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 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:

Centre for American Art, Research

Carceral Conceptualism? An Imperfect Guide

5:30pm, 18 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join art historian and cultural theorist Faye Gleisser for this talk, expanding upon her book Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 ...

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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.

91³Ô¹ÏÍøGallery

Sounds Like Art

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

Join us for an evening of music and art at the Courtauld Gallery, featuring new music written in response to paintings across the collection...

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Research, Talks

Center Stage: Dance Film in the Art Historical Spotlight

5:30pm, 25 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

As dance film gains increasing recognition within art historical discourse, how do we position it within the broader visual arts landscape? This event explores how dance film intersects with art history and how we can continue to platform such art fo...

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Research, Talks

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...

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Conferences, 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...

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91³Ô¹ÏÍøGallery

Chronicles: Women in the arts

6:45pm, 4 Apr 2025 | Tickets from £15 / concessions available

Join us for an evening of music and art at the Courtauld Gallery, featuring a musical performance by Katrina Lee and a conversation with Leah Broad...

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Summer Programme:

Research, Talks

Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels

6:00pm, 30 Apr 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi for the 2025 Annual Lecture of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, as he delves into the interplay between Romanesque sculpture and water through the study of medieval stone vessels...

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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, 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...

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