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This is a reading group for all those interested in existential phenomenology.The group will be reading through Being and Time in the first instance.See More

This conference provides a forum for English and Humanities and Arts and Humanities MPhil/PhD students at Birkbeck to gain experience and confidence in presenting their work. It offers a friendly and stimulating environment for students to present aspects of their ongoing projects, or ideas for future research, to fellow students and staff.The call for papers for this is live. Deadline is Monday 9th December 2013. Please email submissions to [email protected].See More

Our group meets monthly. We consider questions, approaches, problems related to the study of Old and Middle English literature. We also discuss each others research.See More

We have now (finally) finished reading Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, and will not be meeting again. Many thanks to all those who joined in!See More

In response to Steve's email, can I propose Wed 17, 7pm - subject to availability of a room.Mike.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 group is no longer running.See More

The London Renaissance Seminar is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture. It meets regularly at Birkbeck in term time, holding Saturday seminars, events and conferences.See 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