London Consortium

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The London Consortium is a graduate school in the UK offering multidisciplinary Masters and Doctoral programs in the humanities and cultural studies at the University of London. It is administered by Birkbeck College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of London, and falls under the Humanities list of courses at Birkbeck. [1] The London Consortium is a federation comprised of Birkbeck, the Architectural Association, Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the Tate Gallery. It offers courses taught by faculty from across all four constituent institutions, including professors from Birkbeck and the Architectural Association, curators from the Tate and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, as well as external faculty drawn from various institutions in London and across the UK. Classes are taught in venues at Birkbeck, the Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the Architectural Association. The Consortium's permanent and adjunct faculty include figures such as the psychoanalytic theorist Parveen Adams, cultural theorist Steven Connor [2], architectural theorist and philosopher Mark Cousins, Tate curators Marko Daniel and Richard Humphreys, film theorist and producer Colin MacCabe, artist and writer Tom McCarthy, film theorist Laura Mulvey, cultural theorist Stuart Hall, psychoanalytic theorist Juliet Mitchell, writer Salman Rushdie, writer Marina Warner, film and cultural theorist Peter Wollen, and psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Its current chair is the lawyer and writer Anthony Julius.

The Consortium was founded in 1993 by the late social philosopher Paul Hirst (1947-2003), Cousins, Humphreys, and McCabe. Until 1999, the British Film Institute was part of the Consortium. After the BFI removed its involvement (due to internal policy changes at that institution), it was replaced by the Institute of Contemporary Arts [3].