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- 05/10/2009: The website now has a Diary page, listing all BRRKC events for 2009-2010 chronologically.
- 21/08/2009: Current BRRKC Forum Statistics: 31 Posts in 12 Topics by 29 Members. An excellent start! Check it out to see what people are talking about and feel free to join in!
- 21/08/2009: Thomas Karshan, Luis Trindade, and Aude Campmas, all members of the BRRKC research team, will be giving papers on their current work during the next academic year. Further details here.
- 21/08/2009: New in 2009/10, a series of film screenings entitled "Cinema's New Relations", to take place on several Wednesdays each term after lunch. Further details here.
- 15/05/2009: Many thanks to guest speakers Carmen Fracchia, Gabriel Koureas and Kate Retford, as well as guest artists Hannah Eaton and Flora Whiteley for making the official BRRKC launch such a big success! The event was very well attended, with twenty-two academics and students from within Birkbeck and from outside institutions. The papers and pictures generated much discussion both during and after the launch. It was great to see from day one that BRRKC's mission to foster interdisciplinarity and the exchange of ideas on the theme of the representation and vision of kinship and community was meaningful to so many.
- 01/05/2009: The discussion forum is now up and running! Twenty BRRKC members have already signed up. Subjects currently being discussed include Rivalry in Family Films, Soap Opera and Melodrama, Representations of Anticapitalism in the Arts and Toni Morrison's A Mercy and the Theme of Child Abandonment. The forum space is now also being used to host BRRKC meetings agendas, minutes, and reports. To join the forum, click here.
- 13/03/2009: On 11 March, an informal meeting was held for all of us to finally meet up and share our ideas regarding BRRKC. There was significant enthusiasm for the idea of setting up a peer-reviewed online journal. It was suggested that papers be published on an ongoing basis as soon as they are ready, and not within the traditional parameters of issue deadlines and volume numbers. The idea of starting a blog or a discussion forum was also discussed. The general opinion was that a forum was a more desirable format for our needs and that we could give this a try in the first instance. Another very well-received suggestion was that of a twice-yearly 'work in progress' seminar, in which we would all get the chance to give a five minute presentation on our current research. This would be followed by questions, discussions and... coffee! All great ideas!
02/02/2009: BRRKC will officially kick off during Birkbeck Arts Week with a round-table discussion between leading Birkbeck art historians on the stakes of painting and photographing the bonds of kinship and community. Featuring the work and presence of two cutting-edge London artists. Details here.
16/01/2009: Please send your suggestions for future Reading Group books to brrkc@sllc.bbk.ac.uk
16/01/2009: It has been suggested to us that a Visual Representations of Kinship and Community Gallery would be a useful addition to the website. Anyone within BRRKC who can contribute non-copyright pictures (i.e. pictures that you have taken or made yourselves) is encouraged to send them to brrkc@sllc.bbk.ac.uk.
16/01/2009: There will be a steering group meeting on Wednesday 22 April 2009 at 2pm (room 303, 43 Gordon Square).
16/01/2009: All BRRKC researchers are invited to an informal meeting on Wednesday 11 March 2009 from 2 to 3pm (room 102, Clore Building). This is a first chance for everyone to meet and share ideas about BRRKC as a research centre.
09/01/2009: The first termly Reading Group meeting will take place on 29 April 2009 from 2 to 3:30. More details here.
05/01/2009: Many thanks to Shaun for setting up this fantastic temporary website for BRRKC. The Birkbeck webteam will take over in the next three to four months. Please email suggestions to brrkc@sllc.bbk.ac.uk.
05/01/2009: The next steering group meeting will take place on Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 2pm in room G02, 43 Gordon Square. Items for discussion will include applications for external funding, the proposed MA in Kinship and Community Studies (Theories and Representations), and the planning of the Spring 2011 BRRKC International Conference. Agenda. Minutes.
