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  • 17/02/2011: The room for "Francophone Writing of the Lebanese War", the symposium which is due to take place on 23 February, is now at the Clore Management Centre, room 204, Torrington Square, London WC1 7HX instead of 43 Gordon Square.


  • 28/01/2011: You will soon be able to download podcasts of some of our events. Watch this space!

  • 28/01/2011: Of interest to postgraduate research students: DANDELION is a postgraduate arts journal & research network. Dandelion is a student-led initiative by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and based at Birkbeck, University of London: http://dandelionnetwork.org/

  • 25/01/2011: Free BRACK Film Screening: Pressure (Horace Ové, 1975), Monday, 07 February 2011 at 12:30, Birkbeck, Malet Street Main Building, 255.

  • 19/01/2011: Digital Communities: Literature and the Internet in France

    "At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the traditional book format is being called into question by technological developments and changing reading habits. In the computer age, the creative possibilities offered by the computer and related technologies c...annot be ignored. In this paper, I will examine how electronic media and digital technologies have had an impact on the literary world in France exploring the use of the computer by writers to create, distribute and receive work as well as how it has changed the way this community functions." Dr. Nina Parish (University of Bath)

    http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/seminars.html


  • 14/12/2010: 31 January · 16:00 - 17:00, Room 110, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, BRACK SEMINAR SERIES, Digital Communities: Literature and the Internet in France, by Dr. Nina Parish (university of Bath), Free entry; open to all.
    http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/events.html


  • 11/12/2010: Free BRACK Film Screening: Good Bye, Lenin! Monday, 10 January 2011 at 12:30, Birkbeck, Malet Street Main Building, B18

  • 10/12/2010: From BRRKC to BRACK! The new name was formally approved in early December. We are now Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community!


  • 13/10/2010: Law as a discipline is now represented in our research centre, by two academics (one from Birkbeck and one from the University of Greenwich) with a special interest in family law. The way laws are made in a given society are seen to reflect this particular society's conceptualisation of what a family or a kin is. In that sense, they understand the law as a form of discourse on our communities.

  • 13/10/2010: The website is now up-to-date and ready for the new term. You will find forthcoming seminars, reading group meetings, film screenings, and our international conference details. We are still in the process of planning events for 2010-11, and we will update you regularly! Watch this space for more news on a family law symposium, and a symposium on kinship and community in francophone Lebanese literature.

  • 01/10/2010: 'A candy coloured clown they call the sandman...'! Blue Velvet @ Birkbeck, Malet Street, Room 532, Monday 4 October, 12:30pm.

  • 01/10/2010: Our Film Screenings schedule for 2010-2011 can now be found at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/screenings.html. The screenings are free! Do join us for these intellectually stimulating matinees; they all relate to the dominant concerns of the research centre.


  • 23/09/2010: Our Reading Group schedule for 2010-2011 can now be found at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/reading.html. Do join us if you wish to discuss Leo Bersani & Ulysse Dutoit, Jacques Rancière, and Lauren Berlant.

  • 13/09/2010: Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community's Facebook page is proving popular. There are now 52 supporters from many different countries.


  • 21/08/2010: People have been tweeting about our MA Aesthetics of Kinship and Community!!! Check this one out: " Brilliant Birkbeck: MA in Herd http://bit.ly/b9RwFU (Or the Aesthetics of Kinship & Community if you're being formal) @herdmeister 12:29 PM Jul 21st via web" (http://twitter.com/saramarshall). MA in Herd??? And the School of Arts at Birkbeck tweeted about the new MA on 15 July 2010. Look here: http://twitter.com/birkbeck_arts

  • 30/07/2010: Andrew Asibong, Akane Kawakami and Ann Lewis will present a panel entitled "Unspeakable Intimacies" at a conference in Loughborough entitled Writings of Intimacy in the 20th & 21st Centuries (keynote speakers: Lauren Berlant, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips) on 10th - 12th September 2010.

  • 03/07/2010:  The Call for Papers for our June/July 2011 international conference Visions of the 'Coming Community' / Visions de la 'Communauté Qui Vient' is now out . All details at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/conference.html.

  • 24/06/2010:  We are pleased to announce that bursaries will be made available for the MA in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community at Birkbeck, University of London. For further information on the MA Aesthetics of Kinship and Community, please visit: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/research.html

  • 27/05/2010: The 2010-2011 timetable for the MA Aesthetics of Kinship and Community is now available here.

  • 01/05/2010: Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community is on Facebook. There are 33 supporters already. Click on "Like" if... you like!

  • 01/05/2010: The next reading group meeting on 5 May will take place at the later time of 4.30pm. 

  • 22/04/2010: The two-day international conference - Gender And Memory In European Literature And Film - organised by Dr. Silke Arnold-de Simine and Dr. Joanne Leal, on 22 and 23 April 2010 was postponed due to the volcanic ash plume from Iceland; many of the participants were unable to travel to the venue here at Birkbeck. New dates to be confirmed.

  • 23/03/2010: The Research Centre's new MA in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community was officially approved; online applications will be made live shortly. Details here.

  • 10/02/2010: Many thanks to Luis Trindade for his talk on 'Class and Gender in some Literary Utopias of the 1920s', one of the outcomes of his doctoral thesis, for which he had to read thousands of pages of Portuguese utopian fiction! The seminar attracted a number of students from Birkbeck and other London colleges, as well as several academics. Luis was contacted for a transcript of his paper by a historian in the USA, and we are considering uploading the transcript onto the BRRKC site in the next couple of weeks.

  • 12/01/2010: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's poetry reading is now scheduled for 16 June 2010 at 6pm.

  • 06/01/2010: Unfortunately, we had to postpone Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's poetry reading today, after 40 cm of snow fell overnight in Oxford, where she was staying en route from West Wales to London! The reading will be re-scheduled to take place later this year.

  • 26/11/2009: Our deep gratitude goes to Laura Mulvey, who spent yesterday afternoon with us and an audience of thirty academics and students from Birkbeck and other colleges, as well as members of the public. She chose to introduce us to Rakhshan Bani Etemad's contemporary Iranian family drama 'Under the Skin of the City', providing us with a context and insights which proved invaluable while the film was screened. This was followed by a 45-minute discussion. A truly stimulating experience.

  • 13/11/2009: Thomas Karshan's seminar 'Vladimir Nabokov, Childhood, and Desire', on Wednesday 11 November, was a great success, attracting members of the public as well as Birkbeck students and academics. One person from outside Birkbeck, a London artist, wrote to us afterwards to tell us how inspiring she had found Tommy's talk, and how helpful it would be for her fine arts-based work with children in a Peckam estate.

  • 13/11/2009: We are delighted to announce the publication of an exciting new book by French lecturer and BRRKC steering group member, Dr Ann Lewis. Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau (Legenda, Main Series, 2009) will be officially launched by the the Department of European Cultures and Languages (ECL), on Tuesday 5 January 2010 at 7.30pm in the Clore Management Centre, room CLO G01.

  • 05/10/2009: The website now has a Diary page, listing all BRRKC events for 2009-2010 chronologically. 

  • 21/08/2009: Current BRRKC Forum Statistics: 31 Posts in 12 Topics by 29 Members. An excellent start! Check it out to see what people are talking about and feel free to join in!

  • 21/08/2009: Thomas Karshan, Luis Trindade, and Aude Campmas, all members of the BRRKC research team, will be giving papers on their current work during the next academic year. Further details here.

  • 21/08/2009: New in 2009/10, a series of film screenings entitled "Cinema's New Relations", to take place on several Wednesdays each term after lunch. Further details here.

  • 15/05/2009: Many thanks to guest speakers Carmen Fracchia, Gabriel Koureas and Kate Retford, as well as guest artists Hannah Eaton and Flora Whiteley for making the official BRRKC launch such a big success! The event was very well attended, with twenty-two academics and students from within Birkbeck and from outside institutions. The papers and pictures generated much discussion both during and after the launch. It was great to see from day one that BRRKC's mission to foster interdisciplinarity and the exchange of ideas on the theme of the representation and vision of kinship and community was meaningful to so many.

  • 01/05/2009: The discussion forum is now up and running! Twenty BRRKC members have already signed up. Subjects currently being discussed include Rivalry in Family Films, Soap Opera and Melodrama, Representations of Anticapitalism in the Arts and Toni Morrison's A Mercy and the Theme of Child Abandonment. The forum space is now also being used to host BRRKC meetings agendas, minutes, and reports. To join the forum, click here.

  • 13/03/2009: On 11 March, an informal meeting was held for all of us to finally meet up and share our ideas regarding BRRKC. There was significant enthusiasm for the idea of setting up a peer-reviewed online journal. It was suggested that papers be published on an ongoing basis as soon as they are ready, and not within the traditional parameters of issue deadlines and volume numbers. The idea of starting a blog or a discussion forum was also discussed. The general opinion was that a forum was a more desirable format for our needs and that we could give this a try in the first instance. Another very well-received suggestion was that of a twice-yearly 'work in progress' seminar, in which we would all get the chance to give a five minute presentation on our current research. This would be followed by questions, discussions and... coffee!  All great ideas!

  • 02/02/2009: BRRKC will officially kick off during Birkbeck Arts Week with a round-table discussion between leading Birkbeck art historians on the stakes of painting and photographing the bonds of kinship and community. Featuring the work and presence of two cutting-edge London artists. Details here.

  • 16/01/2009: It has been suggested to us that a Visual Representations of Kinship and Community Gallery would be a useful addition to the website. Anyone within BRRKC who can contribute non-copyright pictures (i.e. pictures that you have taken or made yourselves) is encouraged to send them to brrkc@sllc.bbk.ac.uk.

  • 16/01/2009: There will be a steering group meeting on Wednesday 22 April 2009 at 2pm (room 303, 43 Gordon Square).

  • 16/01/2009: All BRRKC researchers are invited to an informal meeting on Wednesday 11 March 2009 from 2 to 3pm (room 102, Clore Building). This is a first chance for everyone to meet and share ideas about BRRKC as a research centre.

  • 09/01/2009: The first termly Reading Group meeting will take place on 29 April 2009 from 2 to 3:30. More details here.

  • 05/01/2009: Many thanks to Shaun for setting up this fantastic temporary website for BRRKC. The Birkbeck webteam will take over in the next three to four months. Please email suggestions to brrkc@sllc.bbk.ac.uk.

  • 05/01/2009: The next steering group meeting will take place on Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 2pm in room G02, 43 Gordon Square. Items for discussion will include applications for external funding, the proposed MA in Kinship and Community Studies (Theories and Representations), and the planning of the Spring 2011 BRRKC International Conference. Agenda. Minutes.

  • 05/01/2009: Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community received official approval from Birkbeck's Academic Board on 18 November 2008 after being recommended by the Research Committee and ABexCO.

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