Postgraduate Research Seminars 2011-12

Birkbeck's Department of History of Art and Screen Media presents the new 2011-12 seminar series which will include speakers from Courtauld Institute of Arts, Pitt Rivers Museum, Tate Modern, University College, Edinburgh University and Birkbeck.

The seminars are open to all in the School of Arts, but if you're not a student from the Department of History of Art and Screen Media please contact Penny Luker-Brown to check that a place is available.

Seminars take place 6-7.30pm in either room B04 or Birkbeck Cinema. Please arrive promptly.

Thursday 24 November 2011
Some Thoughts on Curating 'Devotion by Design' at the National Gallery London
When? 6-7.30pm
Where? Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1.
Speaker: Dr. Scott Nethersole, Courtauld Institute of Art

Thursday 15 December 2011
'Our Ancestors have come to visit us: Blackfoot Artifacts, Blackfoot People, and Ceremonies of Renewal'
When? 6-7.30pm
Where? Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1.
Speaker: Dr. Laura Peers, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Thursday 8 March 2012
'Daido Moriyama: Farewell Photography'
When? 6-7.30pm
Where? Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1.
Speaker: Dr. Simon Baker, Curator of Photography and International Art, Tate Modern

Thursday 22 March 2012
'Geraniums: Some Stories of Floral Friendship and Education'
When? 6-7.30pm
Where? Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1.
Speaker: Dr. Kasia Boddy, Department of English, University College London

Monday 21 May 2012
'Tacita Dean's Tate Modern Turbine Hall Installation'
When? 6-7.30pm
Where? B04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1.
Speaker: Dr. Tamara Trodd, Department of Art History, Edinburgh University

Monday 18 June 2012
'Samuel Palmer's Shadows'
When? 6-7.30pm
Where? B04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1.
Speaker: Will Vaughan, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Birkbeck