UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre invites submissions from early career researchers, to deliver the Annual Stanley Kubrick Archive Lecture.
The Stanley Kubrick Archive annual lecture series presents lectures from scholars on any aspect of interdisciplinary or intersectional study, influenced by Kubrick’s career, in the wider context of film studies and the development of contemporary archival practices.
This year's speakers
The 2024/25 Annual Stanley Kubrick Lecture is open to applicants who are in the early stages of their careers as PhD students or post-doctoral academics who have recently completed their studies.
The successful applicant will be paired with a mentor, who will support them to complete their lecture. The mentor will be an experienced academic in the lecturer’s field of study. There will also be a bursary available to subsidise your research. (see details below).
Lecture themes and delivery
A wide range of investigations into the Stanley Kubrick Archive are welcome. The lecture may be influenced by Kubrick’s career, or the wider context of film studies, or even the Kubrick archive in the context of contemporary archival practices.
The lecture provides a space to discuss how the work of this acclaimed filmmaker can lead to new conversations about the impact of his legacy on society. It can also provide a place for critically situating Kubrick’s films and the archive in a broader social context.
The lecture may focus on any aspect of Kubrick’s legacy that acknowledges the impact of his work on contemporary culture or situates his work within its social context. This could relate to, but is not limited to:
- Intersectional approaches to Kubrick’s films.
- Interdisciplinary approaches to the SK archive (for example fashion, communications, architecture, art history and practice).
- Archives and myth-building.
- Silences and absences in the Kubrick Archive.
- Bias in archival research and practice.
- Race, gender, sexuality, class in the archive.
- Politics and activism in the archive.
- Looking beyond the archive.
- Kubrick and adaptation.
- Kubrick’s use of music.
- Kubrick and (Self) Censorship.
- Kubrick and Subcultures, dystopian aesthetics and fandom.
- Kubrick, humour and parable.
- Kubrick and theatre.
- Kubrick and professional practice Audience.
The audience
The lecture will be delivered to:
- UAL staff and students.
- Researchers from UAL and other universities.
- Wider community audiences.
The audience will welcome a lecture which will explore issues, challenge dominant thinking and highlight untold stories in relation to Kubrick’s legacy, highlighted through the Archive.
The Lecture will be up to 45 minutes in length. It may take a traditional or non-traditional form, such as a film or performance. It must allow time for discussion and questions from the audience after the lecture has been delivered.
Submission
The deadline to submit proposals for papers is midnight Sunday 8 September 2024. The successful applicant will be informed by the Monday 30 September 2024. The lecture will be held at London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, on Thursday 9 January 2025, 6pm - 8pm.
To apply to deliver the next Annual Stanley Kubrick Lecture, please send your submission to: Georgina Orgill(g.orgill@lcc.arts.ac.uk) and Sarah Mahurter (s.mahurter@arts.ac.uk) with:
- Your name and contact details.
- The title of your paper.
- A 300 word abstract of your proposed lecture.
Bursary
To encourage new and emerging researchers, we are pleased to offer a bursary to the successful Stanley Kubrick Annual Lecturer.
This bursary will help subsidise the cost of travel, food and accommodation to assist research and delivery of the Annual Stanley Kubrick Lecture in LCC.
To apply for a bursary, please email Georgina Orgill (g.orgill@lcc.arts.ac.uk) and Sarah Mahurter (s.mahurter@arts.ac.uk) with:
- Your name and contact details.
- An outline of the expenses you are likely to incur to carry out. your research and deliver the Annual Lecture.
Previous lectures
Dr James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University) It’s not all about Stanley (2022)
Howard Berry (Middlesex University) The design of sets built for Kubrick’s films at Elstree Studios (2019).
Peter Kramer (UEA) The Impact of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (2018)
Questions?
For any questions about UAL Archives and Special Collections, please email archive-enquiries@arts.ac.uk