Events

Spring 2025 Seminar Series

Our research seminars feature papers given by distinguished historians of British art and architecture. Seminars typically take the form of hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade professionals and research students working on the history of British art.

John Martin and Romantic Extraction

A Paul Mellon Centre Research Seminar by Stephanie O'Rourke

Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1760–1830

A Paul Mellon Centre Research Seminar by Holly Shaffer and Laurel Peterson

There Were Important Women in the History of Prints

A Paul Mellon Centre Research Seminar by Cristina Martinez and Cynthia Roman

A Radical Alternative Within British Romanticism: The Foggo Brothers’ Parga (1822)

A Paul Mellon Centre Research Seminar by Martin Myrone

Reframing the British Quilt: Living Labour and Art Historical Memory

A Paul Mellon Centre Research Seminar by Deb McGuire and Jess Bailey