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.
2021-2022 Academic Year
Term 1
OCTOBER
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Wednesday 6th October 2021, 6pm | Annual CSCA Lecture - 'Eli Whitney, Serial Artist' - Pamela M. Lee (Online Event) | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Full details here. |
Monday 11th October 2021, 4pm | CSCA Annual Lecture Recap | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Those who attended the Annual CSCA lecture on 6th October will be contacted directly by email. |
Thursday 21st October 2021, 5.30pm | Research Seminar - Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths, University of London) (Online Event) “Responding to Women and Creativity” | Research Seminar Series |
NOVEMBER
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Tuesday 2nd November 2021, 11.30am | Exhibition visit to LENORE TAWNEY @ Alison Jacques Gallery | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Please email Danae Filioti for details danae.filioti.15@ucl.ac.uk |
Thursday 4th November 2021, 5.30pm | Research Seminar - Kate Cowcher (University of St Andrews) (Online Event) "Revolutionary Realism(s) in Ethiopia" | Research Seminar Series | |
Wednesday 17th November 2021, 5pm | Past Imperfect “Conversations on Ecological Form” | Past Imperfect | |
Wednesday 17th November, 6pm | Talk with Charlie Campbell-Gray, Cataloguer of Modern British Art, Christies London | UCL History of Art Society Event | |
Tuesday 23rd November 2021, 5pm | Orientations Workshop organised by Jackie Mabey and Louis Shankar | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Full details here. |
Tuesday 23rd November 2021 | HoA Soc x Diplomacy Soc- Trip to the British Museum: Repatriation and Diplomacy led by Dr Aparna Kumar | UCL History of Art Society Event | Full details here. |
Thursday 25th November 2021, 5.30pm | Research Seminar - Elizabeth Johnson (UCL) (Online Event) "Augmented Reality Monuments: Redefining monumental presence & public space" | Research Seminar Series |
DECEMBER
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Tuesday 7th December 2021, 5pm | Derek Jarman Word & Image (Online Event) | Past Imperfect and CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | |
Thursday 9th December 2021, 5.30pm | Research Seminar - Huey Copeland (University of Pennsylvania) (Online Event) 'The Eye Is a Correcting Mirror' | Research Seminar Series |
Term 2
JANUARY
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Thursday 20th January 2022, 6pm | Research Seminar - Ben Thomas (University of Kent) Title TBC | Research Seminar Series |
FEBRUARY
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Wednesday 2nd February 2022, 2pm | History of Art Undergraduate Colloquium | One-off | Register here (in-person) Register here (online) This event is a hybrid event and you can attend in-person or online. |
Monday 7th February 2022, 6pm | UCL HOAS Event with Eva Kirilof | HOAS Event | TBC |
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 3.30pm-5pm | Hide & Seek: A Queer Tour Of Bloomsbury with Bob Mills | HOAS Event | Full details & register here. |
Thursday 10th February 2022, 6pm | Research Seminar - Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) 'Seeing in the Dark' | Research Seminar Series | |
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 11am | CSCA Exhibition Visit to Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child @ The Hayward, led by Briony Fer. | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | To register, please email CSCA co-ordinator Danae Filioti. |
Thursday 24th February 2022, 3pm | LGBTQ+ History Month Event | One-off | Full details and registration. |
Thursday 24th February 2022, 6pm | Research Seminar - Kavita Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) "Trying, and Failing, to Follow the Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India" | Research Seminar Series | |
Friday 25th February 2022, 10am - 5pm | Conference - Encountering Carlo Crivelli: From the Workshop to the Museum Featuring UCL HoA's Professor Alison Wright as a contributor. | External Event (IKON) | Full details and registration. |
MARCH
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Thursday 3rd March 2022, 10.30am | Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty - Dulwich Picture Gallery Visit, led by Cora Chalaby | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | To register, please email CSCA co-ordinator Danae Filioti. |
Tuesday 8th March 2022, 6pm | Tomas Harris Visiting Lectureship: Geographies of Nineteenth Century Black Art Anna Arabindan-Kesson Lecture 1: Acts of Translation: Black Artists Interpret The Song of Hiawatha | Tomas Harris Visiting Professorship | |
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 1pm | Tomas Harris Visiting Lecture - PGR Seminar | Tomas Harris Visiting Professorship | This event is open to PGR students only. The department will circulate details internally. |
Thursday 10th March 2022, 6pm | Tomas Harris Visiting Lectureship: Geographies of Nineteenth Century Black Art Anna Arabindan-Kesson Lecture 2: Translating Space: Black Geographies of Freedom in the US and the Caribbean | Tomas Harris Visiting Professorship | |
Tuesday 15th March 2022, 1-2pm | Conversations on Ecological Form: Collaboration | Past Imperfect | |
Tuesday 15th March 2022, 5.30pm | Giulia Smith on Living Landscapes: Nature as Anti-Colonial Agent in Caribbean British Art (Tate Britain, London, to April 3 2022). | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | |
Tuesday 22nd March 2022, 6pm | CSCA Event: Tamar Garb in conversation with Jo Ractliffe | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art |
Term 3
APRIL
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Tuesday 26th April 2022, 6-7.30pm | IAS Book Launch: Colonial Legacies The IAS welcome Gabriella Nugent (University of East Anglia) for the launch of her new book. Gabriella completed her PhD at UCL History of Art. | IAS Events | Full details here. |
Thursday 28th April 2022, 5.30pm | Research Seminar - Dorothy Price (The Courtauld Institute of Art) 'Hung, 2019' | Research Seminar Series |
MAY
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Tuesday 10th May 2022, 5pm | Orientations II | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Full details here. |
Wednesday 11th May 2022, 5pm | Past Imperfect “Conversations on Ecological Form” | Past Imperfect | |
Monday 16th May 2022, 4pm | Jacob Badcock Upgrade: ‘Permanent Error’: Gold, e-Waste, and Colonial Land Relations in Ghana | Postgraduate Research Seminar | Details will be circulated to students via email. |
Thursday 19th May 2022, 6pm | Briony Fer will be in discussion with Christine Macel, Chief Curator, Pompidou, co-hosted by the CSCA & Reuben and Maya Fowkes 'Collecting Central and East European Art in the 21st Century’ | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | Full details and register here. |
Friday 27th May 2022, 4pm | Baylee Woodley Upgrade: Failing Femininities: The Femmes of Additional 37049 | Postgraduate Research Seminar | Details will be circulated to students via email. |
Monday 30th May 2022, 4pm | Amber Husain Upgrade: The Subject of Pain: Psyche and Society in Donald Rodney’s Flesh of My Flesh (1996) | Postgraduate Research Seminar | Details will be circulated to students via email. |
Tuesday 31st May 2022, 4pm | Tom Cornelius Upgrade: Figure and Ground: Landscape as Grid in Stephen Shore’s American Surfaces | Postgraduate Research Seminar | Details will be circulated to students via email. |
JUNE
Date & Time | Event Title | Event Series | More Info & Booking |
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Monday 6th June 2022, 6pm | Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture: Jaś Elsner | Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture | |
Tuesday 7th June 2022, time TBC | CSCA and Modern Art Oxford: Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe | CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art | The CSCA and Modern Art Oxford, are organising a hybrid symposium and walk-through to coincide with the exhibition Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe on the afternoon of June 7th, 2022, at Modern Art Oxford. Details to follow shortly. Event organiser: Daisy Silver |
Wednesday 8th June 2022, 12.30pm - 2.30pm | Extraction, Compensation and the Electrotype: Past Imperfect Research Seminar | Past Imperfect | This event will take place in 20 Gordon Square, Seminar Rooms 3 and 4. |
Wednesday 8th June 2022, 4pm | Will Ballantyne-Reid Upgrade: Derek Jarman, Painter: Activism, Archives and Ephemera | Postgraduate Research Seminar | Details will be circulated to students via email. |
Monday 13th June 2022, 4pm | Cora Chalaby Upgrade: Surfaces at work: Alma Thomas's Earth Sermon - Beauty Love and Peace | Postgraduate Research Seminar | Details will be circulated to students via email. |