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Courtauld Institute Research Seminarts

Research seminars - Modern and Contemporary

Seminars are free and open to all, and will be held at
5.30pm in the Research Forum South Room, Courtauld Institute

Conference: Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde

Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde

17.15 - 19.00, Friday 27 November (free and open to all)
10.00 - 18.30, Saturday 28 November (with registration from 9.30)

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

This conference co-organised with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster engages with a range of different legacies of Surrealism in the postwar era, both in philosophical and theoretical work and in the activities of various avant-garde movements, including existentialism, performance, Pop Art, COBRA, the Nouveau Roman, Tel Quel, the Situationist International, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. The contributors to the event will explore both the often occluded role of Surrealism within the formation of 1960s-1970s French theory and its place within an emergent post-war discourse of the avant-garde.

Renaissance Research Seminars - Courtauld Institute of Art

Renaissance Research seminars - Courtauld Institute

Seminars are free and open to all, and will be held at 5.30pm in the Research Forum South Room

Renaissance Research Seminars - The Courtauld Institute of Art

Renaissance Research seminars 

Seminars are free and open to all, and will be held at 5.30pm in the Research Forum South Room at the Courtauld Institute of Art. 

Conference in Honour of Jennifer Fletcher - The Courtauld Institute of Art

Conference in Honour of Jennifer Fletcher

 11.30 - 18.30, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 (registration not required) 

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

 This one-day conference will celebrate Jennifer Fletcher’s outstanding contribution to art history as an imaginative and original scholar and inspirational teacher.

Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series: Globalisation and Contemporary Art

Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series: Globalisation and Contemporary Art
Autumn 2009
Sponsored by the F M Kirby Foundation

Lectures are free and open to all (no registration required) and will be held at 5.30pm in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre 

'Troubling Desire(s) in Art': Queer Symposium

The SHOUT festival draws together Queer Theorists and Practitioners to discuss 'Troubling Desire(s) in Art'. The symposium asks whether different conceptualisations of desire might find common ground through visual methods. Speakers Del LaGrace Volcano, Jonathan D Katz, Dominic Johnson, David Dibosa and Mandy Merck.

Saturday 14th November.

Birmingham City University Department of Art, Margaret Street. 09:30 – 16:30.

£5.00 (includes lunch)

Event: Henry Moore Institute Open Day & talk by Bob & Roberta Smith

Henry Moore Institute Open Day 2009
16 October
2.30 – 5.30pm

The Institute’s annual open day includes behind-the-scenes tours of the galleries, library and archive, as well as an introduction to our forthcoming research programme and events.

Conference: Modernity’s Cultural Politics: China in Context, The Courtauld Institute of Art

‘Modernity's Cultural Politics: China in Context’ is a two-day conference that considers the formations and functions of cultural production, in representing and intervening ethico-politically into the ongoing projects of modernity, particularly when modernities intersect with processes of globalisation.

Event: Writing Art History: Curating Contemporary Art

Friday, 19 June 2009
4.00 – 6.00pm, Research Forum South Room
The Courtauld Institute of Art