“Latin America: Translation attempts” series is supported by the Unit of Global Justice Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths; Latin Elephant; and the Latin American Hub, Goldsmiths. The films take place at Goldsmiths University of London as follows: 15/03 Daughter of The Lake (2015, Peru, 87 minutes), directed by Ernesto Cabellos. Q&A (online) with director Ernesto Cabellos. 29/03 … Continue reading Latin America: Translation Attempts
10 May 2017 4-6.00pm RHB137a, Goldsmiths University of London On 2nd March 1981 a protest took place called the Black People Day of Action. On their placards was written the slogan “Thirteen dead and nothing said”. Vron Ware photographed this historic moment and the event will use this exhibition to explore the relationship between photography, … Continue reading 13 Dead, Nothing Said: Photography as Political Witness
Wednesday 15 March 2017 4-5.30pm Room 12.21 and 12.25, Social Sciences Building, University of Leeds Is another future possible? Paul Valéry once famously wrote that the problem with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Indeed, despite the overwhelming pace of social, economic, political and ecological transformations, our practices … Continue reading Another Future is Possible! Social Science and Speculative Experimentation…
How we live with difference is the key issue of our time. Issues relating to race and ethnicity, whether immigration, Islamophobia, #blacklivesmatter, or media diversity, are at the forefront of public debate. Listen to Dr Brett St Louis explore social justice and find out more about our new MA in Race, Media & Social Justice. Continue reading Exploring Social Justice
Wednesday 22 March 2017 3:30pm – 5:00pm Ken Edwards Fifth Floor SR 527, University of Leicester Responding to a time marked by the rise of political resentments and the ecological devastation of experience in a modern world without refuge, in this talk Martin Savransky will experiment with some provocations and propositions that are part of an … Continue reading Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: A Politics of the Pluriverse
‘With the start of the exit negotiations looming in early 2017, I still reject the notion that those who voted remain should shut up and accept the result. I reject platitudinous nonsense about having to stick together and make this work, chiefly because of the lies and misinformation of the leaders of the Leave campaign, … Continue reading Not in the family portrait: BME voters and Brexit – Part II
‘The Leave campaign made no effort to educate voters about the many benefits of being in the single market; instead, they spread fantastical ideas about a world of free trade outside the EU, as if anyone on the planet who wished to trade with the UK was not already doing so. The weight of expert … Continue reading Not in the family portrait: BME voters and Brexit – Part I
Free Exhibition 9 March – 27 May 2017 Kingsway Corridor, Richard Hoggart Building Goldsmiths University of London Presenting a body of photographs taken by Vron Ware documenting the Black People’s Day of Action on 2 March 1981. The images – shown for the first time – bear witness to an historic moment of community organising … Continue reading 13 Dead, Nothing Said
Are you an early bird? Dr Abby Day will be on BBC Radio 4 ‘Sunday‘ programme this Sunday live, between 7 and 9 a.m being interviewed by local radio stations on American research that shows Islam will be the largest world religion by 2050, overtaking Christianity and all others. Abby will be discussing how this … Continue reading Sunday
“Calculate is angry because all of his things were stolen in Puglia. He has nothing but his good English. He went to the police…He didn’t think. Next thing he was standing in a police station and someone wanted to fingerprint him. But you can’t get fingerprinted there. Unless you want to stay. Italy is like … Continue reading Stories of migration and exile: in conversation with writer Olumide Popoola
