Past Events
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11 December 2024
PMC Book Night
Book Night – Esther Chadwick, Ian Dudley, Mark Laird
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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
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4 October 2024
Catching the Bug: Archaeology, Entomology and Victorian Jewellery
Research Lunch – Lieske Huits
Paul Mellon Centre
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26 September 2024
Exhibition Histories and Practice-led Research Reading Group
Reading Group – Sunil Shah, Claudia Di Tosto
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1 July 2024
Doctoral Researchers Network (DRN) and Early Career Researchers Network (ECRN) Summer Symposium
DRN and ECRN Events
Ikon Gallery
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28 June 2024
Restoration and Representation: Architecture and the Body of Charles II
Research Lunch – Sarah Hutcheson
Paul Mellon Centre
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25 June 2024
Thinking with Oil and the Graphic Novel: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
Workshop
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21 June 2024
Roads, Bridges, Canals and Landscapes
Research Lunch – Steven Brindle
Paul Mellon Centre
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19 June 2024
Naval Gazing: Portraiture and the Royal Navy
Research Seminar – Katherine Gazzard, Sara Caputo
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12 June 2024
“Not Just for Sailors Any More”: Maritime Tattooing in Context
Research Seminar – Matt Lodder, Gemma Angel
Paul Mellon Centre
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7 June 2024
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
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7 June 2024
Learning to Confidently Respond to Difficult Questions
DRN Events – Emma Shackleton
Paul Mellon Centre
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5 June to 8 July 2024
“What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture
Call for Papers
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5 June 2024
Global Houses of the Efik
Research Seminar – Louis Nelson, Shaheen Alikhan
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31 May 2024
Hubs, Nodes and Networks: A New History of British Digital Art
Research Lunch – Pita Arreola
Paul Mellon Centre
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31 May 2024
Kim Lim at Hepworth Wakefield: Curator’s Tour and Curatorial Workshop
ECRN Events – Abi Shapiro, Jonathan Vernon
Hepworth Wakefield
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22 May 2024
Ocean Liners in Interwar London: Art and Performance
Research Seminar – Faye Hammill, Bruce Peter
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17 May 2024
Animal Prints: Lithography and Leather in Victorian Britain
Research Lunch – Rosalind Hayes
Paul Mellon Centre
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10 May 2024
Early Career Publishing Workshop: Monographs, Exhibitions and Podcasts
ECRN Events – Kirsty Sinclair Dootson, Bea Gassmann de Sousa, Ana Baeza-Ruiz
Paul Mellon Centre
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9 May to 3 June 2024
Precarity in Art History: Thinking with the Discipline’s Past, Present and Future
Call for Papers, DRN and ECRN Events
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3 May 2024
Britishness, History and Video Games
Research Lunch – Nick Webber
Paul Mellon Centre
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1 May 2024
Deep Sea Divers Below the City: The Case of Sydney Harbour
Research Seminar – Ann Elias, Morgan Daniels
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24 April 2024
The City “Anchored in the Deep Ocean” Dickens, Turner and Venice
Lecture – Malcolm Andrews
Paul Mellon Centre
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23 April 2024
Thinking with 'The Nutmeg's Curse': Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
Workshop
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17 April to 27 May 2024
The Art Trade Forum – Applications Open
Call for Applicants
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5 April 2024
Curator’s tour of the UK Parliament’s Heritage Collections
ECRN Events – Stacey Clapperton
Palace of Westminster
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22 March 2024
Race, Indian Revolution and the Colonial Camera
Research Lunch – Sushma Griffin
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22 March 2024
Rage Embroidery: Stitching Art Histories of Disability and Incarceration
Public Event Series – Jess Bailey, Isabella Rosner
The Foundling Museum
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20 March 2024
Cosmetics, Beauty and the Nature of Renaissance Women
Research Seminar – Jill Burke
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15 March 2024
Weaving as Archive: Looms, Diaspora and Gendered Threads
Public Event Series – Raisa Kabir, Jess Bailey
The Foundling Museum
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13 to 14 March 2024
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
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11 March 2024
The Museum of Transology: Collecting and Curating Clothing
Public Event Series – E-J Scott, QUEERCIRCLE
QUEERCIRCLE
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8 March 2024
ECRN Away Day: Impact and Engagement in Research
ECRN Events
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8 March 2024
Negotiating the “Eclectic Sources” of Modern Sculpture at the ICA (1948–53)
Research Lunch – Lisa Newby
Paul Mellon Centre
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7 March 2024
Climate Advocacy and Action in Arts and Museum Work
DRN Events
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6 March 2024
A Body for Stubbs
Research Seminar – Iris Moon
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1 March 2024
The Quilting Bee: Working Class Women's Art History
Public Event Series – Jess Bailey, Ferren Gipson, Deb McGuire, Alison Duke
The Foundling Museum
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28 February 2024
Why Edwardian Baroque Architecture Matters: Empire, Identity, and Geo-political Rivalry
Research Seminar – Alex Bremner
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27 February 2024
Thinking with Extractivism: Climate & Colonialism Reading Group
Workshop
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23 February 2024
Millais, un Peintre Hors du Temps: Writing about Victorian Art in France
Research Lunch – Sarah Gould
Paul Mellon Centre
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23 February 2024
Writing Conditions: A Writing and Editing Workshop with Lizzie Homersham
DRN Events – Lizzie Homersham