Event Recordings
Recordings of events associated with our busy research programme, including seminars and lunches, workshops, symposia and conferences.
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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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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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This series showcases new perspectives on the arts in postwar Britain as an interdisciplinary and transcultural terrain of research.
Seminar SeriesLiquid 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