Past Events

Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham and the Black Country Book Launch

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

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

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

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

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

Lecture – Iwona Blazwick

A Wider View: From Collaboration to Empire: Graphic Landscape

Conference, Lecture – Mark Hallett, Felicity Myrone, Sarah Moulden, Eleanore Neumann, Alisa Bunbury, Douglas Fordham

The Paul Mellon Lectures: Thelma Golden, Director and Lead Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem

Lecture – Thelma Golden

Revisiting the Canon: Graphic Landscape

Conference, Lecture – Cora Gilroy-Ware, Timothy Wilcox, Timothy Wilcox, Gillian Forrester

Print and Property : Graphic Landscape

Conference, Lecture – Richard Johns, John Bonehill, Kate Retford, James Finch