Category: Talks

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This Is The Modern World? An expedition through the REF and other ‘neoliberal’ times

Goldsmiths welcomes Professor Daniel Neyland to perform his Inaugural lecture. Daniel Neyland (co-authors: Vera Ehrenstein and Sveta Milyaeva) Goldsmiths, University of London In this talk I carry out an expedition into those conditions of problem resolution often labelled ‘neoliberalism’ (a term that loses as much as it gains in usage). Here we will encounter a number … Continue reading This Is The Modern World? An expedition through the REF and other ‘neoliberal’ times

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What Sociologists Learn from Music: The hidden musical Lives of Great Sociologists  

Professor Les Back Date: December 6, 2016 Time: 17h15-19h00 Venue: G52 (SOAS College Building), SOAS The paper will focus on the relationship between music, theoretical thinking and sociological craft.  This argument is made through the hidden musical lives of sociologists.  It explores a range of examples from the link between music and Max Weber’s theorisation … Continue reading What Sociologists Learn from Music: The hidden musical Lives of Great Sociologists  

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Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Thinking Racial Regimes and Film with Cedric J. Robinson

Wednesday 9 November 2016 RHB 309 Screening 3.30-5.30pm + Talk 6.00-7.30pm Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Thinking Racial Regimes and Film with Cedric J. Robinson Screening and Roundtable organised by the Methods Lab with the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory + Race Critical Studies Network + Media and Communications Dept at Goldsmiths Roderick Ferguson, … Continue reading Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Thinking Racial Regimes and Film with Cedric J. Robinson

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Narrative Archaeologies: Archive, The City, The New Picaresque

12 October 2016 PSH 3.14 1730 – 1930 In our contemporary culture, with all the political and economic crises that beset us, various experiments in how to build media novels have emerged. These represent a new form of storytelling, of archiving, of multi-media novel, of installation. Norman Klein discusses what forces are at play that are … Continue reading Narrative Archaeologies: Archive, The City, The New Picaresque

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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger + Exclusive Q&A

Thursday 17 November 6.30pm Curzon Goldsmiths Zed Books is proud to collaborate with Curzon Goldsmiths to celebrate John Berger’s 90th birthday. Join us for an evening of film and discussion on Berger’s work with Professor Vikki Bell and Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam, both from the Department of Sociology as well as contributors to A Jar of … Continue reading The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger + Exclusive Q&A

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Nex X Change

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

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Sensing the City: A Companion to Urban Ethnography

  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