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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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Dolly’s Clinic – Artist Talk & Performance
Presented off-site by Mandy Zhang Art and guest curated by Joséphine May Bailey, Dolly’s Clinic places Annie Trevorah’s enquiry into aesthetics, bodily modification and the politics of appearance in context of medieval bestiaries and surrealist imaginations. Referencing the language and...
Montparnasse and its Legacies
Call for Papers Symposium: Montparnasse and its Legacies 13-14 November, Columbia University, Reid Hall, Paris https://www.montparnasse.international/call-for-proposals Hosted by Columbia University’s Reid Hall & the Columbia Global Paris Center, and organized in collaboration with the Associations L’AiR Arts and Cité Falguière,...
Upcycled Sari Bell Garland Workshop – With Pri Pri
Upcycled Sari Bell Garland Workshop - With Pri Pri Saturday 14 November, 11am–12.15pm Booking essential - £30 Ikon Gallery Join Priya Velusami of Pri Pri for a relaxed and creative workshop making your own upcycled sari bell garland. Using colourful...
Upcycled Sari Upcycled Sari Wreath Workshop – With Pri Pri
Upcycled Sari Upcycled Sari Wreath Workshop - With Pri Pri Saturday 14 November, 1pm–3.30pm Booking essential - £30 Ikon Gallery Create a colourful decoration with Priya Velusami of Pri Pri in this hands-on workshop making a 10-inch upcycled fabric wreath....
Call for Papers- Art/Work: The History & Future of Art & Labor
UIC’s 3rd annual art history symposium invites papers on the theme of labor. Artistic creation both thematizes and reproduces questions of labor, presenting conflicts between the individual and the collective, the innovative and the necessity, and what it means to...
Patient voices: autumn lectures
Join the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Museum for a virtual lectures evening exploring examples of voices of both visible and marginalised female patients featured in new RCP exhibition ‘Patient voices’. We are delighted to be hosting three expert speakers...
A Focus on Pedagogy 2026: ACROSS TEACHING, THEORY, TECHNOLOGIES & TIMES
Event Summary: A virtual conference on the past, present and future of teaching and learning in the arts and humanities. A collaboration across six universities in six countries. Event Details: VIRTUAL Conference: 18-20 November, 2026 Glasgow School of Art ...
Beyond the Frame: Incorporating Art History into the Primary Curriculum (Teaching Geography)
Thursday 19 November 2026, 4-5pm. Free online. A free online CPD session for Primary School teachers, led by Magic Lantern workshop facilitators Helen Anderson and Caroline Rae. This geography and art cross-curricular session will: Help raise your confidence in introducing art...
Curatorial Reflections: Practice Makes Portsmouth
Join curator Emily Worsdale for a special curators-only tour of Practice Makes Portsmouth, a major new exhibition that uncovers Portsmouth's rich artistic heritage through works drawn from the city's own collections. Part of the wider Your Museum. Your Stories. Your...
Stokes’ Objects
This international conference brings together historians of Renaissance art, sculptural practice, and critical thought to engage with key objects of Adrian Stokes’ criticism. The conference examines Stokes’ career-long fascination with the sculptural practices of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy and their...
WAYS OF SEEING
Date: Saturday 21 November Location: The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre Registration from 10.15am Start time: 11am Close: 3.30pm Free, in person event Ways of Seeing, the Association for Art History’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers takes place...
Teaching Art History: New Resources for Educators
Free online event, Thursday 26 November, 4pm-5.30pm. Join the Association for Art History for an online event celebrating two exciting new publications that demonstrate the value of art and visual culture across teaching, learning and research. The event will showcase...
Professional Development Day
Monday 30 November (3pm-5.30pm GMT) and Tuesday 1 December (10.30-1pm GMT). Online Webinar. Booking essential. Members £4. Non-members £6. From building a brand for your research to learning what academic hiring committees are really looking for, and from gaining insights...
Careers with Art History: Working in Museum and Galleries
A morning of careers advice from professionals working in museums and galleries. Join us for a free webinar offering an overview of a museum and gallery-based roles and routes into them. Learn from museum and gallery professionals about careers including...
Curatorial Skills: Pathways and Progression
Curatorial Skills: Pathways and Progression Curatorial practice develops a rich and versatile set of skills that extend far beyond traditional museum and gallery roles. From research, project management, and communication to strategic thinking, collaboration, and leadership, curators routinely draw on...
Art History Residency talk | Brook No Opposition: Women in Irish Modernism
Victoria Horne discusses her research into the art of Mainie Jellett, which she conducted during her AAH Art History residency. During my AAH Residency in winter 2026-27, I began a project exploring the artist Mainie Jellett and her contemporaries who consolidated the place of modern...
Global New Voices
Global New Voices is the Association for Art History’s annual one-day conference for new postgraduate research about art, art history and visual culture, organised by our Doctoral and Early Career Research Committee. Focusing on the theme of Art history and the...
Impressionism Now: New Directions in the Field
Impressionism Now: New Directions in the Field Pigott Theatre, The National Gallery, London, Friday 22 January 2027 Held in conjunction with the exhibition Renoir & Love (3 October 2026 - 31 January 2027) and organised in collaboration with Impressionist...
Sci-Fi Futures: Florence meets the Machine
Explore the changing role of technology in nursing in this exhibition late opening, with hands-on activities and talks. What would Florence Nightingale make of the digital revolution? Explore the changing role of technology in nursing in this exhibition late opening,...
Framing the Human: 19th-Century Studies Association Conference, March 2027
48th Annual Conference Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Philadelphia, PA March 11-13, 2027 Conference website: https://ncsaweb.net/2027-conference-information/ Call for Proposals Submission Deadline: October 31, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: January 2027 Please submit proposals via this Google Form Questions? Email the conference organizers at...
