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Careers with art history: working with art collections
Saturday, 7 March 2026 11:00 - 12:30 Free, online Book Now A morning of careers advice from professionals working with art collections Join us for a free webinar introducing careers within art collections that centre on specialist art knowledge and...
National Gallery Research Seminar – Making fragile panels last On the artisanal cultivation of anticipation in painting
In H.G. Wells's 1895 sci-fi novel ‘The Time Machine’, set in the year AD 802,701, the Time Traveller discovers a museum made of ‘a certain type of Chinese porcelain’ among the remnants of what once was London. This ancient museum...
TrAIN Open Lecture
Devika Singh - International Departures: A transnational history of art in India This TrAIN Open Lecture will take Devika Singh’s book International Departures: Art in India after Independence as a starting point to discuss transnational readings of art in India. Described as...
Nation Gallery Anna Jameson Lecture 2026
'Rachel Weeping for Her Children’: Memories of Massacre, Flight, and Refuge Delivered by Dame Marina Warner The Pigott Theatre, Sainsbury Wing (and online) 23 March 2026 6 - 8 pm, doors open at 5.45 pm The 2026 Annual Anna Jameson...
Delta Dialogues: The Culture and Language of the Living Landscape in the Neerlandophone World
Association for Low Countries Studies 16th Biennial Conference, 22-24 June 2026 University of York, UK The Delta Dialogues conference invites scholars, researchers, artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to explore the profound and complex relationship between culture, language, and...
Call for Papers: Waste. Art and the Global Routes of Rubbish // Conference on June 11, 2026, Dortmund (Germany)
Conference Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U Dortmund, Deutschland June 11, 2026 Submission deadline: March 15, 2026 On June 11, 2026, the international conference Waste: Art and the Global Routes of Rubbish will be held parallel to the exhibition Waste. An...
CFP: The Politics of Munch
Call for Papers: The Politics of Munch An interdisciplinary conference examining the socio-political dimensions of Edvard Munch’s life, work, reception, and legacy, past and present. This conference invites scholars from any discipline to challenge the long-standing perception of Edvard Munch...
REF 2029: Q&A Session
Friday 20 March, 3pm - 4pm, online. Join us for a free AAH online webinar with Professor Anne Boddington, Chair of the REF 2029 Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory Panel. This 1-hour session offers an opportunity for colleagues...
RCP Museum Late: Women’s History Month
Join us to celebrate Women’s History Month with a mini-display and tour exploring the history of women in medicine at the RCP. What early evidence can be found of women in medicine in the RCP records? Which woman became the...
RCP Museum Taster Tour – March
Explore the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) 500-year history with an expert guide. Led by a member of the archives, heritage library and museum team, this guided tour journeys through our home on the edge of Regent's Park. Using the...
Tales from the doctors library: family storytelling & crafts
Join professional London storyteller Vanessa Woolf for a colourful interactive storytime with music, props and even smells! The Royal College of Physicians has collected books for over 500 years. Today the RCP Heritage Library has over 50,000 books! In 1666 the RCP...
Curating Medieval Islamic Art: Re-presenting Medieval Islamicate Worlds
Helena Lahoz Kopiske (Museo Arqueológico Nacional Madrid) –Al-Ándalus, the Mediterranean and Persia: collecting and displaying Islamic material culture at the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid Anushka Hosain (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) – The Expansive Worlds of Medieval Islamicate Objects...
RCP Museum Late: LGBT+ History Month special
This February we are joining the celebration of LGBT+ History Month to support the aim to increase the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people, their history, lives and their experiences in the wider community. This year's theme is 'Science...
Bird Stories in Ecocritical Art History and Art
You are invited to the launch of Methods for Ecocritical Art History. Join book’s editors Olga Smith and Andrew Patrizio for a presentation of readings from the book, with a focus on birds in multispecies perspectives on art and art...
Upcoming deadline – cfp – Design in an Age of Uncertainty – DHS Annual Conference 2026
Design in an Age of Uncertainty 3–5 September 2026 Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic We create, research, and teach in an age of uncertainty driven by war, mass migration, and climate change. In 2019, Nancy Fraser invoked Gramsci’s dictum that...
Critical Biographies: Personal History as Method and Matter (Cambridge, 4th Feb–18th of Mar ’26)
Critical Biographies: Personal History as Method and Matter Cambridge History of Art Postgraduate Research Seminar University of Cambridge, 4th Feb–18th of Mar '26 The History of Art Postgraduate Research Seminar taking place in Lent Term 2026 explores the theme ‘Critical...
Revolutions, Art, and the Market
Art market trends and practices, whether historical or contemporary, are affected by networks of complex and often competing forces. As moments of political, economic, intellectual or technological rupture, revolutions have significantly shaped art market systems and fortunes, refracting and redirecting...
Enough is Enough! The Politics of Health in Cartoons
Join this talk on the history of nursing cartoons, from documenting nursing training in 1900 to political campaigns of the 1980s. Discover what we can learn about healthcare, politics and history from the design and style of nursing cartoons. Historian...
Online Conference: The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2026
Now in its eighth edition, the international online conference explores the complex interrelations between truth, fake and falsified information, and knowledge authority in the context of digital transformation processes. In light of increasing disinformation, AI-generated content, and algorithmic bias, museums...
ICRA Conference: “The Catalogue Raisonné: Representing the Unrepresented”
Join us in London on 8 January 2026 for the International Catalogue Raisonné Association (ICRA) Annual Conference. With keynotes from Griselda Pollock and Mary Jane Jacob, plus Cindy Sherman Legacy Project, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné Project In person and Online Tickets available...
