Birkbeck Arts Week 2015

Event Dates: 18 -22 May 2015
Birkbeck School of Arts
Birkbeck University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD

Birkbeck Arts Week 2015

Welcome to Birkbeck’s eighth annual Arts Week – running this year from Monday 18 to Friday 22 May. The week will include lectures, readings, film screenings, taster courses, performances and panel discussions and is our annual showcase of the varied enterprises of Birkbeck academics, on topics both public and scholarly.

The programme of events reflects the liveliness of teaching and research within Birkbeck’s School of Arts, whose internationally renowned academics address some of the most important issues that affect our society today.

A selection of events have been recorded and are available below:

Monday 18 May

Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures

Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square
Curiosity

Room G01, 43 Gordon Square
Adapting Diderot’s ‘Le Neveu deRameau’/Rameau’s Nephew

Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
Found in Translation – The Man Booker International Prize

Tuesday 19 May

Waterstones Gower Street
Remembering in Ruins

Room 110, 43 Gordon Square
The Ex- of Experimental Cinema: the 1970s Films of Antoni Padrós

Room 112, 43 Gordon Square
Interpreting Shakespeare through Performance

Wednesday 20 May

Room G04, 43 Gordon Square
Photographs of London