Talks for Autumn 2009

The seminar meets four times a term. All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise stated) at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to a bar.

Friday 16 Oct Dominic Rahtz, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, ‘Metaphorical Materialism (Carl Andre & Robert Smithson)’.

Friday 6 Nov Erdmut Wizisla, Brecht-Benjamin Archive, Berlin, Launch of Walter Benjamin & Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship. This will take place at Birkbeck, Malet St, Room B02/03, & follows a one day conference on the book organised by Esther Leslie.

Wednesday 25 Nov Tim Dayton, Kansas State University, ‘American Poetry, the Historical Materialism of Ideology, & the Great War’. This seminar will take place in the SR3, History of Art Department, UCL, 21-22 Gordon Square.

Friday 18 Dec Nina Power, Roehampton University, ‘One Dimensional Woman: A Critique of  Contemporary Consumer Feminism’