Research centres in the School of Arts

The School of Arts is linked with the following research centres:

• Birkbeck Institute for Humanities
• Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
• Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies
• Centre for Contemporary Literature
  
• Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre
• Contemporary Poetics Centre
  Contemporary poetry is one of the most lively and radical artforms in Britain. The centre is committed to making it available to study and to supporting it through readings, performances and publications.
• Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community
• Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies
  This Centre aims to foster and promote innovative debates in the history and theory of visual forms, both in the specific context of the Latin American and Iberian image-world and beyond.
• Centre for Film and Visual Media
• Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice
• Eighteenth-Century Research Group
• Vasari Research Centre
  Media technologies and devices relevant to the research and study, as well as production and exhibiting, of the arts continue to evolve.
  The Vasari maintains and digitizes important analogue material, assists and initiates funding applications and is currently examining the emerging area of 3D reconstruction and use of interactive 4D technologies in Museums, Galleries and Higher Education as well as the development of Open Educational Resources in the Arts.
  The centre also hosts innovative digital projects, facilitates collaborations and organizes symposia and conferences.