Events 2018/2019
- (Of Souls and Black Folk): On Accumulation, Conversion, and Colonial Capture, Alonso de Sandoval’s Treatise on Slavery (De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute, 1647) (2 December) - We are delighted to invite you to Professor Jerome Branche’s Leverhulme Lecture on Friday, 2 December at 6pm. Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Branche is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the... Continue Reading →
- Alien Nation: The Cinema of Michel Lipkes (21-22 October) - Presented by Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, Birkbeck Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies, and Close-Up Film Centre Friday 21 October (Birkbeck) and Saturday 22 October (Close-Up) Mexican filmmaker Michel Lipkes has dedicated much of his professional life to... Continue Reading →
- Trafficking the Earth: Photography, Communities, and Extractivism (5 October) - CILAVS Early Career Researchers Network and London Mining Network are pleased to invite you to the round table Trafficking the Earth: Photography, Communities, and Extractivism, an evening event that will discuss the politics of extractivism and the effects of these politics in communities and the... Continue Reading →
- Representing hidden histories on stage and screen: First Workshop with The CATALINA Film Team (21 Sep) - When: 21 September 2021Venue: Online To register, please click here This first workshop aims to provide you with insights into the process of how the Untold Arts team translates hidden histories into theatre and film and introduce you to our... Continue Reading →
- Chasing the Revolution: Marie Langer, Psychoanalysis and Society (Lily Ford, 2021, 55m) (28 May) - Marie Langer’s life encapsulates one of the great struggles of the mind of the twentieth century. Born in Vienna, and a participant in the Spanish Civil War, Langer brought the critical tools of psychoanalysis to the social and individual problems... Continue Reading →
- The destruction of images in the medieval and early modern world: Jews, Muslims, Protestants and Catholics in Iberia (20 Nov) - Date and time: Fri, 20 November 2020, 18:00 – 19:00 GMTLocation: Online Book your place now. In this paper, Prof Borja Franco presents the main written and visual sources that captured trials for iconoclastic behaviour in medieval and early modern... Continue Reading →
- Essay Film Festival Prelude: The Devil Never Sleeps/EI Diablo Nunca Duerme (6 March) - Date and time: Fri, 6 March 2020, 18:00 – 21:00 GMTLocation: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD The Devil Never Sleeps (EI Diablo Nunca Duerme) 1994 • Video • 82 min. • Lourdes Portillo Screening as a prelude... Continue Reading →
- Essay Film Festival Prelude: Things in the Distance – Alberto Seixas Santos (7 March) - Essay Film Festival Prelude: Things in the Distance – Alberto Seixas Santos Date and Time: Saturday 7 March, 1pm-6pmLocation: Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, WC1. Reflecting on the Carnation Revolution’s filmic production, Portuguese filmmaker Alberto Seixas Santos often criticised the... Continue Reading →
- (CANCELLED) “I didn’t want to be a mother”: the enforced lives of women who don’t follow society’s norms – Dr Trifonia Melibea Obono (21 Feb) - Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. In this seminar, Trifonia Melibea Obono will talk about her feminist and LGBT activism, as well as her latest nonfiction book Yo no quería ser madre (I didn’t want to be a mother), in... Continue Reading →
- Screening + Talk HAPTIC FILMS: Video Essays by Ricardo Vieira Lisboa - UTOPIA FILM FESTIVAL in partnership with CILAVS proudly presents the UK premiere of Haptic Films: Video Essays by Ricardo Vieira Lisboa (rated 15*), followed by a talk with the director. Attendance is free but booking necessary:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-talk-haptic-films-video-essays-by-ricardo-vieira-lisboa-tickets-80673012151 In Ricardo Vieira Lisboa’s own words: ‘In this... Continue Reading →
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