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.

Summer Semester

Conferences Research The Courtauld Centre for the Art of the Americas

Beatriz González: Frieze of Comedy / Frieze of Tragedy

3:00pm, 24 Apr 2026

Join us for an afternoon exploring the work of Colombian artist Beatriz González, coinciding with her current monographic exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery. This event will look more broadly at Colombian history and popular culture, as well as w...

Conferences Research

Annual Postgraduate Symposium 2025/26

4:30pm, 30 Apr 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for our annual Postgraduate Symposium, where researchers in the final stages of their doctoral degrees will deliver papers emerging out of their research projects.

Lecture Research

The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s

6:00pm, 11 May 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Professor Susan L. Siegfried for this book launch event and panel discussion celebrating the publication of her book The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s. On the occasion of this lecture at the Courtauld, Professor Siegfried inv...

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Ecologies of Attention: Sensing at the Edge

9:30am, 15 May 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for the 2026 Asymmetry International Symposium, offering a dynamic programme of papers, performances, screenings, and discussions exploring how art and visual culture might shift our understanding of attention from a logic of capture towards ...

Lecture Research

Raphael et alia

6:00pm, 18 May 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Professor Lisa Pon for this seminar examining Raphael's collaborations in painting and many other media, re-evaluating period and current attitudes towards originality, authorship, artistic practice and value. This research draws from Pon51ݶ ne...

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Leonora Carrington: Navigating a world Down Below

10:30am, 29 May 2026 £15 tickets, concessions available

Join us for this conference, in collaboration with the Freud Musem, where the exhibition Leonora Carrington: The Symptomatic Surreal is presented from 25 Mar to 28 Jun 2026. The exhibition is the first dedicated to drawings from Carrington51ݶ Santande...

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Advancing Green Education in Conservation

10:00am, 11 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

GOGREEN is delighted to announce a two-day workshop in London dedicated to advancing green education in conservation. GOGREEN is an EU-funded project developing sustainable, preventive, and remedial conservation practices. The workshop supports the g...

Research The Manton Centre for British Art

Looking at Edward Gibbon

6:00pm, 16 Jun 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for a lecture from Professor Dame Linda Colley on Edward Gibbon

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