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Wed 14 Mar, 2018 Research Forum, Sackler Lecture series
POSTPONED: RES|FEST 18
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING RES|FEST 18 Due to the ongoing UCU industrial action, we have made the very difficult decision to postpone RES|FEST 18. The 14 March 2018, the date of RES|FEST, is a day that UCU members are on strike over the proposed changes to the USS pension scheme.…
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Mon 5 Feb, 2018 Sackler Lecture series
1968: The Fire of Ideas
Artist Marcelo Brodsky will discuss his recent artwork, 1968: The Fire of Ideas, a visual essay using archive material from the social movements of 1968. Marcelo Brodsky (b.1954) is an Argentine artist and human rights activist. His work shows a powerful political engagement in response to the neofascist dictatorship 1976-83.…
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Fri 9 Mar, 2018 Sackler Lecture series
Vulnerability and Real Time in the Two Koreas
1968 opened literally with a bang when North Korean commandos nearly succeeded in assassinating S. Korean president Park Chung-hee. Two days later, North Korea captured a U.S. Navy intelligence vessel, an incident that brought the world closer to nuclear war than it had come since the Cuban Missile Crisis of…
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Mon 12 Mar, 2018 Sackler Lecture series
CANCELLED: Vanguard and Revolution: The ’68 Radicalizatio...
PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE ONGOING UCU INDUSTRIAL ACTION. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you. Ana Longoni is a writer, researcher of CONICET and professor in Universidad de Buenos Aires. Since a short time, she is Director of Public Activities in the Reina Sofía…
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Mon 19 Feb, 2018 Sackler Lecture series
Noise and Silence in Prague, Warsaw and Budapest c.1968
In 1968 Hungarian artist Tamás Szentjóby painted bands of sulphur on the sides of a common brick to approximate the dials and switches of a portable radio. He had been inspired by stories of Czechoslovak teenagers diverting the attention of the Warsaw Pact forces that occupied the country in August 1968 by…
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Mon 15 Jan, 2018 Research Forum, Sackler Lecture series
A history of detail – or thinking small
This talk addresses the crisis of scale in contemporary criticism. Taking a cue from Foucault’s remark that he wanted to write a History of Detail – a project that could be seen to emerge in part as response to the events of 1968 but which he never executed – I…
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Mon 29 Jan, 2018 American Art, Research Forum, Sackler Lecture series
The King’s Two Bodies
‘The King’s Two Bodies’ considers a cast-metal replica of the building where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. An object intended for manual as much as visual apprehension, the replica compels a return to a discrete past moment as though this were the prologue to a set…
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