FORTHCOMING EVENTS


FILM AND VISUAL CULTURE SYMPOSIUM
Autumn 2009


GENDER & MEMORY CONFERENCE
22-23 April 2010


READING GROUP               18 November 2009


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Discipline-led Symposia

Once a term, BRRKC hosts a symposium devoted to exploring representations of kinship and community within a given discipline. Each symposium features three speakers, including a high-profile expert from outside Birkbeck.These symposia allow researchers from various disciplines to acquire a better understanding of the types of discussions and issues at stakes in other fields, to draw links with their own studies, and facilitate the setting up of collaborative projects. All symposia are open to everyone from and outside Birkbeck.

Termly Reading Group Meetings

The exchange of ideas is further facilitated by a termly meeting based on a pre-agreed theme or piece of reading.  All reading group meetings are open to everyone from and outside Birkbeck.
Details HERE.

Work-in-Progress Seminars

This is a twice-yearly meeting in which BRRKC researchers get the chance to present their latest research to each other. The presentations are brief and are followed by questions and discussions.



Forthcoming Events

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Autumn Term 2009

FILM & VISUAL CULTURE SYMPOSIUM

WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER at 2pm

*** LAURA  MULVEY ***

on 

Under the Skin of the City

by Rakhshan Bani Etemad

Birkbeck Cinema,

43 Gordon Square, London WCIH OPD

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Spring Term 2010

WEDNESDAY 6 JANUARY at 1pm

*** SAMANTHA WYNNE-RHYDDERCH ***


Poetry Reading & Discussion

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch reads from her second collection of poems
Not In These Shoes (Picador, 2008).
To be followed by question and answer session.
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Summer Term 2010

22 & 23 April

GENDER AND MEMORY

IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND FILM

 CONFERENCE

organised by

 Silke Arnold-de Simine and Joanne Leal

[CFP deadline 31st October 2009]



Past Events

'CONVERSATION' AS COMMUNITY:
ON THE STAKES OF PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHING
 THE BONDS OF KINSHIP AND COMMUNITY

Wednesday 13 May 2009
1pm-3pm
The Keynes Library
43 Gordon Square Entrance
Birkbeck
University of London

Guest Speakers:
Carmen Fracchia, Gabriel Koureas, Kate Retford

Guest Artists:
Hannah Eaton, Flora Whiteley



Discussing works by Isidro de Villoldo, Velázquez, Klitsa Antoniou and Gawen Hamilton.

 Isidro de Villoldo
Isidro de Villoldo, c.1539,The Miracle of the Black Leg, Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid, Spain.

Click here for a picture of Velázquez's portrait of his slave (1650). 

Traces
Klitsa Antoniou, Wall of Roses, part of Traces of Memory Installation, Diatopos Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2002. Courtesy of the Artist.


Click here for a picture of Gawen Hamilton's 'The Du Cane and Boehm Family Group' (1734-5).

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Artists and Speakers

Klitsa Antoniou studied Fine Arts at Wimbledon School of Art, St. Martins School of Art and Pratt Institute New York. She is currently completing her doctorate at the Cyprus University of Technology. Antoniou had twelve international solo exhibitions in Cyprus, the United States, Finland and China. Antoniou is the co-founder of the Artrageous Group, which organized: Nomadifesta (Nicosia, 2004); Pack your Suitcases, (Nicosia, May 2004), Unclaimed Luggage, (Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, February 2005). For more information visit:The Artrageous Group


Hannah Eaton graduated from Oxford University’s Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in 1999. She is a freelance illustrator and performance artist, whose work probes the darkest corners of family life, paying particular attention to the pricks, cracks and fissures made in the fabric of “normality” by the grotesque, the monstrous and the unspeakable. While her performance-work often draws on sometimes confrontationally queer expressionism as a frame of subversive and pseudo-subversive reference, her drawings relentlessly explore fantastical and folk cultures in bizarre and unsettling communion with the everyday. In addition to her work as an artist, Eaton has a great interest in structures and representations of kinship and community, reflected by over a decade’s work with children and families in London and Brighton. 


Carmen Fracchia is a lecturer in early modern Spanish visual studies and a Visiting Professor at the University of Granada (Spain, 2008-11). Her current research focuses on the overlooked area of the visual representation of black slavery in Imperial Spain and New Spain (Mexico); on the subjectivity of the Afro-Hispanic slave-painter Juan de Pareja; on the trauma and lack of memory of slavery in Spain. She has been invited to join the three-year international collaborative project (2008-2011) on the Anthropology of Slavery, at the University of Granada, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. Dr Fracchia has participated in international conferences in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Ireland, Spain, the UK, and the US. In 2009, she is invited to give a paper in international conferences in Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. She is currently preparing a book on the visual representation of black slavery in Imperial Spain. [More]


Gabriel Koureas is a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.  He specialises on representations of trauma, gender and national identities in relation to conflict and reconciliation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His monograph Memory, Masculinity and National identity in British Visual culture, 1914-1930, was published by Ashgate (2007). Other publications include ''Desiring Skin': Eugenics, Trauma and Acting Out of Masculinities in British Inter-war Visual Culture', in F. Brauer and A. Cullen (eds.), Art Sex and Eugenics: Corpus Delecti, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008); ‘Visualising an Open Wound: Nicosia, a Divided City in an Expanded Europe’, Peter Martin (ed.), City in Art, (Warsaw: Institute of Art, Polish Academy, 2007), pp. 215-226 and ‘Simplicity, Uniformity, Class and Discipline in the Commemoration of the First World War’, in Szulakowska U. (ed.), Power and Persuasion, (Warsaw: Henry Moore Foundation and the Polish Institute of Art, 2004), pp.155-174. [More]


Kate Retford is Lecturer in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century art history at Birkbeck, University of London. Her book, The Art of Domestic Life: Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England, was published by Yale University Press in 2006, and was shortlisted for that year's Longman History Today Book Award. In addition, she has written a number of articles on topics relating to eighteenth-century portraiture, gender, and the country house art collection. She was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in the History of Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in 2006 in order to begin her current book project on the conversation piece in eighteenth-century Britain. [More]


Flora Whiteley completed her masters in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2008. She has shown in numerous exhibitions including Day after day after day, The Star and Shadow, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009; Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, Sensoria Festival, Sheffield, touring to The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, 2008; and Better Place Portraiture, collaborative performance with Darren Banks, at mima, Middlesbrough, 2006. Her solo show Through dark glasses was held at Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne in 2008. She was recently awarded an Arts Council England Research and Development grant. Whiteley’s current work engages with the melodrama of everyday life. Exploring the difficulty of communication and the construction of narrative in visual formats, her paintings explore the fluidity and ambiguity of time and place. Her most recent work 'The Ceremony' be seen at Gimpel Fils (near Bond Street tube) - previous projects can  be viewed online at www.florawhiteley.co.uk


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