Past Events
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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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15 November 2023
British Blonde - Screenings and Panel Discussion
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead, Sarah Street, John Wyver, Catherine Grant, Melanie Williams
V&A Museum
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8 November 2023
Sixties Blonde – Pauline Boty
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead
V&A Museum
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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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2 November 2023
'Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East' Virtual Book Launch (Pevsner)
Lecture – Simon Bradley, Geoffrey Tyack, James Davies
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1 November 2023
Archival Research into Exhibition Making after a PhD
DRN Events – Syma Tariq
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1 November 2023
Carry On Blonde – Barbara Windsor
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead
V&A Museum
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30 October 2023 to 23 February 2024
“History is an Art”: Selections from the Paul Oppé Archive
Display
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25 October 2023
Blonde Noir – Ruth Ellis
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead
V&A Museum
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25 October 2023
Online ECRN Introduction + work in progress
ECRN Events
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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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18 October 2023
The British Marilyn - Diana Dors
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead
V&A Museum
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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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12 October 2023
Printmaking and LGBTQIA+ Communities
Public Event Series – Zorian Clayton
Paul Mellon Centre
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10 October 2023
Mezzotint Engraving and the Making of Race
Public Event Series – Jennifer Y Chuong, Mechthild Fend, Martin Myrone
Paul Mellon Centre
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9 October 2023
Collections Visit: Printmaking and Health
Public Event Series – Katie Birkwood, Jack Hartnell
Royal College of Physicians
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7 October 2023
Risograph Workshop: Printmaking and Protest
Public Event Series
PageMasters
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4 October 2023
Collections Visit: Printmaking and Politics
Public Event Series – Esther Chadwick, Richard Taws
British Museum
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2 October 2023
Introductory Session: Printmaking for Change
Public Event Series – Ben Thomas, Marcelle Hanselaar
Paul Mellon Centre
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27 September 2023
Thinking with Meat: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
Workshop
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8 September to 5 October 2023
Extractivism/Activism
Call for Papers
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7 September 2023
“Blood Sugar”: Screening & Panel Discussion
Film Screening – Lisa Robinson, Helen Bates, Michelle Mother Hubbard, Susanne Seymour
Paul Mellon Centre
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25 July to 3 September 2023
Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism
Call for Papers
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5 July 2023
Painting the Tudors
Public Event Series – Charlotte Bolland, Elizabeth Goldring, Karen Hearn, Robert Tittler
National Portrait Gallery, London
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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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23 June 2023
Expanding the Field: Rethinking Methodologies in British Art Research
DRN and ECRN Events
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22 June 2023
Re-Making the Tudors
Public Event Series – Chan-Hyo Bae, Peter Brathwaite, Mat Collishaw, The Singh Twins
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21 June 2023
Thinking with Ice: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
Workshop
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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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15 to 16 June 2023
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
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14 June 2023
The Small Spaces of Empire
Research Seminar – Swati Chattopadhyay, Tania Sengupta
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13 June 2023
An Introduction to Public Speaking and Networking
DRN Events – Jaz Marfo
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8 June 2023
Globalising the Tudors
Public Event Series – Jerry Brotton, Matthew Dimmock, Lauren Working
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7 June 2023
The Architecture of Disability
Research Seminar – David Gissen, Jos Boys
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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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1 June 2023
Workshop: Historical Printing
Public Event Series – Frances Hughes
St Bride Foundation
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31 May 2023
Landscapes of Waste: Towards an Urban History of Coal Spoil in Modern Britain
Research Seminar – Moa Carlsson, Otto Saumarez Smith
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30 May to 15 September 2023
A Harpy and His Brothers: The Wildmans in Bedford Square and Newstead Abbey
Display
Paul Mellon Centre
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26 May 2023
Roundtable: Queer Voices in the British Creative and Cultural Sector
DRN Events – E-J Scott, Frances Williams, Stef Dickers
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24 May 2023
Thermal Governance: Air-conditioning Complexes and Climate Modulation in Urban Asia
Research Seminar – Jiat-Hwee Chang, Kim Förster
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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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19 May 2023
Cambridge Away Day: Creative and Digital Art Histories
ECRN Events – Kathryn Brown, David Farrell-Banks, Dr Leonardo Impett, Andrew McDowall
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18 May 2023
Tour: Displaying the Tudors
Public Event Series – Nick Humphrey
V&A Museum
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17 May 2023
History Designing Architecture: Performance and Architecture in Africa & its Diaspora
Research Seminar – Adedoyin Teriba, Rixt Woudstra
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11 May 2023
Making the Tudors
Public Event Series – Helen Hackett, Tara Hamling, Eleri Lynn
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10 May 2023
The Intellectual Histories of Art and the Archive
Workshop
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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27 April 2023
Thinking with Animals: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
Workshop
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21 to 22 April 2023
(M)otherhood: Art and Life
Conference
Tate St Ives
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21 April to 2 June 2023
British Art in Motion
Call for Applicants
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17 April 2023
Early Career Research Talks
ECRN Events – Jennifer Thatcher, Mathelinda Nabugodi, Amy Lim
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13 April to 21 May 2023
The Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–1960: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds
Call for Papers
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29 March 2023
Neo-colonial Visions: Artificial Intelligence and Epistemic Violence
Research Seminar – Anthony Downey, Maya Ganesh
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22 March 2023
Feminist Revisions of Chinoiserie
Research Seminar – Iris Moon, Rachel Silberstein
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20 March 2023
Research Careers in the Cultural Sector: Curators Roundtable
DRN Events – Alice Correia, Priyesh Mistry, Carolina Rito
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20 March to 28 April 2023
The Art Trade Forum – Applications Open
Call for Applicants, DRN Events, ECRN Events
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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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14 March to 17 April 2023
Expanding the Field: Rethinking Methodologies in British Art Research
Call for Papers, DRN and ECRN Events
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13 March to 21 May 2023
Queer Art in Britain Since the 1980s
Call for Papers
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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