Thursday 23 February – 6-7.30pm RHB 137, Goldsmiths College The Human Right to Dominate A lecture by Neve Gordon While human rights are generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices, in the past two decades they have also been deployed to further subjugate the weak and legitimize domination. Using Israel/Palestine as a … Continue reading The Human Right to Dominate
On Wednesday 8 February, Professor Les Back will be speaking at two events in Liverpool. The first at 4pm, is entitled: 60 years of Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy with Lynsey Hanley. The Second event for Les Back in Liverpool, is where he will contribute to the following event : Inaugural Talk by Dr Paul Jones at 6.30pm … Continue reading Les Back in Liverpool
Professor Evelyn Ruppert, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths recently spoke as part of a session at #davos2017. You can watch that session here. Continue reading What If: Privacy Becomes a Luxury Good?
A Paper by Martin Savransky “A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and the Politics of Reality” is now out in a special issue in Sociology on epistemologies of the south, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Gurminder Bhambra. Continue reading A Decolonial Imagination: Sociology, Anthropology and the Politics of Reality
16 March, 2017 6-9pm MRB, Screen 5 Goldsmiths University of London For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary directed by Paul Sng (Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain) and … Continue reading Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
12 May 2017 10am – 5pm RHB Cinema Goldsmiths University of London Cities are in part constituted in myriad enactments of migrant presence which generate urban dialectics of self-and-city composition. Cities also condense many of the challenges we face in migration in the generation and navigation of local circuits composed through forms of social provision, … Continue reading Migrant Cartographies: Cities, Circuits and Circulations
23 February 5.30-7.00pm RHB137a Goldsmiths University of London UK Premier Screening with Douglas Harper (Duquesne University) + Lyndsey Moon (University of Roehampton) in Discussion. Chaired by Caroline Knowles (Goldsmiths). “The Longest Journey Begins” is set in First Step Recovery, a half-way house near Pittsburgh, for men in active recovery from addictions to drugs and alcohol. … Continue reading The Longest Journey Begins
9th February 2017 4.30-6.30pm Deptford Town Hall (DTH) 109 Goldsmiths, University of London Ontological Turnings: Conceptualization and Reflexivity in Anthropological Thinking Prof. Martin Holbraad (University College London) Discussant: Prof Sanjay Seth (Politics) The paper seeks to clarify some of the basic premises of the so-called ‘ontological turn’ in contemporary anthropology. Based on a couple of … Continue reading Ontological Turnings: Conceptualization and Reflexivity in Anthropological Thinking
Goldsmiths welcomes Professor Daniel Neyland to perform his Inaugural lecture. Daniel Neyland (co-authors: Vera Ehrenstein and Sveta Milyaeva) Goldsmiths, University of London In this talk I carry out an expedition into those conditions of problem resolution often labelled ‘neoliberalism’ (a term that loses as much as it gains in usage). Here we will encounter a number … Continue reading This Is The Modern World? An expedition through the REF and other ‘neoliberal’ times
Franco Rosso director and co-writer of Babylon (1980) passed away on 9th December, 2016 aged 75. The film’s soundtack was written by UK reggae legend Dennis Bovell. On the Sunday the 22nd January, 2017 Dennis dedicated his entire Dub on Air radio show on Soho Radio as a tribute to Franco, and Sociology’s Les Back joined him. You can Listen Again to the … Continue reading Dub On Air with Dennis Bovell
