Event Recordings
Recordings of events associated with our busy research programme, including seminars and lunches, workshops, symposia and conferences.
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Recordings from our Spring 2025 Seminar Series.
Research ProgrammesSpring 2025 Seminar Series
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Book Night celebrated some of our 2024 publications by asking authors to discuss their research and answer questions about their books.
LecturePMC Book Night
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This lecture explored and celebrated the creative life and work of the British artist Judith Tucker (1960–2023).
LectureOn the Edge/In the Place/With the Earth: Judith Tucker, Painter and More
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This conference explored the multifaceted, multi-purpose nature of the window and its place in British architecture and visual culture.
Conference“What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture
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Simon Bradley and Charles O'Brien reflect on the revision of the Buildings of England series from 1983 to 2024.
LectureCelebrating Pevsner: Reflections on the Completion of 'The Buildings of England'
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Recordings from our Autumn 2024 Seminar Series
Research ProgrammesAutumn 2024 Seminar Series
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This symposium provided an opportunity to further examine and debate the issues raised in the Shining Lights anthology, through the voices of the publication’s contributors and leading intergenerational thinkers.
ConferenceShining Lights: Photography Symposium
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Recordings from our Summer 2024 events series entitled Out to Sea.
Research ProgrammesOut to Sea Summer 2024 Seminar Series
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Recordings from our Spring 2024 Seminar Series
Research ProgrammesSpring 2024 Seminar Series
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The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This symposium asks: what next?
ConferenceExtractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction
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A collaboration with the Barbican, this multi-day symposium used the themes of the RE/SISTERS exhibition to explore the bonds between gender and environmental justice.
ConferenceResist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism
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This conference took Oppé’s life and multifaceted career as a springboard to reassess British art historiography in the first half of the twentieth century.
ConferenceThe Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–60: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds
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What does it mean to think about the Rossettis today?
ConferenceRossettis: In Relation
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Inspired by the major exhibition and publication Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life this event focused on under-represented perspectives on motherhood to consider how this might affect the making and understanding of art works.
Conference(M)otherhood: Art and Life
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Simon Bradley discusses the latest volume in the series with Geoffrey Tyack of Kellogg College, Oxford.
Lecture'Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East' Virtual Book Launch (Pevsner)
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Watch Jill Burke's talk considering how the Renaissance period became a flashpoint for discussions about gender and bodily ornamentation.
Research SeminarCosmetics, Beauty and the Nature of Renaissance Women
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A festival of free events exploring how different communities have used, and continue to use, printmaking to enact change, share knowledge and challenge ideas.
Festival of EventsPrintmaking for Change: Past and Present
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A series of talks and discussions showcasing new research and approaches to thinking about buildings, cities, and landscapes in Britain and elsewhere.
Research ProgrammesArchitecture Summer Series 2023
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This public event series explored the art of the Tudor period in all its richness and variety.
Public Event SeriesTudors Now!
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This symposium explores the complex past, problematic present and possible futures of plastic.
ConferenceSynthetic Histories: Plastics, Climate and Colonialism
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Recordings from our Spring 2023 events programme
Research ProgrammesSpring 2023 Event Recordings
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An online workshop on assessing mass data about artists’ lives and careers.
WorkshopMass Data Methodologies
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Rereading Constable: Letters, Life and Art was organised as part of the PMC’s Generation Landscape research project and was convened by Stephen Daniels and Mark Hallett.
ConferenceRereading Constable: Letters, Life and Art
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A series on six iconic works of art from eighteenth-century Britain convened by Martin Postle.
Public Lecture CourseGeorgian Provocations II
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Recordings from our Autumn 2022 events programme
Research ProgrammesAutumn 2022 Event Recordings
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Imagined as an extension of the Radical Landscapes exhibition, this symposium provided a space to dig deeper into the histories and futures of the rural.
ConferenceFinding Common Ground: Making the Landscape Radical
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This series showcases new perspectives on the arts in postwar Britain as an interdisciplinary and transcultural terrain of research.
Research ProgrammesLiquid Crystal Concrete: The Arts in Postwar Britain 1945–1965
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This series examines Britain’s sense of place during the Middle Ages by examining medieval images.
Public Lecture CourseBritain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
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Recordings from our Spring 2022 events programme
Research ProgrammesSpring 2022 Event Recordings
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A special event to celebrate the life and work of Mark Girouard.
Special EventAn Evening in Celebration of Mark Girouard
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Organised to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of The Photographers’ Gallery in 1971.
ConferenceConcerning Photography: The Photographers’ Gallery and Photographic Networks in Britain, c. 1971 to the present
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This series mines the rich seam that exists where art-making practices and artworks meet politics and political activism.
Public Lecture CourseBlack British Artists and Political Activism
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'The Museum and Gallery Today' features individual talks from some of the world’s most distinguished museum and gallery directors.
Paul Mellon Lectures 2021The Museum and Gallery Today
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A four-day programme of online webinars presented jointly by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the British Library.
ConferenceGraphic Landscape: The Landscape Print Series in Britain, c.1775–1850
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'Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now' offers critical and creative perspectives on aspects of collage.
Research ProgrammesCutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now
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Recordings from our Autumn/Winter 2021 events programme.
Research ProgrammesAutumn/Winter 2021 Event Recordings
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Recordings from a multi-part programme of online events envisioned as a murmuration, a series of interconnected papers, conversations, performances and interventions.
Conference RecordingsLondon, Asia, Art, Worlds
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Since 2012 we have proudly supported the research for the Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England.
Architectural HistoryPevsner Architectural Guides
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How might art practice and writing foster care and healing, renewal and health in the light of the pandemic?
Seminar SeriesArt Criticism & the Pandemic
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This series introduces the life and work of the artist, William Hogarth.
Public Lecture CourseArtist in Focus: William Hogarth
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Recordings from our Spring 2021 events programme
Research ProgrammesSpring 2021 Event Recordings
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A series looking at five key influential developments in the history of British ceramics since the mid-18th century.
Public Lecture CourseCeramics in Britain, 1750 to now
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A multi-part programme of research events focuses on the encounter between artistic and art-historical practice and the forces of the natural world
A State of the Field Research ProgrammeBritish Art and Natural Forces
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New research and scholarship centred around artists’ preserved homes and studios in the United States and United Kingdom
ConferenceHomework: Artists’ Studio Homes and Their Afterlives in Britain and the United States
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20 minute papers exploring the artistic achievement and legacy of George Stubbs
ConferenceGeorge Stubbs: “all done from Nature”
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British Art Talks is our audio series. It features new research and aims to enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture.
Podcast SeriesBritish Art Talks
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Papers offering perspectives on the state of British art and architectural history now
Lecture Series50th Anniversary Lecture Series
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A series on six iconic works of art from eighteenth-century Britain by Mark Hallett and Martin Postle.
Public Lecture CourseGeorgian Provocations
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This series explores depictions of warfare in artworks by British artists from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
Public Lecture CourseArt and War
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Papers about Li Yuan-chia's practice and the LYC Museum in Cumbria
ConferenceThe LYC Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum as Practice
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This series explores the social and psychological impact of taking photographs and draws on recent approaches to explore the wide-ranging changes in perception brought about by the technology since its invention in 1839.
Public Lecture CoursePhotography and its Histories
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This series explores the multifarious ways in which the artist has impacted upon our understanding and perception of the British garden from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Public Lecture CourseThe Artist and The Garden
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Five lectures that explore the entangled histories of Britain and South Asia through art and visual culture
Public Lecture CourseBritain, South Asia: Entangled Histories
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An exciting behind-the-scenes look at the research, writing, borrowing, design, and installation processes involved in putting on a major exhibition.
Public Lecture CourseThinking About Exhibitions
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Papers considering the issue of connoisseurship in relation to historic, modern and contemporary British art studies
ConferenceThe Educated Eye? Connoisseurship Now
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Tom Crow delivers the 2017 Paul Mellon Lectures
Paul Mellon Lectures 2017Searching for the Young Soul Rebels: Style, Music, and Art in London 1956–1969
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Investigating exhibitions as challenging and provocative sites through which to think about artistic exchanges between Britain and South Asia
ConferenceShowing, Telling, Seeing: Exhibiting South Asia in Britain 1900-Now
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A conference arranged to coincide with the exhibition Charles I: King and Collector at the Royal Academy in 2018
ConferenceCharles I: King and Collector
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Symposium in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation
SymposiumBecoming Henry Moore
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Papers that investigate the various ways in which notions of “Britishness” have been communicated, inflected, and contested through the photographic image
ConferencePhotography and Britishness
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Martina Droth discusses the exhibition "Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery" at the Yale Center for British Art
Video TourCeramics in the Expanded Field: Curating the ceramic object today
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A series of papers exploring the legacy of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).
ConferenceAlma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and on Screen
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AA Women and Architecture in Context 1917-2017
ConferenceAA XX 100
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Papers considering how the pictorial representation of the landscape has long played an important role in the history of British art
ConferenceLandscape Now
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Study day in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and Fitzwilliam Museum
Study DayThings of Beauty Growing: British studio pottery
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A series of short films commissioned from filmmakers Lily Ford, Jonathan Law, and Jared Schiller different aspects of artist George Shaw's life and creative output
Exhibition FilmsGeorge Shaw: A Corner of a Foreign Field
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Ming Tiampo discusses how artists from Asia came to the Slade, confronted their new environment, and endeavoured to co-constitute worlds alongside their professors and fellow students.
LectureSlade, London, Asia