What's On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum is back for the 2022/23 academic year, offering a programme of both online and onsite events. Please do visit our YouTube page to catch up on our events from the past year.

All our events require pre-booking and those without tickets will not be admitted. Please get in touch with us at researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our programme.

Autumn Semester Programme

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The Bear in the Sandbox: Art Therapy and the Museum Object

6:00pm, 7 Dec 2022 | Free, booking essential

Join us for this year's Illuminating Objects seminar, which looks at the ways Isabel Hendley and Danny Kitchener have explored mental health in connection to objects at The Courtauld. ...

Immediations - 2022 issue launch

5:30pm, 12 Dec 2022 | Free, booking essential

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After Hours

7:00pm, 14 Dec 2022 | £0.00 - £13.00

Join The Courtauld for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event! To celebrate our exhibitions, Helen Saunders: Modernist Rebel and A Modern Masterpiece Uncovered: Wyndham Lewis, Helen Saunders and Praxitella, this event enco...

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Future Events

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Hitler Asleep in the Back of the Mercedes: Troy Brauntuch and the Representation of Evil

5:00pm, 16 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

Altair Brandon-Salmon will deliver a talk on Troy Brauntuch's practice in photography and the appropriation of imagery. ...

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Centre for American Art, Research

Belatedness and U.S. Exhibitions in Transnational Contexts

6:00pm, 24 Feb 2023 | Free, booking essential

The second online event in the Belatedness and North American Art series. ...

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Ecologies of the Western Camera: Collective Photography and Wishful Environmentalism, California c. 1900

5:30pm, 15 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

This talk by Carolin Görgen will explore the image of Californian photographers from the early 20th century as environmentally aware practitioners. ...

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Words and Wordlessness in Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester

5:30pm, 20 Mar 2023 | Free, booking essential

Join Nicholas Robbins as he explores the peculiar intimacy between art and literature that has characterized scholarship on nineteenth-century U.S. painting through the work of Fitz Henry Lane. ...

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