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Blogs from past Arts Weeks
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2019
- 'The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov' by Luke Buffini, an MA Philosophy Student at Birkbeck.
- 'But Are You Doing Anything? Curating, Producing and Managing as Practice Research' by Lara Wuester, BA English and Humanities student on the Erasmus program from Munich.
- 'Symmetry and asymmetry: maths, music, poetry' by Miranda Siow, Birkbeck alumni student.
- 'Silencing the virus' by Claire Frampton, an alumna of MA Arts Policy and Management, Birkbeck (2013).
- 'History As Collage/Collage As History/As Collage History/History Collage As' by Fleur Kaminska, MA Museum Cultures student at Birkbeck.
- 'Theatre Scratch Night' by Luke Buffini, an MA Philosophy Student at Birkbeck.
- Downing Street Blues by Dr Ben Worthy, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck.
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2018
- 'Black Mirror' by Caroline Mawer.
- 'Building a Hive Mind through Immersive Art' by Eva Menger, freelance copywriter and MA Contemporary Literature and Culture student.
- 'Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing' by Kayleigh Woods Harley, Project Support Coordinator at Birkbeck.
- 'Floating Islands in Contemporary Art' by Ellie Warr, an MA Text and Performance student.
- 'Gaelic hardship in Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth' by Charlotte Deadman, a researcher in fin de siècle Anglo-Irish culture.
- 'Gigantic Children of the Sun: Kew's Palm House' by Keith Alcorn, PhD research student at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- 'Landscapes of Culture: Raymond Williams 30 Years On' by Colm McAuliffe, MPhil/PhD research student at Birkbeck
- 'Marilyn Monroe: An Unlikely Feminist?' by Benjamin Meißner, a social worker.
- 'The Archive Project: 50 Years of Film and Photography' by Lynsey Ford, Birkbeck alumna.
- 'Wrestling with Words' by Louisa Ackermann, Communications Officer at Birkbeck.
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2017
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2016
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2015
- 'Blake's Dream: A Dramaturgical Experiment' by Dr Luisa Calè, Department of English and Humanities.
- 'Coffee and Commonwealth', a panel discussion with Professor Sue Wiseman, Department of English and Humanities.
- 'Deborah Levy: Form and Content in the Twenty-First-Century Novel' by Laura Garmeson.
- 'Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures' by Sami Salo, MA Cultural and Critical Studies student.
- 'Experimental Literature Today' by Madelaine Bowman, MA Modern and Contemporary Literature student.
- 'Maria Zambrano amongst the Philosophers: A Reconsideration'.
- 'Material History: Henry VIII at Windsor Castle' by Eva-Maria Lauenstein, MPhil/PhD research student.
- 'Precariousness in Latin American Cinema'.
- 'Renaissance Ways of Seeing' by Louise Horton, MPhil/PhD research student.
- 'Scribblers' by Steve Waters, University of East Anglia.
- 'Séance and Seanceability: Magic Lantern' by Helen-Frances Pilkington, MPhil/PhD research student.
- 'Talking Mr Turner' by Helen-Frances Pilkington, an MPhil/PhD Arts and Humanities research student.
- 'What Skills Do Arts Sector Grads Need to Develop their Career?' by Dr Lorraine Lim, Department of Film, Media and Culture.
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2014
- 'After the Battle: Soldiers' Homecoming in Poetry and Prose' by Bryony Merritt, Communications Manager, Birkbeck.
- 'Clouds: Objects, Metaphor, Phenomena' by Rebecca Royale, BA Creative Writing student.
- 'Composing Performance' by Jeremy Mortimer, MA Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance student.
- 'Dissonance and British Art' by Dr Sarah Thomas, Department of History of Art.
- 'Fire Walk with Me: Trauma, Catharsis and the Fantasy of Fantastical Kinship' by Louise Smith, MA Creative Writing student.
- 'Let Us Pray: Representations of Prayer in Word and Image, 1300-1900' by Clare Brown, MA History of Art student.
- 'Shell Shock, Celluloid and World War One: The Discomforts of Being a Spectator', by Rebecca Royle, MA Creative Writing student.
- 'The Acts Between' by Éimear Doherty, MA Arts Policy and Management student.
- 'The Body in Performance' by Lewis Wheeler, Foundation Degree Contemporary Dance Performance student.
- 'The Future of the Book' by Megan McGill, MA Modern and Contemporary Literature student.
- 'The Mediated City: A Tour of Media and Mediation in West End London' by Jeremy Mortimer, MA Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance student.
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2013
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2012