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UCL History of Art is one of the most dynamic centres for the study of Art History & visual cultures in the world 🌍 🖼
Celebrating 60 years of UCL Special Collections with Dr Hélia Marçal ✨

Hélia shares how the Small Press Collections have shaped her teaching and research in the History of Art 📚

“A fundamental, incredibly rich collection spanning the 20th century.”

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UCL Small Press Collections at 60
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November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What does care mean in conservation? 🌿

The Journal of the Institute of Conservation’s new special issue, edited by Dr Hélia Marçal and featuring articles by Dr Brian Castriota and Professor Pip Laurenson, explores conservation as an ethical, political, and human practice.

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Journal of the Institute of Conservation Releases Special Issue on Conservation and Care
The Journal of the Institute of Conservation has released a special issue on Conservation and Care, featuring a guest editorial by UCL’s Helia Marcal and articles by Brian Castriota and Pip Laurenson.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
6 days to go! Don't forget to book your free place ✨
We are delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”

🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)

👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture 2025: Kader Attia
UCL History of Art is delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”
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November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎥 Research Seminar: Chromatic Apparitions

Join Dr. Katerina Korola (University of Minnesota) for a talk on colour, chemistry & contamination at East Germany’s iconic Filmfabrik Wolfen.

🗓 04 Dec 2025 | 🕠 17:30–19:30

How does photography reveal its own toxic material past?

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Chromatic Apparitions: Colour and Contamination at the Filmfabrik Wolfen
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Katerina Korola (University of Minnesota) for a talk on 'Chromatic Apparitions: Colour and Contamination at the Filmfabrik Wolfen'.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Join us for the Past Imperfect seminar with Jack Hartnell (Head of Research, National Gallery, London) discussing his new book Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image 🩹📚

In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬

Signed and discounted copies available!

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Past Imperfect Book Launch: Jack Hartnell
Please join the Past Imperfect seminar to hear Jack Hartnell reflect on his new book Wound Man: the Many Lives of a Surgical Image.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We are delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”

🗓️ 20 November 2025, 18:15–20:30
📍 B40, Darwin Lecture Theatre (Reception to follow)

👉 Book your free place: shorturl.at/0Rhh1
Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture 2025: Kader Attia
UCL History of Art is delighted to announce that Kader Attia will deliver this year’s Nikos Stangos Lecture, titled “The Body/Gaze: A Territory to Be Reappropriated.”
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October 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Join us for our next Research Seminar with Dr Jiangtao Harry Gu (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY), presenting “Photography as Dust: On the Ruins of John Thomson’s Hong Kong.” 📷

🗓️ 23 Oct 2025 (Thu)
🕠 17:30 – 19:30
📍 9 Garwood LT, South Wing

Free and open to all!

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Photography as Dust: On the Ruins of John Thomson’s Hong Kong
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Jiangtao Harry Gu (Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York State) for a talk on 'Photography as Dust: On the Ruins of John Thomson’s Hong Kong'.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🎬 Join Past Imperfect for Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017, dir. Bill Morrison) + intro by Dr Kirsty Sinclair Dootson.

🗓 20 Oct 2025 | 18:00–20:30

📍 Pool Street Cinema, UCL East, London

💬 Screening, discussion + reception - all welcome!

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Film Screening: Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017)
Join Past Imperfect for a screening of Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017, dir. Bill Morrison)
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October 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We’re thrilled to kick off our Research Seminar series with Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld) on Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting ✨

Join us to explore the material worlds behind Chardin’s famously “mute” pictures.

🗓 9 Oct 2025 | 17:30–19:30
📍 IAS, Seminar Room 20

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Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (The Courtauld Institute of Art) for a talk on ‘Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting’.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✨ First CSCA event of the year! ✨

We’re thrilled to launch African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency by Martyna Ewa Majewska 📖

📅 08 Oct 2024 | 17:30–19:30
📍 Room 106, Gordon House
🌟 All welcome!

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Book Launch: African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency
We’re excited to begin this year’s CSCA events with a special book launch: African American Artists Performing for the Camera After 1970: Against Transparency by Martyna Ewa Majewska.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

Seeking an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in the MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art & Media to join our team at UCL East.

🕒 Working Pattern: Part-time, on site
💷 Salary: £43,981–£52,586
📄 Contract: Fixed-term (12 months)
⏰ Closing date: 12/10/25

👉 Apply now: shorturl.at/57NCS
September 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Exciting news! 🎉

We’re now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships starting in September 2026.

👉Find out more and apply here: shorturl.at/c8WIW
July 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📚 Book Launch: The Aesthetics of Resistance Vol. III

🗓 24 June | 5:30–8pm

Celebrate the final volume of Peter Weiss’s masterpiece in English!

🎬 Film screening + talk w/ translator Joel Scott & Prof. Frederic Schwartz (UCL)

📍 Free and open to all: shorturl.at/AVhWs
CSCA Book Launch: Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance Vol.III
To mark the long-awaited English translation of the final volume of The Aesthetics of Resistance, the CSCA will hold a screening and discussion between the novel’s English translator Joel Scott and Pr...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Join us on 12 June (6-7pm) to explore how pandemic remnants - from posters to memorials -shape how we remember a crisis that hasn’t truly ended 🦠

Speakers:
🗣 Dr Clara de Massol (King’s College London)
🗣 Elsa Perryman Owens (UCL)

🔗 Free and open to all. Book your free place: shorturl.at/P2vFJ
Remnants of Catastrophe: The Materiality and Memorialisation of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Described by some as a ‘paradigmatic example of an Anthropocene disease’ (Antó et al.), COVID-19 presented the world with a catastrophe that, whilst itself was invisible, bore massive material consequ...
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June 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
💥 Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures at The Hepworth is her biggest show in 25+ years. Curated by Laura Smith, with a new bio via Thames & Hudson.

Proud of PhD student Philomena Epps for contributing an essay on the body, fetishism & the grotesque!

📍 From our CSCA visit to The Hepworth Wakefield.
May 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM
⚠️ This event has been postponed and a new date is yet to be confirmed ⚠️
We’re excited to welcome Avigail Moss, Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture, for a talk titled “Collective Disquiet: Tangibility, Transit, Time.” 💬

📆22 May 2025, 5:30–7:30pm
📍Seminar Room 20, South Wing

✨All welcome!✨

👉Find out more: shorturl.at/oqCBq
Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Avigail Moss, for a talk on 'Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time'
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May 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🎨 Dive into the world of Art History with our EDI student journalist, Mayuko Yamaguchi, as she chats with Colin Zhongping Mao – PhD candidate at UCL – about his research on the evolution of Chinese Socialist Realism🖌️

👉 Read the full interview: shorturl.at/DRJx2
May 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Join us for a series of free public events exploring kinetic and media art, held alongside the workshop Movers and Shakers: Strategies in the Conservation of Kinetic Art, organised by the UCL’s MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, Getty Conservation Institute and Tate!✨

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Movers and Shakers: Public Program
In conjunction with the workshop 'Movers and Shakers: Strategies in the Conservation of Kinetic Art'organised by the UCL’s MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media, Getty Conservation Institute ...
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May 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
📘 Book Launch | Soviet Factography – Reality Without Realism by Devin Fore

Join us for a talk + conversation on Soviet avant-garde time politics with Steven Edwards & Stephanie Schwartz 💬

🗓 22 May, 5:30–7:30PM | Free & open to all

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Book launch: Soviet Factography - Reality Without Realism by Devin Fore
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May 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Images as History Seminar: A Letter to Laos 📷

Dr Stephanie Schwartz (UCL) on Allan Sekula’s A Short Film for Laos and war, narrative, and Southeast Asia.

📅 15 May, 6–8PM

🎟 Open to all – book here:

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#ArtHistory #Photography #Laos #AllanSekula
Images as History Seminar: A Letter to Laos: Allan Sekula’s Postscript
A seminar series on photography and history in the Americas
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May 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
We’re excited to welcome Avigail Moss, Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent’s Paris School of Arts and Culture, for a talk titled “Collective Disquiet: Tangibility, Transit, Time.” 💬

📆22 May 2025, 5:30–7:30pm
📍Seminar Room 20, South Wing

✨All welcome!✨

👉Find out more: shorturl.at/oqCBq
Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time
For this Research Seminar, we welcome Avigail Moss, for a talk on 'Collective disquiet: tangibility, transit, time'
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May 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Kaitlin Fritz, our alumna, EdTech Entrepeneur and award-winning enterprise educator, delivers the Explore Your Entrepreneurial Idea Programme: “Each session, we have interactive activities, so it really bridges the gap between educational and practical entrepreneurship.” 💡
The Explore programme, run by UCL Innovation & Enterprise, is a 6-week programme that helps you start to turn an idea or passion into a viable business.

UCL Student Storyteller Zoë Dahse came along to speak to some of students who participated: bit.ly/3XKBVRD
April 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
⏳ Deadline approaching! Just under one week left to apply for this amazing role in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (1650–1900) at UCL🏛️🌍
We are hiring a full time Lecturer (Grade 8, £52,762-£62,035) or Associate Professor (Grade 9, £67,341-£73,142) in Art & Material Cultures of Britain (c.1650-1900), exploring its global and colonial contexts 🏛️✨

📍 London | 📆 Start: 1 Sept 2025

📝 Apply by: 22 April 2025 shorturl.at/K4zlr
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April 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Join us on 22 May, 5:30–6:30PM for a talk by Dr. Valentina Ravaglia, lead curator, on 'Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet', now at Tate Modern until 1 June 2025.

📍 UCL East Lecture Theatre, Marshgate
🍷 Reception to follow
👋 Free and all welcome!

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Electric Dreams | Tate Modern
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April 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Last week in Paris, artist Thomas Hirschhorn welcomed UCL History of Art MA students to his studio for an inspiring visit alongside Mignon Nixon, Nicholas Robbins, and Stephanie Schwartz ✨

Theme of the day: What can we learn from art history? 🖼️
April 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM