Blogs from past Arts Weeks

2019

'The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov' by Luke Buffini, an MA Philosophy Student at Birkbeck.
'But Are You Doing Anything? Curating, Producing and Managing as Practice Research' by Lara Wuester, BA English and Humanities student on the Erasmus program from Munich.
'Symmetry and asymmetry: maths, music, poetry' by Miranda Siow, Birkbeck alumni student.
'Silencing the virus' by Claire Frampton, an alumna of MA Arts Policy and Management, Birkbeck (2013).
'History As Collage/Collage As History/As Collage History/History Collage As' by Fleur Kaminska, MA Museum Cultures student at Birkbeck.
'Theatre Scratch Night' by Luke Buffini, an MA Philosophy Student at Birkbeck.
Downing Street Blues by Dr Ben Worthy, Senior Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck.

'Black Mirror' by Caroline Mawer.
'Building a Hive Mind through Immersive Art' by Eva Menger, freelance copywriter and MA Contemporary Literature and Culture student.
'Cook's Camden: The Making of Modern Housing' by Kayleigh Woods Harley, Project Support Coordinator at Birkbeck.
'Floating Islands in Contemporary Art' by Ellie Warr, an MA Text and Performance student.
'Gaelic hardship in Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth' by Charlotte Deadman, a researcher in fin de siècle Anglo-Irish culture.
'Gigantic Children of the Sun: Kew's Palm House' by Keith Alcorn, PhD research student at Royal Holloway, University of London.
'Landscapes of Culture: Raymond Williams 30 Years On' by Colm McAuliffe, MPhil/PhD research student at Birkbeck
'Marilyn Monroe: An Unlikely Feminist?' by Benjamin Meißner, a social worker.
'The Archive Project: 50 Years of Film and Photography' by Lynsey Ford, Birkbeck alumna.
'Wrestling with Words' by Louisa Ackermann, Communications Officer at Birkbeck.

'Dematerialising Theatre' by Jonathan Parr, MA Text and Performance student.
'"He Doesn't Talk Politics Anymore": The Role of Politics in Contemporary US Fiction' by Dr Joseph Brooker, Department of English and Humanities.
'Landscape and Power' by Sonali Jayetileke, Birkbeck alumna.
'Mr A. Moves in Mysterious Ways' by Fran Lock, poet and practice-based PhD research student.
'Science as Spectacle' by Jonathan Parr, MA Text and Performance student.
'The Contemporary: An Exhibition' by Hafsa Al Khudairi, MA Contemporary Literature and Culture student.
'The Everyday Life of Digital Humanities' by Valentina Salvatierra.
'Underground Films from the Barrelstout Archive by Selina Robertson, MPhil/PhD Film and Screen Media research student.
'Virginia Woolf's Teeth' by Professor Martin Eve, Department of English and Humanities.
'What Goes Around. Fifty Years of "The Third Policeman"' by Professor Martin Eve, Department of English and Humanities'.

'Can Journalism Change the World?' by Andrew Youngson, Media and Publicity Officer, Birkbeck.
'Meet the Kit de Waal Scholar: Stephen Morrison-Burke' by Andrew Youngson, Media and Publicity Officer, Birkbeck.
'Rediscovered! The Story of Birkbeck's Manuscript and Rare Medieval Book Collection' by Louise Horton, Department of English and Humanities.

'Blake's Dream: A Dramaturgical Experiment' by Dr Luisa Calè, Department of English and Humanities.
'Coffee and Commonwealth', a panel discussion with Professor Sue Wiseman, Department of English and Humanities.
'Deborah Levy: Form and Content in the Twenty-First-Century Novel' by Laura Garmeson.
'Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures' by Sami Salo, MA Cultural and Critical Studies student.
'Experimental Literature Today' by Madelaine Bowman, MA Modern and Contemporary Literature student.
'Maria Zambrano amongst the Philosophers: A Reconsideration'.
'Material History: Henry VIII at Windsor Castle' by Eva-Maria Lauenstein, MPhil/PhD research student.
'Precariousness in Latin American Cinema'.
'Renaissance Ways of Seeing' by Louise Horton, MPhil/PhD research student.
'Scribblers' by Steve Waters, University of East Anglia.
'Séance and Seanceability: Magic Lantern' by Helen-Frances Pilkington, MPhil/PhD research student.
'Talking Mr Turner' by Helen-Frances Pilkington, an MPhil/PhD Arts and Humanities research student.
'What Skills Do Arts Sector Grads Need to Develop their Career?' by Dr Lorraine Lim, Department of Film, Media and Culture.

'After the Battle: Soldiers' Homecoming in Poetry and Prose' by Bryony Merritt, Communications Manager, Birkbeck.
'Clouds: Objects, Metaphor, Phenomena' by Rebecca Royale, BA Creative Writing student.
'Composing Performance' by Jeremy Mortimer, MA Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance student.
'Dissonance and British Art' by Dr Sarah Thomas, Department of History of Art.
'Fire Walk with Me: Trauma, Catharsis and the Fantasy of Fantastical Kinship' by Louise Smith, MA Creative Writing student.
'Let Us Pray: Representations of Prayer in Word and Image, 1300-1900' by Clare Brown, MA History of Art student.
'Shell Shock, Celluloid and World War One: The Discomforts of Being a Spectator', by Rebecca Royle, MA Creative Writing student.
'The Acts Between' by Éimear Doherty, MA Arts Policy and Management student.
'The Body in Performance' by Lewis Wheeler, Foundation Degree Contemporary Dance Performance student.
'The Future of the Book' by Megan McGill, MA Modern and Contemporary Literature student.
'The Mediated City: A Tour of Media and Mediation in West End London' by Jeremy Mortimer, MA Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance student.

'Handel's Cross' by Dr Fintan Walsh, Department of English and Humanities.
'Moving Images: Mark Lewis and David Campany in Conversation' by Carrie Mcalinden and Meg Hanna, MA Film, Television and Screen Media students.
'Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures' by Linda Grant, MPhil/PhD Renaissance Studies student.
'Shakespeare and the Senses' by Jessica Barrett, MA Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance student.
'The Art of Writing; or, The Science of Writing' by Clare Brown, MA History of Art student.
'Victorian Dolls and Material Play' by Emma Curry, MPhil/PhD English and Humanities research student.

'Cross-Dressing in Silent Films' by Rosalyn Croek, MA Cultural Studies student.
'Freshwater' by Roisin Lynch, School of Arts intern.
'Jokes, Laughter and Literature' by James Brown, Creative Design and Visual Identity Manager, Birkbeck.
'Loose Muse: Four Women Poets' by Emily Best, MA Modern and Contemporary Literature student.
'Mrs Birkbeck's Album and Reception' by Lynette Spencer, Birkbeck alumna.
'Naked Homo' by Lee Pritchard, MA English student.
'Writers' Hub: Self-Publishing' by Catriona Jarvis, Birkbeck alumna.