Full Events Programme 2022-23
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.
2022-2023 Academic Year
Term 1
SEPTEMBER
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 22nd September, 5-6pm | CSCA: Talk on Nancy Spero | CSCA: 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 & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 3rd October, 4.30pm | Tamar Garb and artist, Michael Armitage, will hold a CSCA walk-through of his new exhibition. | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | 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 | Location: IAS Forum, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) South Wing (Wilkins Building) |
| Wednesday 5th October, 12-2pm | CSCA Annual Lecture: PGR Seminar | CSCA: 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 | 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 | 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 & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 2nd November, 5.30pm | A 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 | Location: IAS Forum, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) South Wing (Wilkins Building) |
| Monday 14th November, 6pm | Adam Eaker Book Launch | Book Launch | Location: Room G11, IAS Common Ground, South Wing, Institute of Advanced Studies |
| Thursday 17th November, 5.30pm | Research Seminar: N’Goné Fall (with the Institute of Advanced Studies) | Research Seminar Series | Location: Christopher Ingold Building, XLG1 Chemistry LT, |
| Wednesday 23rd November, 4.30-6pm | Sasha 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 & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 1st December, 5pm | David Wojnarowicz film-screening, moderated by Louis Shankar | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Details TBC Location: G02 Watson LT in Medawar Building |
| Monday 5th December, 5pm | PGR Upgrade: Caitrin Barret Donlon | Postgraduate Research Seminar | Location: 107 25 Gordon Square |
| Tuesday 6th December, 4.30pm | Tour of the Swedenborg society in Bloomsbury | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Location: The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH |
| Tuesday 6th December, 12-2pm | Yessica Porras: Visual Reverberations between the Public and Private in the Murals of the Choir of Santa Clara la Real | Past Imperfect | Location: Bedford Way (20) C3.11 in IOE |
Term 2
JANUARY
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 25 January, 1-2pm | Brown Bag Lunch with Dr Allison Stielau | Brown Bag Lunch | 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 | Location: Malet Place Engineering Building 1.20 |
| Tuesday 31 January, time TBC | CSCA - Health/Care. An exploratory workshop on the topic of health | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Location: Seminar Room 4, 20 Gordon Square |
FEBRUARY
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 8 February, 6-8pm | A Public Conversation with Osei Bonsu from TATE | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art |
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| 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 Sokhanvari | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art |
MARCH
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 1 March, 4.30 - 6.30pm | Research Seminar: Dominic Johnson ‘Hamad Butt: Climates of Fear’ | Research Seminar Series | Location: South Wing Institute of Advanced Studies, Room G11, IAS Common Ground in South Wing |
| Wednesday 8 March, 1-2pm | Brown Bag Lunch: Emily Floyd | Brown Bag Lunch | 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 | Location: G11 IAS Common Ground in South Wing |
| Monday 13 March, 6 - 7.30 pm | Jonas Staal: 94 Million Years of Collectivism | IAS | 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 | Location: Room 107, 25 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AW |
| Friday 24 March, 4 - 6pm | ‘People Make Television’ at Raven Row | CSCA | Location: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London, E1 7LS |
Term 3
APRIL - MAY
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 26 April, 5-6.30pm | Object Launch 2023 | Ad Hoc | Location: IAS Forum |
| Thursday 27 April, 4-7pm | Film screening: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | CSCA | Location: G06, 21 Gordon Square |
| Wednesday 3 May, 5.30-8pm | CSCA Screening: Three films of the Workshop Movement | CSCA | Location: G06, 21 Gordon Square |
| Tuesday 9 May, 6-8pm | Book Launch: Kirsty Dootson’s The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity | One off event | Location: IAS Forum |
| Tuesday 16 May, 6-9pm | Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship: Sanjukta Sunderason - Lecture 1 | Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship | Location: Roberts Building G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT |
| Wednesday 17 May, 1-2.30pm | Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship PGR Seminar | Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship | Location: Seminar Rooms 3 and 4, 20 Gordon Square |
| Thursday 18 May, 6-8pm | Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship: Sanjukta Sunderason - Lecture 2 | Tomás Harris Visiting Professorship | Location: Roberts Building G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT |
| Monday 22 May | Workshop on French revolutionary material culture | One off event | Full details TBC Location: IAS |
| Tuesday 23 May, 1pm | Zaena Sheehan MPhil/PhD Upgrade | MPhil/PhD Upgrade | Location: Seminar Room 3, 20 Gordon Square |
| Wednesday 24 May, 11am | Daen Palma Huse MPhil/PhD Upgrade | MPhil/PhD Upgrade | Location: Seminar Room 3, 20 Gordon Square |
| Wednesday 24 May, 5.30pm onwards | Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture | Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture | Location: Lecture in G06 Roberts Building Sir Ambrose Fleming LT and Reception in IAS Forum |
JUNE
| Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 5 June, 1pm | Philomena Epps MPhil/PhD Upgrade | MPhil/PhD Upgrade | Location: Seminar Room 2, G06, 21 Gordon Square |
| Tuesday 6 June, 1pm | Elsa Perryman-Owens MPhil/PhD Upgrade | MPhil/PhD Upgrade | Location: Seminar Room 2, G06, 21 Gordon Square |
| Friday 9 June, 1-2.30pm | EDI, Research, and History of Art: Roundtable Discussion and Town Hall | Ad Hoc | Location: Cruciform Building B404 - LT2, Gower Street |
| Thursday 15 June, 5.30pm | Dan Ward MPhil/PhD Upgrade | MPhil/PhD Upgrade | Location: Seminar Room 3, 20 Gordon Square |