All Groups (34)

Space Reading Group

56 members Latest Activity: on Saturday A monthly reading group open to all with an interest in spatial theory and literature.

Fragments

12 members Latest Activity: May 11

This is a group for anyone studying an element, a piece, a bit, a portion, something not quite intact, or part of a larger whole. Anyone with an…

Deleuze - Cinema 2

6 members Latest Activity: Oct 25, 2011

Reading Group for Deleuze's "Cinema 2: The Time-Image"

Thinking Things

12 members Latest Activity: on Monday

A postgraduate reading group exploring the culture of things and objects

AU HASARD - CINE CLUB

10 members Latest Activity: May 16

AU HASARD

Au Hasard is a new cine-club in London. Our first season of screenings are thematic double-bills with a political…

The short fiction of J.G. Ballard

9 members Latest Activity: Mar 7 This is a group that will meet once a month (probably on a Monday) to discuss short stories by J.G. Ballard. Suggestions on relevant theory welcome…

MUSIC AND ART CRITICISM

2 members Latest Activity: Mar 1

FOUCAULT READING GROUP

28 members Latest Activity: Jan 22

For anyone interested in reading and discussing the works of Michel Foucault. We plan to start with The Archaeology of Knowledge in…

Filth Reading Group

13 members Latest Activity: Mar 30

This is a monthly reading group for anyone interested in ideas of 'filth.' The focus will generally be on texts that address the theme, but…

RUBBISH

34 members Latest Activity: Oct 21, 2011

Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and…

Deleuze Study Group

11 members Latest Activity: May 3

We are a group of research students, professors and enthusiasts, of varying degrees of Deleuzian expertise, meeting fortnightly to discuss A…

Post-colonial Reading Group

10 members Latest Activity: Jan 22 This group welcomes anyone interested in Post-colonial theory and literature. Please feel free to come to the seminar to check it out and see whether…

London Renaissance Seminar

9 members Latest Activity: Mar 28

The London Renaissance Seminar is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture.

It…

SLOW LOOKING

17 members Latest Activity: Jan 26

We meet in London museums and galleries to work directly with objects by means of 'slow looking';…

Theatre Salon Reading Group

5 members Latest Activity: May 3 Hosted at Birkbeck, the Theatre Salon Reading group is open to all MA/MPhil/PhD students, academics and practitioners. We meet three times a term to…

ON

24 members Latest Activity: Feb 29 As part of the Poetics Centre, Birkbeck, the ON seminars are a series of round table discussions on the practice of research in poetry and poetics.…

Phenomenology Reading Group

23 members Latest Activity: Apr 20 A close reading of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. We have now completed the introductory section and will be starting on Part One 'The…

Nineteenth Century Reading Group

20 members Latest Activity: May 10 This relaxed postgraduate group discusses a range of texts from the nineteenth century. We meet over a drink on the third monday of the month.…

Society of the Spectacle

16 members Latest Activity: Jan 22

New reading group starting next term Oct 2011 of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord...

Contemporary Fiction Group

52 members Latest Activity: May 14 This group hereby pledges to support the Contemporary Fiction Seminars in all the interesting work they will produce and inspire. For further info…