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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.听
2020-2021 Academic Year
Term 1
- October
Date & Time Event Title Event Series More Info & Booking听 Tuesday 6th October, 5pm Edward Christie - Towards an Eco-Logical Ontology: Mobilising Agnes Denes鈥檚 Pyramid Series Against the Climate Crisis听听 Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details.听 Wednesday 7th October, 5pm听 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 Thursday 8th October, 5pm Daisy Clery -听Collecting Dust听 Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details.听 Tuesday 13th October, 5pm Nicholas Babbington -听The Debt of the State: The Spectro-politics of James Gillray鈥檚 'A New Way to Pay the National Debt'听听 Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details.听 Thursday 15th October, 5pm听 Daisy Silver -听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.听 Tuesday 20th October, 5pm听 Millie Horton-Insch -听Skeuomorphic Exchange between Embroideries and Wall Paintings in Eleventh- and Twelfth-century England听 Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details.听 Thursday 22nd October, 5pm听 Hannah Weaver -听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.听
听Tuesday 27th October, 5pm听 听 听 Kitty Whittell -听Clear Boundaries: Clarifying Connection via the Interface in Hans Haacke鈥檚听Condensation Cube听(1963-5) Postgraduate Research Seminars N/A - please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for further details.听
听Wednesday 28th October, 5pm Peter Brathwaite: Rediscovering Black Portraiture One-off /art-history/events/2020/oct/peter-brathwaite-rediscovering-black-portraiture - November
Date & Time Event Title听 Event Series More Info & Booking Wednesday 25th November, 5pm Research Seminar: The Politics of Scale听 Research Seminar Series - December
Date & Time Event Title听 Event Series More Info & Booking Tuesday 8th December, 5pm Informal Discussion:听Food (1972) a film by听Gordon Matta Clark CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Please email h.vowles-shorrock@ucl.ac.uk for Zoom details.听 Wednesday 9th December, 5pm Approaches to Curation: A Panel Discussion History of Art Society Event听 History of Art Society Event.听
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Term 2
- January
Date & Time Event Title听 Event Series听 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听from 7pm on Thursday 14th January.听
Tuesday 19th January, 5.30pm Ann Coxon - Loom Thinking: Textility and the New Tapestry
听Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 Wednesday 20 January, 4pm Online Pedagogy Workshop/Discussion with Jason Davies听 听 This is a staff-only event. Details will be distributed nearer the time.听 Wednesday 20 January, 5pm Russian Protest Art in the context of the Political Spectrum UCL History of Art Society Event.听 听 Tuesday 26th January, 4pm Series of exploratory workshops on the topic of 鈥楧imension鈥�. First workshop: 鈥楳EASURE鈥櫶� CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Thursday 28th January, 5.30pm Jennifer Sichel (University of Chicago), 鈥楾he Disintegration of a Critic: Gene Swenson, Jill Johnston, and Antipsychiatry鈥� Research Seminar Series - February
Date & Time Event Title听 Event Series听 More Info & Booking Wednesday 3 February, 2pm听 The Whole Picture: A Conversation with Alice Procter of Uncomfortable Art Tours Research Seminar Series FULL
Full details here:听
Tuesday 9th February, 4pm听 Q&A with听C茅cile B. Evans听 CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Thursday 11th February, 5.30pm Pamela Corey (Fulbright University Vietnam), 鈥楢ffective Communities: Imagining Saigon/Vietnam鈥� 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听 Event Series听 More Info & Booking Wednesday 3rd March, 3pm 皇家华人 Roundtable Event听 UCL History of Art Careers Event听 Students in the department will be emailed with the details of how to join this event.听 Thursday 4th March, 5.30pm Susanna Berger (University of Southern California), 鈥楢namorphic Revelations and Justifiable Obscurity鈥� Research Seminar Series Tuesday 9th March, 4pm Rethinking Folk Art听 CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Friday 12th March, 10am Heritage, Participation, Performativity, Care Conference听 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 听 Tuesday 23rd March, 4pm Series of exploratory workshops on the topic of 鈥楧imension鈥�.
Second workshop: tbcCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art tbc Wednesday 24th March, 4pm PhD journal publishing workshop 听 PhD students will be emailed with details.听 Thursday 25th March, 5.30pm Mia L. Bagneris (Tulane University), 鈥業magining the Oriental South: The Enslaved Mixed-Race Beauty in British Art and Visual Culture, c. 1865-1880 ' Research Seminar Series 听
Term 3
- April
Date & Time Event Title听 Event Series听 More Info & Booking Tuesday 27th April, 6-7pm CSCA/IAS book launch: On Boredom听 CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details via the IAS website here.听 - May
Date & Time Event Title听 Event Series听 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.听
Monday 10th May, 3-4.30pm听 Potluck Event on Art History & Ecology Internal HoA event (staff & students) Staff and students will be emailed with full details.听 Tuesday 11th May, 4pm Internship student forum UCL History of Art Careers Event听 Students in the department will be emailed with the details of how to join this event.听 Tuesday 18th May, 6-8pm CSCA May Day/Animating Archives Event听 CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details .听 Thursday 20th May, 2pm PhD student event to discuss completion/submission processes听 听 PhD students will be emailed with details.听 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.听 - June
Date & Time Event Title听 Event Series听 More Info & Booking Tuesday 1st June, 4pm Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh - Symbols and Cymbals: Earl Sweatshirt, Terence Nance and Naima Ramos-Chapman鈥檚 Afrosurrealism Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 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.听 Thursday 3rd June, 5pm Found in Translation: Navigating Language in Research & Communication EDI Fund Conference Event听 Full details.听 Friday 4th June, 4pm Louis Shankar - 鈥淒avid, instead of turning into a serial killer, turned into an artist鈥�: Towards a Psychoanalytic Frame of Reference for David Wojnarowicz鈥檚 Exhibition, 'In The Shadow of Forward Motion' (1989) Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 Saturday 5th June 2021 (time tbc) Citations: An Enquiry into Literature in Art CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art Full details.听 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.听 Tuesday 8th June, 4pm听 Glynnis Stevenson - 鈥淚n the West of traditions, 1793 was yesterday鈥�: Royalism at the 1889 Decennial Exhibition Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 Friday 11th June, 6-8pm Nikos Stangos lecture - Griselda Pollock Nikos Stangos Lecture Full details.听 Saturday 12th June, 9am-5pm A Call for Action: Moving is Understanding EDI Fund Conference Event听 Full details.听 Monday 14th June, 4pm Domenico Pino - Representing Vesuvius: Printmaking, Volcanoes and Time in Eighteenth-Century Naples
听Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 Wednesday 16th June, 4pm Petra Sikic - The Stuff of Life: An Embodied Definition of Gesture
听Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 Thursday 17th June, 4pm Caitlin Powell -听Geb盲rpflicht: Coding posthumanism in the Frau in Not
听Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 Monday 21st June, 4pm Manuela Portales Sanfuentes听 - The Layers of Things: Collecting and Curating in Latin American Museums of Decorative Arts
听Postgraduate Research Seminars Details will be emailed to staff and students prior to the event.听 Monday 21st June, 6pm The Genesis of Black Feminism in Art EDI Fund Conference Event听 Full details.听
2021-2022 Academic Year听
Term 1
- September
Date & Time Event Title Event Series听 More Info & Booking Thursday 30th September, 6-7.30pm History of Art 皇家华人 Event听 皇家华人 Event听 TBC听 - October
Date & Time Event Title Event Series听 More Info & Booking Wednesday 6th October 2021, 6pm Annual CSCA Lecture -听Professor Pamela M. Lee CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art听 TBC听
