2009-2010

Programme for Summer 2010

Date Speaker Topic
Friday
30 April
 Joshua Clover
University of California, Davis
 No End & No Beginning:  Pop, Periodization, Problems c. 1989
Friday
14 May
 Matthew Beaumont (UCL)
Gail Day (University of Leeds)
Nina Power (Roehampton University)
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)
 A Symposium on Fredric Jameson's Valences of the Dialectic
Friday
28 May
 Antigoni Memou
University of East London
 Photography in May '68
Friday
11 June
 Simon Constantine
University of Leeds
 "A Montage of Realism":  Sekula's Fish Story and Marx's Capital

Programme for Spring 2010

Date Speaker Topic
Friday
22 Jan
 Gail Day
University of Leeds
 Discussion of the film Venezuela from Below
Friday
26 Feb
 Gilbert Achcar
School of Oriental & African Studies
 Marxism and Orientalism
Friday
5 March
 Michael Sayeau
UCL
 Advertising and the Politics of Aesthetics
Friday
26 March
 Richard Checketts
Royal College of Art
 Shaftesbury's Theory of Art:  Substance and Identity

Programme for Autumn 2009

Date Speaker Topic
Friday
16 Oct
 Dominic Rahtz
University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury
 Metaphorical Materialism (Carl Andre & Robert Smithson)
Friday
6 Nov
 Erdmut Wizisla
Brecht-Benjamin Archive, Berlin
 Launch of Walter Benjamin & Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship


Wednesday
25 Nov
 Tim Dayton
Kansas State University

American Poetry, the Historical Materialism of Ideology, & the Great War
Friday
18 Dec
 Nina Power
Roehampton University
 One Dimensional Woman: A Critique of  Contemporary Consumer Feminism

Page last modified on 11 may 11 14:39