Thursday 7 November 2013, 9.30am-5pm, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday 8 November 2013, 10am-5pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 41 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Convenors: Luciana Martins & Diane Gabrysiak This symposium brings together scholars and curators from the… Continue Reading →

Three public lectures Monday 6th; Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th January 2014, 2.00pm-5.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD Four years after the first complete retrospective of his work in the UK, Pedro Costa, one of the most… Continue Reading →

Thursday 26 June 2014, 7.00-9.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Antônio Márcio da Silva will introduce his book The ‘femme’ fatale in Brazilian cinema: challenging Hollywood norms (2014), followed by Q&A. The femme fatale has long been constructed and understood in popular culture and cinema… Continue Reading →

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 →