Research Archives

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Centre for American Art, Research

Writing to Images: The Practice of Corresponding with Art

5:30pm, 17 Jun 2022 | Free, booking essential

In this keynote lecture, Tina M. Campt will expand upon her practice around writing as writing to, rather than about, images. ...

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Art in Theory: the West in the World. An Anthology of Changing Ideas: Book Launch

5:00pm, 13 May 2022 | Free, booking is essential

Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Art in Theory: The West in the World'. ...

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Memento mori Imagery and the Limits of the Self in Late Medieval Europe

5:30pm, 26 May 2022 | Free, booking essential

Stephen G. Perkinson delivers the annual ICMA lecture on Momento Mori Imagery. ...

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The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian Palace

5:30pm, 24 May 2022 | Free, booking essential

Monika Schmitter will present her recent book which investigates who Odoni was and how and why he amassed an impressive collection of antiquities, modern sculpture, paintings, and naturalia in his relatively modest Venetian palace....

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Centre for American Art, Research

Anachronism and assemblage: the unfinished image of Montreal

5:30pm, 9 Jun 2022 | Free, booking essential

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Research

2021 - 2022 Postgraduate Symposium

9:30am, 19 May 2022

You are invited to join The Courtauld's annual Postgraduate Symposium of 2021 - 2022. ...

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Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series ‘Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women’ Launch

7:00pm, 21 Jun 2022 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the launch of the next title in the Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series: ‘Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women’, by Alexis Romero. ...

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The Desert in the Lagoon

6:00pm, 31 May 2022 | Free, booking essential

David Young Kim will screen his new film, “The Desert and the Lagoon" (co-directed with Amelia Saul). ...

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Collecting and Curating African and African Diaspora Fashions

12:30pm, 22 Apr 2022 | Free, booking essential

Dr Christine Checinska will present on her work at the V&A and on the forthcoming Africa Fashion exhibition she is Lead Curator on. ...

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Unravelling Threads: Tracing and Transforming Violence and Trauma through Fashion

11:30am, 6 May 2022 | £10.00

This two-day conference, hosted by London College of Fashion and The Courtauld Institute of Art, seeks to explore the wide-ranging and nuanced relationships between fashion, violence, and trauma. ...

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Centre for American Art, Research

American Art Archives in Britain

3:00pm, 6 May 2022 | Free, booking essential

This two-day symposium will feature papers presenting case studies, roundtable discussion of the questions about archives the project raised, and a keynote talk by Professor Michael Leja. ...