Past Events

Hands That Heal, Looks That Kill: Towards a Fabulous History of Marian Architecture

Research Seminar – Matthew Reeve

Evoking the Coalscape

Research Seminar – Gary Boyd

The Lives and Legacies of Black Women Ceramicists

Research Seminar – Jareh Das, Isis Dove-Edwin, Bisila Noha, Ozioma Onuzulike

The Body of the Maharani: Portraiture, Gender and Empire at the Royal Academy 1791–1865

Research Seminar – Adam Eaker

Maps, Malaria and the Visual Construction of Early Hong Kong

Research Seminar – Christopher Cowell

Naval Gazing: Portraiture and the Royal Navy

Research Seminar – Katherine Gazzard, Sara Caputo

“Not Just for Sailors Any More”: Maritime Tattooing in Context

Research Seminar – Matt Lodder, Gemma Angel

Paul Mellon Centre

Global Houses of the Efik

Research Seminar – Louis Nelson, Shaheen Alikhan

Ocean Liners in Interwar London: Art and Performance

Research Seminar – Faye Hammill, Bruce Peter

Deep Sea Divers Below the City: The Case of Sydney Harbour

Research Seminar – Ann Elias, Morgan Daniels

Cosmetics, Beauty and the Nature of Renaissance Women

Research Seminar – Jill Burke

A Body for Stubbs

Research Seminar – Iris Moon

Why Edwardian Baroque Architecture Matters: Empire, Identity, and Geo-political Rivalry

Research Seminar – Alex Bremner

Frank Bowling: The Mother’s House Paintings

Research Seminar – Grace Aneiza Ali, Ben Bowling

Feminism meets Art History 1944/2024:  Helen Rosenau’s monumental Woman in Art, then and now

Research Seminar – Griselda Pollock

The Small Spaces of Empire

Research Seminar – Swati Chattopadhyay, Tania Sengupta

The Architecture of Disability

Research Seminar – David Gissen, Jos Boys

Landscapes of Waste: Towards an Urban History of Coal Spoil in Modern Britain

Research Seminar – Moa Carlsson, Otto Saumarez Smith

Thermal Governance: Air-conditioning Complexes and Climate Modulation in Urban Asia

Research Seminar – Jiat-Hwee Chang, Kim Förster

History Designing Architecture: Performance and Architecture in Africa & its Diaspora

Research Seminar – Adedoyin Teriba, Rixt Woudstra

Neo-colonial Visions: Artificial Intelligence and Epistemic Violence

Research Seminar – Anthony Downey, Maya Ganesh

Feminist Revisions of Chinoiserie

Research Seminar – Iris Moon, Rachel Silberstein

Indigenous Objects Abroad

Research Seminar – Robbie Richardson, Ruth Phillips

Cinema and Empire: Technologies and Practices

Research Seminar – Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, Erica Carter

Food and the Senses

Research Seminar – Sussan Babaie

Infrastructures of Thought, Networks of Practice: Indian Feminist Art in and with Britain in the 1990s

Research Seminar – Karin Zitzewitz

Holbein’s Wit

Research Seminar – Alexander Marr

Heathrow’s Genius Locus

Research Seminar – Mark Crinson

Rethinking the Artist Catalogue for the Online Age: Thomas Girtin 1775–1802

Research Seminar – Greg Smith

Liquid Crystal Concrete:
Postwar Colonialism

Research Seminar – Iain Jackson, Rixt Woudstra

Liquid Crystal Concrete:
Postwar Contemporary

Research Seminar – Ben Cranfield, Victoria Walsh, Ben Highmore

Liquid Crystal Concrete:
Experimental Modes of Making

Research Seminar – Inga Fraser, Rosie Ram, Lucy Reynolds

Liquid Crystal Concrete:
Environmental Surrounds

Research Seminar – Alistair Cartwright, Matthew Wells, Elain Harwood

Liquid Crystal Concrete:
Marginalised Spaces and Émigré Artists

Research Seminar – Sheridan Palmer, Jane Eckett

Liquid Crystal Concrete:
British Cybernetic Art

Research Seminar – Catherine Mason, Ernest Edmonds

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