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AUTUMN TERM A TWO-DAY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
GENDER AND MEMORY IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND FILM organised by Dr. Silke Arnold-de Simine and Dr. Joanne Leal 30 September to 1 October 2010 FILM SCREENING Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) Monday 4 October 2010 12.30pm, Malet Street Main Building, 532 Free entry; open to all FILM SCREENING Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008) Wednesday 20 October 2010 1.30pm, Malet Street Main Building, 354 Free entry; open to all READING GROUP Leo Bersani & Ulysse Dutoit Chapter II, Forms of Being (BFI: 2003) Date: 16 November 2010 Start Time: 2pm Location: room 408, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all SEMINAR Graham Fallowes (Birkbeck) "Fleeing Modernity? Kafka's Castle and constructions of Gemeinschaft" Date: 22 November 2010 Start Time: 2pm Location: room 110, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all FILM SCREENING XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007) Monday 6 December 2010 12.30pm, Malet Street Main Building, 532 Free entry; open to all SPRING TERM FILM SCREENING Good Bye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, 2003) Monday 10 January 2011 12.30pm, Malet Street Main Building, B18 Free entry; open to all SEMINAR Dr. Nina Parish (University of Bath) "Digital Communities: Literature and the Internet in France" Date: 31 January 2011 Start Time: 4pm Location: Room 110, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all FILM SCREENING Pressure (Horace Ové, 1975) Monday 7 February 2011 12.30pm, Malet Street Main Building, 255 Free entry; open to all READING GROUP Jacques Rancière "Contemporary art and the politics of aesthetics" Date: 22 February 2011 Start Time: 2pm Location: room 408, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM Francophone Writing of the Lebanese War by Drs. Aude Campmas (Birkbeck), Claire Launchbury (Royal Holloway), and Helen Vassallo (University of Exeter) Date: 23 February 2011 Start Time: 2pm
Location: Clore Management Centre, room 204, Torrington Square, London WC1 7HX Free entry; open to all FILM SCREENING Desperate Living (John Waters, 1977) Monday 28 February 2011 12.30pm, Malet Street Main Building, 354 Free entry; open to all FILM SCREENING Paris Nous Appartient (Jacques Rivette, 1961) Monday 14 March 2011 12.30pm, Malet Street Main Building, 255 Free entry; open to all SUMMER TERM SEMINAR John Gibb (Birkbeck) "Towards Deleuze and Guattari's Communal Articulation" Date: 11 May 2011 (postponed) Start Time: 6pm Location: room GO3, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all FILM SCREENING Abortion Democracy: Poland/South Africa (Sarah Diehl, 2008) Wednesday 11 May 2011 7.30-9pm, Malet Street Main Building, B20 Free entry; open to all READING GROUP Jacques Rancière "The aesthetic revolution and its outcomes" Date: 17 May 2011 Start Time: 2pm Location: room 408, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all SEMINAR Professor Cécile Fabre (Oxford) "The Philosophy of Humanitarian Intervention" [Postponed until the Autumn] Date: 17 May 2011 Start Time: 4pm Location: room 321, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM AND READING FOLLOWED BY FILM SCREENING Enslavement, Transmission and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction [Postponed until the Autumn] by writer Jenny Mitchell and Chantal Quiquine (Birkbeck) Date: 14
June 2011
Time: 3 - 5pm Location: room G03, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Followed
by film screening: Mandingo
(Richard Fleischer, 1975) Start time: 6pm
Location: room B36, Malet Street, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all LAW SEMINAR Dr. Daniel Monk (Birkbeck) Reading the Queer Will Date: 23 June 2011 Start Time: 6pm Location: room 110, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Free entry; open to all A TWO-DAY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
VISIONS OF THE COMING COMMUNITY Keynote speakers: Professor Jérôme Game (American University of Paris), Dr Jane Hiddleston (Exeter College, Oxford), Professor Judith Still (Nottingham). 30 June to 1 July 2011 |
AUTUMN TERM 2009
14 October – Film Screening – Mon Meilleur Ami
(Patrice Leconte, 2006)
4 November – Film Screening – Three Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
11 November – Seminar – Thomas Karshan
18 November – Reading Group – Kindred Specters
25 November – *SPECIAL EVENT* – Laura Mulvey
2 December – Film Screening – The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
16 December – Film Screening – East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) *cancelled*
4 November – Film Screening – Three Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
11 November – Seminar – Thomas Karshan
18 November – Reading Group – Kindred Specters
25 November – *SPECIAL EVENT* – Laura Mulvey
2 December – Film Screening – The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
16 December – Film Screening – East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) *cancelled*
SPRING TERM 2010
Postponed to 16 June –
*SPECIAL EVENT* – Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
13 January – Film Screening – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
27 January – Film Screening – Orphans & La Petite Mort
3 February – Seminar – Luis Trindade
24 February – Film Screening – Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1960)
4 March – Reading Group – Loneliness as a Way of Life by Thomas Dumm
10 March – Film Screening – Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
17 March – Seminar – Evi Tselika
13 January – Film Screening – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
27 January – Film Screening – Orphans & La Petite Mort
3 February – Seminar – Luis Trindade
24 February – Film Screening – Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1960)
4 March – Reading Group – Loneliness as a Way of Life by Thomas Dumm
10 March – Film Screening – Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
17 March – Seminar – Evi Tselika
SUMMER TERM 2010
21 April – Seminar – Aude Campmas
22-23 April – *SPECIAL EVENT* – Conference: Gender and Memory
28 April – Film Screening – Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
5 May – Reading Group – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
12 May – Film Screening – All about my Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
21 May - Birkbeck Arts Week Symposium - Unspeakable Intimacies
9 June – Film Screening – Cat People + The Curse of the Cat People
16 June – Film Screening – The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
+ *SPECIAL EVENT* – Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
22-23 April – *SPECIAL EVENT* – Conference: Gender and Memory
28 April – Film Screening – Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
5 May – Reading Group – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
12 May – Film Screening – All about my Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
21 May - Birkbeck Arts Week Symposium - Unspeakable Intimacies
9 June – Film Screening – Cat People + The Curse of the Cat People
16 June – Film Screening – The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
+ *SPECIAL EVENT* – Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch



