Past Events

The City “Anchored in the Deep Ocean” Dickens, Turner and Venice

Lecture – Malcolm Andrews

Paul Mellon Centre

British Blonde - Screenings and Panel Discussion

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead, Sarah Street, John Wyver, Catherine Grant, Melanie Williams

V&A Museum

Sixties Blonde – Pauline Boty

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead

V&A Museum

'Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East' Virtual Book Launch (Pevsner)

Lecture – Simon Bradley, Geoffrey Tyack, James Davies

Carry On Blonde – Barbara Windsor

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead

V&A Museum

Blonde Noir – Ruth Ellis

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead

V&A Museum

The British Marilyn - Diana Dors

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead

V&A Museum

Georgian Provocations Series II, Panel Discussion

Lecture Series – Mark Hallett, Paris Spies-Gans, Martin Myrone, Esther Chadwick, Nicholas Robbins, Nika Elder, Martin Postle

Joseph Wright of Derby: Self-portrait as an Experimental Artist

Lecture Series – Martin Postle

John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark and the Taste for Flesh

Lecture Series – Nika Elder

George Romney in the Prison-World of Europe

Lecture Series – Nicholas Robbins

A Black King in Georgian London: British Art and Postrevolutionary Haiti

Lecture Series – Esther Chadwick

The Haunted Eighteenth Century: Fuseli's 'The Nightmare'

Lecture Series – Martin Myrone

Establishing a Female Lineage at the Royal Academy's Show: Eliza Trotter, Angelica Kauffman and the Intrigues of Lady Caroline Lamb

Lecture Series – Paris Spies-Gans

Museums – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality

Lecture Series – Risham Majeed

Movement – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality

Lecture Series – Amanda Luyster

Metamorphosis – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality

Lecture Series – Tom Nickson

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham and the Black Country Book Launch

Book Night, Lecture – Andy Foster, Simon Bradley, James Davies

Maps – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality

Lecture Series – Alfred Hiatt

Myth – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality

Lecture Series – Alixe Bovey

Introduction – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality

Lecture Series – Jessica Berenbeim, Lloyd de Beer

Difference and Togetherness: Art and Britishness in Wolverhampton

Lecture – Gaika Tavares, Romalyn Ante

Grand Designs and Great Houses

Lecture, Research Seminar – Adriano Aymonino, Manolo Guerci, Kate Retford

War & Peace: Rethinking Aesthetics in the Age of Empire

Lecture, Research Seminar – Cora Gilroy-Ware, Sean Willcock, Sria Chatterjee

Paul Mellon Centre

Aesthetic Encounters

Lecture, Research Seminar – Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Max Donnelly, Andrea Wolk Rager, Liz Prettejohn

Illustrations and Illuminations

Lecture, Research Seminar – Henrietta McBurney, Joseph Viscomi, Martin Myrone

In Darkness and in Light: Rethinking Joseph Wright of Derby

Lecture, Research Seminar – Matthew Craske, Martin Postle

The Paul Mellon Lectures: Maria Mok, Director of Hong Kong Museum of Art

Lecture – Maria Mok, Eve Tam

A Visual Recreation for Hands: Homemade Paper Peepshows and the Role of the Haptic in Nineteenth-Century British Print Culture

Lecture, Research Lunch – Shijia Yu

Black British Artists and Political Activism: 'She is not Bullet Proof'

Lecture Series – Alice Correia, Marlene Smith

**Cancelled** Black British Artists & Political Activism: 'Black Art' and Black Power

Lecture Series – Elizabeth Robles, Keith Piper

Concerning Photography, Day 3: Exhibitions, Touring and Archival Futures

Conference, Lecture – James Boaden, Ruby Rees-Sheridan, Catlin Langford, Theo Gordon, Laura Castagnini, Rahaab Allana, Charlene Heath, Fiona Anderson

Concerning Photography, Day 2: Material, Process and Magazine, Books

Conference, Lecture – Maitreyi Maheshwari, Mo White, Katrina Sluis, Dr Rowan Lear, Peter Ride, Diane Smyth, Derek Bishton, John Wyver, David Brittain, Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Penny Slinger, Laura Smith

“In Presence of Shadows of Dead Captains”: The National Gallery of Naval Art and Exhibition Culture in London, 1845–1936

Lecture, Research Lunch – Katherine Gazzard

Black British Artists and Political Activism: Artists Against Apartheid

Lecture Series – Allison K. Young, Gavin Jantjes

Concerning Photography, Day 1: Institutions, Infrastructures and Pedagogies

Conference, Lecture – Shoair Mavlian, Anne McNeill, David Bate, Taous R Dahmani, Andrew Dewdney, Annebella Pollen, Karen Shepherdson, Juliet Hacking, Anne Lyden, Mahtab Hussain

The Paul Mellon Lectures: Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate

Lecture – Maria Balshaw

Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame, a Panel Discussion

Lecture – Gilane Tawadros, Laura Castagnini, Evan Ifekoya, Marcia Michael, Dionne Sparks

Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

Black British Artists and Political Activism: ‘I’m in the black lesbian poster’

Lecture Series – Ingrid Pollard, Adele Patrick

The Paul Mellon Lectures: Iwona Blazwick, Director of Whitechapel Gallery

Lecture – Iwona Blazwick