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Launch of the Centre for Invention and Social Process
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Please come and celebrate with us the relaunch of CSISP!
Experiments in new modes of practice: Launch of the Centre for the study of Invention and Process (CISP)
Wednesday 23rd of March 2016, 5pm-7pm
Richard Hoggart Building, RHB 300
All Welcome
Chaired by the new directors: Marsha Rosengarten, Michael Guggenheim & Alex Wilkie
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‘Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad or Plain Ugly?’ Book Launch
22 March, 5.30pm, George Wood Theatre. Hosted by the Disability Research Centre Dr Matt Hargrave (Northumbria University) will be in conversation with Jonathan Meth (Project Dramaturg, Crossing The Line, Disability Research Centre, Goldsmiths and Expert Adviser to Ambitious About Autism), and Artist Jez Colborne (Mind the Gap). About the book This is the first scholarly … Continue reading ‘Theatres of Learning Disability: Good, Bad or Plain Ugly?’ Book Launch
An Urban Sociology of Water
Les Back talks the social life of water via the history of Laurie Grove Baths in a post over at the CUCR blog. Continue reading An Urban Sociology of Water
Class, Race, Privilege: Structuring the Lifestyle Migrant Experience in Boquete, Panama
New article by Michaela Benson, ‘Class, Race, Privilege: Structuring the Lifestyle Migrant Experience in Boquete, Panama‘ published in Journal of Latin American Geography. Continue reading “Class, Race, Privilege: Structuring the Lifestyle Migrant Experience in Boquete, Panama”
Decolonizing Higher Education: Black Feminism and the Intersectionality of Race and Gender
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUZTFnQOpMU] Heidi Mirza examines the professional experiences of postcolonial diasporic black and ethnicized female academics in higher education. Video via Faculti. For a chance to hear more and ask question sign up for the event on March 17 . Continue reading Decolonizing Higher Education: Black Feminism and the Intersectionality of Race and Gender
Translating Dreams & Nightmares
Panel with Sukhdev Sandhu, Parvati Raghuram, Alia Syed, Sandhya Suri, Antoinette Brown, Nirmal Puwar (Chair).
17 March 2016, 4.00-7.00pm, RHB 137a Sign up for this free event via Eventbrite
Keeping one eye on the bus: a tribute to Doreen Massey by Emma Jackson
Emma Jackson’s touching tribute to Doreen Massey, via the CUCR Blog. Source: Keeping one eye on the bus: a tribute to Doreen Massey by Emma Jackson Continue reading Keeping one eye on the bus: a tribute to Doreen Massey by Emma Jackson
Sociology & Music Film Club Screening: ‘Babylon’ (1981)
Powerful portrayal of life for West Indian youths in London in the early 1980s. DJ for Brixton reggae sound system ‘Ital Lion Sound’, Blue (Brinsley Forde) is getting ready for the local sound system showdown with rival crew, Jah Shaka. But as the day of the competition approaches, Blue suddenly sees his life falling apart. … Continue reading Sociology & Music Film Club Screening: ‘Babylon’ (1981)
A Structuralism of Feeling?
Alberto Toscano’s article on the work of French economist and social philosopher Frédéric Lordon, ‘A Structuralism of Feeling?‘ is now out in the January-February issue of the New Left Review. Continue reading A Structuralism of Feeling?
