Workshop

BRC Autumn Pro­gramme 2025 will intro­duce you to the col­lec­tion and facil­i­tate a dia­logue between you, your prac­tice, this year’s themes and the art­works. The course is led by artist and BRC Cura­tor, Helen Knowles and artist Dr. Leni Dothan.

Four-Week Course (Online):
Dates: Wednes­days, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM BST Novem­ber 19,26, Decem­ber 3, 10. & Sat­ur­day, Dec 6, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM BST.
All lec­tures, work­shops, and dis­cus­sions will take place online.
Cost: 550GBP per per­son 400GBP Con­ces­sion Rate.
A 100GBP deposit is required to secure a place for both courses.

BRC_Autumn pro­gram

The course will empow­er you to artic­u­late your own prac­tice and respons­es to the col­lec­tion in a sup­port­ive envi­ron­ment whilst explor­ing crit­i­cal per­spec­tives in the field of birth.

Mid­wives, aca­d­e­mics, cura­tors, artists, medics, health pro­fes­sion­als, art his­to­ri­ans, pol­i­cy advi­sors and the gen­er­al pub­lic inter­est­ed in child­birth through the lens of art, are all wel­come. As a par­tic­i­pant, you will enter the course with your own skill set and fin­ish, with bespoke visu­al, tex­tu­al, audi­to­ry, pho­to­graph­ic, filmic and/or per­for­ma­tive mate­r­i­al, to be used there­after in your own future work.

Work­shops include explor­ing the aes­thet­ic, eth­i­cal, polit­i­cal and visu­al dis­cours­es of birth via text, film, and per­for­mance. Addi­tion­al­ly, this year, we present a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to engage with a curat­ed selec­tion of works from the col­lec­tion that are not ordi­nar­i­ly acces­si­ble to the pub­lic. In a ded­i­cat­ed online space these pieces will enrich par­tic­i­pants’ engage­ment of the autumn programme’s themes.

Through lec­tures by lead­ing artists in the field, we will intro­duce dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives to ini­ti­ate in-depth discussions.
Themes include:
• Nav­i­gat­ing mor­tal­i­ty – from preterm birth to post-partum
• Artis­tic respons­es to preterm birth.
• How the col­lec­tion informs and unpacks dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives in mid­wifery, med­i­cine and edu­ca­tion, and its poten­tial to improve prac­tice and policy.
• The Collection’s impact on fem­i­nist art prac­tices and the reha­bil­i­ta­tion of visu­al dis­cours­es of birth into art history.
• Cen­sor­ship of art­works on birth, insti­tu­tion­al respons­es, ethics and the law
2025 speak­ers include: Grisel­da Pol­lock (online keynote), Court­ney Con­rad, Andrea Kho­ra, Helen Knowles and Leni Dothan, with more announced soon.

There is one bur­sary place available.

To book your place or for more infor­ma­tion, vis­it the Sum­mer School page on the Birth Rites Col­lec­tion web­site: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/autumn-program or email helen@birthrites.org.uk

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AGEM-Tagung 2025 Zukun­ftswerk­statt: Die näch­sten zehn Jahre
21.–22.11.2025
Anthropos-Institut
Sankt Augustin 

Die diesjährige AGEM-Tagung 2025 wid­met sich der Zukun­ft der Arbeits­ge­mein­schaft. Am Fre­itag, den 21. Novem­ber, soll soll es um ein gegen­seit­iges Vorstellen unser­er Arbeit­en gehen und zum anderen am Sam­stag, den 22. Novem­ber, um eine Zukun­ftswerk­statt, in der wir gemein­sam eine Vision für die näch­sten 10 Jahre der AGEM entwick­eln möcht­en. Wir begin­nen am Fre­itag um 14:00 Uhr mit ein­er the­ma­tisch offe­nen Forschungswerk­statt, in der die Teil­nehmenden ein­ge­laden sind, ihre aktuellen Arbeit­en, Pro­jek­te, Pläne, u.ä. vorzustellen und zu disku­tieren. Am Sam­stag wer­den wir uns in einem Work­shop-For­mat der ursprünglichen Idee des Vere­ins vergewis­sern, den Sta­tus Quo betra­cht­en und gemein­sam inten­siv Pläne schmieden für die weit­ere Arbeit in und mit der AGEM. Mit Chris­tine Nowak haben wir eine Mod­er­a­torin gefun­den, die uns pro­fes­sionell bei diesem Tre­f­fen am Sam­stag begleit­en wird. Ein­ge­laden sind alle AGEM-Mit­glieder sowie alle an der AGEM Interessierten. 

Wir freuen uns über Fra­gen und Anmel­dun­gen an info@agem.de

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