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This page lists all of the department's scheduled upcoming events.
Below you can find a full events calendar which details upcoming events planned in the department. Please note that this is a provisional schedule and is subject to change. You can view live listings for upcoming events (including booking links) here.
2020-2021 Academic Year
Term 1
- October
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Tuesday 6th October, 5pm Edward Christie - Towards an Eco-Logical Ontology: Mobilising Agnes Denes’s Pyramid Series Against the Climate Crisis Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details. Wednesday 7th October, 5pm Autumn 2020 Research Seminar Series: Politics and the Image. With special inaugural book launch, 'Walker Evans, No Politics' by Dr Stephanie Schwartz. Research Seminar Series https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autumn-2020-research-seminar-series-politics-and-the-image-tickets-123042755193 Thursday 8th October, 5pm Daisy Clery - Collecting Dust Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details. Tuesday 13th October, 5pm Nicholas Babbington - The Debt of the State: The Spectro-politics of James Gillray’s 'A New Way to Pay the National Debt' Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details. Thursday 15th October, 5pm Daisy Silver - Discrepancies In, With, Between: A Portrait of a Chair Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details. Tuesday 20th October, 5pm Millie Horton-Insch - Skeuomorphic Exchange between Embroideries and Wall Paintings in Eleventh- and Twelfth-century England Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details. Thursday 22nd October, 5pm Hannah Weaver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Like Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details.
Tuesday 27th October, 5pm Kitty Whittell - Clear Boundaries: Clarifying Connection via the Interface in Hans Haacke’s Condensation Cube (1963-5) Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details.
Wednesday 28th October, 5pm Peter Brathwaite: Rediscovering Black Portraiture One-off https://www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/events/2020/oct/peter-brathwaite-rediscovering-black-portraiture - November
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Wednesday 25th November, 5pm Research Seminar: The Politics of Scale Research Seminar Series - December
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Tuesday 8th December, 5pm Informal Discussion: Food (1972) a film by Gordon Matta Clark CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for Zoom details. Wednesday 9th December, 5pm Approaches to Curation: A Panel Discussion History of Art Society Event History of Art Society Event.
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/approaches-to-curation-a-panel-discussion-tickets-130788643353
Term 2
- January
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Thursday 14th January, 7pm Art Isn't Fair // Sekula Symposium CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details here. A recording will be available to view here from 7pm on Thursday 14th January.
Tuesday 19th January, 5.30pm Ann Coxon - Loom Thinking: Textility and the New Tapestry
Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Wednesday 20 January, 4pm Online Pedagogy Workshop/Discussion with Jason Davies This is a staff-only event. Details will be distributed nearer the time. Wednesday 20 January, 5pm Russian Protest Art in the context of the Political Spectrum UCL History of Art Society Event. Register here. Tuesday 26th January, 4pm Series of exploratory workshops on the topic of ‘Dimension’. First workshop: ‘MEASURE’ CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art
Booking details tbc.Thursday 28th January, 5.30pm Jennifer Sichel (University of Chicago), ‘The Disintegration of a Critic: Gene Swenson, Jill Johnston, and Antipsychiatry’ Research Seminar Series Register in advance for this meeting
Full details here:
- February
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Wednesday 3 February, 2pm The Whole Picture: A Conversation with Alice Procter of Uncomfortable Art Tours Research Seminar Series FULL
Full details here:
Tuesday 9th February, 4pm Q&A with Cécile B. Evans CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Thursday 11th February, 5.30pm Pamela Corey (Fulbright University Vietnam), ‘Affective Communities: Imagining Saigon/Vietnam’ Research Seminar Series Tuesday 23rd February, 5pm A Conversation with Patricia Hayes CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art - March
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Wednesday 3rd March, 3pm Alumni Roundtable Event UCL History of Art Careers Event Students in the department will be emailed with the details of how to join this event. Thursday 4th March, 5.30pm Susanna Berger (University of Southern California), ‘Anamorphic Revelations and Justifiable Obscurity’ Research Seminar Series Tuesday 9th March, 4pm Rethinking Folk Art CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Friday 12th March, 10am Heritage, Participation, Performativity, Care Conference Organised by the Department of History of Art and the Institute of Archaeology.
This event is supported by the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (Small Grants Award).
Monday 15th March, 5pm - 7pm 'The Disappointing Apocalypse: visualising climate in art since the 1960s' - Andrew Patrizio, University of Edinburgh Past Imperfect Register in advance for this meeting Tuesday 23rd March, 4pm Series of exploratory workshops on the topic of ‘Dimension’.
Second workshop: tbcCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art tbc Wednesday 24th March, 4pm PhD journal publishing workshop PhD students will be emailed with details. Thursday 25th March, 5.30pm Mia L. Bagneris (Tulane University), ‘Imagining the Oriental South: The Enslaved Mixed-Race Beauty in British Art and Visual Culture, c. 1865-1880 ' Research Seminar Series
Term 3
- April
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Tuesday 27th April, 6-7pm CSCA/IAS book launch: On Boredom CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details via the IAS website here. - May
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Tuesday 4th May, 4pm Talia Kwartler in conversation with Nell Andrew CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art This in conversation event will focus on Nell Andrew's recent book Moving Modernism: The Urge to Abstraction in Painting, Dance, Cinema.
Register here.
Monday 10th May, 3-4.30pm Potluck Event on Art History & Ecology Internal HoA event (staff & students) Staff and students will be emailed with full details. Tuesday 11th May, 4pm Internship student forum UCL History of Art Careers Event Students in the department will be emailed with the details of how to join this event. Tuesday 18th May, 6-8pm CSCA May Day/Animating Archives Event CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details here. Thursday 20th May, 2pm PhD student event to discuss completion/submission processes PhD students will be emailed with details. Friday 28th May, 4pm Jacqueline Mabey - Those Dreams Keep You Free: FOOD, SoHo, and the Contest of Belonging Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. - June
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Tuesday 1st June, 4pm Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh - Symbols and Cymbals: Earl Sweatshirt, Terence Nance and Naima Ramos-Chapman’s Afrosurrealism Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Wednesday 2nd June, 4pm Kirstie Hardie - Uncertain Bodies: The Transient Nature of Colour in Early Modern Europe Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Thursday 3rd June, 5pm Found in Translation: Navigating Language in Research & Communication EDI Fund Conference Event Full details. Friday 4th June, 4pm Louis Shankar - “David, instead of turning into a serial killer, turned into an artist”: Towards a Psychoanalytic Frame of Reference for David Wojnarowicz’s Exhibition, 'In The Shadow of Forward Motion' (1989) Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Saturday 5th June 2021 (time tbc) Citations: An Enquiry into Literature in Art CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details. Monday 7th June, 4pm Corinna Canali - The most original use of an Apple since Adam: The Digital Fig Leaf and the Obscene Body Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Tuesday 8th June, 4pm Glynnis Stevenson - “In the West of traditions, 1793 was yesterday”: Royalism at the 1889 Decennial Exhibition Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Friday 11th June, 6-8pm Nikos Stangos lecture - Griselda Pollock Nikos Stangos Lecture Full details. Saturday 12th June, 9am-5pm A Call for Action: Moving is Understanding EDI Fund Conference Event Full details. Monday 14th June, 4pm Domenico Pino - Representing Vesuvius: Printmaking, Volcanoes and Time in Eighteenth-Century Naples
Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Wednesday 16th June, 4pm Petra Sikic - The Stuff of Life: An Embodied Definition of Gesture
Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Thursday 17th June, 4pm Caitlin Powell - Gebärpflicht: Coding posthumanism in the Frau in Not
Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Monday 21st June, 4pm Manuela Portales Sanfuentes - The Layers of Things: Collecting and Curating in Latin American Museums of Decorative Arts
Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event. Monday 21st June, 6pm The Genesis of Black Feminism in Art EDI Fund Conference Event Full details.
2021-2022 Academic Year
Term 1
- September
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Thursday 30th September, 6-7.30pm History of Art Alumni Event Alumni Event TBC - October
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking Wednesday 6th October 2021, 6pm Annual CSCA Lecture - Professor Pamela M. Lee CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art TBC
