Past Events
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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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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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24 April 2024
The City “Anchored in the Deep Ocean” Dickens, Turner and Venice
Lecture – Malcolm Andrews
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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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
Carry On Blonde – Barbara Windsor
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead
V&A Museum
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25 October 2023
Blonde Noir – Ruth Ellis
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead
V&A Museum
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18 October 2023
The British Marilyn - Diana Dors
Lecture Series – Lynda Nead
V&A Museum
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8 December 2022
Georgian Provocations Series II, Panel Discussion
Lecture Series – Mark Hallett, Paris Spies-Gans, Martin Myrone, Esther Chadwick, Nicholas Robbins, Nika Elder, Martin Postle
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1 December 2022
Joseph Wright of Derby: Self-portrait as an Experimental Artist
Lecture Series – Martin Postle
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24 November 2022
John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark and the Taste for Flesh
Lecture Series – Nika Elder
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17 November 2022
George Romney in the Prison-World of Europe
Lecture Series – Nicholas Robbins
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10 November 2022
A Black King in Georgian London: British Art and Postrevolutionary Haiti
Lecture Series – Esther Chadwick
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3 November 2022
The Haunted Eighteenth Century: Fuseli's 'The Nightmare'
Lecture Series – Martin Myrone
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27 October 2022
Establishing a Female Lineage at the Royal Academy's Show: Eliza Trotter, Angelica Kauffman and the Intrigues of Lady Caroline Lamb
Lecture Series – Paris Spies-Gans
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12 May 2022
Museums – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
Lecture Series – Risham Majeed
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5 May 2022
Movement – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
Lecture Series – Amanda Luyster
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28 April 2022
Metamorphosis – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
Lecture Series – Tom Nickson
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26 April 2022
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham and the Black Country Book Launch
Book Night, Lecture – Andy Foster, Simon Bradley, James Davies
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21 April 2022
Maps – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
Lecture Series – Alfred Hiatt
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14 April 2022
Myth – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
Lecture Series – Alixe Bovey
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7 April 2022
Introduction – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
Lecture Series – Jessica Berenbeim, Lloyd de Beer
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1 April 2022
Difference and Togetherness: Art and Britishness in Wolverhampton
Lecture – Gaika Tavares, Romalyn Ante
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23 March 2022
Grand Designs and Great Houses
Lecture, Research Seminar – Adriano Aymonino, Manolo Guerci, Kate Retford
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16 March 2022
War & Peace: Rethinking Aesthetics in the Age of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar – Cora Gilroy-Ware, Sean Willcock, Sria Chatterjee
Paul Mellon Centre
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9 March 2022
Aesthetic Encounters
Lecture, Research Seminar – Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Max Donnelly, Andrea Wolk Rager, Liz Prettejohn
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2 March 2022
Illustrations and Illuminations
Lecture, Research Seminar – Henrietta McBurney, Joseph Viscomi, Martin Myrone
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16 February 2022
In Darkness and in Light: Rethinking Joseph Wright of Derby
Lecture, Research Seminar – Matthew Craske, Martin Postle
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11 February 2022
The Paul Mellon Lectures: Maria Mok, Director of Hong Kong Museum of Art
Lecture – Maria Mok, Eve Tam
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10 December 2021
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
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9 December 2021
Black British Artists and Political Activism: 'She is not Bullet Proof'
Lecture Series – Alice Correia, Marlene Smith
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2 December 2021
**Cancelled** Black British Artists & Political Activism: 'Black Art' and Black Power
Lecture Series – Elizabeth Robles, Keith Piper
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2 December 2021
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
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1 December 2021
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
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26 November 2021
“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
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25 November 2021
Black British Artists and Political Activism: Artists Against Apartheid
Lecture Series – Allison K. Young, Gavin Jantjes
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25 November 2021
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
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24 November 2021
The Paul Mellon Lectures: Maria Balshaw, Director of Tate
Lecture – Maria Balshaw
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19 November 2021
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
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18 November 2021
Black British Artists and Political Activism: ‘I’m in the black lesbian poster’
Lecture Series – Ingrid Pollard, Adele Patrick
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17 November 2021
The Paul Mellon Lectures: Iwona Blazwick, Director of Whitechapel Gallery
Lecture – Iwona Blazwick
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11 November 2021
A Wider View: From Collaboration to Empire: Graphic Landscape
Conference, Lecture – Mark Hallett, Felicity Myrone, Sarah Moulden, Eleanore Neumann, Alisa Bunbury, Douglas Fordham
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11 November 2021
Black British Artists and Political Activism: Abstraction and Anti-colonialism
Lecture Series – Elizabeth Robles, Ego Sowinski
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10 November 2021
The Paul Mellon Lectures: Thelma Golden, Director and Lead Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem
Lecture – Thelma Golden
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9 November 2021
Revisiting the Canon: Graphic Landscape
Conference, Lecture – Cora Gilroy-Ware, Timothy Wilcox, Timothy Wilcox, Gillian Forrester
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4 November 2021
Black British Artists and Political Activism: Introduction
Lecture Series – Elizabeth Robles
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4 November 2021
Print and Property : Graphic Landscape
Conference, Lecture – Richard Johns, John Bonehill, Kate Retford, James Finch
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3 November 2021
The Paul Mellon Lectures: Kaywin Feldman, Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Lecture – Kaywin Feldman
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2 November 2021
Print, Politics and Industrialisation : Graphic Landscape
Conference, Lecture – Mark Hallett, Felicity Myrone, Amy Concannon, Lizzie Jacklin, Morna O'Neill
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20 October 2021
The Paul Mellon Lectures: Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery
Lecture – Gabriele Finaldi
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9 October 2021
Art is Not an Island: on Interdependence and Complicity
Lecture – Kathrin Böhm, Rachel Grant, Hammad Nasar, Sam Trotman
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8 October 2021
Collage Politics and Punk Practices: Cutting Edge
Conference, Lecture – Catherine Grant, Amy Tobin, Alice Correia, Elizabeth Robles, Chandra Frank, Allison Thompson
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7 October 2021
Collage as Method, Manuscript and Moving Image: Cutting Edge
Conference, Lecture – Claire Zimmerman, Victoria Walsh, Judah Attille
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6 October 2021
Cuts, Copies, Clips and the Curatorial: Cutting Edge
Conference, Lecture – Lynda Nead, Ben Cranfield, Craig Buckley, Dawn Ades, Nicola Simpson, Andrew Hodgson
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25 June 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Thinking from Asia
Conference, Lecture – Yeewan Koon, Patrick Flores, Amrita Dhallu, Farida Batool, Sehr Jalil, Stephanie Bailey, John Tain
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24 June 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Thinking Through Empire
Conference, Lecture – Rana Mitter, Dipti Khera, Toshio Watanabe, Gemma Sharpe, Wenny Teo
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17 June 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Aesthetics and Ways of Knowing
Conference, Lecture – Dorothy Price, Shigemi Inaga, Sadia Shirazi, Elena Crippa, Eva Bentcheva
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11 June 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Bureaucracy and Agency
Conference, Lecture – Karin Zitzewitz, Zainub Verjee, Aparna Kumar, Sanjukta Sunderason
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10 June 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Pedagogy and Learning
Conference, Lecture – Aziz Sohail, Charmaine Toh, Chanon Kenji, Ming Tiampo, Naazish Ata-Ullah
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4 June 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Circulation & Encounter
Conference, Lecture – Hew Locke, Timothy Barringer, Michelle Wong, Sophia Balagamwala
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3 June 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Potential Histories & Solidarities
Conference, Lecture – Parul Dave-Mukherji, Omar Kholeif, Michael Rakowitz, David Morris, Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani
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27 May 2021
London, Asia, Art, Worlds conference: Sociality and Affect
Conference, Lecture – Leela Gandhi, Simone Wille, Greg Salter
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20 May 2021
Artist in Focus: William Hogarth, Live Q&A
Lecture Series – Mark Hallett, Meredith Gamer, Elizabeth Robles, Jonathan Law
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13 May 2021
Hogarth In and Out of History: Yinka Shonibare's Diary of A Victorian Dandy (1998)
Lecture Series – Elizabeth Robles
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6 May 2021
From Hogarth to Thatcher: Lubaina Himid's A Fashionable Marriage (1986)
Lecture Series – Elizabeth Robles
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29 April 2021
Pleasure and Violence: Hogarth’s Four Stages of Cruelty
Lecture Series – Meredith Gamer
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22 April 2021
London Lives: Hogarth’s Industry and Idleness
Lecture Series – Meredith Gamer
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15 April 2021
The Sequel: Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, 1734–5
Lecture Series – Mark Hallett
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8 April 2021
The Original: Hogarths’ A Harlot’s Progress, 1732
Lecture Series – Mark Hallett
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31 March 2021
County Durham Pevsner: Virtual Book Launch
Lecture – Martin Roberts, Simon Bradley
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19 March 2021
One Object: Stories of British Art History
Lecture
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17 March 2021
Speaking of Art: Art, Histories and the Podcast
Lecture – James Mansell, Jo Baring, Cathy Courtney, Inigo Wilkins
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10 March 2021
A Film Discussion: Shadows From Light
Lecture – Rachel Garfield, Will Fowler
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10 February 2021
French Art and Scotch Ideas: The Scottish Enlightenment and The Dawn of Modernity in French Art
Lecture – Duncan Macmillan
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10 December 2020
Ceramics in Britain: Live Q&A
Lecture Series
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3 December 2020
Final Panel Discussion
Conference, Lecture
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3 December 2020
Obsolescence and Renewal: Reimagining North Staffordshire’s Ceramic Heritage
Lecture Series
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1 December 2020
Unstable Boundaries, Ecologies
Conference, Lecture
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26 November 2020
‘Beyond East and West’: the Founding of British Studio ceramics
Lecture Series