Thursday 5th May, 7pm at Brick Lane Bookshop To celebrate the publication of his new book, ‘Academic Diary’, Les Back will be talking higher education with sociologist and broadcaster Laurie Taylor, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. Is a university education still relevant? What are the forces that threaten it? Should academics ever be allowed … Continue reading ‘Academic Diary’ Book Launch
// 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
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
Follow the stor(if)y from ‘Space Invaders: Women Museum Leaders #MuseumAgender‘ conference featuring Nirmal Puwar. Continue reading Space Invaders: Women Museum Leaders #MuseumAgender
Last week Vikki Bell gave the final talk entitled ‘Imagine This! Art as a Forum for Truth-telling’ at the University of Essex’s ‘Argentina 1976-2016’ week: Argentina 1976-2016: Activism, Memorialisation and Complicity. This was followed by a short film presentation of Buena memoria on the work of Marcelo Brodsky. The above shows Marcelo working on an image … Continue reading Imagine This! Art as a Forum for Truth-telling
Tomorrow (23 March), Michaela Benson will be discussing her project on self-building with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’. Listen online from 4pm. Continue reading Michaela Benson on Thinking Allowed
