Congratulations to Jennifer Fleetwood, Michael Guggenheim and Michaela Benson whose work has been recognised in the Goldsmiths’ Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Awards. The criteria for the awards consider mutual benefit, innovation, quality and sustainability. Jennifer Fleetwood – Supporting Anti-death Penalty Activism – Special Award for Impact within the Established Researcher category. Jennifer is a long-term … Continue reading Public Engagement Awards!
14th July 2020 Poppy September-Peters and Rosette Jaminki In Conversation with Kiran Grewal and Svenja Bromberg about the 2019 and 2020 University and College Union (UCU) strikes, pandemic and online teaching. Organised by Yasmin Gunaratnam. In March 2020, after the strikes held by the academic staff concluded, the sociology department of Goldsmiths University was ready … Continue reading Can you hear me? Poppy September-Peters and Rosette Jaminki In Conversation with Kiran Grewal and Svenja Bromberg
“London is deeply uncivilised now and public space has become uncouth. There has been a universal outbreak of incivility.” Boris Johnson, Shadow (When Education Secretary, before becoming the Mayor of London, and later Prime Minister.) From blogs, through tabloids to broadsheet op-eds, popular discourse about cities has long been strewn with treatise bemoaning the rudeness … Continue reading Sick Cities, Ill Manners by Alex Rhys-Taylor — Streetsigns
The easy and clear answer to the question “Will I be penalized if I can’t study at the moment?” is “no”. I’m writing to Goldsmiths Sociology students as the Senior Tutor in the Department. Everybody’s first priority is clear. People should look after themselves and they should look after anybody they need to look after. … Continue reading Will I be penalized if i can’t study at the moment?
A student asked me this: “Hi David, I was just wondering if you had any advice in finding sources for essays and revision now that we can’t go to the library.” Here’s an answer: Look at the VLE pages for the course you’re working on, and the formal course outline. There will be online reading … Continue reading How do I find sources for my coursework without the Library?
An article in Ethiopias ‘The Reporter‘ cites Professor Caroline Knowles. “The British academic, Caroline Knowles, describes it as the “redistribution centre which indexes the differences between people’s life-journeys, refracted through material cultures at their point of disposal.” Continue reading Deadly Trash
5pm PSH 314, Goldsmiths University of London 17 May, 2017 The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen provides a study of the generation of mainstream Christian laywomen born in the 1920s and 1930s (Generation A). Now in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, these women are often described as the ‘backbone’ of the Church and are not … Continue reading Book Launch: The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen
“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…
