Immediations 2025 Launch

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Micrograph of polyurethane foam. Micrograph of polyurethane foam. Image by Dr Jacek Olnder, 2025. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. Reproduced with permission from the Image Permanence Institute.

Join us for the launch of the 2025 issue of听Immediations, 91制片厂 Journal of Postgraduate Research.

This edition of听Immediations听includes an interview, three articles, and five reviews on the theme 鈥楽oft鈥. The interview with Emma Richardson, Director of Research at Rochester Institute of Technology鈥檚 Image Permanence Institute in New York, was conducted by Alice Dodds, and provides the image on the cover. The articles cover a diverse range of time periods and geographies, investigating the limits of art and art history. Orlando Giannini and Ana-Maria Mil膷i膰 consider mother-daughter relationships in the paintings of Chantal Joffe. Molly Lewis provides a nuanced study of a medieval gothic ivory, drawing on her own intimate examination of the object. Ekaterina Zinurova considers Martiros Saryan鈥檚 paintings of his native Armenia, displayed at the Soviet Pavilion of the 1924 Venice Biennale, as a manifestation of 鈥榮oft power鈥.

This issue also includes exhibition and book reviews by Emily Abney, Amy Elder, Rachel Hartley, Alex Bispham, and Amelia Mielniczek.

In its twenty-second year,鈥疘尘尘别诲颈补迟颈辞苍蝉听continues to provide a global forum for showcasing rigorous and innovative research from Courtauld鈥檚鈥痯ostgraduate students and early career researchers. Available for free online and in print, the journal鈥痠s at the forefront of鈥痯roviding scholars in the arts and humanities with open access to new research and writing.

This issue of听Immediations听has been selected and edited by Editors-in-Chief Alice Dodds and Emma Iadanza听and the editorial board: Zoe Bomberg-McCarthy, Matthew Cheale, Leylim Erenel, Tatjana Schaefer, Clara Shaw, and Millie Riddell.

Find out more about听Immediations听by following the link here:听/research/research-resources/publications/immeditations-postgraduate-journal/.

Organised by Alice Dodds and Emma ladanza, Editors-in-Chief and PhD students, Courtauld Institute.听

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4 Feb 2026

18:00 - 19:30

Vernon Square Campus, Research Forum Seminar Room

This event takes place at our Vernon Square campus (WC1X 9EW).

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Micrograph of polyurethane foam.
Micrograph of polyurethane foam. Image by Dr Jacek Olnder, 2025. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. Reproduced with permission from the Image Permanence Institute.

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