Birkbeck Institutes

09/06/2018

Day 2
Session 2: Mind-wandering, ADHD & Contemporary Art. Chair: Sophie Jones
Alessandra Cianetti (Curator): Mind-wandering in action: the power of the distracting performative body
Felicity Callard: Tracking down day-dreams

09/06/2018

Day 2
Session 1 (Education, Digital Media). Chair: Felicity Callard
Jessica Massonnié (Birkbeck): Good multitaskers suffer less from noise in classroom settings
Octavia Reeve (Birkbeck): Digital Media: Paying Attention and the Cost of Distraction

09/06/2018

Day 2
Keynote speech- Sophie Jones (Birkbeck, English). Inscrutable Objects: Minimalist Literature, Attention Deficit Disorder, and the Problem of Knowledge

08/06/2018

Session 3 (Historicism/ Psychology). Chair: Esther Leslie
Katy Maydon (Birkbeck): Jewish Passivity in Academia and Cinema: Peter Hayes and The Son of Saul
Eleonora Antonakaki Giannisi (Kingston): Distraction and Censorship
Tom Fielder (Birkbeck): Are You Distracted? Following Freud in his Interpretation of Dreams, Slips of the Tongue, and Neurotic Symptoms

08/06/2018

Session 2 (Distraction & Politics). Chair: Dr. Rowan Lubbock (Birkbeck)
Arianna Bassetti (QMUL): Engaged Comics for Migratory Publics: Zerocalcare’s Kobane calling
Cindy Guo (Indiana): (In)visible Individuals: Exploring the Distracted Narrative of Ha Jin’s War Trash
Aytekin Kaan Kurtul (Middlesex): Online Lèse-majesté: Silencing Dissent in the “Age of Distraction” and the Example of Turkey

08/06/2018

Session 1 (Distraction & Aesthetics). Chair: Carolin Duttlinger
Nickolas Lambrianou (Birkbeck): An aesthetics of distraction: Encounters and Interventions in contemporary art
Lawrence S. Wang (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität): An Aesthetic Phenomenology of Boredom
Zoe Louizos (Birkbeck): The phenomenon of canned laughter in the 20th c

07/06/2018

Tomorrow!
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Age of Distraction?
8-9 June.

04/06/2018

Still time to register! Graduate & : Age of Distraction? 8-9 June. http://bit.ly/2IjrOKy full programme: http://bit.ly/2smdrzl

Graduate Student Conference Organized by Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality Keynote Speakers: Professor Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford. Dr. Sophie Jones, Birkbeck. Discussions with: Prof. Felicity Callard and curator A...

30/05/2018

Full programme for our Graduate conference (Age of Distraction) is available! Read on our FB event page, blog page: http://bit.ly/2smdrzl, or eventbrite: http://bit.ly/2IjrOKy

Birkbeck Institutes Annual Graduate Conference: 8-9 June 2018 Are we Living in an Age of Distraction? Programme   Friday 8th June 9.00-9.45am: Registration (Coffee & Tea provided) 9.45-1…

22/05/2018

Summer Graduate Conference: Are we Living in an Age of Distraction? 8-9 June.

Register now (free for all). Keynote speakers: Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford), Sophie Jones (Birkbeck, English). Discussions with Prof. Felicity Callard (Birkbeck, Psychosocial) and curator Alessandria Cianetti.

Featuring an art exhibition from Dr. Kai Syng Tan, curated by Alessandria Cianetti: Photographic series BADGE-WEARING MIND WANDERER IN ACTION (M.I.A), 2017. a 1.5 year art practice-led research project that draws on emerging research on the universality of mind wandering as well as how it relates to visual art and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

More info and booking: http://bit.ly/2IjrOKy

Graduate Student Conference Organized by Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality Keynote Speakers: Professor Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford. Dr. Sophie Jones, Birkbeck. This conference explores distraction and all its meani...

14/05/2018

Summer Graduate Conference: Are we Living in an Age of Distraction? 8-9 June. Register now (free for all). Confirmed speakers: Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford), Sophie Jones (Birkbeck, English).

Graduate Student Conference Organized by Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality Keynote Speakers: Professor Carolin Duttlinger, University of Oxford. Dr. Sophie Jones, Birkbeck. This conference explores distraction and all its meani...

11/05/2018

New from our recent events are up on our site: Gary Younge Lecture, Crime and Global Book Launch, and Global 68

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