Events Schedule 2025-26
Stay up to date with our department’s upcoming events and activities.
2025-2026 Academic Year
Term 1
SEPTEMBER 2025
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Wednesday 17 September, 12:30-14:00 | Residency Talk with Bob Mills | Ad hoc | IAS Common Ground |
OCTOBER 2025
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Wednesday 8 October, 17:30-19:30 | Book Launch: African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency | CSCA | Room 106, Gordon House |
| Thursday 9 October, 17:30-19:30 | Research Seminar: Sarah Grandin | Research Seminar | IAS, South Wing, Seminar Room 20 |
| Wednesday 15 October, 17:00-19:00 | PhD upgrade: Aoife Stables ’Tota Pulchra: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Purity in the Puridad Altarpiece, c.1500’ | PhD upgrade | IAS, South Wing, Seminar Room 20 Open to UCL staff and PhD students only. |
| Tuesday 21st October, 15:45-17:30 | Exhibition Visit - Edward George: Black Atlas | CSCA | Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB Open to UCL staff and postgraduate students only. |
| Thursday 23 October, 17:30-19:30 | Research Seminar: Harry Jiangtao Gu | Research Seminar | Seminar: 9 Garwood LT, South Wing Reception: IAS, South Wing, Seminar Room 20 |
| Monday 27 October, 18:00-20:30 | Film Screening: Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017) | Past Imperfect | Pool Street Cinema, UCL East |
NOVEMBER 2025
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Tuesday 11 November, 17:30-19:30 | Past Imperfect Seminar: Monica Bravo | Past Imperfect | IAS Common Ground Open to UCL staff and PGT students only. |
| Wednesday 19 November, 16:00 | Exhibition Visit: Tacita Dean, Black, Grey, Green and White and If I were in the Adlon | CSCA | Frith Street Gallery Open to UCL staff and post-graduate students only. |
| Thursday 20 November, 18:15-20:30 | Nikos Stangos Lecture: Kader Attia | Nikos Stangos Lecture | Lecture: B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (18:15-19:45) |
| Friday 28 November, 16:00 | Exhibition tour, ‘Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey’ | CSCA | Whitechapel Gallery Open to UCL staff and post-graduate students only. |
DECEMBER 2025
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Wednesday 3 December, 13:00-14:00 | Brown Bag Lunch: Briony Fer | Brown Bag Lunch | Full details via email Room 103, 21 Gordon Square Open to HoA staff only |
| Thursday 4 December, 17:30-19:30 | Research Seminar: Katerina Korola | Research Seminar | Seminar: 9 Garwood LT, South Wing Reception: IAS, South Wing, Seminar Room 20 |
| Friday 5 December, 08:50 | Exhibition Tour, Nigerian Modernism | CSCA | Tate Modern Open to UCL staff and post-graduate students only. |
| Monday 8 December, 18:00-20:00 | Book Launch: Jack Hartnell | Past Imperfect | Room 728, IOE, 20 Bedford Way |
Term 2
JANUARY 2026
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Thursday 15 January, 18:00-20:00 | Curating Kerry James Marshall | CSCA | Sir Ambrose Fleming LT |
| Thursday 22 January, 17:30-19:30 | Research Seminar: Megan Luke | Research Seminar | IAS Common Ground |
FEBRUARY 2026
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Wednesday 11 February, 13:00-14:00 | Brown Bag Lunch: Bob Mills | Brown Bag Lunch | Full details via email Room 102, 20 Gordon Square Open to HoA staff only |
| Wednesday 25 February, 17:00-19:00 | Book Talk: ‘Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France’ | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) | IAS Common Ground |
| Thursday 26 February, 17:30-19:30 | Research Seminar: Nancy Thebaut and Melanie Holcomb | Research Seminar | Seminar: G08, Sir David Davies LT, Roberts Building Reception: Roberts Foyer |
| Friday 27 February, 09:00-12:30 | Demystifying Copyright and Legal Issues in the Conservation of Contemporary Art | The Institute of Conservation | Hybrid or in person (UCL East - Marshgate, 7 Sidings St, London E20 2AE) |
MARCH 2026
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Tuesday 2 March, 19:00-21:00 | Indians are Just Marvellous: Wisdom, Eros, Idolatry, and other Painted Tropes from Early Modern Wonder Manuscripts | Indian Art Circle Lecture series at SOAS | Senate Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT), SOAS University of London, Paul Webley Building |
| Wednesday 4 March, 13:00-14:30 | The Black Press in the Jim Crow Courtroom | Institute of the Americas | Room 103, 51 Gordon Square |
| Wednesday 4 March, 13:15-14:15 | Brown Bag Lunch: Tamar Garb | Brown Bag Lunch | Full details via email Room 101, 20 Gordon Square Open to HoA staff only |
| Thursday 5 March, 17:30-19:30 | Research Seminar: Sarah E Betzer | Research Seminar | IAS Common Ground |
| Monday 9 March, 18:00-20:00 | Work-in-progress talk: Dr Ben Pollitt | Past Imperfect | Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing |
| Wednesday 11 March, 14:00-15:00 | Trans and Non Binary Awareness session with Gendered Intelligence | Gendered Intelligence | Open to UCL HoA students only Please email Eleanor Day for location details: e.day@ucl.ac.uk |
| Thursday 12 March, 17:30-19:00 | Curators of Nigerian Modernism | CSCA | Room 421, Roberts Building |
| Friday 13 March, 17:30-20:30 | Film Screening: Les Entrelacs de l’Objet / The Object’s Interlacing (2020) - Kader Attia | CSCA | Room 780, IOE |
| Tuesday 17 March, 18:15-21:00 | Tomás Harris Lecture 1: Lamia Balafrej | Tomás Harris Lecture | Lecture: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building (18:15-19:45) |
| Wednesday 18 March, 11:00-13:00 | Tomás Harris Workshop | Tomás Harris Lecture | Room 101, 20 Gordon Square |
| Thursday 19 March, 17:30-19:30 | Tomás Harris Lecture 2: Lamia Balafrej | Tomás Harris Lecture | G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT in Roberts Building |
| Tuesday 24 March, 16:00 | Exhibition Tour, Conspiracies | CSCA | The Warburg Institute Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB |
| Friday 27 March, 17:00 | “Harit Srikhao: Cave 0” Tour at Y.D.P. | CSCA | Y.D.P., 19 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3JA |
APRIL 2026
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Thursday 2 April, 09:00-10:00 | INCCA Talk : The Preservation of Toshio Iwai’s Time Stratum series | International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA) | Online |
| Tuesday 28 April, 17:30-19:30 | CSCA Book Launch: Sergio B. Martins | CSCA | Blue Room (G07), Wilkins Building |
| Thursday 30 April, 16:00 | Exhibition Tour of Beatriz González at Barbican | CSCA | Barbican Art Gallery |
MAY 2026
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Friday 1 May, 10:00-17:30 | Writing on Art: A Symposium Honouring Professor Briony Fer | Ad hoc | Darwin Lecture Theatre |
| Monday 11 May, 18:00-20:30 | Out Laws: Screening and discussion | Organised by The UCL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Equality Steering Group (UCL LESG) in collaboration with qUCL. | Cinema Auditorium, One Pool Street, UCL East |
| Wednesday 13 May, 10:15-12:00 | British Museum print room visit with Past Imperfect | Past Imperfect | The British Museum |
| Wednesday 13 May, 18:30 | Joy Gregory in Conversation: Photography, Materiality and Practice | Ad hoc | UCL East Marshgate Lecture theatre 118 |
| Thursday 14 May, 16:00-18:00 | The Art of Memory: Colonialism, History, and Gender in Contemporary Namibian Art | CSCA | Room G22, North-West Wing, 136 Gower Street |
| Wednesday 27 May, 17:30-19:00 | Elissa Vinh, The Gặp: On the Formation of Vietnamese Identities Across Time and Borders | PhD upgrade | 102, 19 Gordon Square Open to UCL staff and students |
| Friday 29 May, 16:00-17:00 | Exhibition tour of Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire | CSCA | Autograph Gallery, Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA |
JUNE 2026
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | Details & Booking |
| Wednesday 3 June, 15:30-17:00 |
Lena Szalewska, “Apocalypse in the Alps: Gender and Abjection in the Last Judgement fresco (1416) from the Church of St Ruprecht, Bruck an der Mur.” | PhD upgrade | G06, 21 Gordon Square Open to UCL staff and students |
| Thursday 4 June, 17:00-18:30 | Evelyn Earl, “Setting the Tea Table: Pieter van Roestraeten and Still Life Painting in England c.1665-1700.” | PhD upgrade | G06, 21 Gordon Square Open to UCL staff and students |
| Wednesday 10 June, 16:00 | Exhibition Tour: ‘Flare-up’ at Goldsmiths CCA | CSCA | Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, St James’s, London, SE14 6AD Open to UCL staff and students |
| Wednesday 17 June, 15:30-17:00 | Jessica Owens, “Picturing Afrikanerdom: Documentary Photography, Life and Nationalist Myth-Making.” | PhD upgrade | 101, 20 Gordon Square Open to UCL staff and students |
| Thursday 18 June, 16:30-18:00 | Anne Wildschut, “Healing springs and sacred groves: Genius loci and the construction of Etruscan place in sixteenth century Tuscia.” | PhD upgrade | 101, 20 Gordon Square Open to UCL staff and students |
| Friday 19 June | Photo State: Experiments in Eaton-escence (A lecture in memory of Professor Natasha Eaton, a highly respected scholar of British and South Asian art based at UCLL) | ad hoc | Afternoon workshop - time and location TBC Lecture at the Paul Mellon Centre (5:30-7:30pm) |
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