Spring Research Seminar Series
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Steven Connor is Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, He is also Academic Director of the London Consortium Graduate Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies. His most recent books are The Book of Skin (London: Reaktion, 2004) and Fly, on the history of the fly in poetry, painting, religion and science (London: Reaktion 2006). He is currently completing an historical poetics of the air. Steven will be talking on the work of French philosopher and author Michel Serres.
5 – 6 pm, T79, Knights Park Campus
Wednesday 17 February 2010
Jonathan Barnbrook is the founder of Barnbrook Design a multifaceted practice which includes graphic design, typeface design and motion graphics. He is known for his provocatively named fonts, such as Mason (originally released as Manson), Exocet, Bastard, Prozac, Nixon and Drone. Working with language and letterforms to reveal subversive nature and strong social commentary – he works with artists and musicians and uses advertising to reveal anti-corporate messages and exhibitions to promote non-commercial work.
5 – 6 pm, T79, Knights Park Campus
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Stefan Muthesius
‘The Image of the Domestic Interior: Reflections on new trends in the later 19th Century’
Stefan Muthesius is the author of The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th Century Domestic Interior (2009).
5 – 6 pm, T79, Knights Park Campus