CCS Pinney Thursday 13.Dec.07

Thursday 13th December, 2007
Professor Christopher Pinney
Lessons From Hell: Karma and Governmentality in Popular Indian Imagery

5pm, Goldsmiths Small Hall (Cinema)

Synopsis: "Karni Bharni" images embody the importation of a Jain soteriology into mainstream Hinduism in the late nineteenth century. They depict punishments in hell for moral transgressions and eventually transmute, in the mid-twentieth century, into a parallel genre known as "Ideal Body" which visualise codes of citizenship. The lecture explores the powerful "underneath" of this world of punishment and its role as a visual mode of governmentality.

Christopher Pinney is Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. & Professor of Anthropology & Visual Culture, University College London

This lecture is free and all are welcome. It is organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies in collaboration with the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

A River Called Titas Tues 4th Dec 07

Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

- our last Ghatak film for this year.



All welcome.


Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Cinema Goldsmiths
City/Town: New Cross, United Kingdom



"Adapted from the Bengali novel by Advaita Malo Barman, A River Called Titas is a thoughtful, sincere, and bittersweet chronicle of poverty, obsolescence, cultural identity and erasure. Ritwik Ghatak characteristically integrates visual economy, stylized camerawork, and idiosyncratic lyricism through allusive, traditional folk songs, cyclical environmental (and existential) phenomena, and exaggerated natural rhythms and diegetic sound"
from - www.filmref.com/

Meghay Dhaka Tara - Tues 27.11.07

মেঘে ঢাকা তারা
Meghay Dhaka Tara
(The Cloud-Capped Star)

A film by Ritwik Ghatak 1960

Set at the time of partition, a bengali Bhadralok family (from East Bengal, moved to Calcutta) endures. But Nita, loved only by her brother, who wants to be a singer, suffers misfortune after misfortune. Melodrama poignant.

All welcome, Goldsmiths Cinema, 6pm Tuesday 27 November.

November 15, 2007 The People's Struggle In Nepal And Its International Importance

Very special speaker With Gaurav (aka C.P. Gajurel) a Senior Leader of the Nepalese revolution
Host: Goldsmiths College Centre for Culture Studies & Nepali Samaj
Type: Education - Lecture
Time and Place Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: at Richard Hoggart Building (formerly Main Building), room 308 (3rd Floor), Goldsmiths Uni, Lewisham
City/Town: London

Description
A senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (M) is coming to speak in London. Comrade Gaurav (C.P. Gajurel) is in charge of the party's International Bureau.

(Please note: Gaurav is also speaking on Wednesday 14th November at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn at 7pm)

talk at Nottingham

Tuesday November 20 2007

Seminar
IAPS Seminar 4 of 6 JOHN HUTNYK
Room A40, Sir Clive Granger Building
5.00 - 6.30pm

School of Politics presents JOHN HUTNYK from GOLDSMITHS

seminar on 'SCREENING SOUTH ASIA (INDIAN MEDIA)'

All seminars take place in the Clive Granger Building, 5.00-6.30

A discussion of the politics of news media in India. The talk includes an updateon the case of Mohammad Afzal.

Further details can be found at:

www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics

Ritwik Ghatak tues 13 Nov 2007

You are invited to view a film by Ritwik Ghatak - Nagarik 1953

6pm - Cinema Goldsmiths - all welcome.

Part of the Centre for Cultural Studies series on Bengali Cinema.

Nagarik was only released after Ritwik's death, it deals with varous small personal trials - job search, marriage negotiatons, bustee-life - in the context of the trauma of partition and the plight of refugees. Not without melodrama, but also with optimism. The film predates Ray's 'Pather Panchali' and might be said to be superior in both in sensibility and politics. No apreciation of Bangali cinema is complete without this (almost lost) film noir classic.

The Cinematic Mode of Production - Jonathan Beller at Goldsmiths

The Cinematic Mode of Production
Tagline: Jonathan Beller at Goldsmiths
Host: Goldsmiths
Type: Education - Workshop
Time and Place Date: Monday, November 12, 2007
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: The Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building
Street: 8 Lewisham Way, Lewisham, London SE14
City/Town: London, United Kingdom

Contact Info Email: jeff @ sakerna.se

Description
Jonathan Beller will be discussing his latest book, The Cinematic Mode of Production, at a workshop at Goldsmiths on 12 November 1-4. The book has been widely praised with Steven Shaviro (The Cinematic Body, Connected) calling it 'the most important work of film theory since Deleuze’s two Cinema volumes appeared more than two decades ago.' Beller's presentation will be followed by three respondents (yet to be confirmed) and a general discussion. Please circulate

Spivak poster for 8th Nov 2007

Gayatri Spivak 8th November 2007

As part of the MA Postcolonial Studies program taught by the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths we are very happy to announce a talk by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.


Great Hall, Goldsmiths New Cross on Thursday 8th of November 2007, from 5pm.



Topic :
"Revisiting Postcolonialism"

ALL WELCOME


there will also now be a book launch at 2pm on friday the 9th of November. More details as they arrive.


co sponsors - Centre for Cultural Studies, Graduate School, Media and Communications, Politics Department.

Ritwik Ghatak 30 Oct 2007 6PM

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo
- a film by Ritwik Ghatak
(national award winner 1974)
- 120 mins.

Event Info Name: Bengali Film
Tagline: Ritwik Ghatak
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Cinema Goldsmiths
City/Town: New Cross, United Kingdom



All Welcome. No Charge.

Goldsmiths Stop the War 24 Oct 2007

Stop the War teach-in sponsored by Goldsmiths Students
Union and Goldsmiths UCU on Wednesday 24 October.

Full timetable:

The Demonisation of Islam?
1-2.30pm MB139
Suhail Malik (Visual Art): Visual representations of Abu Ghraib
Bart Moore-Gilbert (English): Representations of fundamentalism
Les Back (Sociology): The War on Terror and the politics of misrecognition

Truth: The first casualty of war
1-2.30pm MB355
Peter Lee –Wright (Media): Reporting the war
Des Freedman (Media): Silencing the media
Natalie Fenton (Media) The media and mobilisation

Palestine under occupation
3-4.30pm MB355
Kay Dickinson (Media): Resistant media in Palestine
Ahmed Masoud (PhD candidate, English): Education in Palestine
Eyal Weizman (Visual Cultures): De-colonising architecture

The war at home
3-4.30pm MB139
John Hutnyk (Cultural Studies): Anti-war hip hop and the 7/7 bombings
Angela McRobbie (Media): War in the domestic context
Nirmal Puwar (Sociology): Memorialisation and violence

Plenary: Stop the War
5-6.30pm Small Hall
Chair: Hannah Bullivant (GCSU President)
Alberto Toscano (Sociology)
Mehraj Miah ( GCSU Black & Ethnic Students Officer)
Stop the War speaker
Grace Lally (GCSU Campaigns Co-ordination officer)

(note - The image I chose here is not the mage chosen by GCSU or UCU, but its sentiment is interesting).

Mrinal Sen Film, Tues 23 Oct. 07. @ 6.30

6.30 in the Cinema, tuesday 23rd October (after Keith Hart lecture in IGLT)

Antareen - by Mrinal Sen (1993 - 91 mins)

Another great Bengali film, this time with Dimple Kapadia (seen on the original flyer)

All welcome, in the Goldsmiths Cinema - no charge -

Akaler Shandhaney (In Search of a Famine) 16 Oct 07

Aakaler Sandhane: In September, 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side- product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the “famine-seekers”!

All welcome 6pm Cinema, Goldsmiths.

More Bengali Films at Goldsmiths

Tuesday's CCS Film Night 6pm–9 pm RHB SH/Cinema Goldsmiths

Its 150 years since the 1857 uprisings, 60 years since Independence (for Pakistan and India) and 40 years since Naxalbari (see, dialectics!)... In a kind of angular appreciation of these anniversaries, the film slot for CCS in Autumn term 2007 will be a series of great Bengali films.

We will start with Satyajit Ray's "The Chess Players" on the 2nd of October


16 October - Aakaler Sandhane - Mrinal Sen
23 October - Antareen - Mrinal Sen(will start one hour later because of Keith Hart's Inaugural Lecture in IGLT (at 5.30)

Then in the following weeks, some Ritwik Ghatak, films by Arparna Sen and one by Buddhadeb Dasgupta - dates to be announced (but its nearly every tuesday at 6)

All welcome.

Tim Mangin 4-6pm Tuesday 9 October 2007

CCS special seminar

Tim Mangin RHB141 from 4-6pm Tuesday 9 October – all welcome

Cosmopolitanism in Senegal: Jazz and Rap

This paper explores how Senegalese local popular culture thrives not in spite of transnational influences and processes, but as a result of them. Popular music scholars and social scientists have increasingly begun to study the impact of popular African diasporic musics in Africa such as jazz and Latin musics in West, South, and Central Africa. However, the meaning and role of black U.S. pop musics in identity formations in Francophone West Africa has received less attention. This paper addresses this problem by examining how Senegalese have used diasporic musics since the 1940s as one way to assert their modern cosmopolitan identities. Based on fieldwork conducted in Saint Louis and Dakar, Senegal, I explore how jazz and rap have become vitally cultural expressive practices for negotiating national and black identities.


Tim Mangin, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia University, studies transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in African diasporic popular musics and culture. His masters thesis explores collaborations between DJs, rappers, visual artists, dancers, and jazz musicians in underground hip hop clubs in New York City and his dissertation is an ethnography of mbalax, the popular music of Senegal.

Indian Media Saturday, Oct 13th, 2007

SACREDMEDIACOW and the
Centre for Film and Media Studies present:

INDIAN MASS MEDIA
AND THE POLITICS OF CHANGE

One-day conference for Postgraduates & Early Career Researchers
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Khalili Lecture Theatre
Saturday, Oct 13th, 2007
10:00-18:00
(followed by a party)

Opening address: Prof Paul Webley (Director of SOAS)
Keynote Speaker: Prof John Hutnyk
Endnote Speaker: Prof Laura Mulvey

The conference jointly is organized by SACREDMEDIACOW, an independent student-led research centre on Indian media, and the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the School Of Oriental and African Studies. Having said that, SACREDMEDIACOW is not really a centre for India media research (perhaps, a periphery of Indian media research would be a more appropriate title), but more of a Collective.

Bengali Films at Goldsmiths

Tuesday's CCS Film Night 6pm–9 pm RHB SH/Cinema Goldsmiths

Its 150 years since the 1857 uprisings, 60 years since Independence (for Pakistan and India) and 40 years since Naxalbari (see, dialectics!)... In a kind of angular appreciation of these anniversaries, the film slot for CCS in Autumn term 2007 will be a series of great Bengali films.

We will start with Satyajit Ray's "The Chess Players" on the 2nd of October

Then Mrinal Sen's "The Guerrilla Fighter on the 9th of October

Followed by more Mrinal Sen:
16 October - Aakaler Sandhane
23 October - Antareen (will start one hour later because of Keith Hart's Inaugural Lecture in IGLT (at 5.30)

Then in the following weeks, some Ritwik Ghatak, films by Arparna Sen and one by Buddhadeb Dasgupta - dates to be announced (but its nearly every tuesday at 6)

All welcome.

1857/2007: Imperialism, ‘Race’, Resistance

1857/2007: Imperialism, ‘Race’, Resistance
an international conference on the 150th anniversary of the 1857 uprisings
Saturday 6 October 2007 10.30am – 6.00pm
SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG

Speakers include: Indian human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar, who most recently has defended the accused in the Parliament Attack case; writer, film-maker and anti-war activist Tariq Ali; historian and writer on colonialism and patriarchy Kumkum Sangari; radical historian from Pakistan Mubarak Ali; Editor of Indian left monthly Liberation Kavita Krishnan; spokesperson of Cageprisoners Adnan Siddiqui; eminent civil-liberties lawyer Gareth Peirce; Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation spokesperson Hani Lazim, historian and writer on British imperialism John Newsinger; feminist educationalist Rubina Saigol from Pakistan
Organised by South Asia Solidarity Group, The 1857 Committee and the Centre for South Asian Studies, SOAS

1857
saw a sustained and widespread uprising against British rule in India. Although dubbed the ‘Indian Mutiny’ in many colonial history books, the uprising, which spread across much of the northern half of South Asia (at that time called India, now including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and lasted almost two years, had all the characteristics of a war against imperialism and for independence.

The aim of this conference is not only to remember what happened in 1857, but to highlight the continuities and parallels with the situation in South Asia and globally today. We will be looking at 1857 as one of the high points of continuing popular anti-imperialist resistance, in which people identifying with different communities and religions but sharing many aspects of culture consciously came together to resist an aggressively racist colonial power. In the process we will talk about contemporary imperialism, racism and the rise of the religious right, and the struggles against them in South Asia and here in Britain.

Currently the rise of intense anti-Muslim racism in Britain (along with other developments, like the rise of Hindutva in India) has polarised South Asian communities. It is urgent to reclaim our shared history of anti-colonial struggle and draw parallels with the British state’s current role in imperialism and war.
Some of the key themes of this conference include
The repressive state in Britain and South Asia and the construction of ‘terror’
People’s resistance to corporate capital from the East India Company to today
Land alienation, globalisation of agriculture and people’s struggles for resources
‘Divide and rule’, the religious right and popular movements against communalism
Changing strategies of state intervention and control: ‘culture’ ‘race’ and gender

Register now for the conference as places are limited. To register for the conference, complete and return the form below. For more information contact: sasg@southasiasolidarity.org

Migrating University 14-15 September 2007

No Detention, No Deportation;
No Borders in Education:
Freedom of Movement for All

Migrating University, at Goldsmiths,
September 14-15th 2007;
From Goldsmiths to Gatwick.

The No Borders camp at Gatwick (www.noborders.org.uk) is an ideal opportunity for Goldsmiths University to rouse itself from sleepy London and show its solidarity with Britain's new settlers, condemn the Governments asylum and detention practices, and expose the hypocrisy of having unregulated capital flow alongside racist fortress restrictions on people.

So, let's get Goldsmiths on the move.
- tent university, courses and workshops on race, migration, Multiculturalism, gender and sexuality, Media, culture, literature, music, activism and education etc.
- practical and theoretical programs, taught by current Goldsmiths and invited international(ist) professors, general staff, gaduates and students,all welcome.
- a non-elitist and democratic administrative structure, not a teaching factory governed by commodity servicing
- a fighting representative education union, open to everyone
- for critical radical intellectual renewal drawing upon the vast creative and expressive resources of people's movement(s)

This will happen at Goldsmiths (14-15 September 07) as a feeder into the Gatwick No Borders Camp the next week, the programme is being devised now, it promises to be fantastic, watch this space.

There is an organising group you can join - email me - if you want to be involved, and further infos will be posted here and on Trinketization.


Updated 21 August 07:

General enthusiasm for this event is very high. A feeling of frustration, and therefore energy for exploring activist options, is strong on campus. This is the joint result of the ongoing managerialism that afflicts the ‘teaching factory’ at all levels, alongside the wider malaise of neo-liberal war-mongering imperialism/Border-ism evident in the current conjuncture, everywhere. The role of the university in relation to borders between people and knowledge, between different knowledges, between peoples, between students, between students who pay ‘overseas’ fees and those who pay too much (‘training’ for industrial gain, paid for by the student??) and the ever extended morale crush that afflicts staff… linked to the obsolescence of older ideas of ‘education’ in favour of opportunism and productivity… Exclusions and …racism, murder-death-kill… there is much good reason to explore these concerns in our workshop.

links with: No Borders London and No Borders general.

Confirmed speakers so far include: Ken Fero (Injustice), David Graeber (activist anthrop), Ava Caradonna (sex worker education group), Susan Cueva (union), Sanjay Sharma (author of Multicultural Encounters) and likely Harmit Athwal (Inst Race Relations).

#Updated Programme at Trinketization


Click to join migrating_uni
Or find us on facebook.

Medical Aid 4 Pelestinians @ 606 Club 25 Sep 2007

Medical Aid For Palestinians Concert
Tues 25th CHARITY NIGHT IN SUPPORT OF MEDICAL AID FOR PALESTINE featuring GILAD ATZMON with Special Guest NIZAR AL-ISSA, SARAH GILLESPIE, ORQUESTRA MAHATMA and SURPRISE GUESTS.

Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) is a non-sectarian Charity established in 1984 to provide medical support and assistance to the troubled areas of the Middle East. Their work is centred in and around the refugee camps of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt along with those in Gaza and the West Bank. As well as urgently needed medical supplies the MAP medical volunteer programme has provided more than 300 medical volunteers drawn from a dozen countries. The music tonight will feature: GILAD ATZMON, a wonderful sax and clarinet player with a powerful sound and unique approach. His fiery, immensely fluent, playing and remarkable technique have established him as one of the most talented saxophonists in World music. Gilad’s Special Guest this evening will be Palestinian born master Oud player and vocalist Nizar Al-Issa. “Gilad Atzmon….a master…a jazz giant with a formidable International reputation” The Guardian. SARAH GILLESPIE. One of the primary organisers of the gig this evening singer/guitarist Sarah Gillespie is establishing a reputation on the singer/songwriter circuit as a unique and creative musical force. Accompanied by Chaz Jankel from the Blockheads. ORQUESTRA MAHATMA featuring Stuart Hall and Sonia Slany-violins. This unique band, completed by Paul Clarvis on drums and Thad Kelly on bass, perform music from across an unparalleled spectrum of World music. “ ..the imaginative blend of jazz and world influences is hugely entertaining” Observer. Plus some great Surprise Guests. One of the most important medical supports in the Middle East this inter-denominational charity is a worthy cause and one well worth supporting. £15.

CALL 606 CLUB 020 7352 5953 TO RESERVE A TABLE

Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) is a charitable company limited by guarantee: 038352 England. Registered charity no: 045315

at Hitotsobashigakuen - 21 July 2007

A talk by John Hutnyk on Paranoia and Urban Bombing Campaigns, with hip hop soundtrack and some attention to my favourite Fun^da^mental vids.

5pm, 21st July at Kunitachi campus:
http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/guide/campus/access.html



■　第49回　2007年７月21日(土)

「UK Hip Hop and Suicide Rap」
　講師：John Hutnyk （ロンドン大学ゴールドスミス・カレッジ）

　時　間：7月21日（土）　17:00から　
　場　所：一橋大学国立キャンパス 東2号館2202教室



ジョン・ハットニク教授はメディア・映像・音楽・政治の
アクチュアルな問題をカルチュラル・スタディーズや人類学領域の言葉で
「騒々（想像）」しく議論しているマルキシストらしい、ということは
下記の出版物やウェブサイトからも想像できます。
しかし私はこれ以上は予測できないし、間違っているかもしれないので、
皆さん、とにかく直接出遭って、英国のカルスタの
今の情況をとことん吟味して欲しいと思います。

なお、セミナー後にインフォーマルな懇親会をし、
その勢いで、ハットニクさんと福生あたりのクラブ・シーンに
潜入するかも知れません。こちらの方もふるってご参加ください。

参考サイトと出版物サイト：



More details of how to get to this and what to do after:

Dear John

We expect you to arrive 4:45pm, 21st, at our Kunitachi campus:
http://www.hit-u.ac.jp/guide/campus/access.html

Michael or I will meet you at Kunitachi station south gate at 4:30pm.
If you have any problem on the way, please phone me

After having your talk and a drink, we plan to go together clubbing
in Fussa area. This area(20minutes from Kunitachi) is close to an
American base and quite different from central Tokyo (i.e. Roppongi).
These are club web-sites:

http://www.clubcrunk.com/index1.htm
http://www2.tba.t-com.ne.jp/club-flow/
http://www.clubheat.org/heat_pc/main.html
http://www.geodana.com/index.htm

I hope you to join us,

Akira

Nagoya City University 18 July 2007

講演とビデオ上映の集い


日時：7月18日午後4時から


場所：人文社会学部棟203教室
　
講師：ロンドン大学教授　ジョン・ハットニク（カルチュラル・スタディース専攻）
テーマ：英国のヒップポップ

とてもアクチュアルで興味深いテーマですので、お誘い合わせの上、お気軽にふるってご参集ください。

Topic: UK Hip Hop and Suicide Rap.

Professor John Hutnyk, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths

世話人：土屋勝彦　(国際文化学科)

Wilberforcce bake off - 26 June-18 July 07

Last weekend I dragged a few people out to the park where we went to see the two competing models for the proposed sculpture to commemorate the legislation against slavery propagated by Wilberforce, (take your chance to vote by seeing the flyer - click on the image to enlarge) and - although I am biased somewhat by family connections, Sokari's is by far and away the better work. It is affirmative, insistent and interesting.

By contrast, the other one is what I would call - and will now never be able to imagine as anything but - Wilberforce's Anniversary Sponge Cake. I thought it was really really bad. Especially the chocolate figures on the top of the cake! Its a rehearsal of every bad stereotype and cliché, and renders black people once again in chains in a way that offers little critical perspective or gestures beyond the obvious.

The original vote-off was at the Lido here, but the results will not be known for a while as - see the flyer - the models will be touring - here is a close up of Sokari's macquette (afraid I do not have, nor do I want to promote, the sponge cake opposition one). Next chance to see the stuff is at Wallspace, All Hollows Church, London EC2M 5ND 26 June-18 July. Get out, find them (official site), and vote.

16 July 2007

Day 4 of the Ubiquitous Media conference in Tokyo
1pm - 2.45
Room H

Media/War

69 Anthony KING University of Exeter
The Casualties of War: the Mediatisation of Conflict in Korea and Afghanistan

60 John HUTNYK Goldsmiths College, London University
Pantomime Terror: UK Hip Hop at War - (or Paranoia in London: 'Lookout, he's behind you!')

Come see.

Tech/Animation Event in Tokyo 13 July 2007

Here is the first of several events in Japan (my visit sponsored by Japan Foundation- the second event will be at TCS conference, then talks at Nagoya City University and Hitsobashi U - details later)

“Tech/Animation”

7/13(fri) start20:00／1500yen／１d

ROOM HEAVEN&EARTH
住所：〒１５５－００３１東京都世田谷区北沢２－２－１４
モアイ茶沢４F＆５F
TEL:０３－３４１２－０４５４　

DJs; (techno, electro, hiphop.....)
Kotaro（techno.to, Equinox, Wonkavator）
Toshiya the tribal（Tribal Media）
Nick Cage（Trance Disk Hunter）
Fishu(NICE BAND RADIO)
Ice-K(NICE BAND RADIO)
Norio (No In One)

SPECIAL PROGRAM;
showing animation&talk session

The topic of talk will be around the links between techno and
Anime culture/tribes. It would be unofficial, easy and relaxed
session.

And relatively official statements on several projects of translation
of significant books (DJ Spooky, Ian Condry, etc) would be proclaimed
in public.

John Hutnyk (Goldsmiths, UK)
Jeremy Gilbert (UK)
Ian Condry (MIT,USA)
Yoshi Mouri (TAU, JP)
Anne Allison (Duke, US)
Toshiya Ueno(Wako/Mcgill, Jp )

Special Guest Dancers (you can join in ' the play', if you want so.)

Holland Novak
Gainer Sanga
Spike Spiegel
Renton Thurston
Char Asnable
Tachikoma
Motoko Kusanagi
and more!!!!

FOOD;
T/A BBQ booth (served by under 21 Spr-out girls of GEKKO STATE)

Venue - ROOM HEAVEN&EARTH
住所：〒１５５－００３１東京都世田谷区北沢２－２－１４
モアイ茶沢４F＆５F
TEL:０３－３４１２－０４５４　
- its in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo

See here for report

CCS Summer Party 27 June 07

The CCS summer party will take place on Wednesday 27th June, at
Blackfriars Wine Bar. It's under a railway arch very near to Southwark
tube station or a few minutes' walk from Waterloo.

Time: 6.30pm onwards
Address: 80 Scoresby Street, Blackfriars Road, London. SE1 0XN
Map: http://www.blackfriarswinebar.co.uk/map.htm

27 June & 2 July 2007 - Centre for Cultural Studies - PhD AHRC Training Workshops.

BIOPOWER and the GENEOLOGY of MODERN ARCHITECTURE.

June 27th, 2007
15.00-18.00 v.tba

Sven-Olov Wallenstein
is a Swedish philosopher who has written several books on philosophy, aesthetics and architecture and is the translator of Deleuze, Derrida, Agamben, Hegel, Kant, Ranciere and others. He is a professor at Södertörns University and a researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as well as the head editor of Site Magazine. A collection of his writings, essays and lectures has just been published by Axl Books.

Eyal Weizman
is the head of Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. His current research is into the relationship between war and architecture in Palestine/Israel and his latest book, Hollow Land, will be published by Verso in June.

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PLUS, the following week, a day long event:

URBAN AUDIOLOGIES

July 2nd, 2007
11am- 6.30 with lunch break and drinks and ents after. v.tba

Julian Henriques
from Goldsmiths College will be speaking about sonics and movement. He is author of 'Sonic Dominance and Reggae Sound System Sessions’, in M. Bull and L. Back (eds.), Auditory Culture, as well as various other essays and articles and has also made numerous TV and film documentaries, including Babymother for Film Four.

Michael Bull
from Sussex University is the author of Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life, The Auditory Culture Reader and most recently Mobilizing the Social: Sound Technology in Urban Experience. He has studied the mobile music revolution since the arrival of the Sony Walkman in the late 1970s and will be speaking about his latest research into ipod culture and the fashioning of sound.

Vivek Bald
is a New York based filmmaker and music producer. His documentary Taxi-Vala chronicled the lives, experiences and political activism of South Asian immigrant taxi drivers in New York City. He also produces and performs music under the name Siraiki and is co-founder of the groundbreaking Mutiny club night. He will be showing his latest film Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music followed by a Q and A session, as well as talking about his forthcoming audio/visual projects.

Steve 'Kode 9' Goodman
is Lecturer in Media Production at the University of East London and member of the autonomous research collective, the Ccru (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit). He also dj's on London pirate radio and internationally under a number of guises. His research interests include Cybernetic Culture, Sonic Culture, Diasporic futurisms, and he will be presenting from his new book Sonic Warfare.

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Please Note that both workshops are CCS AHRC funded training days put on for CCS PhD students. Attendance will be strictly limited. For further information or to book a place please contact Jeff Kinkle (e-mail CCS) for Biopower and the Genealogy of Architecture or Alison Hulme (e-mail CCS) for Urban Audiologies. Please bare in mind that early registration is advised as in order to make these events as intensive and engaging as possible there will be specific readings sent out which workshop participants will be expected to have read in advance.

Hutnyk - 22nd June 07 Revolution Books, New York

7pm - 9pm on Friday 22nd June Revolution Books, New York

John Hutnyk:

"Rumour and fear breeds violence and death: the limits of hybridity-talk and the chapati fetish of 1857
(or, the appearance and eclipse of politics in cultural studies)".

A discussion of the influence of the early work of the subaltern school of history, considering the waning career of the term hybridity in postcolonial and cultural studies, assessed on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first war of independence in India. From Marx on colonialism, to Mao on organisation, the take up of actually existing struggles is subsequently filtered through theory and needs to be evaluated in the context of the present.

Revolution Books
9 West 19th Street
(Between 5th and 6th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
www.revolutionbooksnyc.org

John Hutnyk is Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and is author of several books including "The Rumour of Calcutta" (1996), "Critique of Exotica" (2000), "Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies" (2004). He recently published "Diaspora and Hybridity", co-authored with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur (Sage 2006). Weblog: http://hutnyk.blogspot.com

21 July 2007 Manchester

21 July 2007, 1.30pm
Workers Film Association
9 Lucy Street, M15 4BX

2007 marks 150 years since the events of 1857: the first war of independence by the peoples of the sub-continent, which the British refer to as the Indian mutiny. Millions of people were ruled by the East India Company. The company’s rule was characterised by brutality and repression. Their practices led to the death of 10 million in the first Bengal famine of 1770. 1857 saw the unity of South Asians across religious and ethnic divides in a struggle against the rule of foreign occupiers.




Revenge: the execution
of rebels by cannon
fire in 1857





1.30 – 3.30pm: Understanding 1857
The Historical Significance of 1857: Kalpana Wilson (South Asia Solidarity Group)
East India Company – a History of Loot:
Nick Robins (author of The Corporation that Changed the World)
3.30 - 4:00 pm Tea

4.00 - 6.00pm East India Co. to Halliburton
‘Terrorists’ then and now: Naeem Malik - (1857 Committee)
Iraq – East India Co. (1763 – Factory established in Basra) to Halliburton:
Hani Lazim - (Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation)
The Folksongs of 1857: D Aijaz, (author of Kaal Bolaindi - folksongs sung today from the 1857 uprising)

Trauma of History: Monday 4th June 07

Repairing the Trauma of History: What does an apology of substance look like?

Date: Monday 4th June
Time: 10:30am -1pm
Location: Deptford Town Hall

A unique event will take place outside Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road on the morning of Monday 4 th June 2007. A group of people wearing yokes and chains will stop outside the town hall and attempt to make reparation for the acts of the seamen carved in stone on the front of the building. The statues are of three figures with disreputable histories:


Sir Francis Drake was a pioneer of the slave trade making at least three royally sponsored trips to West Africa to kidnap Africans and sell them into slavery.

Robert Blake was Cromwell's chief admiral and fought the Dutch to secure the trade triangle between the Caribbean, West Africa and England.

Lord Horatio Nelson was a fierce advocate for the trade. He wrote from the Victory on the eve of Trafalgar that as long as he would speak and fight he would resist "the damnable doctrines of Wilberforce and his hypocritical allies".


The ceremony outside the town hall is only one way to address the history and consequences of the slave trade and slavery. Recent discussion around the bicentenary commemorations of the Abolition Act of 1807 has polarised public opinion, as to what should or shouldn't be done. However, it is clear that the debate needs to continue.


To this end, following the ceremony, Goldsmiths is hosting a debate inside the town hall on the themes of reparation and apology which will focus on practical ways to address the issue. A panel of speakers will discuss a diverse range of approaches. The speakers include:
David Potts – Expedition Lifeline
Dr Jean Besson – Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths
Toyin Agbetu – Ligali
Esther Stanford – Rendezvous for Victory
Dr William 'Lez' Henry – Sociology Department, Goldsmiths

There will be opportunities for discussion and debate from the floor. All are welcome to attend and join in.

For further information please contact:

Paul Hendrich
paulhendrich@gmail.com

Nandigram and beyond Saturday 26 May 2.30pm 2007

Resisting Re-colonisation in India

Nandigram and beyond

Film screening and discussion

Saturday 26 May 2.30pm

SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1 (tube: Russell Sq.)

The brutal and premeditated massacre of men, women and children by police in Nandigram in West Bengal on 14 and 15 March this year brought into sharp focus the fact that across India thousands of people are resisting the seizure of their land in the ‘biggest land-grab since the colonial period’. Under the Special Economic Zones Act (2005) vast swathes of fertile agricultural land are being forcibly acquired to be handed over to transnational corporations. These SEZs will be virtually foreign territories controlled by the corporations – labour and tax laws will not apply, elected local government will be replaced by an unelected ‘development commissioner’, and local people will need passes to enter the land they used to cultivate. And while the government claims that the land will be used for productive industry, in reality the SEZs Act is a cover for global real-estate speculation – a large proportion of the land will be used for luxury housing developments, shopping malls, and exclusive tourist ‘enclaves’ which Indians will be forbidden to enter.

The film ‘This land is mine’ hears from the residents of Nandigram about the horrific police attacks of 14 and 15 March, the ongoing violence and attempts to starve them into submission through an economic blockade, the repression being unleashed on the movement of workers, activists, intellectuals and artists who have come out in their support, and their determination to continue to resist. We will be discussing how to build solidarity with the peasants of Nandigram and the many other parts of India where local people are taking on the state and corporate capital over SEZs.

This meeting is part of a series of events organised by South Asia Solidarity Group and the 1857 Committee in the context of the 150^th anniversary of the 1857 uprisings. For more details contact sasg@southasiasolidarity.org
- and read here. And http://www.1857.org.uk/.

Andrew Benjamin wed 9 May 2007

Centre for Cultural Studies Visiting Professor Andrew Benjamin talks at Goldsmiths

"Violence and Legitimacy"


Wednesday 9 May 2007

10am to 12 noon, Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

Professor Benjamin will present from work-in-progress on violence and legitimacy. His paper considers the fascination of violence and the manner in which it exerts a hold and commands notice despite its apparent warrant of revulsion. This fascination operates aesthetically across a range of media such that any easily formed distinction between art practices and journalism soon vanishes. Once removed from mere presentation violence oscillates between judgment and legitimation. The word’s ease of use does not belie the problem of definition. And yet, its definition is all too easily assumed. If assumptions, rather than being given centrality are deferred, then it may be possible to approach the violent by beginning with the complex interplay between fascination, judgment and legitimation.

Andrew Benjamin is Visiting Professor at Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths. He is currently Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Technology Sydney and Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Previously he has taught at Warwick University's Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature.

All welcome.


And don't forget afterwards:

Wednesday 9 May 2007
Undercover Softness: Politics and Architecture of Decay
An intensive seminar with philosopher and freelance writer Reza Negarestani (Iran) 2-5pm, Room DTH109
The first in a new seminar series: Architectures of Abstraction. Contact Luciana to attend.
See <http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies/events.php> for more info on all CCS events.

Vigil for Brian Douglas

8 May 2007

A vigil is being held for Brian Douglas, who died on 8 May 1995 after being arrested by police officers in south London.

• Tuesday 8 May 2007, from 7.30pm
• Kennington police station, Kennington Road, London, SE1. (Nearest tube: Lambeth North)

Please dress in black. The vigil is supported by the United Families & Friends Campaign the coalition of family campaigns of those who have died in custody.

For further information contact the Justice for Brian Douglas Campaign on 07956 629 889. Media queries contact 07770 432 439.

[pic is of Jasmine Elvie, Brian's Mother - from www.injusticefilm.co.uk]

Sokari Douglas Camp - 12&13 May 2007

Click to Enlarge.

And Please do go to Hyde Park this weekend to Vote. Its this one or the other one, and the other one is just not this.

The other one looks like Wilberforces birthday cake. It is not the one I voted for, I can tell you over and over

Gilbert and Shortall 30th April 2007

On the 30th of April we have two distinguished speakers coming to talk to us at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths about two very interesting and pertinent aspects of contemporary Marxist thought. From 2.00 to 3.30 Professor Geoff Gilbert will be speaking about “The Meaning of Contemporary Realism: The Amortissement of Idiom in Daewoo,” and from 6.30 to 8.00 we have Felton Shortall, author of The Incomplete Marx, who will be presenting a talk entitled “The Structure of Marx’s Capital.” Both talks will take place in the Council Room of the Laurie Grove Baths at Goldsmiths.

Professor Gilbert will be addressing Georg Lukács’ work on literature, and will be considering it as “the last sustained attempt to energise the category of literary realism’ as both concept and project.” Through a critical appraisal of Lukács’ concern with the inauthenticity of reification and its possible supersession via a ‘realist’ critique, Professor Gilbert will be looking at a contemporary social realist novel (François Bon's Daewoo, 2004), and will be considering the resources that modern literature presents to us as a means for conducting a critique of contemporary capitalism.

Felton Shortall’s The Incomplete Marx (1994) charted the development of Marx’s thought through a close consideration of his writings in order to illuminate his unfinished final work, Capital. Claiming that Marx provisionally closed off a full discussion of class struggle in Capital in order to describe the capitalist economy as a stable whole, Shortall argued that an account of the disruptive effects of this struggle upon value should be interpolated into the texts. His talk on the structure of Marx's most famous and influential work will reprise these claims in the light of his subsequent research, and will indicate the extent to which Capital points beyond itself to a conclusion that it's author did not live to complete.

To recap:

2.00 to 3.30pm Professor Geoff Gilbert: “The Meaning of Contemporary Realism: The Amortissement of Idiom in Daewoo,”

6.30 to 8.00pm Felton Shortall, author of The Incomplete Marx, on “The Structure of Marx’s Capital.”

All Welcome

Lovecraft Thursday 26 April 2007

Thursday 26 April 2007
Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Theory
Goldsmiths, Room RHB142, 11am – 6 pm

'A philosophy should be judged on what it can tell us about Lovecraft...' (Graham Harman)

The Centre for Cultural Studies brings a unique one-day symposium dedicated to exploring H. P. Lovecraft’s relationship to Theory.

The event will not follow the ordinary format of the academic conference. Some written materials will be circulated beforehand, but there will be no papers delivered on the day. Instead, there will be structured discussions based on five of Lovecraft’s stories:

• 'Call of Cthulhu'
• 'The Shadow over Innsmouth'
• 'The Dunwich Horror'
• 'The Shadow out of Time'
• 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key'

Themes to be discussed include:

• The Weird
• Fictional systems
• Lovecraft’s pulp modernism
• Houellebecq’s Lovecraft
• Lovecraft and hyperstition
• Lovecraft’s materialism
• Lovecraft’s racism and ‘reactionary modernism’
• Lovecraft and schizophrenia
• Lovecraft and the transcendental
• Lovecraft and schizophonia

Participants so far include:

Benjamin Noys (Chichester) - author of The Culture of Death and Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction
Graham Harman (Cairo) - author of Tool-Being and Guerilla Metaphysics. (Graham says that a philosophy should be judged on what it can tell us about Lovecraft)
China Miéville - acclaimed author of Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and other tales of the Fantastic.
Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths) - author of Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire
Steve ‘Kode9’ Goodman (UEA) - author of the forthcoming Sonic Warfare
Justin Woodman (Goldsmiths) - expert on the Chaos Magick appropriation of Lovecraft’s mythos
James Kneale (UCL) - author of ‘From Beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the Place of Horror’
Mark Fisher (Goldsmiths) - k-punk weblog
Dominic Fox - Poetix weblog

Anyone wishing to attend should e-mail Mark Fisher. Registration is free but places are limited. If anyone wishes to lead discussion on any of the stories, please state in the email which story you would like to talk about.

Revolutionary Tourism Tuesday 10 April 07

This is the abstract of a talk I will present - with severe jetlag as I arrive from Hong Kong at 5am on the same day - at the annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists at the London Metropolitan University (Holloway Rd).

Its in the "Enchantment" Plenary

(Plen1) Location Henry Thomas Room

Date and Time 10th April, 2007 at 14:30

"Revolutionary Tourism:

The double visage of South Asia abroad is fantasy and sensation. On the one hand, the Hindi film glitz or traditional exotica of temples, rich fabrics, and pantomime handlebar moustaches. On the other, disaster, war, cotton-clad politicians discussing nuclear weaponry, Maoists, and pantomime handlebar moustaches. This doubled representation follows an ideological investment that eases and erases imperial guilt. From afar, it is clear (the wish is) that the vibrancy (temples, fabric) of South Asia has not been destroyed despite the (rarely or reluctantly acknowledged) impact of 300 plus years of colonialism and more recent structural adjustment programmes. Reassured by tourist brochures and travel reports that most of the temples and holy sites remain, the disasters are attributed to contemporary dysfunctions: poverty, corruption, mismanagement and revolutionaries. Such reasoning, sometimes explicit, affirms that South Asia's problems are South Asian, and that the departure of paternal colonial rule was perhaps premature: a self-serving ideological psychic defence, to be resolved by more 'development' aid. This paper addresses the ways a new revolutionary tourism trades on the same (the same?) double aspect - the exotic charge of 'alternative travel' means meeting with the Maoist adds a frisson of excitement to what was by now a standard brochure scenario. The Maoists themselves take part in this representation game - Everest turns Red. I have a Communist Party of Nepal souvenir visa stamp to prove it (1000 rupees)."

Mostly I will probably talk about terror and Kolkata though, having just spent time there full of stories, and some dismay at Comms killing Comms..

Auckland talk - 3 April 2007

Pantomime Terror: UK hip hop at war

(or paranoia in London: 'Lookout, he's behind you!')

4:10pm to 5:30pm

Venue: ALR5, Architecture - University of Auckland
A special seminar by Dr John Hutnyk, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports where the Queen's subjects are called upon to 'report any suspicious baggage'; with stop and search security policing focused upon Muslims (and unarmed Brazilians shot on the underground); and with restrictions on civil liberties and 'limits' to freedom proclaimed as necessary, it is now clear that spaces for critical debate are mortally threatened in contemporary, tolerant, civilized Britain. This discussion addresses new work by diasporic world music stalwarts Fun-da-mental and the drum and bass outfit Asian Dub Foundation, relating to insurgency struggles, anti-colonialism and political freedom in the UK. The presentation will argue for an engaged critique of "culture" and assess a certain distance or gap between political expression and the tamed versions of multiculturalism accepted by/acceptable in the British marketplace. Examples from the music industry reception of 'difficult' music and creative engagement are evaluated in the context of the global terror wars and a new paranoia that appears endemic on the streets of London today...

John Hutnyk is a Reader and Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is the author of several books including "The Rumour of Calcutta", "Critique of Exotica" and "Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies".

Monday 12th march 2007 6.30pm Comrade Gaurav

Nepalese Revolutionary Leader to speak in London

Chandra Prakash Gajurel (Comrade Gaurav), a senior Politburo Member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), and Head of the CPN (M)'s 'International Command', recently released from an Indian prison after three years without trial, will be speaking at Goldsmiths...

Comrade Gaurav - CPN (Maoist) will speak at Goldsmiths on 12th March 2007 in the Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre at 6.30 PM. A great opportunity to welcome this Comrade back to active political struggle after his time in an Indian jail. This event adds to our growing interest in issues relevant to the history and development of struggles against imperialism, and is open to all (and not just MA Postcolonial Studies, of course). More details will be posted here soon (including other London talks), but for now please mark Monday 12th March (6.30) in your diary now. below, some info on the reason we are able to have Comrade Gaurav here - his release from jail at the end of November (from WPRM):

"1 Dec 2006

To All Chapters and Supporters:

Dear Comrades and Friends,

We have received the following additional information about the release of Comrades Gaurav and Kiran.

According to press reports they were released from the Jalpaiguri Central Jail in India at 7.45 pm on Thursday (30 Nov.). In addition it is being reported that 13 other people who were arrested along with them were also released. Press reports further state that they were met by "jubilant crowd" of "hundreds of people" (Reuters) "shouting 'Down with Nepal's monarchy'" as they left the jail.

It is being reported that "The West Bengal State Government had Tuesday ordered the local authorities to expedite the release. Following the order, police withdrew the cases filed at three different police stations in Jalpaiguri and Matigarha police station of Siliguri against them." This once again showing that the cases against them were politically motivated from the start and not based on any "violation of the law".

After leaving the jail they traveled to Kakarvitta, on the Nepalese side of the border with India. According to the Hindustan Times, "hundreds of people waited for their 'national heroes'" as they arrived in the town. Upon arriving in Kathmandu on Friday they were greeted by CPN(M) Chairman Prachanda at a public gathering and received "extended applause" from a crowd of "2,000 people" (AFP News) in attendence.

Both comrades have stated their intentions of returning to active revolutionary politics and thanked those who supported them during their period of imprisonment.

• Welcome Back Comrades Gaurav and Kiran!
• Free All Nepali Political Prisoners Still Held in India and China!
• Imperialists and Reactionaries: Hands Off Nepal!"

The pic is from a German campaign rally - showing international support retains its relevance. Lal Salaam.

Public Meetings:

REVOLUTION IN NEPAL

at a Crucial Juncture

The Current Situation and Perspectives for the People's Struggle in Nepal and Around the World

With Comrade Gaurav a Senior Leader of the Revolution in Nepal

Since 1996 the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (M), has been leading a massive revolution that has been sweeping through Nepal. On August 20, 2003, a senior leader of the CPN(M), and a member of its political bureau, Chandra Prakash Gajurel, known to millions of people in Nepal, South Asia and around the world as Comrade Gaurav, was arrested by the Indian authorities as he attempted to travel from India to Europe.

Nearly one year ago, in April 2006, the struggle of the Nepali masses against the feudal monarchy and its imperialist backers was raised to a crescendo, and people poured onto the streets of Nepal for a continuous 19 day shutdown of the entire country. King Gyanendra, after much discussion with his backers (mainly US and India), was eventually forced to concede defeat and reinstate the parliament which he had previously dissolved. The backdrop for these momentous events was of course the 10 year revolution under the leadership of the CPN(M). Since this April Movement the Nepali masses have been anticipating elections to a Constituent Assembly which would decide the fate of the monarchy. The CPN(M) has been pushing forward towards these elections and various agreements with the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) to isolate the monarchy have been made. The SPA however - and the current prime minister, Koirala, of the Nepali Congress Party - has been vacilating and looking for excuses to delay elections at all costs, with the open support of the US imperialists and Indian expansionists. The people's struggle in Nepal is thus at a crucial juncture, with the ruling classes and imperialists desperately looking for an opportunity to drown the aspirations of the Nepali masses.

Since his release from prison in India in December 2006 Comrade Gaurav has become head of the CPN(M) International Department. Nepali Samaj and the World People's Resistance Movement (Britain) invite you to participate in our public meetings to talk to comrade Gaurav directly about advances of the revolution in Nepal and the world situation:

3:00pm, Saturday 10 March at 100 Flowers Cultural Centre, first floor, 24 Stoke Newington High street, Dalston, N16. Nearest train station Dalston Kingsland (North London Line). Buses 67, 76, 149, 243

2:00pm, Sunday 11 March at Oceanic club, first floor 158 Station Road, Edgware Middlesex HA8 7AW. Nearest underground station: Edgware (Northern Line). Buses 16, 32, 142, 192, 204, 288, 303.

6:30pm, Monday 12 March at Goldsmiths College. Nearest station: New Cross. Near to New Cross Road/Laurie Grove. See http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/ for exact location.

5:00pm, Tuesday 13 March at Junior Common Room, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Nearest underground station: Russell Square.

Supported by: 100 Flowers Cultural Centre, Indian Workers Association, Fight Racism Fight Imperialism, Communist Workers and Peasants Party of Pakistan, Friends of Africa, Revolutionary Practice.

World People Resistance Movement(Britain)

BM Box 7970 London WC1N 3XX wprm_britain@yahoo.co.uk

Shilliam Thursday 8th March

The Department of Politics at Goldsmiths presents a talk by:

Robbie Shilliam (Oxford):

'The "politics of race" in modern world
development',

5pm, RHB137a, Thursday 8th March

Judith Butler on Arendt 05.03.07 at 6,30

Hannah Arendt and the End of the Nation-State?

Starts: 18:30 - 05 March 2007 | Ends: 20:00 - 05 March 2007

Location: Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building - Goldsmiths

Cost: Free

Judith Butler - Hannah Arendt and the End of the Nation-State? - as part of the Richard Hoggart Lecture Series

Judith Butler is one of the world's leading feminist philosophers. Her work has been translated into many languages and hPublisher concepts have entered into the everyday language of the new sexual politics. "Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter" developed post-structuralism, psycho-analysis and linguistics to query and de-stabilise the gender ideals through which we understand normative sexual identity.

In "The Psychic Life of Power" Butler again uses psycho-analysis to understand melancholia in social and political life, and in "Antigone's Claim" she addresses the constraints of kinship and the undermining of non-normative intimacy. More recently in "Precarious Life" Butler shifts her attention to the emerging patterns of violence and vulnerability in the post 9/11 world and in Giving an Account of the Self she develops an argument for radical dependency on others as necessary for survival. Butler has long been involved in activism and campaigning in feminist and queer politics, she is a regular commentator on social and political affairs, particularly in relation to Israel and Palestine and she has also been concerned of late with issues around secularity, non secularity and religious belief.

NOTE: tickets may be needed - check here:


The top pic is of hannah Arendt, the lower pic is of Judith Butler's door. - evidence of cult following may be discerned. I think some people clearly have too much free time - I know its easy to post pics nowadays, even upload from your camera phone (see here), but this door thing is pretty obscure so far as trinketized idolatry goes. Or maybe there is some sort of commentary on dependency upon others implied here, so I suspend judgement.

Marshall Berman - Thursday March 1 2007 5pm

Marshall Berman - March 1st at 5pm

"ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SPECTACLE IN TIMES SQUARE"

Centre for Cultural Studies, the Politics Department and Media and Communications present a special lecture:

by Marshall Berman, author of On The Street and All That's Solid Melts Into Air will speak in the IGLT at Goldsmiths at 5pm

*Thursday, 1 March 2007 : Professor Marshall Berman,
The author of All that's Solid melts into Air' and 'On the Town' will speak at CCS.
*5pm in Goldsmiths Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre.

All welcome.


• Tube Stations: New Cross and New Cross Gate
• Rail network trains via London Bridge to New Cross or New Cross GateStations.
• DLR to Deptford Bridge Station (10 minutes walk).
• Buses from Central London: 21, 36, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343,436, 453.

Marshall Berman holds academic degrees from Columbia University, Oxford and Harvard. Currently he is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches political philosophy and urban studies. He writes frequently for The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bennington Review, La Jornada, New Left Review, New Politics and the Village Voice Literary Supplement and he serves on the editorial board of Dissent. His main works are The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society, All That is Solid Melts in Air: The Experience of Modernity, Adventures in Marxism, and On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square. He is co-founder of the Center for Workers Education at City College in Upper Manhattan.

On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Described as a “continuous carnival” and “the crossroad of the world,”Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To esteemed scholar and author Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing, teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of his life. In this remarkable book, Berman takes us on a thrilling illustrated tour ofTimes Square, revealing a landscape both mythic and real. On the Town is a unique look through the lens of the ideas and works of art that inspired– or were inspired by – this landmark’s allure.

For more info contact: Francisco Carballo, cup01fc@gold.ac.uk

Brighton Voodoo Feb 23 07

Sokari 28th February 07 Guys Hospital

Southwark Bermondsey lecture:

'''Phoenix' Britain after Empire and Slavery''.

by Artist Sokari Douglas Camp.

Location: Guys Hospital Campus, New Hunt's House 7.30 -9.00 28th February.

Map http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/guys-det.html

BSG - 15.2.7

PART TWO of the great - Battlestar Galactica's new lease of life [which] has provoked much discussion. We will screen the second half of the pilot of this new (non Dirk Benedict/Lorne Green/Richard Hatch version - sorry Dirk, but this new lot is so much better. the silent space fight scenes are eerie... and I am glad that Tutankhamen headdress helmet stuff is gone...). Thursday 15th of February in the Cinema of the Richard Hoggard Building of Goldsmiths, starting at 7pm. All welcome.

Got that - Cylons part two, at 7, on 15.2.07. Small Hall.

BSG - 8.2.7

Battlestar Galactica's new lease of life has provoked much discussion. We will screen the pilot of this new (non Dirk Benedict/Lorne Green/Richard hartch version - sorry) series on thursday 8th of February in the Cinema of the Richard Hoggard Building of Goldsmiths, starting at 7pm. All welcome.

Got that - Cylons, at 7, on 8.2.07. Small Hall.