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Last year, Arts Week included over fifty events, including lectures, readings, film screenings, workshops, guided walks, performances and panel discussions, as well as two exhibitions. This video gives a flavour of what to expect.
A discussion exploring the documentary reliving Sentsov’s case and current political persecutions.
Speakers explore the reading and teaching the works of so-called 'bad men'.
Panellists discuss Pieter Christoffel Wonder’s Patrons and Lovers of Art (1830) from different perspectives within the context of British cultural history.
This event formed part of a short series of CHASE-supported events aimed primarily at supporting postgraduate research students and was followed by the London Science Fiction Research Community screening.
A panel discussion exploring the aesthetics of neurodiversity and the place of invisible disabilities in the cultural industries.
Syphilis is a disease whose symptoms and circumstances, across the centuries, made it peculiarly compelling and challenging to understand. How do we analyse something so deeply mythologised?
Focusing on the Holocaust, this event explores how soundscapes – music, noise, voices, speech and silence – have the ability to evoke difficult histories.
Listen to podcasts from past performances and panels at Arts Week.
Lara Wuester, BA English and Humanities student on the Erasmus program from Munich, reviews this panel discussion.
Miranda Siow, Birkbeck alumni student reviewed the event which explored symmetry and asymmetry in maths, music and poetry.
Claire Frampton, an alumna of MA Arts Policy and Management, Birkbeck College, 2013 shares her experience attending the immersive performance presented by Lily Hunter-Green.
Dr Ben Worthy,Senior Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck, discussed the purpose of prime ministerial memoirs.
Luke Buffini, an MA Philosophy Student at Birkbeck and co-founder of Lamplight Magazine, reviewed the performances shown as part of Theatre Scratch Night event.
Eva Menger reports on Bee Composed Live, an immersive art and sound project featured in Arts Week 2018.
Andrew Youngson reports on the event run by the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research.
Read blog posts about past Arts Week events.
An exploratory walk using black mirrors, led by interdisciplinary artist Sheila Ghelani.
A live poetry performance from poets and spoken-word performers from Birkbeck and beyond.
Birkbeck alumna and screenwriter Gabriella Apicella, Professor Catherine Grant, and author Michelle Morgan consider Marilyn Monroe as a feminist icon.
Actors perform seventeenth-century writings to explore how women in the past experienced and understood birth.
An installation by Sarah Scarsbrook that explores self-reflexivity and the self as subject and object.
Theatre's Engagement with Mechanisms of Contagion and Containment.
An exhibition highlighting Jo Spence, a British photographer, writer and ‘cultural sniper’ in 2017.
Take a look at photos from Arts Week over the years.
