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A new Freud Reading Group has been established for Spring 2015. As with previous Freud Reading Groups, our aim is to complete a systematic chronological reading of the entire works of Freud.The group meets fortnightly, usually on Wednesday afternoons. We welcome members from all departments and disciplines, from post-graduate students to established academics. We will be using The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (although members are also welcome to work…See More

The ArtLess Group is an open platform, network and community open to all School of Arts M.Phil/PhDs. Its a chance to develop collaborations and projects, to leverage funding, to connect to initiatives with others and to pool the collective creative resources and connections we all have> . To take part here, please sign up first as a member at…See More

A network for research students interested in practice.See More

Our next meeting will be on Thursday 18 June 7:30 - 9:00 pmBirkbeck School of Arts, Room 224We will be reading selections from This is a Short Relation of some of the Cruel Sufferings (for the Truths Sake) of Katharine Evans & Sarah Cheevers in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (1662)By Katharine Evans and Sarah CheeversFacilitated by Robert Stearn, BirkbeckMore details to follow shortly.The reading will be made available online 2 weeks prior at:…See More

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, whether your interested in art, literature, memoirs and anything else. If anyone is interested please join and we can take it from there. Our first meeting I hope to arrange for beginning of December if there is interest. See More

The Memory and Violence working group is a new interdisciplinary group, open to all with an interest in the relationships between collective memory, public history, trauma, violence, representation, and the politics of memorialisation and memory work. We will be reading some key texts in these fields, and will also be a space for postgraduate students and researchers to discuss their own work with each other. Based at the Birkbeck College School of Arts, we aim to meet once a month during term…See More

hopefully a bit of a tool for the new lot of us to contact, communicate, support, engage &cSee More

A postgraduate reading group exploring the culture of things and objectsSee More

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. ON focuses on collaborative thinking and shared connectivity in theory and practice.

A student-led research seminar focussing on the relationship between literature and the visual, with a focus from 19th century to contemporary. Run jointly by postgraduates from Royal Holloway and Birkbeck, but open to all.We aim to bring together a lively community of researchers from across institutions, and hope to address: methodologies; different media such as painting, film and photography; wider cultural practices, such as fashion and applied arts; and scientific, philosophical or…See More

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 interest in disengaged or broken-up fragments of bodies, things, concepts, or historical ideas is welcome.See More

Run by English Literature / Art History students, meeting one Friday per month. Our first session (5th October, 12-1.30pm in the Keynes Library) will look at Bruno Latour's essay "Why has critique run out of steam" alongside Rosalyn Diprose's "Continental Philosophy: Thinking the Corporeal with the Political". Our second session (2nd November, 12-1.30pm) will aim to look at Derrida's Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview. Texts for subsequent sessions tbc, but many include extracts from…See More

We meet in London museums and galleries to work directly with objects by means of 'slow looking'; discussing a single work of art through careful and attentive engagement. See More

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 from each others' work.