Awards Congratulations to Yesim Yildiz, who has been awarded a 3-year funded ESRC New Investigator’s Grant, entitled: Official Archives of State Violence, starting 1 March. Congratulations, also to Miranda Armstrong who received an award of £8385 from the grassroots organisation Resourcing Racial Justice to further develop her PhD research and undertake some advocacy around the … Continue reading Research News – February 2021
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
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…
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
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
Sat 18 March 2017 14:45 – 16:45 GMT Tate Modern Southwark Room, 5th Floor, Tate Exchange London SE1 Political propaganda is not new. With migration, it’s a world of shadowing boxing. ‘They’re coming to take your jobs’ ‘We can’t help them’ ‘Health tourists!’ ‘Let’s get tough’ Recently, government policy in the UK and elsewhere has been about shaping what … Continue reading Alternative facts and immigration: fake it til you make it?
Thursday March 9th 5-7pm RHB 143, Goldsmiths University of London Interrogating Inequality Richard Wilkinson, Professor at York University and co-author of ‘The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better’, discuss the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”. Bigger income differences between … Continue reading Interrogating Inequality
