ERL Lunchtime Talks

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Autumn 2026, Part One:
12:15 – 13:00 Tuesdays, 29 September – 20 October

Free and open to all
No booking required

 

 

A series of public events featuring speakers from exhibition-making and exhibition research.

In Part One of the Lunchtime Talks, speakers will discuss their contribution to the current exhibition in ERL Gallery, Big Data; Networked Narratives: Decentring Collection Histories with Data from the John Moores Painting Prize. Isabel Robinson will consider the wider context of the project by discussing how digital humanities projects are changing art historical research.

29 September – Em Langridge
How do we find queerness in data?

6 October – Emily Fuggle
‘Entangled in this strange world’: Women refugee artists at the John Moores Painting Prize

13 October – Ella Nixon
Who tells the story of British art?

20 October – Isabel Robinson
The impact of the digital humanities on art historical research

27 October – Geneva Beckford
Equity, visibility, and the shaping of cultural memory in the 1989 John Moores Painting Prize

For further information, please contact Dr Jonathan Hoskins (j.hoskins@ljmu.ac.uk).

Part Two will be announced soon; please check https://www.exhibition-research-lab.co.uk or @exhibition_research_lab on Instagram.