Current Research Events
AIDS and its melodramas
A series of screenings and discussions to mark the 30th anniversary of the identification of HIV/AIDS
- Tuesday 11th October: An Early Frost (Erman, 1985)
Introduced by Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex)
ARTS A103 4.00pm - Tuesday 25th October: Parting Glances (Sherwood, 1986)
Introduced by Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex)
ARTS A103 4.00pm - Tuesday 8th November: Longtime Companion (René, 1989)
Introduced by Ryan Powell (Kings College, London)
SHAWCROSS AS01 4.00pm - Tuesday 22nd November: [safe] (Todd Haynes, 1995)
Introduced by John David Rhodes (University of Sussex)
ARTS A103 4.00pm
Past research events
Symposia and conferences
Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium:
On Michael Haneke
2 June 2010
Speakers: Mattias Frey, Rosalind Galt, Catherine Grant, Vicky Lebeau, Michael Lawrence, John David Rhodes, Keston Sutherland
Aesthetics of Governance: From the Cold War to Neoliberalism a symposium
20 May 2009
Speakers: Anna McCarthy, Kimberly Springer, Carey Young
Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium:
Drifting: The Films of Claire Denis
2 May 2009
Speakers: Sarah Cooper, Rosalind Galt, Catherine Grant, Michael Lawrence, Laura McMahon
Postgraduate conference sponsored by the AHRC
‘In-Sight: Visualising Theory, Theorising the Visual’
15-16 April 2009
Speakers included: Sara Jane Bailes, Catherine Constable, Sarah Cooper, Karen Jacobs, Esther Leslie, Tara McPherson
Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium:
Homage to Antonioni
23 February 2008
Speakers: Mark Betz, David Mellor, Matilde Nardelli, Roberta Piazza, Laura Rascaroli, John David Rhodes
Lectures
Jo Applin (University of York)
‘Not Working: in the studio with Lee Bontecou, Eva Hesse and Lee Lozano’
8 June 2010
Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths)
‘Decolonizing architecture: The future archaeology of the occupation’
15 October 2008
W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)
‘Cloning Terror: the War of Images’
Inaugural Lecture the Sussex Centre for Visual Fields
Response by Marquard Smith (Westminster), Editor in Chief The Journal of Visual Culture
12 June 2008
Karen Pinkus (University of Southern California)
‘Reading Capital I, Alchemically’
15 May 2008