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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
Vanguard and Revolution: The ’68 Radicalization in the Ar...
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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Find Out MoreVanguard and Revolution: The ’68 Radicalization in the Argentinian Avant-garde
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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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Find Out MoreNoise and Silence in Prague, Warsaw and Budapest c.1968
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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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