Be involved. Be Birkbeck is a brand new membership scheme, designed to give everyone a chance to be part of Birkbeck's academic community.
There are three tiers of membership.
- At £5 per month, bronze membership will allow you to participate in special members' lectures, receive a newsletter and be invited to a number of collaborative events.
- At £7.50 per month, your silver membership will give you additional onsite and online access to the library.
- At £10 per month, your gold membership will give you all of the above, as well as borrowing rights from the library.
Be inspired. Our lectures are designed both to inform and to engage.
Our first year, 2013, is the 190th anniversary of George Birkbeck's establishment of Birkbeck College. To celebrate this - at the time controversial and innovative - decision to offer education to working Londoners, our first lecture series will examine controversies in arts, science, law, social science and business:
- Professor David Latchman CBE will speak about 'The Brave New World of DNA' on 30 April.
- Professor Joanna Bourke will consider ‘What is Pain? Controversies in the History of Medicine' in June.
- Professor Ron Smith will explain ‘Why Economists Cannot Forecast' in July.
- Later this year, Professor Peter Fitzpatrick will use Kafka's novellas to question 'Can there be a Rule of Law?'; Professor Ian Crawford will be asking 'Is there Life Elsewhere in the Universe?'; Dr Aoife Monks will explore 'Scandal: Controversies, Riots and Protest at the Theatre'.
