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2010 - 2011 Share

                                                                                                                                                       


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 ScreeningMon Meilleur Ami (Patrice Leconte, 2006)

4 November – Film ScreeningThree Women (Robert Altman, 1977)

11 November – SeminarThomas Karshan

18 November – Reading GroupKindred Specters

25 November – *SPECIAL EVENT* – Laura Mulvey

2 December – Film ScreeningThe Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)

16 December – Film ScreeningEast of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) *cancelled*




SPRING TERM 2010


Postponed to 16 June – *SPECIAL EVENT* – Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch 

13 January – Film ScreeningWhatever Happened to Baby Jane?

27 January – Film ScreeningOrphans & La Petite Mort

3 February – SeminarLuis Trindade

24 February – Film ScreeningShadows (John Cassavetes, 1960)

4 March – Reading GroupLoneliness as a Way of Life by Thomas Dumm 

10 March – Film ScreeningWhity (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)

17 March – SeminarEvi Tselika




SUMMER TERM 2010


21 April – SeminarAude Campmas

22-23 April – *SPECIAL EVENT* – Conference: Gender and Memory

28 April – Film ScreeningRosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)

5 May – Reading GroupThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

12 May – Film ScreeningAll about my Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)

21 May - Birkbeck Arts Week Symposium - Unspeakable Intimacies

9 June – Film ScreeningCat People + The Curse of the Cat People

16 June – Film ScreeningThe Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
 + *SPECIAL EVENT* – Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch