What's On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum is back for the 2023/24 academic year, offering a programme of both online and onsite events. Please do visit our to catch up on our events from previous years.

All our events require pre-booking and those without tickets will not be admitted. Please get in touch with us at researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our programme.

Summer Semester Events

A black-and-white photograph of a mattress company's billboard poster showing a naked woman lying naked in the bed has an overlaid text reading

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Other Printers: Making Images Read as Lesbian

5:30pm, 20 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Laura Guy for a lecture on queer image-making, focusing on lesbian-made images and the networks of feminist-run periodicals and workshops, from the 1960s onwards...

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Painting Pairs 2023 - 24: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History

1:30pm, 24 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join us for the second presentations by the 2023 - 24 cohort of the Painting Pairs programme...

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The Avant-gardists! The rise and fall of revolutionary artists in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

5:30pm, 24 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr. Sjeng Scheijen's lecture on the personal stories behind the avant-garde artists of early 20th c. Russia, celebrating the release of his new book The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917-1935...

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Collective Body: Book launch and panel discussion on the limits of socialist realism

6:00pm, 29 May 2024 | Free, booking essential

Join Christina Kiaer for a panel discussion with Maria Mileeva, Michał Murawski, Alex Potts and Sarah Wilson to mark the launch of Kiaer’s new book Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism, which offers a new account of So...

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The 42nd Gerry Hedley Student Symposium

9:00am, 4 Jun 2024 | Free, booking essential

This yearly day-long conference is held in memory of Gerry Hedley, a pioneer in art conservation and an inspiration to generations of students. The symposium is an opportunity for final-year students and interns to share their research with peers, pr...

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Word and Image: Making Connections Across Different Disciplines and Across Institutions

10:30am, 7 Jun 2024 | Free, booking essential

Word and Image is a one-day interdisciplinary conference bringing together doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from The 91��Ƭ�� and King’s College London through a focus on Word/Image relations. The event will offer a collaborative space in whic...

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Pose, Power, Practice: New Perspectives on Life Drawing

10:00am, 20 Jun 2024 | Free, booking essential

Pose, Power, Practice is a one-day symposium that seeks to reassess the scope of life drawing, applying new critical frameworks to this sustained and complex practice within art history...

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