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Dr Edwin Coomasaru

Research on gender, sexuality and race in modern and contemporary art

Dr Edwin Coomasaru

Research on gender, sexuality and race in modern and contemporary art
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Is Brexit the apocalypse?', RES|FEST x Belfast, Ulster Museum (25 October 2018).

Invited Lectures

  • 24 November 2023: Liverpool John Moores University.
  • 21 September 2022: University of St Andrews.
  • 17 August 2022: IASH, University of Edinburgh.
  • 30 March 2022: University of Edinburgh.
  • 27 January 2022: The Paul Mellon Centre.
  • 20 October 2021: University of Aberdeen.
  • 4 February 2020: University of Sussex.
  • 27 January 2020: Royal College of Art.
  • 26 April 2019: The Courtauld Institute of Art.

​Select Speaking Engagements

  • 11 February 2023: In Conversation with Jala Wahid, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (host).
  • 27 April 2022: Imagining the Apocalypse: Art and the End Times, The Courtauld Institute of Art (co-host).
  • 8 September 2021: Challenging Curations and the Contemporary Viewer, Watts Gallery (host).
  • 25 March 2021: PhD Toolkit – Praxis, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (panellist).
  • 16 December 2020: Harsh Light, Bloc Projects (panellist).
  • 3 December 2020: Rainbow Lenses, Courtauld Institute (host).
  • 25 August 2020: Collections Workshop, Wolverhampton Art Gallery (speaker).
  • 16 July 2020: Public Monuments and Black Lives Matter, South London Gallery (host).
  • 4 December 2019: Feminism, Magic & Brexit, Bosse & Baum (panellist and host).
  • 28 October 2019: Britain and Europe: Art and Exchange from the Medieval Period to Brexit, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (panellist).
  • 25 October 2019: New Contemporaries 70th Anniversary Conference, The Courtauld Institute (panellist).
  • 11 October 2019: Brexit and the Occult: Gendered Ghosts of Empire, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (speaker).
  • 6 April 2019: Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Sussex and University of Brighton (panellist).
  • 1 March 2019: Queer Conversations, The Courtauld Institute of Art (panellist).
  • 30 October 2019: Brexit Wounds, Manchester Metropolitan University (panellist).
  • 13 December 2018: IES Irish Studies Seminar, The Courtauld Institute of Art (speaker).
  • 25 October 2018: RES|FEST x Belfast, Ulster Museum (speaker and host).