Robert Stearn's Page

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

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

Suggestions so far: Judith Butler (perhaps the first chapter of Bodies That Matter)Jacques DerridaMikhail Bakhtin (perhaps one of the essays collected in The Dialogic Imagination)See More

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

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 postgraduate reading group exploring the culture of things and objectsSee 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