Thursday, 29 May 2014, 7.00-9.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Introduction to the book by Louis Bayman Debates on Brazilian cinema with Natália Pinazza and Antonio da Silva Q&A hosted by Tom Gore A drinks reception will… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 24 May 2014, 10am-6pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Organization: Ros Gray (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Luís Trindade (Birkbeck, University of London) Programme 10am  – Que Farei Eu Com Esta Espada? (What Shall I Do… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 22 to Friday, 23 May 2014, Birkbeck, University of London Organization: Ros Gray (Goldsmiths, University of London), Rui Lopes (London School of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), José Neves (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Ricardo Noronha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa),… Continue Reading →

A postgraduate workshop on practice-based research Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 6-7.30pm, Room B04, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Organizers: Agata Lulkowska and Eva Nieto McAvoy Join a photographer, two curators and a performer to discuss… Continue Reading →

Professor Stephen Marsh Tuesday 19 May 2015, 6pm, Room 110, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD This talk focuses on the politics of marginality on the 1970s work of Catalan experimental filmmaker Antoni… Continue Reading →

Professor Anthony Shelton Thursday 21 May 2015, 6pm, Room G01, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Between the 1920s-1950s, rural popular art became an important part of the government-sponsored re-creation of Portuguese national… Continue Reading →

Benjamim Picado Tuesday 9 June 2015, 6pm, Room B01, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD In this talk, Picado addresses the problem of pictorial systems underlying representation of historical eventfulness in photojournalism, in… Continue Reading →

Sergio Rojas (Universidad de Chile) Thursday 30 April 2015, 6pm, Room 632, Main Building, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Sq.), London WC1E 7HX Cierta producción artística en la actualidad intenta hacerse cargo del agotamiento de las… Continue Reading →

Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh) Wednesday 11 March 2015, 6.00pm, Room 354, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Square), Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX This talk will explore Borges’s relations with drawing and painting. Norah Borges, Borges’s sister, was… Continue Reading →

Brad Epps (University of Cambridge) Tuesday 2 December 6.00pm, Room 417, Malet Street (entrance via Torrington Sq.), Birkbeck, University of London, Main Building, London WC1E 7HX Invasión, one of the most celebrated and least seen and studied ‘cult’ films in… Continue Reading →