SATURDAY 4th FEB - Anti-authoritarian Social Centre

Subject: [precarity] London - New Occupied Anti-authoritarian Social Centre

EX-SSEES Occupied Social/political Centre 21 Russell Square, London WC1

Closed Circuit City

Evermore spaces for students are being regulated by commercial interests, mediating so-called public and common space for the benefit of expanding markets and profits. Our ability to participate and interact on our terms, with our environment has been severely undermined. Leisure time becomes an extension of work, studying is quantified by our ability to assimilate and conform to uniformed timetables, common rooms are designated financially not viable, whilst the bars become corporate money-makers. But not just in universities, all around us, the enclosure of public spaces is ongoing and being resisted.

SSEES seized!

As the New Year started, a new occupation began. The former School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES) located at 21-22 Russell Square, London which had been vacated some months previously, was occupied by students and non-students, aiming to create free accommodation, denied by speculative property prices and in refusal of the debt trap exacerbated by the creeping privatisation of education. We seized what has been denied, and we dont seek to re-create private property, but rather, to realise a new radical, public space for all.

Following on from and inspired by previous occupations for use as social centres in London and further a field, our dream is to actively involve not just ourselves but everyone who seeks and is willing to participate in a reformation of space, contesting that space for the development of collective social and political needs.

We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination. We organise collectively and welcome people to come and contribute ideas and energy to the time and space we have at SSEES. We hope to re-make our world for the benefit and enjoyment of all. We welcome you to get involved!

Ex- SSEES Occupied social centre, Jan 30th 2006

EXTRA! EXTRA! LAUNCH EVENT SATURDAY 4th FEB

Extravanga of political presentations, urban contestation of space and the
finest underground DJ's from 7pm...

SATURDAY 4th FEB - Anti-authoritarian Social Centre

Subject: [precarity] London - New Occupied Anti-authoritarian Social Centre

EX-SSEES Occupied Social/political Centre 21 Russell Square, London WC1

Closed Circuit City

Evermore spaces for students are being regulated by commercial interests, mediating so-called public and common space for the benefit of expanding markets and profits. Our ability to participate and interact on our terms, with our environment has been severely undermined. Leisure time becomes an extension of work, studying is quantified by our ability to assimilate and conform to uniformed timetables, common rooms are designated financially not viable, whilst the bars become corporate money-makers. But not just in universities, all around us, the enclosure of public spaces is ongoing and being resisted.

SSEES seized!

As the New Year started, a new occupation began. The former School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES) located at 21-22 Russell Square, London which had been vacated some months previously, was occupied by students and non-students, aiming to create free accommodation, denied by speculative property prices and in refusal of the debt trap exacerbated by the creeping privatisation of education. We seized what has been denied, and we dont seek to re-create private property, but rather, to realise a new radical, public space for all.

Following on from and inspired by previous occupations for use as social centres in London and further a field, our dream is to actively involve not just ourselves but everyone who seeks and is willing to participate in a reformation of space, contesting that space for the development of collective social and political needs.

We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination. We organise collectively and welcome people to come and contribute ideas and energy to the time and space we have at SSEES. We hope to re-make our world for the benefit and enjoyment of all. We welcome you to get involved!

Ex- SSEES Occupied social centre, Jan 30th 2006

EXTRA! EXTRA! LAUNCH EVENT SATURDAY 4th FEB

Extravanga of political presentations, urban contestation of space and the
finest underground DJ's from 7pm...
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Wed 1 February: Carrie Clanton

ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES

1 February: Carrie Clanton (Goldsmiths College)

"From Media to Medium: representing the dead through technology"


Seminars will begin at 4pm and will be held in the Meeting Room, 40 Lewisham Way, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Wednesday 15 February - After 7/7

"After 7/7
A Panel Discussion

Wednesday 15 February, 2006, 5.30pm
Lecture Theatre, Ben Pimlott Building
Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW

The Race Forum (British Sociological Association) in collaboration with the new Xenos research initiative (Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College) has organised a panel of leading thinkers to consider the aftermath of the July 7 2005 bombings in London.

Have anti-war, anti-racist and other progressive critics of a new phase of Western global military hegemony articulated an effective response to the events of 7/7?
Have progressives adequately considered the nature, reach and challenge of the geopolitics of �Islamist terrorism�?
Do existing varieties of anti-racist politics offer anything in understanding and responding to the precarious conditions of a perpetual �war against terror�?
What are the challenges faced in rejecting UK government policy and discourse, based on a valuing religious group identities (such as Muslim communities), while forging local and transnational alliances with groups under threat and saturation surveillance?
What political and ethical spaces are available to critics of both a US-led �Empire� and transnational jihadist movements?


Panellists
Avtar Brah (Birkbeck College, University of London) � Chair / Discussant
Chetan Bhatt (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Suresh Grover (The Monitoring Group, London)
S. Sayyid (University of Leeds)
Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)

Programme
5.30pm Introduction and Panel Discussion
7.30pm Launch of Xenos Research Initiative
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Thursday 2nd February - Keith Hart

Keith Hart (Goldsmiths) will talk on
Money: an anthropologist's view
at the British Museum's Centre for Anthropology
(near the North Door)
on Thursday 2nd February at 3pm
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Have your say on the Goldsmiths corporate identity

"A message for all students from the Internal Communications Office

Have your say on the Goldsmiths corporate identity

On Tuesday 31 January, between 10.00am and 4.00pm, you are invited to drop in
to the Great Hall in the Main Building, to see some ideas for a new
Goldsmiths 'look' (our new corporate identity). You'll have the chance to
talk to the design agency, and tell them what you think.

This is the next stage of the College's rebranding project and gives you the
opportunity to have your say.

We look forward to hearing your views - thank you very much for
participating.


Vicky Annand
Head of Communications and Publicity"
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Wednesday Feb 1, 4:30 - 6 pm

Wednesday 1st February
4.30-6.00pm, WT 1204 Goldsmiths [CISP event]

'Initiatives in Central Africa'
with Jacqueline Damon and Cyril Musila (INICA)

Presenting INICA's work with local cross-border initiatives and networks in
the Central Africa region. INICA has been working with existing networks of
actors in and around the DRC to connect, consolidate and promote their
actions in light of furthering a bottom-up approach to the peace and
reconstruction process in the region. Breaking with traditional development
and humanitarian approaches, INICA builds on the experience of people at all
levels, from informal sector actors, civil society networks, private sector
associations to national and regional institutions.
For more details on INICA, see: <http://www.inica.org>


Thurs 2nd March
4.30-6.00pm, WT1204
'Temporary Facts, Flexible Lines'
Eyal Weizman (Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths)


Wed 8th March
4.30-6.00pm, WT1204
Performance Lecture 'One Night with rats in the service of art'
Lucy Kimbell (Saïd Business School, Oxford University)

For more details, please contact csisp@gold.ac.uk

Feb 4: The Ister -Chelsea Arts

The Ister - the award-winning film-essay by David Barison and Daniel Ross

Thurs Feb 02 6pm - Craig Smith

Sunday 22nd January - 6 month anniversary of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menzes

Dear friend
Please could you support this event by coming to it with friends and also circulating this email to your list

Sunday 22nd January 2006 1 p.m.

Stockwell Tube Station

Commemoration of the 6 month anniversary of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menzes

On 22nd July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by police at Stockwell tube station. He was shot 8 times, 7 times in the head. Following his death, the police misled Jean Charles' family and the public about his death.

Six months later, his family still await with the truth around the circumstances of his death.
We invite you all to show solidarity with the family of Jean Charles' by joining us at Stockwell tube station to lay flowers and remember Jean Charles.

London School of Economics seminars

Middle East Seminar
Lent Term 2006
Wednesday 4.00pm - 5.30pm, Seligman Library A607, Old Building, LSE

Jan 18 Steffen Strohmenger, Institute of Social Anthropology,
Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg

The Art of Playing 'Tuql' - How to 'Make Love' in Egypt

Feb 1 Nasser Yasin, UCL

'It is the Networks Stupid!' Social Networks and the Polarisation of
Communities in a Beiruti Neighbourhood


Feb 15 John Chalcraft, LSE

Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon: The Politics of Disposable Labour


March 1 Nadia Abu Zahra, Oxford University

Why people Stay, Why People Resist: Excerpts from Palestine



March 15 Kathleen Reedy, University of Edinburgh

Syrian Conspiracy Theory: Engaging the State in the 'Everyday'
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Tuesday 17 Jan - Arnd Schneider

Open lecture

Three experiments in ethnography:
films of Michael Oppitz,
Juan Downey
and Sharon Lockhart

Arnd Schneider
(University of East London
and University of Hamburg)

Tuesday January the 17th
10.00 AM

Warmington Tower
room WTA

Goldsmith’s College, London.
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'EmbodiedPsyches/Life Politics'

Dear all

Please find below the Spring term programme for the CSISP 'EmbodiedPsyches/Life Politics' seminar series.
Please note that the first seminaris on Monday with Nirmal Puwar (Sociology) speaking on 'Working with spaceinvaders: social processes at play'.

EMBODIED PSYCHES/LIFE POLITICS SEMINAR SERIES
SPRING TERM
We are interested in bringing together people from different disciplinesconcerned with the connections between 'psyche' and 'social' - within abroadly defined 'psychosocial' field. This is an open seminar for staff andpostgraduate students where we want to encourage thinking differently.

EVERYONE WELCOME
Mondays 4.00-6.00pm, Warmington Tower 1204

DIS/PLACEMENTS

January 16
WORKING WITH SPACE INVADERS: SOCIAL PROCESSES AT PLAY
Nirmal Puwar (Sociology, Goldsmiths)

February 6
THE BURDEN OF SENSATION AND THE ETHICS OF FORM: WATCHING THE FRIEDMANS
Vikki Bell (Sociology, Goldsmiths.)

February 27
DISCIPLINARY DEFENCES: SOCIOLOGY'S PROBLEMS WITH A PSYCHO-SOCIAL ANALYSIS
Sasha Roseneil (Sociology and Gender Studies, Leeds)

March 13
IDENTITY AND CHANGES IN BECOMING A MOTHER
Cathy Irwin (Research Fellow, Tavistock Clinic)

For more information email Vic Seidler v.seidler@gold.ac.uk or csisp@gold.ac.uk

Beckie Coleman Research Administrator
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process
Sociology Department
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New CrossLondon
SE14 6NW020 7919 7731
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp
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Anth RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES

ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
Wednewsdays at 4pm, SPRING TERM 2006



11 January: Steve Nugent (Goldsmiths College)
Being Economic with the Visual: photography and Amazonian Indians

18 January: Michaelangelo Paganopoulos (Goldsmiths College)
Materializations of Faith in Mount Athos

25 January: Rupert Cox (Manchester University)
The Role of 16th Century Namban (�southern barbarian�) Art in the En-Visioning of Cultural Heritage in Japan

1 February: Carrie Clanton (Goldsmiths College)
From Media to Medium: representing the dead through technology

8 February: (TO BE CONFRIMED)


15 February: READING WEEK

22 February: (TO BE CONFIRMED)


1 March: Atticus Narain (Goldsmiths College)
Politics, Media and Indian Identities: the role of the televisual in Guyana

8 March: Susan Ossman (Goldsmiths College)
Getting Beyond the In-Between: rethinking the �third space� through
stories of serial migration

15 March: Tom Rice (Goldsmiths College)
Stethoscapes: acoustemologies of the body in a London hospital

22 March: Nicholas Thomas (Goldsmiths College)
Oceania: cultural exchanges and their limits (a progress report on a major
exhibition)


Seminars will begin at 4pm and will be held in the Meeting Room, 40 Lewisham Way, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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till 5 Feb - Paul McCarthy's "Caribbean Pirates"

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: "Due to popular demand, Paul McCarthy's major new work "Caribbean Pirates" continues in a warehouse 10 mins walk from the Gallery.

Developed from a conversation between artist and son, the work takes the Pirates of the Caribbean Disneyland theme park ride as inspiration. A life-size frigate, houseboat and a huge kinetic machine bear the gory remains of a month-long film shoot featuring some thirty buccaneers & wenches engaging in brutal antics.

4.50/3 concessions. Free for Whitechapel Associates, Patrons & Members. Free for under 16s accompanied by an adult. Please note: The works in this exhibition are of an explicit and violent nature and are not suitable for young viewers" .

[back links] I'm including this longer 'event' because of the pirate theme developing amongst several young Goldsmiths swabs; including, I guess, my own scurvy links and ramblings .
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Tuesday 10 January Alexander Duttman

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Alexander Duttman

"Self-deception and recognition"

Starts: 17:30 - 10 January 2006 Ends: 18:30 - 10 January 2006

Location: Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths

Cost: free

Professor Alexander Duttman is in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths. The lecture will be followed by a reception.

For further details:
E-mail: Claire MajorTelephone: 7901