// 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
View contributions from Nirmal Puwar and Les Back at the closing day of the CHASE training programme ‘Oral History for Public Culture’, via the official blog. Continue reading Oral History for Public Culture
Academic Diary, written by Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths (UoL) is the first book to be published by Goldsmiths Press.
Composed of highlights from 30 years in academia, Academic Diary provides an articulate reflection on higher education, the various challenges of academia and the day to day encounters British universities face. Structured in Terms (Autumn, Spring and Summer), Academic Diary offers a companionate guide, borrowing from many perspectives toward higher education: the Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Lecturer and Professor.
Continue reading “Interview with Les Back on release of ‘Academic Diary’”
Dr Emma Jackson’s ‘Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility’ is in the running for this year’s BBC Radio Four and British Sociological Association Ethnography Award. Published in August 2015, the book is based on an innovative multi-method study of the young people using a King’s Cross day centre. It explores contemporary spaces … Continue reading Emma Jackson shortlisted for Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award
For too long “building your own home” in the UK has been a privilege reserved for those who already own property. Expensive land, tough planning rules and the time and expertise required have meant that most people self-build homes were more architectural vanity projects – like you might see in Grand Designs and less a practical housing solution. While design-led homes might be the dream for architects, TV producers and the restless urban middle classes, they tend to be an unaffordable luxury for almost everyone else.
Continue reading “Tackling the housing crisis by building your own home”
