Talks in Contemporary Art & Lecture Lists

Hilary Term 2026

Talks in Contemporary Art

Convenor: Jennifer Lauren Martin and Jesse Darling

In the academic year 2025-26, the Ruskin will be hosting a series of talks by leading practitioners in international contemporary art (artists, writers, curators and others), which will be open to the University community and the public. The programme is intended to encourage open discussion and steer the intellectual and artistic direction of the School. 

The talks are open to the University community and the public, held at the School's East Oxford building in Bullingdon Road, usually at 5pm on alternate Tuesdays (even weeks) through the term. Details of the full programme will be updated below.

Free and open to all Oxford University members and the public. Tickets become available 10 days before each event, please book at the link on Eventbrite: 
https://bit.ly/Ruskin_ContArtTalks.

Ruskin students and staff are not required to book tickets to attend the talks.

• Project Space, Ruskin School of Art, 128 Bullingdon Road, OX4 1QP.
• 5pm
• HILARY TERM 2026
• Week 2, Tuesday 27th January: Rob Shuttleworth
• Week 4, Tuesday 10th February: Hannah Perry
• Week 6, Tuesday 24th February: Abbas Zahedi
• Week 8, Tuesday 10th March: Dudley Dream Walsh

Lecture Lists

Teaching begin on the first possible day after the beginning of Full Term unless otherwise stated.

Non-members of the University may not attend university lectures (unless they are announced as open to the general public) without payment of a fee, otherwise than by personal invitation of the lecturer concerned. Persons who are neither reading for a qualification of this University nor otherwise exempt, and who wish to attend lectures in any term, should apply to the Buildings and Events Manager, Examination Schools, for details of fees. At least three working days’ notice is required before a lecture permit can be issued, to allow liaison with the department or faculty concerned. Senior visiting scholars from other universities who wish to attend lectures, seminars, or classes should normally apply to the lecturer concerned directly, and not to the Buildings and Events Manager.

History and Theory of Contemporary Visual Culture

Convenor: Professor Jason Gaiger

Lectures held in the Examination Schools are open to any member of the University of Oxford. Those lectures and seminars held at the Ruskin School of Art are open only to Ruskin students, except by arrangement in advance. Please apply.
 

Examination schools:

Final Honours School (BFA2) - Wednesdays (except week 1 when held on Monday)

'Art and Sense: Counterintuition as Methodology'
Dr Rachel Wells

• 11am, Examination Schools
• Week 1: 'Listening to Images'
• 10am, Examination  Schools
• Week 2: 'Walking Through Photographs'
• Week 3: 'Seeing With Fingers'
• Week 4: 'Feeling Through Film'
• Week 5: 'Reading At Distance'
• Week 6: 'Writing Out Loud'

Prelims (BFA1) - Mondays

Block 1: 'Moving Pictures: Film and Collage as Artistic Media' 
Dr Lawrence Alexander and Dr Yuval Etgar

Block 2: 'Are We Nearly There Yet: Landscape and Art from then til Now and Back Again'
Dr Kate Keohane

• 11am, Examination Schools
• Week 1:  Artistic Media: 'New' and Old
• Week 2: The Ends of Collage
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• Week 5: Lecture
• Week 6: Lecture
• Week 7 : Lecture