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.

Autumn Programme:

The houses of parliament in the fog, with an orange sun and purple sky reflecting on the river Thames

The Courtauld Gallery, What's on Highlights

After Hours with the Research Forum

6:00pm, 16 Oct 2024 | £0.00 - £16.00

Join The Courtauld for an evening of culture after dark at our latest ‘After Hours’ event and celebrate our latest exhibition Monet and London. Views of the Thames...

Research

Finding Queertopia: Book Event and Panel Discussion

6:00pm, 17 Oct 2024 | Free, booking essential

On the occasion of Gemma Rolls-Bentley's recent publication Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between, artist Rene Matiċ and curator Fiontán Moran join her to explore how queer spaces, bodies, and identities have been shaped and represent...

Research

Blue Paper: Function in the Creation of Form

5:30pm, 7 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Alexa McCarthy for a lecture exploring the origin of the use of blue paper and its function in the practice of drawing figure studies. The presentation will interweave works on paper from The Courtauld’s Drawings Gallery exhibition, Drawn to Blu...

Research

Tomorrow's Art? With Ai-Da Robot

6:00pm, 14 Nov 2024 | Free, booking essential

Can AI be creative? Join Ai-Da Robot, the first ultra-realistic artist robot, for a conversation on art practice, creativity, the self-portrait without 'self', and a discussion on why AI art is one of the most useful ways of critiquing and reflecting...

Research

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...

View of the 'Resistance' section in the Tibet Museum, featuring the image of Jampa Tenzin, a Tibetan Buddhist monk held aloft by fellow protestors during the 1987 protests in Lhasa. Image taken by the speaker, May 2022.

Research

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...

Spring Programme:

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