Past Events

Race, Indian Revolution and the Colonial Camera

Research Lunch – Sushma Griffin

Rage Embroidery: Stitching Art Histories of Disability and Incarceration

Public Event Series – Jess Bailey, Isabella Rosner

The Foundling Museum

Cosmetics, Beauty and the Nature of Renaissance Women

Research Seminar – Jill Burke

Weaving as Archive: Looms, Diaspora and Gendered Threads

Public Event Series – Raisa Kabir, Jess Bailey

The Foundling Museum

Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction

Conference – Ignacio Acosta, Ravi Agarwal, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Tobah Aukland-Peck, Eline Benjaminsen, Crystal Bennes, Sria Chatterjee, Nancy Demerdash, Radha D’Souza, FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo), Hit Man Gurung, Stephanie Hankey, Sasha Huber, Elias Kimaiyo, Nina Kolowratnik, Syowia Kyambi, Godofredo Pereira, Marie Petersmann, Julian Posada, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Rahul Ranjan, Gabriela Saenger Silva, Mark Sealy, Marie Smith, Jelena Sofronijevic, Jonas Staal, Wilfred Ukpong, Bindi Vora

The Building Centre

The Museum of Transology: Collecting and Curating Clothing

Public Event Series – E-J Scott, QUEERCIRCLE, Jess Bailey

QUEERCIRCLE

ECRN Away Day: Impact and Engagement in Research

ECRN Events

Negotiating the “Eclectic Sources” of Modern Sculpture at the ICA (1948–53)

Research Lunch – Lisa Newby

Paul Mellon Centre

Climate Advocacy and Action in Arts and Museum Work

DRN Events

A Body for Stubbs

Research Seminar – Iris Moon

The Quilting Bee: Working Class Women's Art History

Public Event Series – Jess Bailey, Ferren Gipson, Deb McGuire, Alison Duke

The Foundling Museum

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

Research Seminar – Alex Bremner

Thinking with Extractivism: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group

Workshop

Millais, un Peintre Hors du Temps: Writing about Victorian Art in France

Research Lunch – Sarah Gould

Paul Mellon Centre

Writing Conditions: A Writing and Editing Workshop with Lizzie Homersham

DRN Events – Lizzie  Homersham

Reframing King James VI and I

Call for Papers

Spirals, Orbs, Stars: Blake, Watts, and the Geometry of Creation

Research Lunch – Sarah Weston

Space | Time | Life: a gathering

Conference

Wysing Arts Centre

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

Fairyland, Sovereignty and Empire’s Body Politic

Research Lunch – Ariel Kline

Paul Mellon Centre

Paul Mellon Centre Book Night

Book Night – Finola O'Kane, Mark Crinson, Steven Brindle, Tim Clayton, Tom Young, Kirsty Sinclair Dootson

Paul Mellon Centre

Copyright and Intellectual Property Explained

DRN and ECRN Events – Bernard Horrocks

Paul Mellon Centre

Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism

Conference – Imani Jacqueline Brown, Edwin Coomasaru, Katherine Fein, Buhle Francis, Taloi Havini, Taey Iohe, Lindsay Kelley, Saba Khan, Greta LaFleur, Louisa Lee, Camila Marambio, Chrys Papaioannou, Susan Reid, Shelly Rosenblum, Syrus Marcus Ware, Susanne Winterling

Barbican Centre

Thinking with Climate Coloniality: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group

Workshop

Moving Shame in the Early Career Researchers (ECR) Experience

ECRN Events

The Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–60: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds

Conference – Hans C. Hönes, Sarah Coviello, Helen Glaister, Martin Myrone, Matilde Cartolari, Richard Stephens, Émilie Oléron Evans, Rebecca Senior, Susan Sloman, Jeffrey Lieber, Chloë Julius, Chloë Julius, Sarah Victoria Turner, Charlotte Brunskill

Doctoral Researchers Network (DRN) Visit to Turner Prize at Towner Eastbourne

DRN Events

Material Cultures of Climate and Health in Architecture

Research Lunch – Dustin Valen

Rooms: Francis Bacon in Wartime London

Research Lunch – Altair Brandon-Salmon

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

employ’d, twisted & tortur’d: Hemp Rope, Female Models & the Line of Beauty

Research Lunch – Zoe Dostal

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Lecture – Simon Bradley, Geoffrey Tyack, James Davies

Archival Research into Exhibition Making after a PhD

DRN Events – Syma Tariq

Carry On Blonde – Barbara Windsor

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead

V&A Museum

“History is an Art”: Selections from the Paul Oppé Archive

Display

Blonde Noir – Ruth Ellis

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead

V&A Museum

Online ECRN Introduction + work in progress

ECRN Events

Whither the Establishment? Brian Sewell and the history of 1990s British art

Research Lunch – Chloë Julius

Paul Mellon Centre

The British Marilyn - Diana Dors

Lecture Series – Lynda Nead

V&A Museum

The Creolisation of the English Countryside: Exploring the Textiles and Wallpaper of Althea McNish

Research Lunch – Rose Sinclair

Paul Mellon Centre

Printmaking and LGBTQIA+ Communities

Public Event Series – Zorian Clayton

Paul Mellon Centre

Mezzotint Engraving and the Making of Race

Public Event Series – Jennifer Y Chuong, Mechthild Fend, Martin Myrone

Paul Mellon Centre

Collections Visit: Printmaking and Health

Public Event Series – Katie Birkwood, Jack Hartnell

Royal College of Physicians

Risograph Workshop: Printmaking and Protest

Public Event Series

PageMasters

Collections Visit: Printmaking and Politics

Public Event Series – Esther Chadwick, Richard Taws

British Museum

Introductory Session: Printmaking for Change

Public Event Series – Ben Thomas, Marcelle Hanselaar

Paul Mellon Centre

Thinking with Meat: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group

Workshop

Extractivism/Activism

Call for Papers

“Blood Sugar”: Screening & Panel Discussion

Film Screening – Lisa Robinson, Helen Bates, Michelle Mother Hubbard, Susanne Seymour

Paul Mellon Centre

Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism

Call for Papers

Painting the Tudors

Public Event Series – Charlotte Bolland, Elizabeth Goldring, Karen Hearn, Robert Tittler

National Portrait Gallery, London

The Mermaids and Sirens of Edward Burne-Jones

Research Lunch – Cecilia Neil-Smith

Paul Mellon Centre

Expanding the Field: Rethinking Methodologies in British Art Research

DRN and ECRN Events

Re-Making the Tudors

Public Event Series – Chan-Hyo Bae, Peter Brathwaite, Mat Collishaw, The Singh Twins

Thinking with Ice: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group

Workshop

Framing a Slide Registry: the Origins of the Women Artist’s Slide Library

Research Lunch – Lily Evans-Hill

Paul Mellon Centre

Rossettis: In Relation

Conference – Caitlin Meehye Beach, Natalie Prizel, Timothy Barringer, Helen Bratt-Wyton, Tara Contractor, Suzanne Fagence Cooper, Helena Cox, Eduardo De Maio, Nicholas Dunn-McAfee, Imogen Hart, Debbie Hicks, Thomas Hughes, Sadbh Kellett, Deborah Lam, Mark Samuels Lasner, Sophie Lynford, Roisin Neenan, Wendy Parkins, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Jennifer Rabedeau, Kimberly Rhodes, Marte Stinis, Frances Varley, Megan Williams, Glenda Youde

The Small Spaces of Empire

Research Seminar – Swati Chattopadhyay, Tania Sengupta

An Introduction to Public Speaking and Networking

DRN Events – Jaz Marfo

Globalising the Tudors

Public Event Series – Jerry Brotton, Matthew Dimmock, Lauren Working

The Architecture of Disability

Research Seminar – David Gissen, Jos Boys

Revisiting Rasheed Araeen’s Structures: 8bS at Manufactured Art, 1970

Research Lunch – Kylie Gilchrist

Paul Mellon Centre

Workshop: Historical Printing

Public Event Series – Frances Hughes

St Bride Foundation

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

Research Seminar – Moa Carlsson, Otto Saumarez Smith

A Harpy and His Brothers: The Wildmans in Bedford Square and Newstead Abbey

Display

Paul Mellon Centre

Roundtable: Queer Voices in the British Creative and Cultural Sector

DRN Events – E-J Scott, Frances Williams, Stef Dickers

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

Research Seminar – Jiat-Hwee Chang, Kim Förster

A Glaswegian in Troy: William Simpson’s Vision of Western Anatolia

Research Lunch – Alex Solovyev

Paul Mellon Centre

Cambridge Away Day: Creative and Digital Art Histories

ECRN Events – Kathryn Brown, David Farrell-Banks, Dr Leonardo Impett, Andrew McDowall

Tour: Displaying the Tudors

Public Event Series – Nick Humphrey

V&A Museum

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

Research Seminar – Adedoyin Teriba, Rixt Woudstra

Making the Tudors

Public Event Series – Helen Hackett, Tara Hamling, Eleri Lynn

The Intellectual Histories of Art and the Archive

Workshop

Paul Mellon Centre

Manufacturing Pictures: Photographic Experimentation at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Research Lunch – Fionn Montell-Boyd

Paul Mellon Centre

Thinking with Animals: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group

Workshop

(M)otherhood: Art and Life

Conference

Tate St Ives

British Art in Motion

Call for Applicants

Early Career Research Talks

ECRN Events – Jennifer Thatcher, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Amy Lim