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.

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, Talks

Textiles from the Ladakh Himalayas

5:00pm, 23 Jun 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

Alice Adams (b. 1930), Resin Corner Pieces, 1967, Polyester resin with mixed white latex, paint over 4-inch (10.2 cm) long corner wire lath sections, Each 124.5 × 10.2 cm (total width variable), Zürcher Gallery, New York. Courtesy of the artist and Zürcher Gallery, New York / Paris. Photo: Adam Reich.

Open Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery

Abstract Erotic: Sound Bath and Meditation

8:30am, 17 Jul 2025 | £25

To celebrate ‘Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams’, The Research Forum is hosting a special morning of mindfulness, including an exhibition tour, meditation focusing on ekagrata and a sound bath

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