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Serendipity: The Afterlife of the Object – Book Talk with Carol Mavor

Date: April 2, 2025

Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Location: Grand Hall - The Whitworth, University of Manchester

Join us to hear from Carol Mavor in conversation with John McAuliffe about her latest book, exploring the sadness, as well as the joy, of unexpected discoveries.

TRE in the Afternoon with Hannah Murray Interview

Date: January 8, 2025

Time: 4:10 pm

Location: Talk Radio Europe (TRE)

Carol Mavor will be interviewed by Hannah Murray about her latest book Serendipity: The Afterlife of the Object on Talk Radio Europe (TRE). Listen on Wednesday, 8 January 2025, at 4:10 pm GMT (11:10 am EST).

Carol Mavor & Lauren Elkin: Serendipity

Date: November 14, 2024

Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location: London Review Bookshop, London, UK

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Carol Mavor will discuss her latest book Serendipity: The Afterlife of the Object with Lauren Elkin at the London Review Bookshop.

£10 admission.

Serendipity: The Afterlife of the Object

Date: November 13, 2024

Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location: Gorvy Lecture Theatre, RCA Dyson Building, London, UK

Lecture and book launch for Carol Mavor’s book Serendipity.

Free admission.

Serendipity: The Afterlife of the Object

Date: November 12, 2024

Time: 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Location: Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK

Book launch and reception for Carol Mavor’s book Serendipity, chaired by Rebecca Birrell, as part of the Modern and Contemporary Art (MaCA) Seminar Series.

Lecture Room 2, Department of History of Art, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX

Like a Lake: A Story of Uneasy Love and Photography

Date: March 22, 2021

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Royal College of Art, London, UK

“Everything is Kleptocratic: Mary Glass Dances Happening (1970)”

Date: November 1, 2019

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz, California, USA

‘More Blue’

Date: August 15, 2019

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK

Carol Mavor at the Freud Museum: ‘Plants Cannot be Kleptocratic’

Date: July 30, 2019

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Freud Museum, London, UK

“´Mary in my urine, my mouth, my heart, my madness, my sleep; my sea, my me’: or, Caul (1966) by Mary Glass”

Date: July 24, 2019

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal

‘Like the First Time’

Date: June 12, 2019

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Royal College of Art, London, UK

‘Moeder, Maman, Mom’

Date: March 1, 2019

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: University of Copenhagen, Denmark

“´Mary in my urine, my mouth, my heart, my madness, my sleep; my sea, my me:’ Or, Caul (1966) by Mary Glass´”

Date: February 12, 2019

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Royal College of Art, London, UK

‘Lolita’s Grey Eyes’

Date: November 26, 2018

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Royal College of Art, London, UK

‘On Aurelia‘

Date: September 11, 2018

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

‘Photogen and Nycteris’

Date: April 27, 2018

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK

A talk at the Royal Academy

Date: March 12, 2018

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Literature Live:
Sophie Collins and Carol Mavor

Date: February 12, 2018

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester, UK

Time/Making/Space

Date: December 7, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: The Geological Society, London, UK

Artist Amy Hauft and Carol Mavor, in conversation, at testsite, Austin

Date: November 1, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: testsite, Fluent~Collaborative, Austin, Texas, USA

Aurelia at the University of Texas, Austin

Date: October 31, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: The University of Texas, Austin, USA

Book Launch for Aurelia

Date: September 28, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

Film Screening of Poto and Cabengo at Whitechapel Gallery

Date: September 14, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Aurelia: Carol Mavor and Marina Warner

Date: July 24, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: London Review Bookshop, UK

‘The Sound of One Hand Clapping: A Question of Child Abuse, from Like a Lake‘

Date: July 8, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: ACLA, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Keynote for the Annual Screen Conference

Date: June 23, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Getty Art Book Club: Blue Mythologies

Date: June 10, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

What Does Blue Mean?

Date: June 8, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

‘Like water for water’

Date: April 27, 2017

Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Location: The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, UK