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Art history events happening near you.
This page includes Association for Art History events, as well as other events taking place across the UK and internationally. Association for Art History events are open to all, including members and non-members, art historians and non art historians.
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Research in Focus: Embodied Narratives
Free lunchtime talk illuminating mental health and disability in an art school archive with Dr Liz Bruchet and UCL Art Museum. Drawing on research undertaken as part of a UCL Research Institute for Collections Liberating the Collections Fellowship, Dr Liz Bruchet will speculate on...
‘Her Book’: uncovering women’s book ownership in the RCP library
Join a relaxed and interactive evening event celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Artist and doctoral research Catherine James will introduce the history of women’s book ownership in the stunning RCP heritage library. Attendees will be invited to...
Reframing Blackness with Alayo Akinkugbe
What's Black about 'History of Art'? Join us to hear this brilliant new writer and thinker talk about her debut book. Hear about the original and wide-ranging riposte to the current understanding of Blackness in Western art and museums, from...
Curatorial Conversation – Digital Transformations at Rijksmuseum & Getty
Tuesday, 10 March 2026 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm Free online webinar Book now Join us for a discussion on the groundbreaking multi-year digital collaboration between the Rijksmuseum and the Getty. This event will introduce the recent Memorandum of Understanding signed by both institutions,...
National Gallery Research Seminars
Join us in person or online this Spring for one of our National Gallery Research Seminars. This long-running series of talks showcases recent research by leading specialists from around the world, all working in academic fields relating to the Gallery’s...
‘The London Sketch Club and Marylebone, its Former Home’ Lecture
The London Sketch Club and Marylebone, its Former HomeWednesday 11 March 2026 | 18:30–19:30Crypt of St Marylebone Parish Church, London Part of the 2026 Marylebone Minds – Past and Present lecture series, this illustrated evening lecture explores the history of...
Senses Matter: The value of sensory approaches to the domestic sphere
Location: KLC School of Design, London Organised by Vanessa Vanden Berghe (UAL) & Rosamund Lily West (KLC School of Design) Senses Matter examines the domestic sphere through sensory-led approaches in art, architectural, and design history. Addressing the senses, the conference seeks...
Careers with art history: working with art collections
Saturday, 7 March 2026 11:00 am - 12:30 pm 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...
