Event Recordings

What is Research Now? asks: can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together?

Recordings from our Spring 2025 Seminar Series.

Book Night celebrated some of our 2024 publications by asking authors to discuss their research and answer questions about their books.

This lecture explored and celebrated the creative life and work of the British artist Judith Tucker (1960–2023).

This conference explored the multifaceted, multi-purpose nature of the window and its place in British architecture and visual culture.

Simon Bradley and Charles O'Brien reflect on the revision of the Buildings of England series from 1983 to 2024.

Recordings from our Autumn 2024 Seminar Series

This symposium provided an opportunity to further examine and debate the issues raised in the Shining Lights anthology, through the voices of the publication’s contributors and leading intergenerational thinkers.

Recordings from our Summer 2024 events series entitled Out to Sea.

Recordings from our Spring 2024 Seminar Series

The arts have long been concerned with highlighting the ongoing histories of resource extraction and its repercussions. This symposium asks: what next?

A collaboration with the Barbican, this multi-day symposium used the themes of the RE/SISTERS exhibition to explore the bonds between gender and environmental justice.

This conference took Oppé’s life and multifaceted career as a springboard to reassess British art historiography in the first half of the twentieth century.

What does it mean to think about the Rossettis today?

Inspired by the major exhibition and publication Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life this event focused on under-represented perspectives on motherhood to consider how this might affect the making and understanding of art works.

Simon Bradley discusses the latest volume in the series with Geoffrey Tyack of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Watch Jill Burke's talk considering how the Renaissance period became a flashpoint for discussions about gender and bodily ornamentation.

A festival of free events exploring how different communities have used, and continue to use, printmaking to enact change, share knowledge and challenge ideas.

A series of talks and discussions showcasing new research and approaches to thinking about buildings, cities, and landscapes in Britain and elsewhere.

This public event series explored the art of the Tudor period in all its richness and variety.

This symposium explores the complex past, problematic present and possible futures of plastic.

Recordings from our Spring 2023 events programme

An online workshop on assessing mass data about artists’ lives and careers.

Rereading Constable: Letters, Life and Art was organised as part of the PMC’s Generation Landscape research project and was convened by Stephen Daniels and Mark Hallett.

A series on six iconic works of art from eighteenth-century Britain convened by Martin Postle.

Recordings from our Autumn 2022 events programme

Imagined as an extension of the Radical Landscapes exhibition, this symposium provided a space to dig deeper into the histories and futures of the rural.

This series showcases new perspectives on the arts in postwar Britain as an interdisciplinary and transcultural terrain of research.

This series examines Britain’s sense of place during the Middle Ages by examining medieval images.

Recordings from our Spring 2022 events programme

A special event to celebrate the life and work of Mark Girouard.

Organised to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of The Photographers’ Gallery in 1971.

This series mines the rich seam that exists where art-making practices and artworks meet politics and political activism.

'The Museum and Gallery Today' features individual talks from some of the world’s most distinguished museum and gallery directors.

A four-day programme of online webinars presented jointly by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the British Library.

'Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now' offers critical and creative perspectives on aspects of collage.

Recordings from our Autumn/Winter 2021 events programme.

Recordings from a multi-part programme of online events envisioned as a murmuration, a series of interconnected papers, conversations, performances and interventions.

Since 2012 we have proudly supported the research for the Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England.

How might art practice and writing foster care and healing, renewal and health in the light of the pandemic?

This series introduces the life and work of the artist, William Hogarth.

Recordings from our Spring 2021 events programme

A series looking at five key influential developments in the history of British ceramics since the mid-18th century.

A multi-part programme of research events focuses on the encounter between artistic and art-historical practice and the forces of the natural world

New research and scholarship centred around artists’ preserved homes and studios in the United States and United Kingdom

20 minute papers exploring the artistic achievement and legacy of George Stubbs

British Art Talks is our audio series. It features new research and aims to enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture.

Papers offering perspectives on the state of British art and architectural history now

A series on six iconic works of art from eighteenth-century Britain by Mark Hallett and Martin Postle.

This series explores depictions of warfare in artworks by British artists from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

Papers about Li Yuan-chia's practice and the LYC Museum in Cumbria

This series explores the social and psychological impact of taking photographs and draws on recent approaches to explore the wide-ranging changes in perception brought about by the technology since its invention in 1839.

This series explores the multifarious ways in which the artist has impacted upon our understanding and perception of the British garden from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Five lectures that explore the entangled histories of Britain and South Asia through art and visual culture

An exciting behind-the-scenes look at the research, writing, borrowing, design, and installation processes involved in putting on a major exhibition.

Papers considering the issue of connoisseurship in relation to historic, modern and contemporary British art studies

Tom Crow delivers the 2017 Paul Mellon Lectures

Investigating exhibitions as challenging and provocative sites through which to think about artistic exchanges between Britain and South Asia

A conference arranged to coincide with the exhibition Charles I: King and Collector at the Royal Academy in 2018

Symposium in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation

Papers that investigate the various ways in which notions of “Britishness” have been communicated, inflected, and contested through the photographic image

Martina Droth discusses the exhibition "Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery" at the Yale Center for British Art

A series of papers exploring the legacy of Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).

AA Women and Architecture in Context 1917-2017

Papers considering how the pictorial representation of the landscape has long played an important role in the history of British art

Study day in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art and Fitzwilliam Museum

A series of short films commissioned from filmmakers Lily Ford, Jonathan Law, and Jared Schiller different aspects of artist George Shaw's life and creative output

Ming Tiampo discusses how artists from Asia came to the Slade, confronted their new environment, and endeavoured to co-constitute worlds alongside their professors and fellow students.