Past events: 2010/11

Film screenings

• Slum TV
• The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal
• The Knack…and How to Get It (1965, Richard Lester) Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks
• Major Barbara (1941, Gabriel Pascal) Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison
• Drôle de Drame (1936, Marcel Carné) Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay
• Passport to Pimlico (1949, Henry Cornelius) Stanley Holloway, Berry Warren
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, Charles Crichton) Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway
• A Kid for Two Farthings (1955, Carol Reed) Celia Johnson, David Kossoff

Conferences/symposia

• Archives, Museums, Media

Lectures

• ‘Rome’s insiders and outsiders: Romanians and Roma in the Italian media 2007-10’ - part of the Rome Lecture Series
• Christopher Long: 'Thoughts on the Ground Plan'
• Lecture: Out of Site, in Plain View: The Modernity of the Architecture Exhibition since 1750

Study days

• Goya: Fathoming the Unfathomable
• Text Analysis: Post-graduate training day

Seminars

• “Export Britain: art, mass culture and the export trade, 1964-7”
  
• The Scrolls of Aushwitz: The Matter of Testimony
• “Street Life in Renaissance Italy”
• Donatella Valente (PhD candidate, History of Art and Screen Media), "Experiencing Film Povero: form as resistance in the Italian Independent Film Co-operative "
• Tiago Baptista (PhD candidate, History of Art and Screen Media), "Is YouTube the new cinema of attractions?"
• Dr Katerina Loukopoulou (The Henry Moore Fellow, History of Art, UCL), "Sculptural Film and the Creative Process: The Case of Henry Moore (John Read, BBC, 1951)"