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6 December 2019: This public conversation between architect David Burns and artist Susan Schuppli explores the legacies of nuclear contamination within the global geographies of weapons testing, uranium mining, and power plants. From British military activities at the Maralinga test site to the more recent discovery of radioactive contaminates off the West Coast of Canada linked to Fukushima, these researchers explore the archival capacities of landscapes to recall and bear witness.
26 November 2019: This presentation by Vandana Baweja (University of Florida) examines how German émigré and colonial state architect Otto Koenigsberger’s career can illuminate “global” as a paradigm in modernist historiography.
From Nuclear Landscapes to representations of Southeast Asian Islamic Architecture, see what we’ve got in store for the next 12 months.
12 December 2019: Co-organised by the Birkbeck Eighteenth-Century Research Group, and the Architecture, Space and Society Research Centre. Three speakers will consider aspects of the English country house from the eighteenth century to the present: Jon Sobart, Abby van Slyck, and Kate Retford.
ASSC is pleased to announce that Anne-Françoise Morel and Claire Zimmerman will be our two visiting researchers for the academic year 2019-2020.
31 October 2019: A symposium supported by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Architecture Space and Society Centre. This one-day symposium explores new research on factory architecture and images of factories between the Industrial Revolution and the present day.
24 June 2019: an informal conversation between three scholars whose work deals with solitude, isolation, confinement and the rooms, cells and other spaces within which these states are experienced and enforced. Fom the eighteenth century to the present, the discussion will address questions such as: What distinguishes solitude from isolation, a room of one’s own from a cell? And why study the history of these concepts and spaces?
22 May 2019: The following are some images that we’ll refer to on our walk today, ‘Euston Twilight: ‘Hotels, Boarding Houses and Luxury Squats in Postwar London’, one of a series of ASSC events for Birkbeck Arts Week. Fig. 1… Continue Reading →
20-24 May 2019: Arts Week is Birkbeck’s annual summer showcase of the varied enterprises of our renowned academics, on topics both public and scholarly. Over the course of the week, the College hosts a wide range of events, including lectures, readings, concerts and exhibitions.
6-8 June 2019: This two-day conference will explore old, new and future interconnections between Design History and Architectural History. It will address the disciplines’ shared historiography, theory, forms of analysis and objects of critical enquiry, and draw attention to how recent developments in the one can have significant implications for the other.
