Birkbeck Urban Studies Group Seminar Series, 2009-2010
Convenors:
Dr Matt Cook (m.cook@bbk.ac.uk)
Dr Paul Watt (p.watt@bbk.ac.uk)
All seminars are between 1.00pm and 2.00pm
Tuesday 16 March
'The architectures of media power: editing, the newsroom and urban public space'.
Dr Scott Rodgers, Lecturer in Media Theory, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London.
Malet St, London WC1E 7HX
Tuesday 1 June
‘The thresholds of a functional landscape: the architecture of the London Underground and the Paris Metro c.1860-1910’.
Carlos Lopez Galviz.
Room 103, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1
Surveillance and the City: Film Screenings and Roundtable Discussion
All from 6.00 – 8pm, venue to be confirmed.
10 May, Screening 1: The Conversation (Francis Ford Copplla 1974)
17 May, Screening 2: Red Road (Andrea Arnold 2006)
24 May, Screening 3: Hidden (Cache) Michael Haneke 2005
7 June, Roundtable discussion chaired by Dr Amber Jacobs
All welcome – and bring your sandwiches