Past Events

50 Years of British Art in Museums

50th Anniversary Event – Charles Saumarez Smith

Paul Mellon Centre

Activating Art History: 50 Years of the Paul Mellon Centre Grants & Fellowships Programme

Call for Papers

Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions

Research Lunch – Martina Droth, Paul Messier

Paul Mellon Centre

Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage Curators’ Tour

DRN Events

Tate Britain

Surface, Depth and Form: John Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’

Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes

Paul Mellon Centre

The Victorian Book I Never Wrote, or Why I Never Became a Specialist on British Art

50th Anniversary Event – Griselda Pollock

Paul Mellon Centre

Sculpting a Post-War Future: The Bombsite in Art School Education

Research Lunch – Isabelle Mooney

Paul Mellon Centre

Architectural History after Summerson

50th Anniversary Event – Steven Brindle

Paul Mellon Centre

British Artists and Generational Identity

Call for Papers

*Postponed* Ceramics in Britain, 1750 to now

Public Lecture Course

Paul Mellon Centre

Keith Arnatt’s Conceptualist Critique of Conceptual Art

Research Lunch – Christian Berger

Paul Mellon Centre

ECR Exhibition Tour: British Baroque

ECR Events

Tate Britain

Pre-Raphaelite Gold

Fellows Lunch – Tara Contractor

Paul Mellon Centre

**Event Postponed** Entangled Histories of British Art

50th Anniversary Event – Dorothy Price

Paul Mellon Centre

Radical Materialities: Linder and Companion Histories

Conference

*Postponed* ECR: Research and Curating

ECR Events

Paul Mellon Centre

*Postponed* Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815

Research Lunch – Rebecca Tropp

Paul Mellon Centre

*Postponed* Video Activism in London: 1969–1993

Fellows Lunch – Ed Webb-Ingall

Paul Mellon Centre

William Etty and the Classical Body

Podcast – Cora Gilroy-Ware, Mary Beard

British Art and Natural Forces: A State of the Field Research Programme

Call for Papers

“What Will Survive of Us Is Love”: Memory and Emotion in Late-Medieval England

Podcast – Jessica Barker

British Art and Natural Forces: Cover Commission for the Online Journal British Art Studies

Call for Papers

“Starting from that earth”: Humanized Landscape, Rastafarian Painting and Anticolonial Visions in 1970s Kingston

Fellows Lunch – Adrienne Rooney

The English Carthusians and the Art of Abstinence

Podcast – Julian Luxford

Walking the Streets: William Hogarth’s The Four Times of Day (1736–1738)

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

Uncertain Grounds and Absent Figures in Tina’s Keane’s Faded Wallpaper (1988)

Research Lunch – Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell

Hard Times and Late Victorian Art

Podcast – Alex Potts

‘What Comes Next?': Careers in Art History

DRN and ECR Events

Variations on a Theme: Richard Wilson’s The White Monk (c. 1755–1765)

Public Lecture Course – Martin Postle

Exploring London's Art Scene in the 1960s

Podcast – Lisa Tickner, Mark Hallett

All Done from Nature: George Stubbs’s Whistlejacket (1762)

Public Lecture Course – Martin Postle

“Things in their natural surroundings”?: Marketing the British Country House as Home

Podcast – Kate Retford

The Artist as Intellectual: Joshua Reynolds’s Self-Portrait as President of the Royal Academy (1780)

Public Lecture Course – Martin Postle

The Medicinal Garden

Podcast – Clare Hickman, Claire Preston, Carole Rawcliffe

Displaying the Hero: John Singleton Copley’s The Death of Major Peirson (1784)

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

*Postponed* The Waitresses in Scotland, 1978

Research Lunch – Harry Weeks

Making an Impact: Thomas Lawrence’s Arthur Atherley (1792)

Public Lecture Course – Mark Hallett

Art Criticism and the Pandemic

Workshop – Chris McCormack, Jade Montserrat, Khairani Barokka, David Dibosa, Juliet Jacques, Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Rehana Zaman, Larne Abse Gogarty, Robert McRuer, Neo Sinoxolo Musangi, Marina Vishmidt

Georgian Provocations: A Conversation

Public Lecture Course

The Doctoral Researchers Summer Symposium 2020

DRN Events

'Dying a Very British Death: Ecstatic Antibodies and the Possibilities of Censorship of Queer Art in Britain, c.1990'

Research Lunch – Theo Gordon

Damaged & Destroyed: Stories of Preservation and Loss from the Photographic Archive.

Online Display – Freddie Pegram

London, Asia, Art, Worlds

Call for Papers

Redefining the British Decorative Arts

Call for Papers

British Art and Ecology: Andrew Patrizio in Conversation

ECR Events

Geomorphic Forces

British Art and Natural Forces

Plants, Animals

British Art and Natural Forces

'Black Art' and British Art History

Research Lunch – Elizabeth Robles

Authors of Architecture

British Art and Natural Forces

Apocalyptic Conjunctures: The Weather of Art History

British Art and Natural Forces – Andrew Patrizio

Leaving the House

Podcast – Lucy Skaer

Observations, Meteorology

British Art and Natural Forces

Observation and Diagnosis: Pathologizing Bodies, Medicalizing Space in the British Empire

British Art and Natural Forces – Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Pots with Attitude: British Satire on Ceramics, 1759–1820

Public Lecture Course

Slade, London, Asia: Intersections of Decolonial Modernism

Lecture – Ming Tiampo

Josiah Wedgwood: Experimentation and Innovation

Public Lecture Course

Contagion

Research Lunch – Jade Montserrat

Decolonial Agencies

British Art and Natural Forces

Screening of The Otolith Group’s INFINITY minus Infinity (2019)

British Art and Natural Forces

'Blue and White' in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Beyond

Public Lecture Course

Racial Capitalocene: Ecology and Abolition

British Art and Natural Forces – T. J. Demos

Curating the Sea: Journal of Curatorial Studies Special Issue Launch

British Art and Natural Forces

“Racial Capitalocene: Ecology and Abolition” - Live Q&A with T. J. Demos

British Art and Natural Forces – T. J. Demos

A Gothic Choir: Part 1

Podcast – Elizabeth Price

‘Beyond East and West’: the Founding of British Studio ceramics

Public Lecture Course

Screening of John Akomfrah's The Nine Muses (2010)

British Art and Natural Forces

Affective Proximities

Research Lunch – Dr Jessica Carden, Dr Tiffany Boyle

Plans and Elevations: Part 2

Podcast – Elizabeth Price

Unstable Boundaries, Ecologies

British Art and Natural Forces

DIFFICULT TRUTHS TO LIVE INSIDE - TROUBLE WITH TIME

Podcast – Ryan Gander

Final Panel Discussion

British Art and Natural Forces

Obsolescence and Renewal: Reimagining North Staffordshire’s Ceramic Heritage

Public Lecture Course

Song and Dans: Part 3

Podcast – Elizabeth Price

PMC Book Night

PMC Book Night

Ceramics in Britain: Live Q&A

Public Lecture Course

Rewriting the Script: Theatre Playwriting Practice and the Design of an Ecological, Sustainable Theatre

Research Lunch – Hamish Muir

Foto Studio Bluefields: Photography and Political Life on the Nicaraguan Caribbean

Research Lunch – Ileana L. Selejan