Events

We run a busy schedule of research conferences and events on a wide range of subjects.

• 16 April: Conference on Book Destruction
• 5 May: Nights at the Museum - Candlelight, spooky spaces, and cursed objects: Panel with Luisa Cale, Fiona Candlin, and Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College)
• 11 May: Professor Isobel Armstrong to give Warton Lecture at the British Academy on 'Many-coloured Glass, Aerial Images and the Work of the Lens: Romantic Poetry and Optical Culture'
• 23 May: Children’s Literature and Culture around the World - a Round-Table with Jessamy Harvey and Michael Rosen. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 23 May: Michael Rosen - Poetry as Performance; performance as Poetry. This event is part of Birkbeck's Art's Week 2011
• 23 May: Panel Discussion and Taster: Reading the Contemporary - in the context of the launch of the new MA Contemporary Literature and Culture, three panelists in English and Humanities  explore aspects of the ‘contemporary’. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 23 May: Eighteenth-Century Performance
  Michael Dobson and Mark Darlow share their latest research on private and public performances in Eighteenth-Century England and France. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 24 May: Flash Symposium: Short papers on short fiction - this event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 24 May: Theatre Conversation - Image, Text, theatre: Contemporary performance and its sources. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 24 May: Your Only Man: A Centenary Celebration of Flann O’ Brien - this event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 25 May: Early Modern Nights
  From Shakespeare's 'midsummer night' to tavern life; from romance to robbery, night was distinctive time in early modern England. Three panellists examine the literature, art and history of the dark side of early modern life and invite your questions. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 25 May: The Body and the Book - This session will consider bodies and books in examples which press them into close relation. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 26 May: Was there an English Renaissance?
  This event at the National Portrait Gallery is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 26 May: Flipped Eye Poetry Reading
  A reading by four flipped eye poets, including Birkbeck lecturer, Kate McLoughlin. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 26 May: Poetics Centre Voiceworks Concert
  Voiceworks is the culmination of the renowned song-making collaboration between Birkbeck poets, and composers and singers from Guildhall Conservatoire. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 27 May: The Birkbeck Writers’ Platform - A reading of new works of fiction by writers based at Birkbeck. This event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 28 May: 'Let us go down, and there confound their language': The Bible in Translation - this event is part of Birkbeck's Arts Week 2011
• 6 June: BA Taster Evening 'Exploring texts and their contexts'
• 13/14 June: Joycean Literature: Fiction and Poetry 1920-2010
• 25 June: World Cities Symposium
• 2/3 July: The Language of Illness and Pain: Identity, Communication and the Clinical Encounter
• 15 October: Conference on Dickens and Travel

Related information

• Birkbeck Open Evenings
• Past conferences, symposia and colloquia
• Past seminars, lectures and workshops

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