Previous Seminars
Programme for Summer 2009
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday 1 May |
Sheila Rowbotham University of Manchester |
Edward Carpenter and the Socialist and Anarchist movements of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries |
| Friday 15 May |
Mark Bould University of the West of England |
The Cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bahktin, and back again |
| Friday 29 May |
Tom Gretton University College London |
Bourgeois Behaviours: Accumulation & Waste in 19th Century Newspaper Consumption |
| Friday 12 June |
Norbert Schneider University of Karlsruhe |
Jorg Immendorf’s Cafe Deutschland |
Programme for Spring 2009
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday 16 Jan |
Caroline Arscott in conversation with Steve Edwards Courtauld Institute, Open University |
Launch of Caroline Arscott’s new book Williams Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings |
| Friday 6 Feb |
Matthew Beaumont University College London |
Against the Infernal Yawn: the Scientific Estrangements of Science Fiction |
| Friday 27 Feb |
Anita Rupprecht University of Brighton |
On Not Remembering: Transatlantic Slavery and Finance Capitalism |
| Thursday 19 March |
Mark Bould University of the West of England |
The Cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zales to Brecht and Bakhtin, and Back AgainThis event will take place in room NG15, Ground Floor, North Block, Senate House. |
Programme for Autumn 2008
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday 10 Oct |
Martin Gaughan & Ben Watson (Independent Scholars) |
‘Chaosmos’ – rhyme and reason in ‘Finnegan’s Wake?’ |
| Friday 31 Oct |
Louise Purbrick University of Brighton |
‘A politics of containment’: The destruction of the H blocks of Long Kesh/Maze, Norther Ireland |
| Friday 21 Nov |
Alan Wallach College of William & Mary |
Rethinking ‘Luminism’: Taste, class formation, and new forms of landscape painting in mid-nineteenth century America |
| Friday 12 Dec |
Owen Hatherley Birkbeck College |
‘Aesthetics of the Offensive’: the ‘Third Period’ and Comintern Modernism, 1928-32 |
Programme for Spring 2008
| Date |
Speaker | Topic |
| Friday 25 Apr |
Bill Rolston University of Ulster |
Politics & Ideology in Belfast Murals |
| Friday 9 May |
Michael Corris Sheffield Hallam University in converstation with Andrew Hemingway |
Launch of Michael Corris’s new book Ad Reinhardt |
| Wednesday 21 May |
Stathis Kouvelakis Kings College London |
Painting the Absent God: Sartre’s Analysis of Tintoretto This seminar will take place in NG14 – Ground Floor, North Block, Senate House |
| Friday 6 Jun |
Alex Potts University of Michigan |
Joseph Beuys & Asgar Jorn: Formations of a Political Art |