Past Events
Since 2015 the Paul Mellon Centre has organised free, public displays at Bedford Square. Many focus on the Centre’s Archive and Library collections, showcasing our important holdings of art historical publications and art historians’ papers. Others look at the Paul Mellon Centre’s history, activities and the work of its community and partnerships.
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5 December 2024
Private View: Creative Debuts at the Paul Mellon Centre
Display
Paul Mellon Centre
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4 December 2024
Hands That Heal, Looks That Kill: Towards a Fabulous History of Marian Architecture
Research Seminar – Matthew Reeve
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3 December 2024
DRN: Publish or Perish? A Roundtable on Publishing for PhD Researchers
DRN Events – Lucy Bradnock, Edwin Coomasaru, Steve Edwards
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29 November 2024
Naming Rights: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sitters of Colour, and the Limits of Knowledge
Research Lunch – Jessie Park, Catherine Roach
Paul Mellon Centre
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28 November 2024
Exhibition Histories and Interpretative Walking Tours Reading Group
Reading Group – Claudia Di Tosto
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27 November 2024
On the Edge/In the Place/With the Earth: Judith Tucker, Painter and More
Lecture – Griselda Pollock
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21 to 22 November 2024
“What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture
Conference – Jasmine Allen, Alexandra Ault, Shaona Barik, Ellie Brown, Sria Chatterjee, Ruth Ezra, Christina J. Faraday, Albie Fay, Benet Ge, Laura Harris, Victoria Hepburn, Birgitta Huse, Steven Lauritano, Alice Mercier, Jeremy Musson, Naomi Polonsky, Francesca Saggini, Deborah Schultz, Vajdon Sohaili, Francesca Strobino, Rebecca Tropp, Sarah Victoria Turner
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20 November 2024
Evoking the Coalscape
Research Seminar – Gary Boyd
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15 November 2024
London’s Periodical Architecture: Digital Humanities and the Built Environment, 1700–1750
Research Lunch – Matthew Lloyd Roberts
Paul Mellon Centre
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14 November 2024
Celebrating Pevsner: Reflections on the Completion of the Buildings of England with Simon Bradley and Charles O'Brien
Lecture – Jeremy Musson, Charles O'Brien, Simon Bradley
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14 November 2024
ECRN: Alt-Ac Showcase and Away Day
ECRN Events
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
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6 November 2024
The Lives and Legacies of Black Women Ceramicists
Research Seminar – Jareh Das, Isis Dove-Edwin, Bisila Noha, Ozioma Onuzulike
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1 November 2024
What Does Resistance Look Like? A Discussion of the Research Behind Resistance, an Exhibition Curated by Sir Steve McQueen and Turner Contemporary
Research Lunch – Emma Lewis
Paul Mellon Centre
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30 October 2024
DRN: Howard Hodgkin Studio Visit
DRN Events
Paul Mellon Centre
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25 October 2024
What Is Alternative Academia? Building Your Own Network
ECRN Events – Adrian Powney, Tania Cleaves, Liam McLeod
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23 October 2024
The Body of the Maharani: Portraiture, Gender and Empire at the Royal Academy 1791–1865
Research Seminar – Adam Eaker
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18 October 2024
Perfect Male Bodies: Racialised Hierarchies, Whiteness and Neoclassical Embodiment in Duncan Grant’s Erotic Drawings
Research Lunch – Samson Dittrich
Paul Mellon Centre
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9 October 2024
Maps, Malaria and the Visual Construction of Early Hong Kong
Research Seminar – Christopher Cowell
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7 October 2024
ECRN: Meet Your Network
ECRN Events – Cai Lyons
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5 October 2024
Shining Lights: Photography Symposium
Conference
V&A Museum