Film screening + Q&A with film director Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek 11 May 2016, 6.00-7.15pm, PSH 305, Goldsmiths The Chronotopes of Palestine (38′) produced by Sociology student Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek as part of her PhD study is a collection of five ethnographic shorts, which explore different modes of remembering among three generations of exiled Polish and British Palestinians. … Continue reading The Chronotopes of Palestine
Goldsmiths Disability Research Centre will be holding a number of screening events to bring awareness to issues surrounding disability and to provide a platform for disability within film. The first film will be The Tribe, on May 18. For further info and tickets visit DRC Film 2016. Continue reading Disability Research Centre: Film 2016
Auguste Comte, the French philosopher who, amongst other things, coined the term “sociology”, had a large mirror above his writing desk, so he could pause to admire himself as he wrote. There is perhaps no better symbolic image of academic vanity than Comte’s mirror. When I discovered this and shared it on Twitter, I received … Continue reading Is tweeting the modern equivalent of Comte staring into his mirror while he wrote?
Thursday 5th May, 7pm at Brick Lane Bookshop To celebrate the publication of his new book, ‘Academic Diary’, Les Back will be talking higher education with sociologist and broadcaster Laurie Taylor, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed … Continue reading ‘Academic Diary’ Book Launch
// 18th & 19th May 2016, 2-6pm
// Professor Stuart Hall Building 314, Goldsmiths, University of London, SE14 6NW
Continue reading “The Insistence of the Possible: A Two-Day Symposium with Isabelle Stengers”
On Thursday 21st April Professor Vikki Bell will be giving a talk at the University of Valparaiso, Chile. It is entitled: ‘Between Documentality and Imagination: Five Theses on Curating the Violent Past’. Her article of the same name has been accepted by the journal Memory Studies. Continue reading Between Documentality and Imagination: Five Theses on Curating the Violent Past
Sara Farris will be speaking at the “Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation” conference in New York. This year’s Arendt-Schurmann Memorial Symposium explores the theme of “Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation” It convenes a diverse group of thinkers who are currently engaged in developing a feminist/anti-capitalist perspective for the coming period. Scholars, students, activists, and anyone interested … Continue reading Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation
Professor Marsha Rosengarten & Dr Martin Savransky will be presenting at the ‘Rethinking Economies Seminar Series 2016‘ at the University of Tampere, 21 April. Continue reading Rethinking Economies with Marsha Rosengarten and Martin Savransky
Organised by Dr Emma Jackson and Dr Anamik Saha, the New Urban Multicultures conference will re-engage with ‘New Ethnicities and Urban Cultures: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives’ by Les Back, and its themes of the co-presence of racism and the possibilities of multiculture. Visit the New Urban Multicultures: Conviviality and Racism Conference website now! Continue reading Website launched for New Urban Multicultures: Conviviality and Racism Conference
Alberto Toscano’s article ‘Sovereignty and Deviation: Notes on Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2’ – exploring the French philosopher’s account of the emergence of Stalinism – is now available [pdf] in the journal Crisis and Critique. Continue reading Sovereignty and Deviation: Notes on Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2
