Arts Week 14-18 May 2012
Welcome to Birkbeck’s fifth annual Arts Week!
The week will include lectures, readings, concerts, film screenings, taster courses, performances and panel discussions and is our annual showcase of the varied enterprises of Birkbeck academics, on topics both public and scholarly. The programme of events reflects the liveliness of the teaching and research of Birkbeck’s School of Arts, whose internationally renowned academics address some of the most important issues that affect our society today. The College welcomes everyone with an interest in the Arts to participate in this year’s events.
Highlights from this year's programme include: (click on the day to go to a detailed event listing)
Monday 14 May: Benjamin Wood reads from his debut novel, The Bellwether Revivals, join a screening and discussion on ‘post-nostalgia’ in European culture and history, Helen Cowie talks about the origins of the zoo in C19 Britain, a taster evening for students interested in studying English and Humanities, Theatre studies or Creative Writing at undergraduate level and more…
Tuesday 15 May: Marjorie Trusted, Senior Curator of Sculpture at the V&A, presents a seminar on the relationship between the two great Spanish artists, Velázquez and Picasso, view a performance of Virginia Woolf’s play, Freshwater, observe a class in contemporary dance technique and more…
Wednesday 16 May: Readings by contemporary women poets, a lecture on the character of the ‘gentle soldier’ in Crimean narratives, a screening and presentation by the award-winning Brazilian filmmaker, Sandra Kogut, a panel discussion on emerging theatre companies and more…
Thursday 17 May: Attend the George Steiner lecture on the history of Judaism and Jewish identity, find out how the V&A and the Design Museum represent architecture as a stage for the display of design, Dr Nicola Bown discusses Victorian sentimentality, while Julia Bell explores the pros, cons and future of self-publishing and more…
Friday 18 May: Professor Shaw-Miller’s inaugural lecture on the dynamics between image, music, text with the acclaimed Kreutzer String Quartet, a screening and book launch looking at cross-dressing in German film comedies and more…
