2008-2009

Programme for Summer 2009

Date
 Speaker
 Topic
Friday
1 May
 		Sheila Rowbotham
University of Manchester
 Edward Carpenter and the Socialist and Anarchist movements of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
Friday
15 May
 		Mark Bould
University of the West of England
 The Cinema of John Sayles:  From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bahktin, and back again
Friday
29 May
 		Tom Gretton
University College London
 Bourgeois Behaviours:  Accumulation & Waste in 19th Century Newspaper Consumption
Friday
12 June
 		Norbert Schneider
University of Karlsruhe
 Jorg Immendorf's Cafe Deutschland

Programme for Spring 2009

Date
 Speaker
Topic
Friday
16 Jan
 		Caroline Arscott in conversation with Steve Edwards
Courtauld Institute, Open University
 Launch of Caroline Arscott's new book Williams Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings
Friday
6 Feb
 		Matthew Beaumont
University College London
 Against the Infernal Yawn: the Scientific Estrangements of Science Fiction
Friday
27 Feb
 		Anita Rupprecht
University of Brighton
 On Not Remembering: Transatlantic Slavery and Finance Capitalism
Thursday
19 March
 		Mark Bould
University of the West of England

The Cinema of John Sayles:  From Billy Zales to Brecht  and Bakhtin, and Back Again

This event will take place in room NG15, Ground Floor, North Block, Senate House.

Programme for Autumn 2008

Date
 Speaker
 Topic
Friday
10 Oct
 Martin Gaughan & Ben Watson
(Independent Scholars)
 'Chaosmos' - rhyme and reason in 'Finnegan's Wake?'
Friday
31 Oct
 Louise Purbrick
University of Brighton
 'A politics of containment':  The destruction of the H blocks of Long Kesh/Maze, Norther Ireland
Friday
21 Nov
 Alan Wallach
College of William & Mary
 Rethinking 'Luminism': Taste, class formation, and new forms of landscape painting in mid-nineteenth century America
Friday
12 Dec
 Owen Hatherley
Birkbeck College
 'Aesthetics of the Offensive':  the 'Third Period' and Comintern Modernism, 1928-32

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