All Groups (71)

Modern Literature PhD group

62 members Latest Activity: Oct 8, 2014 Hosted by Birkbeck College, an open-to-all MA/MPhil/PhD reading group. We meet monthly to discuss key texts, listen to invited speakers, and learn…

PhD (History of Art) intake 2015

6 members Latest Activity: Nov 26, 2015

Reformation Reading Group

5 members Latest Activity: Apr 13, 2015

Join us to discuss all aspects of Reformation culture! We are hoping to get together a mixed group of people interested in various different…

The Philip K. Dick Exegesis Reading Group

4 members Latest Activity: Feb 3, 2015

A group to meet monthly for discussion of pre-agreed extracts from the 2012 publication of Philip K. Dick's Exegesis.…

Metaphor-abstraction-exchange

4 members Latest Activity: Jul 14, 2014

We are a new interdisciplinary research group looking at the theme of 'metaphor' - in the broadest sense, including (real) abstraction,…

The Impact of the First World War -reading and social group

11 members Latest Activity: Jun 11, 2014

I aim to begin a group to look at the impact of the First World War via reading, seminars and group visits. this group is open to everyone,…

Navigate: a reading group for the discussion of Travel Writing

16 members Latest Activity: Apr 8, 2015

Our next meeting will be on Thursday 18 June
7:30 - 9:00 pm

Birkbeck School of Arts, Room 224

We will be reading…

The Literary London Reading Group

7 members Latest Activity: Nov 11, 2013

A rumour broke through the thin smoke
Enwreathing abbey, tower, and palace,
The parks, the…

Movement in Modernism

5 members Latest Activity: Feb 10, 2015

A look at the use of dance and movement in modernist literature and art

The Sceptical Reading Group

12 members Latest Activity: Nov 19, 2013

A reading group interested in social and cultural critique with a healthy dose of incredulity, doubt and dissent.

2013…

A Queer Turn [AQT]

11 members Latest Activity: Jan 17, 2014

Deleuze: The Fold

8 members Latest Activity: Mar 17, 2013

A reading group for research students and scholars interested in exploring the Deleuzian fold.

Ecological Thought

22 members Latest Activity: May 16, 2015

A group for the reading and discussion of ecological theory and criticism.

The majority of ecological theory centres on sustainability and…

PhD Cohort 2012

21 members Latest Activity: Jan 9, 2015

A group for the 2012 PhD student cohort to connect, discuss new ideas, support each other, and touch base.

Medieval English Research

7 members Latest Activity: Nov 23, 2014

Our group meets monthly. We consider questions, approaches, problems related to the study of Old and Middle English literature. We…

Test Group

1 member Latest Activity: Nov 22, 2011

Critical Pedagogies

9 members Latest Activity: Mar 2, 2012

A space to discuss the limits and opportunities of critical pedagogy in the current context of increasing fees, marketisation and undemocratic…

Reading Contemporary Fiction

18 members Latest Activity: Apr 23, 2012

Contemporary Fiction Seminar has moved on to Senate House, but it has spawned a little sister project which is here to stay at Birkbeck with the…

RUBBISH

35 members Latest Activity: Apr 30, 2015

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

The Screen Network

31 members Latest Activity: Jun 27, 2012

We are a group of scholars, students and independent writers and researchers with an interest in the moving image. Meetings are friendly and…