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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

Art Writing Writing Art, founded in 2012 at the University of Bristol, is a discussion and research group set up to provide a place of convergence for researchers interested in the actively shifting and overlapping intersections between art, writing and art history. We hope to support, consolidate and expand our research through peer discussion and exploration. As a framing device for art experience art writing is never neutral, never a mere vehicle for communication. At times it is…See More

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

Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and through spaces, objects and language. 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.

This group is no longer running.See More