Michaelmas Term 2011

LSE Arts public lecture
Christ to Coke|

Thursday 3 November 2011 6.30-8pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

Speaker: Professor Martin Kemp

Informative, funny, sad, and surprising by turns, this is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icon, taking eleven mega-famous examples, from Christ to the Coke bottle, to see how they arose and how they continue to function. 

 

LSE Arts and HRL Contemporary public lecture
Emerging art markets
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Tuesday 8 November 2011, 6.30-8pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building

Speaker: Melanie Gerlis

With China now the second or even first biggest art market in the world, this lecture looks at the emerging markets for art in India, Middle East, China, Russia and Latin America.

 

LSE Arts public lecture
Savage Messiah: Transmissions from a discarded future|

Monday 14 November 2011, 6.30-8pm
New Theatre, East Building

Speaker: Laura Oldfield Ford

In this talk, artist, writer and zine maker Laura Oldfield Ford will be showing traces and relics from her psychogeographic drifts around the ruined landscapes of London's hinterlands.

 

LSE Arts public film screening and panel discussion
Coexist
|Wednesday 14 September 2011, 6.30-8.30pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building

Panellists: David Russell, Dr Purna Sen
Chair: Adam Mazo

Coexist explores the painful and personal stories of Rwandan genocide survivors as they are made to try and reconcile with perpetrators being released back into their communities from prison.