Past Events

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

Research Seminar – Matt Lodder, Gemma Angel

Paul Mellon Centre

Angelica Kauffman symposium

Conference – Emma Barker, Sutapa Biswas, Rosalind Polly Blakesley, Rebecca Cypess, Ellen Hanspach-Bernal, Yuriko Jackall, Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE, Griselda Pollock, Jane Simpkiss, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Annette Wickham

Royal Academy of Arts

Learning to Confidently Respond to Difficult Questions

DRN Events – Emma Shackleton

Paul Mellon Centre

“What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture

Call for Papers

Global Houses of the Efik

Research Seminar – Louis Nelson, Shaheen Alikhan

Hubs, Nodes and Networks: A New History of British Digital Art

Research Lunch – Pita Arreola

Paul Mellon Centre

Kim Lim at Hepworth Wakefield: Curator’s Tour and Curatorial Workshop

ECRN Events – Abi Shapiro, Jonathan Vernon

Hepworth Wakefield

Ocean Liners in Interwar London: Art and Performance

Research Seminar – Faye Hammill, Bruce Peter

Animal Prints: Lithography and Leather in Victorian Britain

Research Lunch – Rosalind Hayes

Paul Mellon Centre

Early Career Publishing Workshop: Monographs, Exhibitions and Podcasts

ECRN Events – Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, Bea Gassmann de Sousa, Ana Baeza-Ruiz

Paul Mellon Centre

Precarity in Art History: Thinking with the Discipline’s Past, Present and Future

Call for Papers, DRN and ECRN Events

Britishness, History and Video Games

Research Lunch – Nick Webber

Paul Mellon Centre

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

Research Seminar – Ann Elias, Morgan Daniels

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

Lecture – Malcolm Andrews

Paul Mellon Centre

Thinking with 'The Nutmeg's Curse': Climate & Colonialism Reading Group

Workshop

The Art Trade Forum – Applications Open

Call for Applicants

Curator’s tour of the UK Parliament’s Heritage Collections

ECRN Events – Stacey Clapperton

Palace of Westminster

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

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