Events 2007/2008

• Birkbeck Institute of Humanities Research Fellow Lecture - ‘Changing places. Dynamic ways of escaping from the functionalist-essentialist paradigms of identity’ Prof Denise Y. Arnold (ILCA and Birkbeck) Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 6.30 pm, Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building, Malet St, London  WC1E 7HX
• ‘Rosebud Plan: On Documentalities, Sites and Politics of Memory’ - María Ruido (Universitat de Barcelona and Birkbeck) Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 12.00 – 2.00 pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
• CILAVS Lectures: ‘Women on the verge of an urban breakdown: Almodóvar’s city girls on film and television’ - Prof Paul Julian Smith (University of Cambridge) Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 1.00-2.00pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
• CILAVS Film Screenings: ‘¿Puedo Hablar? May I speak?’ (Chris Moore, 2006) - Monday, 19 November 2007 at 3.00 pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD A new documentary film on Hugo Chávez and the political conflict in Venezuela, featuring a Q&A session with producer and co-director Chris Moore.
• ‘Del amor y de la carne: Dali, la gauche divine y el ángel de la historia’ - Prof Teresa Vilarós (University of Aberdeen) Thursday, 13 March 2008 at 4.30 pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
• ‘The Role of the Artist in Latin America’ - Luis Camnitzer (Professor Emeritus of Art at SUNY Old Westbury) Monday, 10 March 2008 at 4.30pm, Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
• ‘Eye Witness: Historical Interventions in the Photography of Sebastião Salgado’ - Prof Parvati Nair (Queen Mary University of London) Friday, 25 January 2008, 6-7.30 pm, Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck, London, WC1H 0PD
• CILAVS Inaugural Seminar Series: ‘Mexican cinema’s contribution to unreality’ - Carlos Monsiváis Monday, 29 October 2007 at 7pm, Room B04, Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD

Image credit @ Carmen Fracchia