Screening and Director Q&A 8 – 10pm, Friday, 9 December 2016, The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London, SE11 4TH Tickets available here: £4 full price, £3 students Jim Hubbard has been making experimental films that explore lesbian and gay activism and community-building since the mid-1970s. In 1987, he co-founded MIX NYC, the New York Lesbian … Continue reading Four films by Jim Hubbard
In the past year, research from the Gender of Justice project at Goldsmiths, University of London has been presented to both the House of Lords and the European Parliament, helping to shape the future of international legislation on preventing sexual violence in conflict zones. Continue reading Goldsmiths research helps shape EU and UK approach to preventing and prosecuting sexual violence in conflict
Professor Les Back Date: December 6, 2016 Time: 17h15-19h00 Venue: G52 (SOAS College Building), SOAS The paper will focus on the relationship between music, theoretical thinking and sociological craft. This argument is made through the hidden musical lives of sociologists. It explores a range of examples from the link between music and Max Weber’s theorisation … Continue reading What Sociologists Learn from Music: The hidden musical Lives of Great Sociologists
Yasmin Gunaratnam, Ulla McKnight, Aisha Edeor-Lawal, Nicole Evangelou-Georgiou, Melitini-Penelo Havoutis Andrew Jemmott, Abigail Joseph, Rhianne Phillips, Kaila Stone Studying sociology can feel like learning another language. There are new strange words and different schools of thought with their own vocabularies. Somewhere along the line we also become writers of sociology. How this happens is often … Continue reading Poetry in the classroom
17 Nov 2016 18:30 Curzon Cinema, Goldsmiths In collaboration with Curzon Goldsmiths join us to mark John Berger’s 90 birthday and the publication of A Jar of Wild Flowers: Essays in Celebration of John Berger. A screening of The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth … Continue reading The Seasons in Quincy
Alberto Toscano’s translation of Franco Fortini’s A Test of Powers: Writings on Criticism and Literary Institutions, a classic work of Italian Marxist literary criticism, is now out from Seagull’s Italian List. The book includes ‘The Labour of Division’, a long translator’s introduction, laying out the political and intellectual stakes of Fortini’s work. Originally published in Italian in 1965, A Test … Continue reading A Test of Powers
23 November 20165 – 7pm DTH 109 Speakers: Dr Craig Lundy and Dr Jon RoffeThe work of Gilles Deleuze has been a great source of inspiration for those interested in the nature, meaning and practice of invention and experimentation. Aside from the conceptual resources that his philosophy affords for rethinking these themes, Deleuze’s work also has much to tell us … Continue reading Centre for the Invention of Social Process (CISP) seminar with Dr Craig Lundy and Dr Jon Roffe
Explore the life, work and legacy of a thinker that some call the last of the great public intellectuals and a figure widely credited with being the founder of cultural studies: this man is Stuart Hall. Through conversations with his former students, colleagues, and friends, we’ll seek to better understand this seminal writer and academic. … Continue reading Stuart Hall: In Conversations
Every Friday in November (4/11/18/25), 2016 10:00-12:00, Natura Café, Goldsmiths Do you like writing alongside people? Would you like to try it? Join us for weekly write-ins at Natura during November where we mark the Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) and the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). We write in intervals of 20 minutes with short … Continue reading Sit down and write: A month of write-ins
Wednesday 16 November 1.00-3.00pm, RHB 300a (followed by afternoon tea) All are welcome. In this discussion Central Europe correspondent for the BBC, Nick Thorpe and writer and lecturer Olumide Popoola will talk about their respective work in Hungary (journalistic) and the Jungle Camp in Calais (fiction). “Look at all these borders, … Continue reading Border Stories: Nick Thorpe and Olumide Popoola in conversation
