Saturday, 20 November 2010, 3.00pm, Room 416, Malet Street, Birkbeck, London  WC1E 7HX In Recursos Humanos and Efectos colaterales, Gabriela Liffschitz  (1963-2004) composes a series of verbal and visual self-portraits that show the body of a woman who has breast… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 27 November 2010, 9.00am – 4.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WCIH 0PD In collaboration with DLAFF (Discovery Latin American Film Festival), CILAVS is offering the opportunity to watch a trilogy of films by the Mexican filmmaker Julián… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 26 February 2011, 2.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD These talks were organized by the Embassy of Mozambique in collaboration with CILAVS to commemorate  the 25th anniversary of the tragedy of Mbuzini, where the first President… Continue Reading →

A dialogue between London and Barcelona Friday 28 – Saturday 29 January 2011, Birkbeck at Stratford, University of East London, Stratford Campus, Computer Center and Main Entrance, Room CCG05, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ A two-day workshop bringing together for… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 27 January 2011, 12.00 noon, Room 321, Malet Street, Birkbeck, London WC1E 7HX  Narrating History is an interdisciplinary project in different formats, mediums and spaces that alludes to subjective memory’s ways of loss, trauma and narration. It thus comes… Continue Reading →

Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 6.00pm, Room 153, Malet Street, Birkbeck, London WC1E 7HX  How to confront tyranny?  How to maintain ethical self conduct within such a situation, in the midst of murderous dictatorship?  How to make art, to celebrate creativity… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 31 March – Saturday 2 April 2011, Kings Place, York Way, London N1 9AG Curator Patricia Bossio’s exploration of the processes of identity building, for individuals and for the cities of Buenos Aires, London and Rio de Janeiro has… Continue Reading →

by Denise Y. Arnold Monday, 23 May 2011, 6pm, Room153, Malet Street, Birkbeck, London WC1E 7HX This paper gives a reading of Andean textiles as documentary repositories concerning tributary relations in the past, and the traces that these relations have… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 11 June 2011,  3.30 pm – 7.00 pm,  Clore Lecture Theatre Clore Centre, Birkbeck , Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL We are screening Isabel Coixet’s most recent film Listening to Judge Garzón, documenting an interview conducted by Spanish author… Continue Reading →

Join us on Friday June 24 at 7pm in the Birkeck Cinema to celebrate the launch of our new MA World Cinema. This MA will introduce students to the cinematic traditions of different regions and continents and help explore them… Continue Reading →