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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.

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 (Baudrillard, anyone?)

A reading group interested in social and cultural critique with a healthy dose of incredulity, doubt and dissent.2013 meetings:Monday 7th October 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 4th November 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 2nd December 6-7.30pm: Room 112See More

A reading group interested in social and cultural critique with a healthy dose of incredulity, doubt and dissent.2013 meetings:Monday 7th October 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 4th November 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 2nd December 6-7.30pm: Room 112See More

A reading group interested in social and cultural critique with a healthy dose of incredulity, doubt and dissent.2013 meetings:Monday 7th October 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 4th November 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 2nd December 6-7.30pm: Room 112See More

A reading group interested in social and cultural critique with a healthy dose of incredulity, doubt and dissent.2013 meetings:Monday 7th October 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 4th November 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 2nd December 6-7.30pm: Room 112See More

A reading group interested in social and cultural critique with a healthy dose of incredulity, doubt and dissent.2013 meetings:Monday 7th October 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 4th November 6-7.30pm: Room 112Monday 2nd December 6-7.30pm: Room 112See More

For anyone interested in reading and discussing the works of Michel Foucault. We plan to start with The Archaeology of Knowledge in autumn 2011.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

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. Contact [email protected] for further information.See More