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Full Events Programme 2021-22

This page lists all of the department's scheduled upcoming events.

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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 & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Wednesday 6th October 2021, 6pmAnnual CSCA Lecture -'Eli Whitney, Serial Artist' - Pamela M. Lee (Online Event)CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary ArtFull details here.
Monday 11th October 2021, 4pmCSCA Annual Lecture RecapCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary ArtThose 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

Full details.

NOVEMBER

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Tuesday 2nd November 2021, 11.30amExhibition visit to LENORE TAWNEY @ Alison Jacques GalleryCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary ArtPlease email Danae Filioti for detailsdanae.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

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Full details here.

Wednesday 17th November 2021, 5pmPast Imperfect “Conversations on Ecological Form”Past Imperfect

Full details here.

Wednesday 17th November, 6pmTalk with Charlie Campbell-Gray, Cataloguer of Modern British Art, Christies London

Tuesday 23rd November 2021, 5pmOrientations Workshop organised by Jackie Mabey and Louis ShankarCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary ArtFull details here.
Tuesday 23rd November 2021HoA Soc x Diplomacy Soc- Trip to the British Museum: Repatriation and Diplomacy led by Dr Aparna Kumar
Thursday 25th November 2021, 5.30pm

Research Seminar -Elizabeth Johnson (UCL)(Online Event)

"Augmented Reality Monuments: Redefining monumental presence & public space"

Research Seminar Series

Full details.

DECEMBER

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Tuesday 7th December 2021, 5pmDerek Jarman Word & Image (Online Event)Past ImperfectandCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art

Full details here.

Thursday 9th December 2021, 5.30pm

Research Seminar -Huey Copeland (University of Pennsylvania)(Online Event)

'The Eye Is a Correcting Mirror'

Research Seminar Series

Full details.

Term 2

JANUARY

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Thursday 20th January 2022, 6pm

Research Seminar - Ben Thomas (University of Kent)

Title TBC

Research Seminar Series

Full details.

FEBRUARY

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Wednesday 2nd February 2022, 2pmHistory of Art Undergraduate ColloquiumOne-off



This event is a hybrid event and you can attend in-person or online.
Monday 7th February 2022, 6pmUCL HOAS Event withEva KirilofHOAS EventTBC
Wednesday 9th February 2022, 3.30pm-5pmHide & Seek: A Queer Tour Of Bloomsbury with Bob MillsHOAS Event
Thursday 10th February 2022, 6pm

Research Seminar - Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)

'Seeing in the Dark'

Research Seminar Series

Full details.

Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 11amCSCA Exhibition Visit to , led by Briony Fer.CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art

Full details.

To register, please email CSCA co-ordinator Danae Filioti.

Thursday 24th February 2022, 3pmLGBTQ+ History Month EventOne-off
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

Full details

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).

MARCH

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Thursday 3rd March 2022, 10.30amHelen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty -Dulwich Picture Gallery Visit, led byCora Chalaby
CSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art

Full details.

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

Full details & registration.

Wednesday 9th March 2022, 1pmTomas Harris Visiting Lecture - PGR SeminarTomas Harris Visiting ProfessorshipThis 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

Full details and registration.

Tuesday 15th March 2022, 1-2pmConversations on Ecological Form: CollaborationPast Imperfect

Full details.

Tuesday 15th March 2022, 5.30pmGiulia Smith onLiving 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

Full details.

Tuesday 22nd March 2022, 6pmCSCA Event: Tamar Garb in conversation with Jo RactliffeCSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art

Full details and registration here.

Term 3

APRIL

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
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 ʼһ History of Art.

IAS EventsFull details here.
Thursday 28th April 2022, 5.30pm

Research Seminar - Dorothy Price(The Courtauld Institute of Art)

'Hung, 2019'

Research Seminar Series

Full details here.

MAY

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Tuesday 10th May 2022, 5pmOrientations IICSCA: Centre for the Study of Contemporary ArtFull details here.
Wednesday 11th May 2022, 5pmPast Imperfect “Conversations on Ecological Form”Past Imperfect

Full details here.

Monday 16th May 2022, 4pmJacob Badcock Upgrade:‘Permanent Error’: Gold, e-Waste, and Colonial Land Relations in GhanaPostgraduate Research SeminarDetails will be circulated to students via email.
Thursday 19th May 2022, 6pmBriony 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 ArtFull details and register here.
Friday 27th May 2022, 4pmBaylee Woodley Upgrade:Failing Femininities: The Femmes of Additional 37049 Postgraduate Research SeminarDetails will be circulated to students via email.
Monday 30th May 2022, 4pmAmber Husain Upgrade: The Subject of Pain: Psyche and Society in Donald Rodney’sFlesh of My Flesh(1996)Postgraduate Research SeminarDetails will be circulated to students via email.
Tuesday 31st May 2022, 4pmTom Cornelius Upgrade:Figure and Ground: Landscape as Grid in Stephen Shore’sAmerican SurfacesPostgraduate Research SeminarDetails will be circulated to students via email.

JUNE

Date & TimeEvent TitleEvent SeriesMore Info & Booking
Monday 6th June 2022, 6pmNikos Stangos Memorial Lecture:Jaś ElsnerNikos Stangos Memorial Lecture

Full details.

Tuesday 7th June 2022, time TBCCSCA and Modern Art Oxford:Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the UniverseCSCA: 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 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 - 2.30pmExtraction, Compensation and the Electrotype: Past Imperfect Research SeminarPast Imperfect

This event will take place in 20 Gordon Square, Seminar Rooms 3 and 4.

Wednesday 8th June 2022, 4pmWill Ballantyne-Reid Upgrade: Derek Jarman, Painter: Activism, Archives and EphemeraPostgraduate Research SeminarDetails will be circulated to students via email.
Monday 13th June 2022, 4pmCora Chalaby Upgrade: Surfaces at work: Alma Thomas's Earth Sermon - Beauty Love and PeacePostgraduate Research SeminarDetails will be circulated to students via email.