The annual showcase of the varied enterprises of Birkbeck academics in the School of Arts includes lectures, readings, concerts, film screenings, performances and panel discussions.

This month Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject, co-edited by Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, has been published as part of Routledge's Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies series.

CFP for Transitions 4 - a one-day symposium promoting new research and multi-disciplinary academic study of comics/ comix/ manga/ bande dessinee and other forms of sequential art, now in its fourth year at Birkbeck.

30 May 2013. Three academics will give papers on cosmopolitanism for an event hosted by Birkbeck's Forum for Nineteenth Century Studies.

30 May 2013. What is the place of art in acts of social re-imagination and repair? This symposium aims to bring together people from different spheres of life to discuss and experience the meanings, methods and effects of art in relation to engaged and radical practices.

14 June 2013. An international conference on collecting, editing, performing, producing, reading, and reviving Romanticism at the Fin de Siecle.