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June 2017

Literature in Times of Exception: Dictatorship and the Chilean Novel

Grínor Rojo (CECLA – Universidad de Chile) Friday 24 October 2014, 6pm, Room 112, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD What to read and how to read Chilean novels of the dictatorship? From… Continue Reading →

Roundtable: The Flickering Darkness (Revisited)

Juan delGado Saturday 8 November 2014, 2.00-5.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Artist Juan delGado will present his recent commission The Flickering Darkness (Revisited) alongside the work by Agata Lulkowska. A panel will analyse and reflect on… Continue Reading →

International Conference: María Zambrano amongst the philosophers: a reconsideration

21-22 May 2015, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD The purpose of this International Conference is to recuperate María Zambrano as an important 20th century thinker, and to increase the visibility… Continue Reading →

Film Screening: The days with him (Os dias com ele / Maria Clara Escobar / Brazil / 2014 / 107min)

Friday 19 June 2015, 6.00pm Room 124, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD In her first feature film, Maria Clara Escobar faces up the discoveries and frustrations on accessing the memory of a… Continue Reading →

Realisms of Precariousness

18-20 May 2015, Room G01,  School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD This film programme presents four contemporary film narratives from Brazil and Colombia over three days. Four unique views that provide different accounts… Continue Reading →

Circular: 3rd Brazilian Youth Film Festival

Saturday 18 October 2014, 1pm to 5pm, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Sq., Main Building,  Room B34 CILAVS is delighted to host Circular: 3rd Brazilian Youth Film Festival, bringing to London the best films made in Brazil for young audiences…. Continue Reading →

Journeys in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Road Films in a Global Era by Natália Pinazza

Book launch Wednesday 11 February 2015, 6.00-7:30pm, Room 112, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD There is a large body of South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina… Continue Reading →

Public Tears and Secrets of the Heart: Political Emotions in a State of Crisis

L. Elena Delgado (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Wednesday 11 May 2016, 6.00pm, Room 112, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD In a society of hyper-communication, compulsive transparency and prescribed positivity, who can make claims, express political… Continue Reading →

Anachronisms? El Escorial and the Christian Reconquest: Preserving Visual Chronicles of Warfare in Early Modern Castile

Laura Fernández-González (University of Lincoln) Wednesday 18 November 2015, 6.00pm, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD The Hall of Battles in El Escorial Monastery is a long gallery covered in frescoes commissioned by Philip II… Continue Reading →

Memory as Montage: The Visual Archive of the Spanish Civil War

Sebastiaan Faber (Oberlin College) Tuesday 9 February 2016, 6.00pm, Keynes Library, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1H 0PD Images were central to the story of the Spanish Civil War and continue to be central in its memory… Continue Reading →

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