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Full Events Programme 2022-23

This page lists all of the department's scheduled upcoming events.

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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. 

2022-2023 Academic Year 

Term 1

SEPTEMBER

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Thursday 22nd September, 5-6pmCSCA: Talk on Nancy SperoCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Details will be circulated by email to the department. 
Friday 30th September, various times

Symposium – Howardena Pindell: New Perspectives

Briony Fer and Helena Vilalta will be speaking at this event. 

CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details can be found here. 

OCTOBER

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Monday 3rd October, 4.30pmTamar Garb and artist, Michael Armitage, will hold a CSCA walk-through of his new exhibitionCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Exhibition details. 

Please meet in the Lobby of White Cube Gallery at 4.30pm. There is no entrance fee. 

Internal UCL Event. 

Tuesday 4th October, 6pm

CSCA Annual Lecture with Ming Tiampo

Mobile Subjects Contrapuntal Modernisms

CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Full details.

Location: IAS Forum, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) South Wing (Wilkins Building)

Wednesday 5th October, 12-2pmCSCA Annual Lecture: PGR SeminarCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art There is no need to register for this event. PGR students will be sent information via email. 
Thursday 13th October, 5.30pm

Research Seminar: Sophie Berrebi

Art History Through the Prism of Fiction

Research Seminar Series 

Full details and registration

Location: IAS Forum, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) South Wing (Wilkins Building)

Monday 24th October, 5pm

Past Imperfect Seminar: Emily Doucet

'Letters by the Reel': Microfilm and the Mail

Past Imperfect

Full details and registration. 

Location: Gordon House 106, UCL Bloomsbury Campus, WC1H 0PP

Thursday 27th October, 5.30pm

Research Seminar: Patricia Rubin

‘Happy beyond the common dream’: The uncommon celebrity of Raphael’s ‘Madonna della Seggiola’

Research Seminar Series 

Full details

Please note that this is a reprise of the Linbury lecture which was held at the National Gallery on 24 June 2022.

Location: IAS Forum, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) South Wing (Wilkins Building)

NOVEMBER

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Wednesday 2nd November, 5.30pmA Conversation between Tamar Garb and William Kentridge CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Full details and registration. 

Please note that this is an internal UCL event and open to UCL staff and students only. 

Location: Room G11, IAS Common Ground, South Wing, Institute of Advanced Studies

Thursday 3rd November, 5.30pm

Research Seminar: Kamini Vellodi

Theoretical art history?

Research Seminar Series 

Full details. 

 

Location: IAS Forum, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) South Wing (Wilkins Building)

Monday 14th November, 6pmAdam Eaker Book Launch Book Launch 

Full details. 

Location: Room G11, IAS Common Ground, South Wing, Institute of Advanced Studies

Thursday 17th November, 5.30pmResearch Seminar: N’Goné Fall (with the Institute of Advanced Studies)Research Seminar Series 

Full details. 

Location: Christopher Ingold Building, XLG1 Chemistry LT, 

Wednesday 23rd November, 4.30-6pmSasha Huber:You Name It exhibition tour at Autograph Gallery CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Full details and registration. 

Location: Autograph London

Internal UCL Event.

DECEMBER

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Thursday 1st December, 5pm David Wojnarowicz film-screening, moderated by Louis ShankarCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Details TBC 

Location: G02 Watson LT in Medawar Building 

Monday 5th December, 5pmPGR Upgrade: Caitrin Barret Donlon Postgraduate Research SeminarLocation: 107 25 Gordon Square
Tuesday 6th December, 4.30pmTour of the Swedenborg society in BloomsburyCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Location: The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH

Tuesday 6th December, 12-2pmYessica Porras: Visual Reverberations between the Public and Private in the Murals of the Choir of Santa Clara la RealPast ImperfectLocation: Bedford Way (20) C3.11 in IOE

Term 2

JANUARY

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Wednesday 25 January, 1-2pmBrown Bag Lunch with Dr Allison StielauBrown Bag Lunch 

Full details.

Open to UCL History of Art staff only. 

Tuesday 31 January, 2-4pm

Past Imperfect: Lost Property: The Treasure Act (1996) and English goldsmithing of the early Tudor era 

Dr Rachel King, Curator of Renaissance Europe and the Waddesdon Bequest, The British Museum

Past Imperfect

Full details 

Location: Malet Place Engineering Building 1.20 

Tuesday 31 January, time TBC CSCA - Health/Care. An exploratory workshop on the topic of healthCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Full details 

Location: Seminar Room 4, 20 Gordon Square

FEBRUARY 

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Wednesday 8 February, 6-8pmA Public Conversation with Osei Bonsu from TATE CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Full details and registration


Location: G11 IAS Common Ground in South Wing 

CANCELLED Wednesday 22 February, 4.30pm onwards

CANCELLED Research Seminar: Mark Crinson

‘Infrastructural Realism’

Research Seminar Series 

CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION  

Friday 24 February, 3pm onwards CSCA - Tour of Rebel Rebel at the Barbican with curator Eleanor Nairne and artist Soheila SokhanvariCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art 

Full details 

MARCH 

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Wednesday 1 March, 4.30 - 6.30pm

Research Seminar: Dominic Johnson

'Hamad Butt: Climates of Fear'

Research Seminar Series 

Full details

Location: South Wing Institute of Advanced Studies, Room G11, IAS Common Ground in South Wing 

Wednesday 8 March, 1-2pmBrown Bag Lunch: Emily FloydBrown Bag Lunch

Full details

Location: Gordon Square (20) Seminar Rooms 3 and 4

This event is open to UCL staff only 

Thursday 9 March, 6pm onwards 

Research Seminar: Tamara Trodd

'William Kentridge, Henry Moore and the Subject of Mining’

Research Seminar Series 

Full details 

Location: G11 IAS Common Ground in South Wing 

Monday 13 March, 6 - 7.30 pmJonas Staal: 94 Million Years of CollectivismIAS

Full details

Location: G11 IAS Common Ground in South Wing 

Thursday 23 March, 5.30 - 7.30pm

Past Imperfect: Dr Steven Lauritano

'Divers Vases: artifactual imagination and architectural history circa 1700'

Past Imperfect

Full details

Location: Room 107, 25 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AW

Friday 24 March, 4 - 6pm'People Make Television' at Raven RowCSCA

Full details

Location: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London, E1 7LS

Term 3

APRIL - MAY 

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Wednesday 26 April, 5-6.30pmObject Launch 2023Ad Hoc

Full details

Location: IAS Forum

Thursday 27 April, 4-7pmFilm screening: All the Beauty and the BloodshedCSCA

Full details 

Location: G06, 21 Gordon Square

Wednesday 3 May, 5.30-8pmCSCA Screening: Three films of the Workshop MovementCSCA

Full details

Location: G06, 21 Gordon Square

Tuesday 9 May, 6-8pmBook Launch: Kirsty Dootson's The Rainbow's Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British ModernityOne off event

Full details 

Location: IAS Forum

Tuesday 16 May, 6-9pmTomás Harris Visiting Professorship: Sanjukta Sunderason - Lecture 1Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship

Full details 

Location: Roberts Building G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT 

Wednesday 17 May, 1-2.30pm Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship PGR Seminar Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship

Full details 

Location: Seminar Rooms 3 and 4, 20 Gordon Square

Thursday 18 May, 6-8pmTomás Harris Visiting Professorship: Sanjukta Sunderason - Lecture 2Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship

Full details 

Location: Roberts Building G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT 

Monday 22 May Workshop on French revolutionary material cultureOne off event

Full details TBC

Location: IAS

Tuesday 23 May, 1pmZaena Sheehan MPhil/PhD UpgradeMPhil/PhD UpgradeLocation: Seminar Room 3, 20 Gordon Square
Wednesday 24 May, 11amDaen Palma Huse MPhil/PhD UpgradeMPhil/PhD UpgradeLocation: Seminar Room 3, 20 Gordon Square
Wednesday 24 May, 5.30pm onwardsNikos Stangos Memorial Lecture Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture 

Full details 

Location: Lecture in G06 Roberts Building Sir Ambrose Fleming LT and Reception in IAS Forum 

JUNE

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent Series More Info & Booking
Monday 5 June, 1pmPhilomena Epps MPhil/PhD UpgradeMPhil/PhD UpgradeLocation: Seminar Room 2, G06, 21 Gordon Square
Tuesday 6 June, 1pmElsa Perryman-Owens MPhil/PhD UpgradeMPhil/PhD UpgradeLocation: Seminar Room 2, G06, 21 Gordon Square
Friday 9 June, 1-2.30pmEDI, Research, and History of Art: Roundtable Discussion and Town HallAd Hoc

Full details

Location: Cruciform Building B404 - LT2, Gower Street

Thursday 15 June, 5.30pmDan Ward MPhil/PhD UpgradeMPhil/PhD UpgradeLocation: Seminar Room 3, 20 Gordon Square