What’s On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum offers a programme of both online and onsite events, publications and digital assets. Please do visit our YouTube page to catch up on our events from previous years.

Please get in touch with us at researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our programme.

Spring Programme:

Research

Grids of Vietnamese modernism

5:00pm, 26 Feb 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Duc Le for a talk on 20th-century Vietnamese architecture, exploring the state of neglected modernist heritage sites and innovative preservation methods in Vietnam...

Book now Read more
Three female students from the Guildhall School perform at the Courtauld Gallery in front of two Paul Gauguin paintings from his Polynesia series. On the left, a flute player is seated; in the center, a viola player is seated; and on the right, a harp player is seated.

The Courtauld Gallery

Sounds Like Art

7:00pm, 23 Mar 2025 | Tickets from £10 / concessions available

Come and listen to new music written in response to paintings across The Courtauld's collections...

Book now Read more

Research

Art and its Market

5:30pm, 27 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Dirk Boll for this talk on the art market and its often overlooked aspects, from the extensive digitisation of structures and content, to the evolving roles of museums and art criticism...

Book now Read more

Research

Medieval Art on the Move

10:00am, 28 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Now entombed in airless glass vitrines, medieval objects in museums appear static and immovable. But in the Middle Ages artworks were active and mobile: they were manipulated in the hand, processed through towns, and traded or gifted across very larg...

Read more

Summer Programme:

Camp amongst the Changpa, nomadic pastoralists from Changthang. Women are weaving on Backstrap looms, while one is laying a warp (left) and another is carding wool (centre). Behind them men are combing pashmina.

Research

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...

Booking to open soon Read more

You might also like

Citations