The Autumn 2017 calendar of Research Seminars and Lunches

As we approach mid-September and the nights get longer, we at the Paul Mellon Centre are gearing up for a busy Autumn calendar of events which includes our next Public Lecture Course, conferences, symposiums and our next series of Research Seminars and Lunches.

Research Seminars take place on Wednesday evenings from 6-8pm and include a drinks reception, the programme this Autumn is:

4 October
Aubrey Williams: Abstraction in Diaspora
Kobena Mercer

18 October
Ceramics in the Expanded Field: Curating the ceramic object today
Martina Droth (live streamed)

25 October
The Valists
Anna Gruetzner Robins

8 November
Thomas Girtin: An Online Catalogue, Archive and Introduction to the Artist
Gregory Smith

Research Lunches take place on Friday lunchtimes from 12.30-2pm and include a sandwich lunch, the programme this Autumn is:

13 October
Forming a Community: Siegfried Charoux's Marquette for The Neighbours (1947-59)
Melanie Veasey

17 November
Frederick Walker and the Idyllists - Unsung Masters of Victorian Art
Panel discussion with Donato Esposito, Liz Prettejohn and Paul Goldman

24 November
'Your Beautfiful and Hopeful Family': Dynasty, Duff House and the House of Duff
Helen Whiting

8 December
'The Last Sad Testimony of Affection': Portraiture as Rememberance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Emily Knight