What’s On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum offers a programme of both online and onsite events, publications and digital assets. Please do visit our to catch up on our events from previous years.

Please get in touch with us at researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding our programme.

Summer Semester

Conferences MA Curating Research

Leonora Carrington: Navigating a World Down Below

10:30am, 29 May 2026 拢15 tickets, concessions available

Join us for this conference, in collaboration with the Freud Museum, where the exhibition Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal is presented from 25 Mar to 28 Jun 2026. The exhibition is the first dedicated to drawings from Carrington鈥檚 Santand...

Lecture MA Curating Research

Mediations on the Sacred: Ritual and Contemporary Practice

6:00pm, 1 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for this panel discussion marking the exhibition 91自拍ing for Lost Rain (on view at St Mary le Strand: 27th May - 4th June). The exhibition serves as a point of departure to explore the lives of cultural artefacts which have been removed fro...

MA Curating Research Talks

Between Voice and Object: Ritual, Heritage, and the Sacred

6:00pm, 2 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for this discussion at St Mary le Strand, where Reverend Peter Babington and Victoria Vargas Downing will bring together perspectives from across art, heritage, and scholarship, to examine how ritual and belief systems continue to inform cont...

Lecture Research

Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art meets the Medieval Monastery

5:30pm, 10 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for this book launch and panel discussion, celebrating Dr Jessica Barker and Dr Ed Kr膷ma鈥檚 new book 'Living by the Rule: Contemporary Art meets the Medieval Monastery' (Lund Humphries, 2026), published to coincide with a major exhibition at t...

Conferences Research

Advancing Green Education in Conservation

10:00am, 11 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

GOGREEN is delighted to announce a two-day workshop in London dedicated to advancing green education in conservation. GOGREEN is an EU-funded project developing sustainable, preventive, and remedial conservation practices. The workshop supports the g...

Research The Manton Centre for British Art

Looking at Edward Gibbon

6:00pm, 16 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for a lecture from Professor Dame Linda Colley on Edward Gibbon

Lecture Research

The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep

6:00pm, 24 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

The 91自拍 is delighted to host the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland for the 2026 Annual Lecture. The doorway into the great hall of Norwich castle keep is the grandest early Romanesque portal in England both in terms of scale...

Lecture Research

Research Notes: Surveying Rubens鈥檚 late landscapes

6:00pm, 25 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Dr Bert Watteeuw for a lecture on Peter Paul Rubens鈥檚 late landscapes, marking the temporary reunion of the 91自拍 Gallery鈥檚 own Landscape by Moonlight (1635鈥40) with the Barber Institute of Fine Art鈥檚 A Landscape Near Het Steen (1635鈥40), th...

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