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Last year, Arts Week included over fifty events, including lectures, readings, film screenings, workshops, guided walks, performances and panel discussions, as well as two exhibitions. This video gives a flavour of what to expect.
A panel considers the popular nineteenth-century optical toy, the paper peepshow.
Speakers explore the contemporary fascination with historical fiction.
Writers Julia Bell and Honor Gavin consider creative writing as a form of research.
A series of speakers explore what art and botany can tell us about the Amazon.
Focusing on the Holocaust, this event considers how soundscapes can evoke difficult histories.
Listen to podcasts from past performances and panels at Arts Week.
Charlotte Deadman, a researcher in fin de siècle Anglo-Irish culture, discusses hardship in the novels of Flann O'Brien.
Toby Litt and Wes Brown discuss writing and wrestling and how both raise important questions about masculinity.
Lesley Gourlay, from the UCL Institute of Higher Education, discusses the 'digital university' and how technology is changing higher education.
A panel of journalists, commentators and academics consider journalism in the era of 'fake news' and digital challenges.
Dr Joseph Brooker introduces this event about the politics of US fiction since the 1960s.
Read blog posts about past Arts Week events.
An exploratory walk using black mirrors, led by interdisciplinary artist Sheila Ghelani.
A live poetry performance from poets and spoken-word performers from Birkbeck and beyond.
Birkbeck alumna and screenwriter Gabriella Apicella, Professor Catherine Grant, and author Michelle Morgan consider Marilyn Monroe as a feminist icon.
Actors perform seventeenth-century writings to explore how women in the past experienced and understood birth.
An installation by Sarah Scarsbrook that explores self-reflexivity and the self as subject and object.
Take a look at photos from Arts Week over the years.
