Join us at The Ruskin for a programme of lectures, workshops, live performance, late openings and laboratories – your opportunity to get involved in our work.
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Inspired by our programme and collection, explore art and ideas in our free Saturday-morning workshops for families, led by artists.
While The Ruskin is temporarily closed, our workshops are happening across Lancaster and Morecambe.
Follow our event listings to find out more.
The Ruskin Seminar Series brings specialist guest-speakers to Lancaster.
Talks are free and open to all, to explore how Ruskin's ideas can help us shape a better future.
To join the conversation, come along to the Ruskin Reading Group. Receive notification of future meetings by subscribing to the Reading Group newsletter.
Explore past seminar programmes below.
2018 - 2019
Autumn 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019
2017 - 2018
Autumn 2017 / Spring / Summer 2018
2016 - 2017
2015 - 2016
2014 - 2015
2013 - 2014
2012 - 2013
2011 - 2012: Ruskin and the Sacred
2010 - 2011: Ruskin and the Experimental
2009 - 2010: Ruskin and the Modern World
2008 - 2009: Ruskin's Writers
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The Ruskin Polygon
Ruskin and Cultural Travel
Ruskin and Life Writing
Ruskin and Social Thought
Ruskin and Travel
Ruskin's Art Teaching
The Stones of Venice
Modern Painters: Turner, Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites
Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites
'A Perpetual Paradise': Ruskin's Northern France
Ruskin and Aesthetics: Modern Painters, 1843 - 1993
1995 - 1996 / 1994 - 1995 / 1993 - 1994
Ruskin and Environment
Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture
Prepatory work on Ruskin
Ryuzo Mikimoto devoted his life to the study of John Ruskin, founding the Ruskin Library of Tokyo in 1934.
Ryuzo Mikimoto was the son of Kokichi Mikimoto, who pioneered cultured pearls and founded the Mikimoto pearl empire in 1893. After Ryuzo Mikimoto's death in 1971, his relatives worked to reopen the library, with readers returning from 1984.
The first Mikimoto Lecture took place at Lancaster University in 1995, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the reopening of the Ruskin Library of Tokyo. The lecture, 'Ruskin To-Day', was given by James S. Dearden, Curator of the Ruskin Galleries at Bembridge School.
The Mikimoto Memorial Lecture is supported by a generous donation from the Trustees of the Ruskin Library of Tokyo.
Explore the Mikimoto Memorial Lecture archive below.
Our collections are also on display at Brantwood, John Ruskin's house and estate on the shores of Coniston Water, in the Lake District. Visit Brantwood's website to discover a programme of exhibitions, concerts, courses and special events.
Visit Brantwood