Graduate Timetable: Semester 1 (2013)
Week 1
8:45-9:10
9:10-9:50
3.00
4.00
5.00
6:00
Thu 26 Sep
Demonstration of technology for new Graduate Teaching Assistants: AAQ Room 1
(FS1)
Introduction to teaching for new Graduate Teaching Assistants: AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
MA Film Studies: College Induction: AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
MA Film Studies Induction: AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
(ALL academic staff present for introductions)
MA Readers session AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
PhD Induction: AAQ Room 2 (FS2)
**PARTY**: Anatomy Museum (Level 6 of King’s Building) to launch the new year
for all students and all academic and professional services staff for UG, UG with
film, PGT, PGR, staff.
Week 2
6:00
Wed 2 Oct
Research Seminar: Shelagh Rowan-Legg (King’s College London)
“History Redux: The Devil's Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth and the Historicizing of
Fantasy” (Room K3.11)
DRINKS FOR ALL STAFF AND PG STUDENTS
Week 3
6:10
Tue 8 Oct
Key Scholars in Film Studies: What’s New With Renoir?: A Roundtable Discussion
(BFI)
King’s College London host a special roundtable event gathering some of the best
scholars on Jean Renoir working today to discuss the latest currents of thought on
one of cinema’s greatest directors.
4.00
Wed 9 Oct
MA Training Session: Referencing (Hannah Hamad), AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
Week 4
4:00
Wed 16 Oct
MA Training Session: Devising a dissertation topic (Lawrence Napper) AAQ Room 1
(FS1)
Week 6
3:00
Tue 29 Oct
MA Exam Board (ALL STAFF), K0.31
6:00
Wed 30 Oct
Research Seminar: Professor D.N. Rodowick (University of Chicago)
“Perfectionism’s Ironic Transport: Reading Now, Voyager After Cavell” (Room
K2.31)
Week 7
READING WEEK
Week 8
MA SSLC (Date tbc)
PhD SSLC: 2:00-3:00 pm, Tuesday 12 November (Room N560)
4:30
6:00
Wed 13 Nov
Meeting for all first-year PhD students (Michele Pierson), AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
Research Seminar: Dr. Pilar Carrera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Erasmus
exchange)
“Aki Kaurismäki and the Melancholic Merchandise” (Room K3.11)
Week 10
4:45
6:00
Wed 27 Nov
MA Information Session (Thinking of Doing a PhD?), (Michele Pierson and
Rosalind Galt), AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
Research Seminar: Jean-Michel Frodon with Nick James (Sight & Sound), Catherine
Grant (University of Sussex), Chris Berry (KCL) and Ginette Vincendeau (KCL)
“The Future of Film Criticism” (Room K3.11)
4:00
Thu 29 Nov
Applications for Film Studies Graduate Conference Attendance Grant due (Round
1)
Week 11
2:00
Wed 4 Dec
School of Arts & Humanities M.A. Exam Board (Room tbc)
Week 12
4.00
6:00
Wed 11 Dec
MA Training Session: The Literature Review (Tom Brown) AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
Research Seminar: Professor Richard Dyer (King’s College London)
“The Shadow of M: Serial Killing and Nazism in Film” (Room K3.11)
Week 13
12:00 noon
Tue 17 Dec
MA Formative Assessment Due for Formations of Film Studies (to be submitted
directly to graduate students who will mark this exercise: Victor Fan and Ben Tyrer
to supply details to MA students)
MA Formative Assessment Due for Film and Philosophy (to be submitted directly
to graduate students who will mark this exercise: Rosalind Galt to supply details to
MA students)
Graduate Timetable: Semester 2 (2014)
Week 1
12.00 noon
Tue 7 Jan
MA Essays due:
12:00 noon
Thu 9 Jan
MA Essays due:
Formations of Film Studies
Film and Philosophy
Film History and the Cinema Experience
Thinking Cinema
London Film Cultures
Contemporary Period Film and the Heritage-Film Debates
Analysing Film Performance: Comedy
Week 3
6:00
Wed 22 Jan
Research Seminar: Professor Francois Penz (University of Cambridge), “Cinematic
Urban Archaeologies” (Room K-1.56)
Week 4
4:00
Fri 31 Jan
Applications for Film Studies Graduate Conference Attendance Grant due (Round
2)
Applications for Film Studies Graduate Conference Organisation Grant due (Round
1)
Week 5
4.00
Wed 6 Feb
MA Dissertation proposals due: electronic submission to laura.c.brown@kcl.ac.uk
Week 6
4:00
6:00
Wed, 12 Feb
MA Training Session: Oral Presentations (Victor Fan), AAQ Room 1 (FS1)
Research Seminar: Professor Karen Randell (Southampton Solvent University)
“The Cinema of Lon Chaney Sr and Post-War Visual Culture (1919-1929)” (Room K1.56)
Week 7
READING WEEK
Week 8
Wed, 26 Feb
MA SSLC Meeting (Date tbc)
PhD SSLC Meeting (Date tbc)
MA Students advised of dissertation supervisors
MA Training Session: Using clips in presentations (Rosalind Galt), AAQ Room 1
(FS1)
Research Seminar: Dr. Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Co-hosted
with King’s India Institute
“The Railways, Mobility and Colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema” (Room K-1.56)
4:00
6:00
Week 10
6:00
Wed, 12 Mar
Research Seminar: Professor Robin Curtis (Heinrich-Hein-University Duesseldorf),
Co-hosted with German Department
“Vitality and Inertness, the Living and the Dead: The Moving Image and Empathetic
Alignment” (Room K-1.56)
Week 12
6:00
Wed, 26 Mar
Research Seminar: Mark Plaice (King’s College London)
“Gangland Permutations: Spatial relations in South Korean Gangster Films” (Room
K-1.56)
DRINKS FOR ALL STAFF AND PG STUDENTS
Graduate Timetable: Summer 2014
Fri 25 Apr
4:00
Tue 29 Apr
12:00 noon
Applications for Film Studies Graduate Conference Attendance Grant due (Round
3)
MA Essays due: Exploitation Cinema
New Directions in Chinese Cinema
Experimental Film and Philosophy
Cinema and Sentiment
Cinema and the City
Contemporary French Cinema
May
MA and PhD Work in Progress Conference (Date tbc)
Tue 3 Jun
12:00 noon
MA Critical Survey due
Fri 27 Jun
4:00
Thu 11 Sept
12:00 noon
Applications for Film Studies Graduate Conference Organisation Grant due (Round
2)
MA Dissertation due