2006-2007

Programme for Summer 2007

Date      
 		Speaker 
  Topic
Friday 
4 May 		Helena Sheehan 
Dublin City University 		Marxism and the Interpretation of Science
Friday
11 May 		Rachel Schreiber
Johns Hopkins University 		Prostitutes, White Slaves, and Bachelor Girls in the Political Cartoons of the 'Masses' (New York, 1911-1917)
Friday
25 May
 John Timberlake
University of Wolverhampton 		Caspar David Friedrich and the Bomb: Picturing the Nuclear Imaginary after 9/11
Friday
1 Jun 		Otto Karl Werkmeister 
Professor Emeritus Northwestern University

The Apache Syndrome: Concerning the Imaging System of the US Apache AH64 Battle Helicopter

Programme for Spring 2007

Date      
 		Speaker 
  Topic
Friday 
19 January
 		  Screening of the 2003 documentary Chavez: Inside the Coup a.k.a. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised directed by Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Briain
Friday
2 February
 		Mark Neocleous 
Brunel University 		'No Communists or Cocksuckers in the Library': Identity and Loyalty in the National Security State
Friday 16 February
 Timothy Hall
University of East London 		Is Adorno's Political Thought Statist?
Friday
2 march
 		Barbara Engh
University of Leeds 		A Sonorous Figure Formed Around Him: Walter Benjamin and Sound

Programme for Autumn 2006

Date     
Speaker
 Topic
Friday
13 October
 		Introduced by Gail Day, Steve Edwards and Andrew Hemingway
 Art-Historical Responses to 9/11 and its Aftermath
Friday
27 October
 		Jo Malt
King's College London
 Objects, things and their traces: Rachel Whiteread with Benjamin and Lacan
Friday 10 November
 Tom Gretton
University College London
 Too much of a good thing: lithography, wood-engraving and the commodity forms of caricature in the 1820s and 1830s
Friday
24 November
 		Alex Callinicos
King's College London 		Marxism and the Idea of Critique?
Friday
8 December
 		Nick Till
University of Sussex
 The Operatic Chorus: a brief critical history of representations and envoicings of collective identities

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