Past Events
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Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
2 October 2026
Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
Research Lunch – Caroline Bressey
Paul Mellon Centre
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Drawing as Knowledge: Practice, Theory and History
16 to 17 September 2026
Drawing as Knowledge: Practice, Theory and History
Conference – Isobel Elstob, John Bonehill, Jane Alden, Michaela Giebelhausen, Tessa Kilgarriff, Isabel Seligman, Jenny Wright, Claire Wintle, Aimee Middlemiss, Seb Marshall, Louisa Smyllie-Peters, Alice Clanachan, Humaira Hossain, Tal Horesh, Excy Hansda, Nuno Grancho, Eliza Goodpasture, Jo Gomersall, Katherine Gazzard, Rose Forshall, Stephen Feeke, Eve Ess
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Evening Viewing: Just on the Edge: Exploring the Deanna Petherbridge Archive
15 September 2026
Evening Viewing: Just on the Edge: Exploring the Deanna Petherbridge Archive
Gathering
Paul Mellon Centre
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Fragile Landscapes: Memory, Migration and Embodied Mapping
9 September 2026
Fragile Landscapes: Memory, Migration and Embodied Mapping
Lecture – Rohini Rai , Nirmal Puwar, Katherine Parker
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Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain
10 July 2026
Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain
Research Lunch – Kristin Bluemel
Paul Mellon Centre
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Writing the Object, Writing the World
1 July 2026
Writing the Object, Writing the World
Lecture – Jennifer Raab
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Approaching Victorian Architecture Today
29 June 2026
Approaching Victorian Architecture Today
Lecture – Shahed Saleem, Joshua Mardell, Imogen Hart
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Postponed: Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
26 to 26 June 2026
Postponed: Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
Paul Mellon Centre
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POSTPONED: Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
26 June 2026
POSTPONED: Ordinary Lives: Photographic Encounters with Black Victorians
Research Lunch – Caroline Bressey
Paul Mellon Centre
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POSTPONED: Fragile Landscapes: Memory, Migration and Embodied Mapping
25 June 2026
POSTPONED: Fragile Landscapes: Memory, Migration and Embodied Mapping
Lecture – Nirmal Puwar, Rohini Rai , Katherine Parker
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Gwen John: A Seer of Strange Beauties
22 June 2026
Gwen John: A Seer of Strange Beauties
Lecture – Lucy Wood, Rachel Stratton, Patrick Elliott
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Photo State: Experiments in Eaton-escence
19 June 2026
Photo State: Experiments in Eaton-escence
Lecture – Christopher Pinney
Paul Mellon Centre
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Drawing as Knowledge: Practice, Theory and History
16 June to 13 July 2026
Drawing as Knowledge: Practice, Theory and History
Call for Papers
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Visualising the Commonwealth in Post-War Britain
12 June 2026
Visualising the Commonwealth in Post-War Britain
Research Lunch – Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani
Paul Mellon Centre
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Moving like the Roots
5 June 2026
Moving like the Roots
Lecture – Viviana Checchia
Paul Mellon Centre
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Chinese British Identity Through the Lens of Lancashire’s Rhododendron Ponticum
15 May 2026
Chinese British Identity Through the Lens of Lancashire’s Rhododendron Ponticum
Research Lunch – Dr Alina Sinelnyk
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Painting Protest: Literature, Art, and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Burma
8 May 2026
Painting Protest: Literature, Art, and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Burma
Research Lunch – Melissa Carlson
Paul Mellon Centre
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Four Women: Trajectories through Art History
22 April to 22 July 2026
Four Women: Trajectories through Art History
Display
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Problem of the Portrait
22 April 2026
The Problem of the Portrait
Lecture
Paul Mellon Centre
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March Day 2: Disabled Legacies: Beyond Access and Inclusion
28 March 2026
March Day 2: Disabled Legacies: Beyond Access and Inclusion
Gathering – Khairani Barokka, Pelenakeke Brown, Sria Chatterjee, Theo Jean Cuthand, Kenny Fries, David Johnson, Jameisha Prescod
The Building Centre