[1] Summer of Architecture - Research Seminars at the Paul Mellon Centre

Join the Paul Mellon Centre for a series of talks and discussions exploring buildings, cities, and landscapes as they relate to histories of colonialism, empire, diaspora, questions of access, information technologies, and lived experiences in Britain and elsewhere.

Co-organised with Rixt Woudstra (Assistant Professor in Architectural History, University of Amsterdam).

17 May 2023
5pm – 7pm
History Designing Architecture: Performance and Architecture in Africa & its Diaspora with Adedoyin Teriba and Rixt Woudstra

24 May 2023
5pm – 7pm
Thermal Governance: Air-conditioning Complexes and Climate Modulation in Urban Asia with Jiat-Hwee Chang and Kim Förster

31 May 2023
5pm – 7pm
Landscapes of Waste: Towards an Urban History of Coal Spoil in Modern Britain with Moa Carlsson and Otto Saumarez Smith

7 June 2023
5pm – 7pm
The Architecture of Disability with David Gissen and Jos Boys
Note: Venue tbc / will be in central London

14 June 2023
5pm – 7pm
The Small Spaces of Empire with Swati Chattopadhyay and Tania Sengupta

Book tickets: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/event-category/research-seminar-30

[2] Summer season of Research Lunches at the Paul Mellon Centre

Tickets for our summer season of Research Lunches are now available to book.

5 May 2023: Manufacturing Pictures: Photographic Experimentation at the End of the Eighteenth Century with Fionn Montell-Boyd from University of Oxford

19 May 2023: A Glaswegian in Troy: William Simpson’s Vision of Western Anatolia with Alex Solovyev from University of Oxford

2 June 2023: Revisiting Rasheed Araeen’s Structures: 8bS at Manufactured Art, 1970 with Kylie Gilchrist from University of Manchester

16 June 2023: Framing a Slide Registry: the Origins of the Women Artist’s Slide Library with Lily Evans-Hill from Courtauld Institute of Art

30 June 2023: The Mermaids and Sirens of Edward Burne-Jones with Cecilia Neil-Smith from University of Exeter

These events present new research and are in person only at the Paul Mellon Centre and not recorded. Please make sure to book early as these events tend to sell out quickly.

https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/event-category/research-lunch