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Autumn 2024 Events Series Announced

9 September 2024

Our Autumn series of events is now live. Tickets can be booked through Eventbrite or via the links below.

Recordings will only be available for research seminars where we have permissions. These will be available via our Event Recordings page or our YouTube channel.

For sold out events there will be a waiting list. If you can no longer attend an event please make sure to cancel your ticket so that others are able to attend.

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We look forward to welcoming you back into the building.

Research Seminars (Wednesdays 5pm–7pm, in-person and online)

Research Lunches (Fridays 1pm–2pm, in-person only)

4 October 2024

Catching the Bug: Archaeology, Entomology and Victorian Jewellery with Lieske Huits

18 October 2024

Perfect Male Bodies: Racialised Hierarchies, Whiteness and Neoclassical Embodiment in Duncan Grant’s Erotic Drawings with Samson Dittrich

1 November 2024

What Does Resistance Look Like? A Discussion of the Research Behind Resistance, an Exhibition Curated by Sir Steve McQueen and Turner Contemporary with Emma Lewis

15 November 2024

London’s Periodical Architecture: Digital Humanities and the Built Environment, 1700–1750 with Matthew Lloyd Roberts

29 November 2024

Naming Rights: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sitters of Colour, and the Limits of Knowledge with Jessie Park and Catherine Roach

Conferences

Saturday 5 October 2024 at the V&A (in-person only)

Shining Lights: Photography Symposium in partnership with the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project and Fast Forward: Women in Photography at University for the Creative Arts.

21 and 22 November 2024 at the PMC and The Warburg Institute (in-person and online)

“What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture. This conference will explore the multifaceted, multi-purpose nature of the window as protagonist, with an emphasis on its place in British architecture and visual culture, broadly conceived. More details to follow soon.

Reading Group (online only)

Thursday 26 September 2024

Exhibition Histories and Practice-led Research Reading Group with Sunil Shah and Claudia Di Tosto