Check out Nex X Change Episode 1: ‘Lines on a Map’ featuring our own Les Back, Nirmal Puwar and Michaela Benson… Chapter 2: “The dream happens to him” Al Riddell and Harriet Onyett delve into a recent exhibition responding to the seminal 1975 book, A Seventh Man, by John Berger and Jean Mohr. The Migrating … Continue reading Nex X Change
As part of a series on ethnography at Goldsmiths Anja Schwanhäußer will be discussing her new book with Mark Johnson (Anthropology) and Michaela Benson (Sociology). Sensing the City is a collection of essays offering insights from, among others, Peter Jackson, Loïc Wacquant and Les Back, on urban anthropological research. The book features a variety … Continue reading Sensing the City: A Companion to Urban Ethnography
Vikki Bell gave the keynote at the Performance and Performativity conference at the University of Leeds on 15th June. Continue reading Performance and Performativity: Actualities and Futures
Alberto Toscano has published a short article, ‘Liberalism Terminable and Interminable‘, as part of a symposium on Joseph Massad’s book Islam in Liberalism, which also includes Sara R. Farris’ intervention ‘The Cold War of Women and Islam‘. Both pieces feature responses by Massad. Continue reading Liberalism Terminable and Interminable
Speaker: Prof Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California, Irvine In this talk, Prof Bowker will explore how the concept of selfhood can be enriched by considering ourselves as existing both inside of our own bodies and minds and within extended data networks. Drawing examples from the quantified self-movement and big data analytics more generally, … Continue reading Data Citizens and Data Organisms
Vikki Bell will be speaking at The Aesthetics of Witnessing: A Conversation about Violence and the Challenges of its Representation, a roundtable discussion accompanying the launch of a new exhibition “Tejas Verdes: I was not there“, for the Birkbeck, University of London Department of Psychosocial Studies Summer Programme 2016. Visit Eventbrite to book your tickets. Continue reading Vikki Bell at ‘The Aesthetics of Witnessing’
The power of reading really struck me as I stood in front of the packed crowd assembled at the PRO QM bookshop for the launch of Anja Schwanhäußer’s new book. Having spent the day in Berlin, a city haunted not only by its Nazi past but also the Iron Curtain, it was extraordinary to be … Continue reading Living with Books – the launch of Sensing the City: A Companion to Urban Anthropology by Anja Schwanhäußer in Berlin April, 2016 — Streetsigns
On 9 May 2016 Kirsten Campbell will be at ISS, at the Development Research Seminars (DRS) Dialogue, addressing alternative strategies for achieving justice for the crimes perpetrated during violent conflicts. via Alternative Justice for War Crimes: Achievements & Limits of Feminist Strategies Continue reading Alternative Justice for War Crimes: Achievements & Limits of Feminist Strategies
Film screening + Q&A with film director Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek 11 May 2016, 6.00-7.15pm, PSH 305, Goldsmiths The Chronotopes of Palestine (38′) produced by Sociology student Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek as part of her PhD study is a collection of five ethnographic shorts, which explore different modes of remembering among three generations of exiled Polish and British Palestinians. … Continue reading The Chronotopes of Palestine
Goldsmiths Disability Research Centre will be holding a number of screening events to bring awareness to issues surrounding disability and to provide a platform for disability within film. The first film will be The Tribe, on May 18. For further info and tickets visit DRC Film 2016. Continue reading Disability Research Centre: Film 2016
