Try It! Rock n' Politics: Careers, Jobs and Money

Starts May 15, 2012 06:00 PM

Finishes May 15, 2012 07:00 PM

Venue Cambridge House, 1 Addington Square, Camberwell, SE5 0HF

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Free entry; first come, first seated

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Try It! Birkbeck in your commUNIty

This session starts with a clip from comedian Chris Rock, followed by a brief talk on issues surrounding skills and social respect, value and time. We’ll then turn the session into a moderated seminar among participants, structured around Rock's observations on careers, jobs and money.

To celebrate Adult Learners’ Week 12^th -18^th May, Birkbeck are hosting a series of free information, advice & guidance sessions together with debates, performances, workshops and lectures at Cambridge House in Camberwell. Come for the whole day or just drop in.

FREE CHILDCARE IS AVAILABLE ON THE DAY AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE

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My Birkbeck Helpdesk

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020 7631 6316

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School/department website http://www.bbk.ac.uk/tryit2012/

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		1 Events Where We're From, Who We Are: Poetry Performance	2 Events The Networked Academic: Social Media and your Research Identity Open Evening Starting out at University Workshop Stratford Birkbeck Advice Sessions Preparing for Higher Education	3 Events Starting out at University Workshop After, Beyond the Fragments?	4 Events Starting out at University Workshop	5 Events Starting out at University Workshop
6 Events Early May Bank holiday Starting out at University Workshop	7 Events Starting out at University Workshop JD Bernal Lecture 2013: From Structural Biology of Neglected Diseases to Brazilian Science	8 Events Starting out at University Workshop Using Narratives to Study Social Change (Local) Information is power? Localism and local transparency	9 Events Starting out at University Workshop Future Focus - Career Workshop May GEDS Research Seminar Stratford Birkbeck Advice Sessions Exhibition: The Day Remains	10 Events Starting out at University Workshop Power Beyond Scrutiny: Media, Justice and Accountability The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary - Conference Exhibition: The Day Remains Aurelia Martín Casares on 'Slave Heritage in Europe: African Contributions to Spanish Folklore' MSc Career Management & Coaching Taster Day	11 Events Try It Saturday Starting out at University Workshop The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary - Conference Exhibition: The Day Remains	12 Events Starting out at University Workshop The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary - Conference Exhibition: The Day Remains
13 Events Starting out at University Workshop Exhibition: The Day Remains Department of History of Art and Screen Media: Postgraduate Lecture Seminar	14 Events W T Stead: One Year On Exhibition: The Day Remains Power, Government and Strategy: Foucault’s Reconsideration of Power after 1976 Performance: from the court to the screen and beyond Entrepreneurial Coaching Seminar	15 Events Exhibition: The Day Remains The Role of the Digital Producer in UK Theatre Today	16 Events Stratford Birkbeck Advice Sessions Financing your university course in 2013 Choosing the Right Course Choosing the Right Course Stratford Birkbeck Advice Sessions Exhibition: The Day Remains Learning Cafe: Information Session	17 Events Exhibition: The Day Remains Spinoza and Nietzsche in Dialogue - 2 day conference	18 Events How to be Happy Exhibition: The Day Remains Spinoza and Nietzsche in Dialogue - 2 day conference	19 Events Exhibition: The Day Remains
20 Events How to be Happier at Work Spectacle and The Sublime: Romantic Visuality and Contemporary Exhibition Culture Exhibition: The Day Remains The ruin as fragment in contemporary art Amy Levy and controversy Writers' Hub: Elizabeth Freemantle and Christie Watson Using Positive Psychology to Stay Healthy and Happy in your Work Science and writing symposium Tom Lyall presents DEFRAG_ a one man science fuiction epic	21 Events All that is Solid Melts into Air:Civilisation & its Discontents, a contemporary perspective - Workshop Dance Insight evening Reading American Modernist Poetry Film maker Mark Lewis in conversation with writer David Campany Theatre: To pay or not to pay? Panel discussion on voluntary labour in the arts Exhibition: The Day Remains Tour of The Day Remains exhibition with the curator Shakespeare and the senses Learning Cafe: Information and Enrolment Session Voiceworks: A Concert Of New Works For Voice Victorian dolls and material play	22 Events Beyond the Olympics: global and local politics Choosing the Right Course Application Workshop Casta Paintings and the Colonial Body: Embodying Race in Spanish America The Mediated City: A Tour of Media and Mediation in West End London Theatre Scratch Night: sharing of new student work Exhibition: The Day Remains Messianism and social struggle: Representations of Canudos in Brazilian cinema Writers' Hub presents: Getting published in the Digital Age East London: Visual Histories Spanish Language - Introductory Workshop Messianism and Social Struggle: Representations of Canudos in Brazilian Cinema Remembering Myself: Memory and Identity in the Renaissance	23 Todays Events BA Taster: English, Arts and Humanities and Theatre Studies Application Workshop Walk and Talk - The Eastern Gateway: Exploring Stratford’s past Supporting Children's Reading Creative Writing: A short introduction to writing fiction and non-fiction Five years of interdisciplinary research in development: looking back and looking forward English and Humanities: Your story at Birkbeck starts here! Get Motivated Benefits of Part-Time Higher Education Future Focus - Careers Workshop John Smith's Hackney films Theatre North presents: HANDEL'S CROSS An Evening with the Good Doctor Film screening: Under the cranes (2011, UK) Exhibition: The Day Remains Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures: A book and some afterthoughts Composers at Birkbeck Blake and Romantic material culture Walking tour: Bloomsbury Squares - a London in minature Natural History and the Rights of Women: Mary Wollstonecraft and science Adult Learners Advice Evening How to Increase Well-being in Communities The individual, the family and the community	24 Events Walk and Talk - The Eastern Gateway: Exploring Stratford’s past Wellbeing at Work Does community make us happy? Choosing the Right Course What I bring and where can I go…? Future Focus - Careers Workshop Application Workshop Higher Education Introductory Studies – Starting Out Dance Insight Evening Exhibition: The Day Remains From screen to stage: adapting film texts for the theatre - a screening, workshop and panel discussion Annual Law Lecture 2013: 'Is there a right to disobedience and resistance?'	25 Events Hay Festival - The Eric Hobsbawm Lecture; The Age Of Anxieties “Literature and Football”: A Pre-Match Panel (followed by the Champions League final) Exhibition: The Day Remains	26
27 Events Spring bank holiday	28	29	30 Events Beyond Glorious: the radical in engaged artistic practices Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth Century Studies 'On Cosmopolitanism' Birkbeck Race Forum & MA Culture Diaspora Ethnicity Annual Lecture 2013 The Social and Political Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft Surplus: Film Screenings	31 Events William Matthews Lecture 2013

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