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).