Monday, 14 June 2010, 6 pm–7.30 pm, Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1 0PD Argentine Visual Artist and Human Rights Activist Marcelo Brodsky will be speaking about his artwork on the memory of the dictatorship in Argentina. The artist… Continue Reading →

Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 7.30pm, Room B20, Birkbeck, Mallet Street, London WC1E 7HX The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa gave a talk at Birkbeck associated with the retrospective of his work at the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern in September, October, 2009…. Continue Reading →

Friday, 5 March 2010, 6pm, Room B36, Birkbeck Main Building, London WC1E 7HX Esther Gabara is Associate Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University and Visiting Researcher at CILAVS (2009-10). This seminar forms… Continue Reading →

Monday, 17 May 2010, 6-7.30pm, Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD This talk contests what it calls the ‘memory model’ for understanding historical meaning in contemporary art. Setting out from a series of conceptual distinctions between history and… Continue Reading →

10-11 December 2010, IGRS, Stewart House, 2nd floor, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN Co-organizers: Dr Maria-José Blanco and Dr Jessamy Harvey with the collaboration of Dr Mercedes Carbayo-Abengózar CILAVS and the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 25 November 2010 10am-3pm: Council Chamber, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR 3pm-5pm: The Studio, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG Focusing on South America, this interdisciplinary symposium aims… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 11 September 2010, 3pm, Room B36, Birkbeck, London WC1E 7HX Aida Bahr is a prize-winning writer of fiction, a literary critic and screenwriter from Cuba. She has been the director of the prestigious Oriente Publishing House, based in Santiago… Continue Reading →

Talk with Jorge Satorre and Catalina Lozano mediated by Luciana Martins and Carmen Fracchia Thursday, 23 September 2010, 6pm, Room 101, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, London WC1E 7JL Modelling Standard is the first collaborative project of artists Jorge Satorre and… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 9 October 2010, 5.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD This production is an adaptation of the classic Brazilian show Pobre Menina Rica and features twelve songs composed by two of the founders of the Bossa Nova… Continue Reading →

Friday, 19 November 2010, 6pm, Room B33, Birkbeck, London WC1E 7HX Recently the academy has turned its attention to the magazine as a serious object of study. The so-called ‘little magazines’ of the avant-garde have become centerpieces in approaching the… Continue Reading →