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.

Spring Programme:

Research

Grids of Vietnamese modernism

5:00pm, 26 Feb 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Duc Le for a talk on 20th-century Vietnamese architecture, exploring the state of neglected modernist heritage sites and innovative preservation methods in Vietnam...

Centre for American Art, Research

The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism

5:30pm, 3 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join author Irene Small and Professor Jo Applin for this book launch and in conversation celebrating the release of Small's The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism....

Centre for American Art, Research

Carceral Conceptualism? An Imperfect Guide

5:30pm, 18 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join art historian and cultural theorist Faye Gleisser for this talk, expanding upon her book Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987 ...

Three female students from the Guildhall School perform at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Gallery in front of two Paul Gauguin paintings from his Polynesia series. On the left, a flute player is seated; in the center, a viola player is seated; and on the right, a harp player is seated.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ Gallery

Sounds Like Art

7:00pm, 23 Mar 2025 | Tickets from £10 / concessions available

Come and listen to new music written in response to paintings across The Â鶹ÊÓƵ's collections...

Research

Art and its Market

5:30pm, 27 Mar 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Professor Dirk Boll for this talk on the art market and its often overlooked aspects, from the extensive digitisation of structures and content, to the evolving roles of museums and art criticism...

Summer Programme:

Camp amongst the Changpa, nomadic pastoralists from Changthang. Women are weaving on Backstrap looms, while one is laying a warp (left) and another is carding wool (centre). Behind them men are combing pashmina.

Research

Textiles from the Ladakh Himalayas

5:00pm, 12 May 2025 | Free, booking essential

Join Dr Monisha Ahmed for an online lecture looking at the history of fibres and textiles of the Ladakh region, discussing traditional weaving systems, and their symbolic representations and interpretations of Ladakhi life...

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