Please join us for the first Environmental Humanities reading group, which will take place on Wednesday 6thDecember, from 3-5pm at Birmingham School of Art (room G.01). For this first session we will be reading chapter 1 of Bruno Latour’s The Politics of Nature (2004). If you would like to attend but don’t have the time to read […]
Free registration at this link Dr João Florêncio (University of Exeter) Breeding Futures: Masculinity and the Ethics of CUMmunion in Treasure Island Media’s ‘Viral Loads’ I will look at Treasure Island Media’s porn film Viral Loads and explore its implications for thinking masculinity and community formations. I’ll claim that Viral Loads enacts a refusal of individual autonomy and bodily integrity and alludes […]
Dr Mark Walker | Untimely Meditations (2): Late Foucault "What I would like to stress...is this: there is no establishment of the truth without an essential position of otherness; the truth is never the same; there can be truth only in the form of the other world and the other life (l'autre monde et de la […]
Our regular Shut Up & Write sessions provide the time and the space for you to focus and get on with your own writing. Whatever stage you are at in your PhD, join us over coffee and a biscuit or two to increase your writing productivity with like-minded researchers. Stay for the whole time or drop in […]
Free registration at this link Jose Arroyo (University of Warwick) Queer Cinema and Cultural Translation: Almodóvar’s The Law of Desire (1987) Law of Desire is a gay triangle in the melodramatic mode but shot through with camp so as to be both distancing and emotionally involving, eliciting laughter AND tears. It is a landmark film in the lgbtq […]
Celebrate 2017 and catch up with other PhD researchers at the PGR Studio Christmas Party! Join us for drinks and merriment at The Gin Vault on the evening of Wednesday the 13th December. *Christmas jumper optional* Book your free place using the RSVP below.
This mini-conference features presentations from PhD students studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire. There is a wide range of topics, and it promises to be an interesting and stimulating day. Please do come and join us, all welcome! Schedule overview Morning Session: Richard Stenton and Niccolò Granieri | Fostering Microgestures in Piano Playing though the […]
Call for Papers EDITING, PERFORMING AND RE-COMPOSING THE MUSICAL PAST – THE EMERGENCE OF FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM (1870–) ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE 5–7 SEPTEMBER 2018 The French Music Research Hub at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, is very pleased to announce this international conference, to take place in the Recital Hall of the new Conservatoire […]
New Voices is the Association for Art History's annual one-day event that showcases new postgraduate research about art, art history and visual culture. Our next New Voices event will focus on Art and Movement. It will also mark 20 years of New Voices events. Keynote speaker Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll: 'Moving or Migrant? Art in […]
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