What's On at The Research Forum

The Research Forum programme will return in the Autumn semester with 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.

Autumn Semester

Lecture Research

Buddha|Nature: Exhibiting Buddhist Art in a Time of Climate Crisis

6:00pm, 30 Sep 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Hao Sheng, curator of Buddha|Nature, as they present the Xuzhou Collection of Buddhist Art, an extraordinary collection of pan-Asian Buddhist sculptures that has been on long-term loan at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This public talk will a...

Research The Manton Centre for British Art

Looking at Edward Gibbon

6:00pm, 1 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

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

Lecture Research

Research-led curating in an art fair context

5:00pm, 2 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Held on occasion of the upcoming edition of the Frieze Masters fair (14-18 October 2026), this panel discussion will offer the opportunity to discover some of the highlights of this year’s Spotlight section. With a particular emphasis on art from acr...

Lecture Research The Ģ��Ƶ Centre for the Art of the Americas

Andy Warhol’s Guide to Everyday Life

5:30pm, 5 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History and Director of American Studies at Stanford University as he demonstrates how Andy Warhol's attention to daily life sparks possibilities for us to rethink our own.

Research The Manton Centre for British Art

What We Carry We Cannot Leave: Artists in Response to the British Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale

6:00pm, 8 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for an evening panel discussion, drawing from Lubaina Himid's exhibition for the British Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia

Lecture Research

The Martyr and Distraction: Jacques Callot’s Etching of St Sebastian (ca. 1630)

5:30pm, 12 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Marika Takanishi Knowles (University of St Andrews) in an exploration of Jacques Callot's Etching of St Sebastian (ca. 1630)

Lecture Research The Ģ��Ƶ Centre for the Art of the Americas

Mira Schor Artist talk and panel

6:00pm, 12 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

The Ģ��Ƶ welcomes the American artist Mira Schor (b. 1950, New York) on the occasion of her solo exhibition Wet/London at Mimosa House, London.

Research The Manton Centre for British Art

Book Talk: Hurled Towards the Future: Lesbian Photography and Queer Imagination in 1980s London

6:00pm, 15 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Join us for an event celebrating the publication of Dr Flora Dunster's latest book.

Lecture Research

Borobudur as Living Heritage: Historical Precedents and Futures of (Non-) Intervention

6:00pm, 19 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Panggah Ardiyansyah as he discusses three pivotal moments in the historical life of Borobudur.

Lecture Research

The Romanesque Sculpture of Norwich Castle Keep

6:00pm, 21 Oct 2026 Free, booking essential

The Ģ��Ƶ is delighted to host the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland for the 2026 Annual Lecture. The doorway into the great hall of Norwich castle keep is the grandest early Romanesque portal in England both in terms of scale...

Research Talks

The portals of Notre Dame in Paris. Findings from the current construction site

5:30pm, 11 Nov 2026 Free, booking essential

Join Professor Stephen Albrecht for the Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture, where he will examine how newly acquired 3D datasets from Notre Dame in Paris, obtained during the restoration works, are transforming art-historical research on the cathedral. P...

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