Monday, 19 to Friday, 30 March 2012, Embassy of Peru, The Portable Gallery, 52 Sloane Street London SW1X 9SP Monday to Friday 10:00-13:00 15:00-17:00 I admire the sensibility and mathematics involved in the choice of colour by Peruvian embroiderers, who… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 15 to Saturday, 17 March 2012, The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor) and the Stevenson Lecture Theatre,  British Museum, London This Conference arises from the AHRC-funded project Weaving communities of practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes,… Continue Reading →

Cristiana Bertazoni (Centro de Estudos Mesoamericanos e Andinos, Universidade de São Paulo) Friday, 2 March 2012, 6.00 to 7.30pm, Birkbeck, Room G15, Malet Street, London  WC1E 7HX (Entrance via Torrington Place) This paper presents an iconographical analysis of Inca colonial… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 23 February 2012, 2-5pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD A panel of academics from a range of disciplines will discuss Occupy London.  They will focus on how urban space and politics intersect in the historically, politically… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 4 February 2012, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD 2.30pm: Chikwembo (Feitiço, Júlio Silva, 65 min). The film is in Changana with Portuguese subtitles A fiction feature film, covering topics such as abortion, obscurantism, witchcraft and shamanism…. Continue Reading →

Thursday, 1 December 2011, 6.00 to 9.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Financed with the contingency fund of the workers’ assembly at the Numax factory, this historical documentary is a bittersweet account of the partial successes and… Continue Reading →

Friday, 18 November 2011, 10.00 am to 8.00 pm, Birkbeck, Keynes Library (film screening in Room B04), 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD The Carnation Revolution of 25th April 1974 triggered a revolutionary process that for one year and a… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 5 November 2011, 12.00 to 3.15 pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Programme 12.00 – 12.15 pm       Welcome and introduction 12.15 – 1.45 pm          Screening of Suely in the… Continue Reading →

Sandra Kogut Birkbeck Arts Week, Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 6.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Q&A sessions with award-winning filmmaker Sandra Kogut will follow the screening of Adieu Monde or Pierre and Claire’s Story (1998) and A… Continue Reading →

Valerie Fraser (University of Essex) Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 6.00 to 7.30pm, Birkbeck, Room 255, Malet Street, London  WC1E 7HX Under the government of Salvador Allende the visual arts enjoyed extraordinary popularity in Chile. Between 1970 and 1973 the Museo… Continue Reading →