Talks
Holding it Together: Making, Maintaining and Mending from the Early Modern to the Present
‘Holding it Together’, a two-day symposium taking place in late June 2026, addresses this gap, bringing together makers and scholars of material culture to co-create new and robust concepts of lastingness rooted in both historical understanding and contemporary practice.
| Mon 8 June | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary approaches to the polycrisis This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship between law, literature, and cultural production in an age increasingly defined by ecological, social, and economic crisis. |
| Tue 9 June | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary approaches to the polycrisis This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship between law, literature, and cultural production in an age increasingly defined by ecological, social, and economic crisis. |
| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Mill Road History Society presents a talk about the legendary Chivers and Sons and their contributions to the development of the preserves industry |
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| Wed 10 June | 6:00PM - 9:00PM |
Join us at Kettle’s Yard for an evening of art, talks, music and making, inspired by our exhibition Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today. |
| Fri 12 June | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Symposium For centuries, women artists have produced autobiographical accounts of their lives and careers, using diaries, letters and other types of writing as a means of resistance, reflection, and self-fashioning. Taking a broad geographical approach, this symposium will address how women artists, between 1900 and the present, navigate their artistic identities through writing. |
| 2:00PM - 3:00PM |
Maria Fusco reading in the Kettle's Yard house Join writer Maria Fusco for an afternoon reading in the Kettle’s Yard house, inspired by Gillian Ayres’ painting Untitled. |