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Upcoming Events

Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass – A very visual seminar with Carol Mavor

Date: October 20, 2025
Time: 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: V/N/045, Vanbrugh College, Campus West, University of York

Join Carol Mavor for a seminar at the University of York’s History of Art department with a reading from her new book Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass on Monday, 20th October, followed by a wine reception afterwards. Booking required.

On Fictocriticism – Carol Mavor in Conversation

Date: October 21, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: D/L/047, Derwent College, Campus West, University of York

Following her reading from her new book Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass on Monday, 20th October, Professor Carol Mavor will discuss her current writing practice which she calls ‘fictocriticism’ with James Boaden from the department of History of Art on Tuesday, 21st October. Mavor will talk about how this work fits into a distinguished career as an ‘artist historian’ and how a writer might begin to address the life of a practitioner who leaves almost no trace. Free admission, booking required.

Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass – Lecture from Carol Mavor

Date: December 8, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: Richard Schechner Studio, Room 612, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York

The Department of Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts is excited to welcome Carol Mavor, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Manchester and writer to give a lecture in celebration of her new publication, Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass. This event is cosponsored by the Department of Art History. The lecture will be followed by a reception. 

Past Events

Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass

Date: October 16, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Gorvy Lecture Theatre, RCA Dyson Building, London

Join Carol Mavor for a very visual seminar with images and film clips discussing her new book, Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass. For RCA School of Arts and Humanities students and staff only.

Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass – A Seminar with Carol Mavor

Date: October 13, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Sidgwick Site, Little Hall Lecture Theatre, Cambridge

Carol Mavor will present her latest book Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass at the first meeting of the University of Cambridge’s Theory, Criticism, and Culture seminar in the Faculty of English for the academic year 2025–26 on Monday, 13th October. All are welcome; refreshments will be served.

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

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