Professor Stephen Marsh Tuesday 19 May 2015, 6pm, Room 110, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD This talk focuses on the politics of marginality on the 1970s work of Catalan experimental filmmaker Antoni… Continue Reading →

Professor Anthony Shelton Thursday 21 May 2015, 6pm, Room G01, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Between the 1920s-1950s, rural popular art became an important part of the government-sponsored re-creation of Portuguese national… Continue Reading →

Benjamim Picado Tuesday 9 June 2015, 6pm, Room B01, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD In this talk, Picado addresses the problem of pictorial systems underlying representation of historical eventfulness in photojournalism, in… Continue Reading →

Sergio Rojas (Universidad de Chile) Thursday 30 April 2015, 6pm, Room 632, Main Building, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Sq.), London WC1E 7HX Cierta producción artística en la actualidad intenta hacerse cargo del agotamiento de las… Continue Reading →

Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh) Wednesday 11 March 2015, 6.00pm, Room 354, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Square), Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX This talk will explore Borges’s relations with drawing and painting. Norah Borges, Borges’s sister, was… Continue Reading →

Brad Epps (University of Cambridge) Tuesday 2 December 6.00pm, Room 417, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Sq.), Birkbeck, University of London, Main Building, London WC1E 7HX Invasión, one of the most celebrated and least seen and studied ‘cult’ films in… Continue Reading →

Grínor Rojo (CECLA – Universidad de Chile) Friday 24 October 2014, 6pm, Room 112, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD What to read and how to read Chilean novels of the dictatorship? From… Continue Reading →

Juan delGado Saturday 8 November 2014, 2.00-5.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Artist Juan delGado will present his recent commission The Flickering Darkness (Revisited) alongside the work by Agata Lulkowska. A panel will analyse and reflect on… Continue Reading →

21-22 May 2015, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD The purpose of this International Conference is to recuperate María Zambrano as an important 20th century thinker, and to increase the visibility… Continue Reading →

Friday 19 June 2015, 6.00pm Room 124, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD In her first feature film, Maria Clara Escobar faces up the discoveries and frustrations on accessing the memory of a… Continue Reading →