Events archive

Description: Professor David Johnston will speak on what it means to translate a play like Himmelweg - about how and what we remember and how we relate to and memorialise the past.

Description: In this workshop Paula Rodríguez y Sandra Arpa, from Teatro Inverso, discuss their practical research into the Classics of the Spanish Golden Age with the aim of providing useful tools to the contemporary actor to work with the Classical verse.

Description: Pepe Viyuela will give a talk about his experience with Payasos sin Fronteras (Clowns without Borders), an NGO that he has been a part of for over twenty years and that he has travelled to places in conflict with (Kosovo, Iraq, Palestine), in order to make children who suffer from the horrors of war, laugh.

Description: In this workshop Paula Rodríguez y Sandra Arpa, from Teatro Inverso, analyse the principal underlying questions in the celebrated play La vida es sueño of Calderón de La Barca with the aim of facilitating the understanding of classical Spanish theatre plays and to discover how the universality of their contents are still relevant today.

Description: Natalia Menéndez, director of the International Festival of Classical Theatre of Almagro since 2010, opens the Festival of Spanish Theatre of London with a lecture on "Cervantes: women and theatre in his life and work"

Description: How do datafied and digital relations emerge both between refugees and humanitarian organisations? Between non-state and state actors involved in the digital ecosystems? How do they transform refugees existence? Representatives from King's Centre for Digital Culture, Department of Digital Humanities and the Department of War Studies explore the social and political consequences of these developments.

Description: "The Triumph and Crisis of Neoliberalism in Post-Communist States" with Hilary Appel Podlich Family Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College

Description: Adam Day, Senior Researcher at the UN University will discuss recent research from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Description: War Zone Freelance Photography exhibition portrays the work of freelance journalists covering current conflicts throughout the Middle East.

Description: Poetry reading by Rob Halpern and a screening of Weather Diary 3 by George Kuchar Rob Halpern is the author of several books of poetry, including Common Place (2015), Music for Porn (Nightboat 2013), Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009), and Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2006). Together with Taylor Brady, he co-authored the book-length poem Snow Sensitive Skin, which has been reissued by Displaced Press. In 2015, Enitharmon published [--------] (Placeholder), a selection from across his writing projects. He teaches at Eastern Michigan University, runs a poetry workshop at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, and lives in Ypsilanti, MI.Part of his series on sexual desire and meteorology, George Kuchar's Weather Diary 3 (1988) was shot on 8mm video and edited in camera. Kuchar, born in 1942 in the Bronx, was a legendary queer artist. He made over 200 movies, frequently collaborating with his brother Mike. He died in San Francisco in 2011. The film will be introduced by James Boaden (University of York).