Past Events
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29 November 2024
Naming Rights: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sitters of Colour, and the Limits of Knowledge
Research Lunch – Jessie Park, Catherine Roach
Paul Mellon Centre
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15 November 2024
London’s Periodical Architecture: Digital Humanities and the Built Environment, 1700–1750
Research Lunch – Matthew Lloyd Roberts
Paul Mellon Centre
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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
Research Lunch – Emma Lewis
Paul Mellon Centre
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18 October 2024
Perfect Male Bodies: Racialised Hierarchies, Whiteness and Neoclassical Embodiment in Duncan Grant’s Erotic Drawings
Research Lunch – Samson Dittrich
Paul Mellon Centre
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4 October 2024
Catching the Bug: Archaeology, Entomology and Victorian Jewellery
Research Lunch – Lieske Huits
Paul Mellon Centre
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28 June 2024
Restoration and Representation: Architecture and the Body of Charles II
Research Lunch – Sarah Hutcheson
Paul Mellon Centre
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21 June 2024
Roads, Bridges, Canals and Landscapes
Research Lunch – Steven Brindle
Paul Mellon Centre
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31 May 2024
Hubs, Nodes and Networks: A New History of British Digital Art
Research Lunch – Pita Arreola
Paul Mellon Centre
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17 May 2024
Animal Prints: Lithography and Leather in Victorian Britain
Research Lunch – Rosalind Hayes
Paul Mellon Centre
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3 May 2024
Britishness, History and Video Games
Research Lunch – Nick Webber
Paul Mellon Centre
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22 March 2024
Race, Indian Revolution and the Colonial Camera
Research Lunch – Sushma Griffin
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8 March 2024
Negotiating the “Eclectic Sources” of Modern Sculpture at the ICA (1948–53)
Research Lunch – Lisa Newby
Paul Mellon Centre
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23 February 2024
Millais, un Peintre Hors du Temps: Writing about Victorian Art in France
Research Lunch – Sarah Gould
Paul Mellon Centre
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16 February 2024
Spirals, Orbs, Stars: Blake, Watts, and the Geometry of Creation
Research Lunch – Sarah Weston
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12 January 2024
Fairyland, Sovereignty and Empire’s Body Politic
Research Lunch – Ariel Kline
Paul Mellon Centre
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24 November 2023
Material Cultures of Climate and Health in Architecture
Research Lunch – Dustin Valen
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17 November 2023
Rooms: Francis Bacon in Wartime London
Research Lunch – Altair Brandon-Salmon
Paul Mellon Centre
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3 November 2023
employ’d, twisted & tortur’d: Hemp Rope, Female Models & the Line of Beauty
Research Lunch – Zoe Dostal
Paul Mellon Centre
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20 October 2023
Whither the Establishment? Brian Sewell and the history of 1990s British art
Research Lunch – Chloë Julius
Paul Mellon Centre
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13 October 2023
The Creolisation of the English Countryside: Exploring the Textiles and Wallpaper of Althea McNish
Research Lunch – Rose Sinclair
Paul Mellon Centre
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30 June 2023
The Mermaids and Sirens of Edward Burne-Jones
Research Lunch – Cecilia Neil-Smith
Paul Mellon Centre
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16 June 2023
Framing a Slide Registry: the Origins of the Women Artist’s Slide Library
Research Lunch – Lily Evans-Hill
Paul Mellon Centre
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2 June 2023
Revisiting Rasheed Araeen’s Structures: 8bS at Manufactured Art, 1970
Research Lunch – Kylie Gilchrist
Paul Mellon Centre
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19 May 2023
A Glaswegian in Troy: William Simpson’s Vision of Western Anatolia
Research Lunch – Alex Solovyev
Paul Mellon Centre
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5 May 2023
Manufacturing Pictures: Photographic Experimentation at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Research Lunch – Fionn Montell-Boyd
Paul Mellon Centre
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17 March 2023
**POSTPONED** Viewing Virtually and Learning to Look: The Topographical Asylum Print
Research Lunch – Anna Jamieson
Paul Mellon Centre
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10 March 2023
Plantation Failures, Famine Crops and Contesting Tropicality: Trials of the Calcutta Botanic Garden in the Early Nineteenth Century
Research Lunch – Deepthi Bathala
Paul Mellon Centre
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24 February 2023
Between Book and Body: Art, Language and the Limits of Interpretation in the Manuscripts of the English Benedictine Movement
Research Lunch – Avantika Kumar
Paul Mellon Centre
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10 February 2023
Pythagorean Visions: Picturing Harmony in British Art, 1719–1753
Research Lunch – Dominic Bate
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20 January 2023
Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine (1987–92)
Research Lunch – Alina Khakoo
Paul Mellon Centre
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25 November 2022
Architecture and the Climate of England: Architectural Science and the History of Architecture
Research Lunch – Dean Hawkes
Paul Mellon Centre
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11 November 2022
The Energetic Line: The Works on Paper of Ithell Colquhoun
Research Lunch – Jacqui McIntosh
Paul Mellon Centre
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28 October 2022
Anglo-Dutch Empire and Visual Culture in the Atlantic World
Research Lunch – Jake Subryan Richards
Paul Mellon Centre
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14 October 2022
Beyond William Mitchell’s British “Colourful Crusade”; Creating Art for the Urban Landscapes of the United States (1972–77)
Research Lunch – Dawn Pereira
Paul Mellon Centre
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7 October 2022
Art History in Britain: A Scottish Innovation
Research Lunch – Hans C. Hönes
Paul Mellon Centre
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15 July 2022
Planning for Privacy: The Central Garden of Bedford Square
Research Lunch, Walking Tour – Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Paul Mellon Centre
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8 July 2022
Railing Against Railings
Research Lunch, Walking Tour – Catalina Pollak
Paul Mellon Centre
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1 July 2022
The Architecture and Construction of Bedford Square 1775–1783
Research Lunch, Walking Tour – Benedict O'Looney
Paul Mellon Centre
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24 June 2022
*Postponed* Bedford Square, Newstead Abbey and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Research Lunch, Walking Tour – Simon Brown
Paul Mellon Centre
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1 April 2022
Making and Remaking the Edwardian House
Research Lunch – Timothy Brittain-Catlin