael's collaborations in painting and many other media, re-evaluating period and current attitudes towards originality, authorship, artistic practice and value. This research draws from Pon’s ne...

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Research, Talks

WE ARE HERE: Remembrance, Resistance, and the Public Space

6:30pm, 19 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join us for an evening of conversation with artist Talya Feldman on her digital artwork and project WIR SIND HIER, a database that claims public spaces as sites of remembrance through the voices and demands of survivors and families of victims of rac...

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Home on the Waves: Museum Collections and Caribbean Tidalectics with Professor Marsha Pearce

6:00pm, 19 May 2026 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Marsha Pearce for an evening talk exploring Caribbean contemporary art

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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 | Free, booking essential

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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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