What's on? Occasionally. Haphazardly.... John's centralized info pages.

What's on has become what is to be done, and moved

2008-05-25T11:18:00.000-07:00

What's on has become what is to be done, and moved over to wordpress at:

http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/

reprise

2008-05-24T11:20:00.000-07:00

What's on has become what is to be done, and moved over to wordpress at:

http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/

What is to be done? - this is how the page looked end of May 08 (sans pics):

Some of the things I have helped organise at Goldsmiths, or thought worth mentioning, recommending or just could not avoid gawping at, are posted on this page.

You should also check the CCS Events Page and the Goldsmiths Calender (not everything at Goldsmith gets on this page - its hardly NASA, so we don’t feel the need to do the difficult rocket science that would be required to co-ordinate these things college wide [sometimes there are just too many astronauts]).

The old list of past events in case you want to check up on who said what when, well they are *here*.

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Frankfurt Talk…

“Vortrag von Prof. Dr. John Hutnyk (University of London):

“Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’)”

(in englischer Sprache)

Veranstalter: Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie

Donnerstag, 29.5.2008: 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr; IG 454″

John Hutnyk Thursday 29 May 2008 Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor) Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt

Aki Nawaz’s Suicide Rap and our Pantomime Terrors (or, Paranoia in London: ‘Lookout, he’s behind you!’).

Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, 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 London 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 performance 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…

Thursday 29 May 2008
Time: 18.15
Room 454 (Ground Floor)
Grueneburgplatz 1, V 4
Westend Campus (the I.G. Farben building)
Frankfurt

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Marx and Philosophy

June 2nd 2008

A one day workshop reflecting on issues relating to globalisation,
resistance, value and the Interpretation of Capital.

The day will be geared towards discussion, and is organised around
presentations dealing with the following topics: global community; civil
disobedience and its tactical evaluation; the political implications of
value theory; the content and implications of Marx’s work, and his
relation to philosophy.

Click on the poster to enlarge it….

Speakers and timetable

2.00 – 3.15
Jonathan Brookes: “Marx and Global Community”
Sam Meaden: “A Critical Appraisal of the ‘Reclaim the Streets’ Movement”

(3.15 – 3.30 - break)

3.30 – 4.30
Sean McKeown: “Value – Between Economics and Politics”
Nick Gray and Rob Lucas: “Formal and Real Subsumption – Logical or
Historical Categories?”

(4.30 – 5.00 – break)

5.00 – 6.30
Nicole Pepperell: “How to Walk with Hegel – On the the ‘Peculiar Social
Character’ of Commodity Production”
Alberto Toscano: response

Venue: Hatcham House seminar room, 17-19 St James Street, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
The event is hosted by the Graduate School of Goldsmiths University of London.

For any enquiries please contact Tom Bunyard at: cup01tb@gold.ac.uk

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April May 2008 - Cinema Division: a film festival traversing the Mexican-American border.

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Raminder Kaur Wednesday 12 March 2008

2008-03-10T15:30:00.000-07:00

CCS presents a special Lecture:

Dr Raminder Kaur (University of Sussex)

"A Nuclear Dawn in South India:
Cultures of Anti-Nuclear Resistance in Kanyakumari District"

RHB 137a on Weds 12 March between 6-8pm. All Welcome.

(pic is of Raminder's book on Ganapati Festivals)

Cinema Division - Tuesday films March 11 and 18, then April-May

2008-03-02T12:04:00.001-08:00

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Jeremy Valentine Tuesday 4th March 2008

2008-02-25T07:54:00.001-08:00

The Centre for Cultural Studies presents:

A talk by:

Jeremy Valentine, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.

Tuesday 4th March

Goldsmiths cinema, RHB, 6pm - all welcome

"Everyone's at it: The Rentier Economy and the Morality of the Cultural Industries"

This paper is written in the spirit, but not the style, of Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1705). It begins with a critical analysis of theoretical claims that reduce culture to economy by virtue of the meaningful and embedded nature of the latter. There are two aspects of this critique. Firstly, an internal one directed at the assumption of a telos of homogeneity in cultural economy approaches. Even though the notion of economy is broadened everything is located within an equilibrium. Secondly, an external one which draws attention to the coincidence between cultural economy approaches and contemporary political rhetorics of ‘creative economy’. Both aspects naturalise historically specific relations of production through the category of culture and both privilege and generalise cultural industries as the leading edge of wealth production. The paper argues that both approaches are organised by a disavowal of the political dominance of the economic category of rent and the regimes of rights and fees on which it depends. Following a discussion of the problem of rent for capitalism, from Smith via Marx and Keynes to Buchanan, the paper outlines the role of rent in contemporary neo-liberal capitalism and its links to practices of ‘value capture’. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possible reasons for the valorisation of culture in contemporary neo-liberalism and in particular the example of the cultural industries in the formation of moral subjectivity.

Bob Avakian on Film 18-19 Feb 2008

2008-02-14T07:14:00.000-08:00

"Revolution: Why its Necessary, Why its Possible, What its all about"
is a lengthy yet fascinating lecture by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party of the United States.

This monday and tuesday we can watch the first four hours (in two sittings) of Avakian:

"in his first public appearance since 1979, Avakian offers an astute critical analysis of American politics and the Maoist tactics that he believes can bring about revolutionary change. Although 20th century history has demonstrated the complications inherent in achieving the Communist ideal, Avakian puts forth a compelling case that a revolutionary program is what contemporary America needs (if not necessarily what it desires)"

"Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he's an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he's a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science and he's a pit-bull fighter against oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor"

Goldsmiths RHB Cinema Monday 18th Feb 6pm - 8pm and Tuesday 19th Feb 6pm-8pm
All welcome.

See here for the DVD promo material, and here for my recent squirt of praise for his latest (quite funny, but serious) book.

Weds Feb 6th 2008

2008-01-28T22:07:00.000-08:00

a special seminar for Weds Feb 6th 2008:

Double Header:
Professors Michael Taussig and Andrew Benjamin. 4pm - 7pm, Goldsmiths Cinema.

Topics:
Michael Taussig on art and vision (fieldwork),
Andrew Benjamin on Art and Abstraction (Mondrian).

Chaired by Christopher Pinney, Visiting Crowe Professor, Northwestern University

- this is a seminar exclusively for the Centre for Cultural Studies, not to be missed.

monday 28 Jan - Stanwyck classics.

2008-01-28T03:35:00.000-08:00

After the epic engagement with Heidegger last week, the tone for the film this evening is decidedly less philosophical (largely because I am moving house and the Bob Avakian film I wanted to show is lost in a huge pile of boxes...)

So instead, a very special treat - two very early Barbara Stanwyck films

- 1932 B&W - "The Purchase Price"
and
1933 B&W - "Ladies They Talk About"

According to the video cover blurbs, the first one is described as 'a racy drama' and the second is ' a film worth seeing over and over again' . Both films are 1 hour ten minutes long, so 2 hours 20 in total.

Starts 6 pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 28 January.
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talk at Sussex 18 Jan 2008

2008-01-14T08:40:00.000-08:00

Venue: Arts A 071, Sussex University at 4pm on friday 18th Jan 2008

Pantomime Terror: Media South Asia as Civil Society Green Zone.

John Hutnyk

Performance studies and scholarship on popular culture has found a new more dangerous context. With terror alerts and constant announcements at train stations and airports in the UK, 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 London 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 performance 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...

CCS Pinney Thursday 13.Dec.07

2007-12-04T09:43:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-03T12:29:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-26T02:48:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-15T09:59:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-15T02:03:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-09T23:00:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-09T22:52:00.000-08:00

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

2007-11-08T16:43:00.000-08:00

Gayatri Spivak 8th November 2007

2007-11-08T06:54:00.000-08:00

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

2007-10-26T16:27:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-24T03:19:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-21T04:53:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-11T12:40:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-03T10:44:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-27T10:26:00.001-07:00

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

2007-09-11T07:41:00.000-07:00

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

2007-09-11T04:12:00.001-07:00

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

2007-08-08T09:11:00.001-07:00

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

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Or find us on facebook.

Medical Aid 4 Pelestinians @ 606 Club 25 Sep 2007

2007-08-08T09:06:00.000-07:00

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.

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at Hitotsobashigakuen - 21 July 2007

2007-08-07T09:08:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-04T02:02:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-04T01:51:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-04T01:07:00.000-07:00

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

2007-07-04T01:01:00.000-07:00

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

2007-06-13T14:30:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-06-11T09:11:00.000-07:00

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.

______________________________________________

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.

____________________
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

2007-06-11T03:32:00.000-07:00

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

2007-06-05T14:43:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-20T03:57:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-11T05:46:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-09T23:53:00.000-07:00

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 words 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

2007-05-04T00:53:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-01T06:26:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-30T20:05:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-09T20:10:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-08T23:23:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-01T20:05:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-07T14:53:00.000-08:00

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

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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

2007-03-04T09:16:00.000-08:00

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

2007-03-01T14:13:00.000-08:00

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

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Sokari 28th February 07 Guys Hospital

2007-02-18T07:33:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-09T13:17:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-05T08:20:00.000-08:00

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.

8 MARCH 2007 Chambers

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Sam Chambers (Swansea),

"The meaning of 'family': queer theory and the cultural politics of television",

Thursday 8 March 2007, 5pm

Richard Hoggart Building (RHB 137a) Goldsmiths.

Trinketorium 2.27

2007-02-02T01:22:00.001-08:00

Trinketorium

Alison Hulme has gone all Cargo Cult and presents this exhibition at Goldsmiths from 2nd Feb 2007 - come to the opening which is starting at 17:00 on Friday early evening.

Location: Graduate School, Ground Floor, Hatcham House, Goldsmiths
Cost: Free

Trinketorium – an exhibition at the Graduate School (Alison Hulme)

Every year a tanker from China brings Christmas to Europe in the form of cheap plastic trinkets. On its way home it collects waste plastic, recycles it, and sells it back to us in the form of plastic novelties the next Christmas.

Trinketorium is a collection of photographic works from across academic disciplines that attempts to capture the 'logic' of the trinket economy and the lure of the bargain within a globalised and globalising world.

Consider it as a picture diary of a current-day flaneur. An Arcades Project of the disposable. A comment on collecting. A struggle with capitalist ills through the flotsam and jetsam of quotidian existence. Generation quick-fix gone crazy.

You are warmly invited to the opening of the exhibition.

Drinks and snacks will be served.

Marshall Berman - March 1 5pm

2007-01-30T03:48:00.000-08:00

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

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

Topic tba

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

Thurs 1st February - SERENITY

2007-01-30T03:24:00.000-08:00

Due to popular obsessions, we decided to have a mini Sci Fi season - so, there will be a few weeks worth of sci fi films shown in the Small Hall/Cinema of Goldsmiths starting at 7pm thursday 1st February - All Welcome. No Charge.

The first film is Serenity. from Joss Whedon. Trailers here.

"The future is worth fighting for"

Benjamin 25 Jan 2007

2007-01-20T09:44:00.000-08:00

Andrew Benjamin is at Goldsmiths to do an animals and philosophy routine. He's visiting prof with CCS for a while. Come.

25th Jan Thursday 6pm BPLT Lecture Particularity and Exception: On Jews and Animals

all welcome.

Charlie Gere 18 January 2007

2007-01-08T08:18:00.000-08:00

The Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths presents:

A talk by Charlie Gere
(Reader in New Media Research, University of Lancaster):

"The Liturgy of Things: New Rituals for a Participatory Culture"

RHB thursday 18 Jan room 137a 5pm-7pm

Some of you will remember Charlie's great talk at the Creative Evolution conference a few years back. This is not to be missed.

Friday Dec. 1st 2006 Why Mao? Why Now?

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The Centre for Cultural Studies of Goldsmiths College presents a day conference on Maoism

Friday Dec. 1st 2006 Cinema Goldsmiths College Main Building 1-6:30 PM
1:00 PM
Introduction: Why Mao? Why Now?
Maude Colville
1:25 PM
The Flaming Forests of Jharkland: Everyday life between Revolution and the State in Eastern India
Alpha Shah
2:05 PM
The Black Panther Party and Mao
Sukant Chandan
2:45 PM
Break
3:05 PM
The Fate of Friend and Enemy in the Village called Peace and Benevolence
Michael Dutton
3:45 PM
Learning with Mao: Revolutionary Pedagogy in Post-Althusserian Thought
Alberto Toscano
4:25 PM
Break
4:35 PM
Maoism and the Call of the Future: Bob Avakian and the Next Synthesis
Bill Martin
5:55 PM
Panel and Discussion
6:30 PM
Reception

Maude ColvilleIntroduction: Why Mao? Why Now?
Why have a conference on Maoism in a heart of 21st century post-industrial post-colonial European Capitalism? What interest would Maoism hold for an Urban Bourgeois Institution of Intellectuals in an era in which Communism allegedly has been historically ‘surpassed’ and Mao’s work and influence has been maligned internationally as ‘Democidal’? Two decades after China itself began its own ‘De-Maoification’? Is it an art school’s Post-Modern Nostalgic fondness for Totalitarian Trinkets? Why focus on Maoism in particular out of all forms of Marxist-Leninism? A Taste for the Oriental and Exotic, or did Mao’s thought contribute something vital to the international communist struggle? Why does Maoism continue to inspire theory and revolutionary struggle far beyond the bounds of China and Chinese Culture, beyond the divisions of East and West, North and South? Why has Maoism had such a strong international philosophical influence? This small day conference attempts to address those and other questions by looking at different currents of Maoist thought and practice in the US, France, India and China.
Maude Colville is a PhD student of Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. She is doing her doctoral research on the representation of the attacks of Sept. 11th 2001 as Sublime. Her research interests include the relationship between democracy, violence and revolution; the Haitian Revolution, Spinoza, Hegel and Qur’anic Democracy.

Alpa Shah The Flaming Forests of Jharkhand:Everyday life between Revolution and the State in Eastern India.
In the forested plateau of Jharkhand, Eastern India, live some of the country's most marginalised populations, its *adivasis*. Despite containing some of the country's richest mineral wealth, this is the India that is often considered a place where, 'nobody goes, the wild east, the subcontinent's heart of darkness' (The Independent Magazine, 11 March 2006: 17). In recent months, however, this part of India has gained increasing international attention as the media eye turned to its flaming forests - the rural spread of underground armed guerrillas, commonly called the Maoists or the Naxalites, heirs to the revolutionary ideology of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. In March 2006, the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, declared the rebels as the 'single biggest security threat' the country has ever faced. The State has publicly waged a war against the Naxalites and rural people in Jharkhand are often caught between the forest fires. This paper explores how and why the Maoist revolution is spreading through Jharkhand. Blurring the boundary between the state and the 'terrorist', the paper shows the initial spread of the revolution to be dependent on the control over a market of protection to access the informal economy of the state. With the increasing strength of the revolution, the paper outlines pressing questions for future research on the relationship between ideology and practicalaction.
Alpa Shah, Lecturer of Anthopology Goldsmiths College, University of LondonBorn in Kenya, I emigrated to England in 1991 where I was awarded a bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge (1994-1997), a Masters (1997-1998) and a PhD (1999-2003) from the Department of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.My doctoral research took me to the state of Jharkhand in Eastern India. Here, I explored international debates of postcolonial development around the state, democracy and corruption, labour migration and the environment, the development of indigenous movements and the spread of revolutionary armed guerrillas – the Naxalites. I considered the politics of how diverse people in rural Jharkhand experience these issues and how, in particular, the local appropriation of global discourses can maintain a class system that further marginalises the poorest. I am currently writing a monograph on this work entitled, 'In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics in Jharkhand, India'.I will continue pursuing these research interests in Jharkhand. I also intend to theoretically and empirically explore the relationship between migration, identity, law, citizenship and the nation-state, tracing the genesis of changing British immigration laws and their differential affects on people moving between India, Kenya and Britain. I was offered a teaching position in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths in 2003. Here, I convene a Masters programme in Development and Rights and also teach courses on the Ethnography of South Asia and Contemporary Social Issues. I am interested to hear from students who would like to pursue research on adivasis, indigenous politics, and anthropology of the state, violence, revolution, development and environment. Special Edited Journal Volume-2006 with T. Kelly. 'A Double Edged Sword: Protection and State Violence'. With an Introduction. Critique of Anthropology 26. Refereed Journal articles:2007 In press 'Keeping the state away': democracy, politics and imaginations of the State in India's Jharkhand. In Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute. March issue.2006 'Markets of Protection: The Maoist Communist Centre and the State in Jharkhand, India.' In Critique of Anthropology. (Special edited collection by T. Kelly and A. Shah) 26: 297-314. Also in Pratten, D. and A. Sen (2007) Global Vigilantes. London: Hurst. 2006 'The Labour of Love: Seasonal Migration from Jharkhand to the Brick Kilns of Other States in India.' In Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s). 40 (1) 91-119.2003 with Lewis, D., Bebbington, A.J., Batterbury, S.P.J., Olson, E., Siddiqi, S., and Duvall, S. 'Practice, Power, Meaning: Frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects'. In Journal of International Development. 15, 1-17.Film: 2002 'Heads and Tales'. Co-Directed with Ajay TG. A Jandarshan Production. A 22 minute documentary film in English and Hindi on tradition and politics in Jharkhand.

Sukant Chandan
The Black Panther Party and Mao
Possibly the greatest inspiration internationally for the Black Panther Party was Mao Tse Tung, and the leadership which the Chinese Community Party gave the general worldwide anti-imperialist insurrection at the time. The main question that will be expored is: How beneficial was it for the first national armed and radical organisation of the Black masses in the USA to be identified so closely with Communist China and Mao?
Sukant Chandan is a political analyst who specialises in radical struggles and insurgencies in the USA, the Middle East and Ireland.

Michael Dutton The Fate of Friend and Enemy in the Village called Peace and Benevolence
The story of Mao in contemporary China is the tale of political aesetheticisation. From trinketisation to the so-called 'Red Industry' Mao and his politics are being commodified.
I will highlight this process through telling the tale of two museum projects that are being inauguratedon either side of the small village of Anren, in China's Sichuan province. One museum was built to commemorate the life of a reviled landlord but has now become a stately home, while the other is a new museum designed to aestheticise the process of Cultural revolution. Together, they tell us of the fate of Maoism in contemporary China.
Michael Dutton, Professor of Politics, Goldsmiths College University of LondonMy research is characterized by a strong interest in contemporary social and cultural theory wed to a specific 'archive' called China. This has led to a range of rather disparate set of issues that quite often move my work out of the specifics of China. My current interests include an investigation of the politics of the gift, a study of the friend/enemy distinction, and an appreciation of the importance of everyday life in the flow of politics. Some Recent Publications: Policing Chinese Politics: A History (Duke University Press 2005).‘From Culture Industry to Mao Industry’, boundary 2, Vol. 32, No. 2 (2005), 151-168.‘Mango Mao: Infections of the Sacred’ Public Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2004),161-186. Streetlife China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Alberto Toscano Learning with Mao: Revolutionary Pedagogy in Post-Althusserian Thought
The recent work of Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière has foregrounded a thinking of uncompromising intellectual egalitarianism, pitted against the philosophical traditions of transcendentalism, naturalism and intuitionism. In this presentation, I wish to excavate the specifically Maoist roots of Badiou’s and Rancière’s commitment – against the Althusserian notion of ‘science’ – to an axiomatic notion of equality, distilled in the philosophical slogan: ‘people think’. In particular, I want to contrast Badiou’s and Rancière’s reflections on political and philosophical pedagogy to Mao’s early writings on schooling and to the policies on intellectuals in the Cultural Revolution
Alberto Toscano, Lecturer of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London Research interests focus on contemporary social theory and philosophy; Marx and Marxism; recent French thought, in particular the writings of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, and issues around political ontology; biopolitics; anti-capitalism; theories of political subjectivity; collective and technological individuation (Gilbert Simondon); vitalism and neo-monadology (Tarde, Whitehead); Italian Marxism and operaismo (Panzieri, Tronti, Negri); debates on post-Fordism, immaterial labour and cognitive capitalism; the historical materialist geography of David Harvey; the link between religion and politics (fanaticism, messianism, and political theology). Recent publications include: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (Palgrave 2005); the co-edited and co-translated books Alain Badiou, Theoretical Writings (Continuum 2004), including the postface ‘Aleatory Rationalism’ (with Ray Brassier) and Alain Badiou, On BeckettThink Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy (Continuum 2004); ‘From the State to the World?: Badiou and Anti-Capitalism’, Communication & Cognition, 37, 1/2 (2004); ‘Factory, Territory, Metropolis, Empire’, Angelaki 9.2, ‘Politics of Place’, special issue, August 2004; ‘Ethics and Capital, Ex Nihilo’, Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious, 2005; he co-edited the issues ‘What is Materialism?’ (2001) and ‘Foucault: Madness / Sexuality / Biopolitics’ (2002) of Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy. He is currently working on two interrelated projects: a study of the resurgence of egalitarian politics in contemporary thought, provisionally entitled The Communist Hypothesis, and a book on the role of the notion of “fanaticism” in the history of modern social and political thought, focussing specifically on debates around the German Peasants’ War of 1525 and the heritage of the Kantian distinction between fanaticism and enthusiasm. (Clinamen 2004), including the introduction ‘“Think, Pig!: An Introduction to Badiou’s Beckett’ (with Nina Power); ‘Communism as Separation’ in P. Hallward (ed)

Bill MartinMaoism and the Call of the Future: Bob Avakian and the Next Synthesis
Since the passing of Mao Tse-tung, we have had thirty years of vilification of the Chinese Revolution and the Cultural Revolution. Why does this matter? Is there a line to be drawn from the experience of the "Mao era" to the future? What is the future of Maoism, and what does Maoism have to do with the future? Has the world changed in significant and fundamental ways in the last thirty years? If so, has this rendered Maoism obsolete, or is it the case that, instead, we need a new synthesis, but one that comes out of the experience of Maoism? What are the ways in which Bob Avakian is both developing Maoism and attempting to surpass it? As a postscript, Why has it been so difficult to develop a Maoist trend in the U.K.?
Bill Martin, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. Bill was educated at the University of Kansas. He works in the areas of social theory and continental philosophy, as well as aesthetics (especially literary and musical), philosophy of religion, and analytic philosophy. He has published six books, the most recent being Avant rock: Experimental music from the Beatles to Bjork (Open Court,2002). He has two books coming out with Open Court in spring 2005: Ethical Marxism: the categorical imperative of liberation,and the co-authored volume Marxism and the call of the future: conversations on ethics, history, and politics. Among his current writing projects are texts on sexuality, the question of community, and the culture of postmodern capitalism.
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Tues Nov 28 2006 - Godard Film - La Chinoise

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Godard Films continue this coming tuesday Nov 28 in the Goldsmiths Cinema at 6pm with something to get us in the mood for the Why Mao? Why Now? event on the following friday

Godard. 1967 La Chinoise
- Tuesday 28th Nov 06 at 6 PM - all welcome

Tues 21 Nov 06 Godard film "band a part"

2006-10-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

Band a part - Cinema Goldsmiths 6pm tues 21st Nov. All welcome.

"Jean-Luc Godard’s seventh feature is, arguably, his final purely joyous New Wave film before moving on to his more formally abstract and politically radical works of the late sixties and early seventies" - Donato Totaro, OFF SCREEN.

Dec 1 2006 - Mao CCS 1-6pm

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Centre for Cultural Studies presents:

Mao workshop - Friday 1st Dec - Goldsmiths 1-6pm cinema - all welcome.

Why Mao? Why Now?

Why have a conference on Maoism in a heart of 21st century post-industrial post-colonial European Capitalism? What interest would Maoism hold for anUrban Bourgeois Institution of Intellectuals in an era in which Communismhas been historically 'surpassed'? Two decades after China itself began its 'De-Maoification'? And why Maoism in particular out of all forms ofMarxist-Leninism? Why does Maoism continue to inspire theory and revolutionary struggle far beyond the bounds of China and Chinese Culture,beyond the divisions of East and West, North and South? This small dayconference attempts to address those and other questions by looking at different currents of Maoist thought and practice in the US, France,India, China and Nepal.

Here is the draft schedule for 1 December (but some speakers are still to be confirmed. The venue will be Goldsmiths Cinema):

1pm welcome - Intro/framing - Maude Colville

1.25 - Alpa Shah and George Kunnath on the state and struggle in Jharkhand, India - anthropological studies and the People's War

2.05 - . Sukant Chandan on the 40th anniversary of the Black Panther Party and Influence of Maoism

2.45 - break

3.05 - Michael Dutton on the Mao museum and memorial village in ... Mao badge museum, trinkets etc.

3.45 Alberto Toscano - Learning with Mao: Revolutionary Pedagogy in Post-Althusserian Thought

4.25 Break

4.35 - Bill Martin - Maoism and the call of the future: Bob Avakian and the next synthesis

5.55 - Final Discussion.

6.15pm - end (local refreshments)
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Alphaville Tuesday 14 Nov 2006

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Godard Sci Fi
Alphaville
6pm Goldsmiths Cinema
all welcome.
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Godard Autumn term tuesdays 6-9

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At Goldsmiths on tuesday nights all Autumn term I am going to show Godard films. Cinema - 6-9 tuesdays, in something like this order (tbc):

Oct 3 - a bout de Souffle
Oct 10 - no film/Dutton inaugural lecture in IGLT at 5.30
Oct 17 -KP Koepping presents Sembene's Xala
Oct 24 - Stephen Muecke talk at 6.30 (after Bev Skeggs inaugural 5.30 IGLT)
Oct 31 - Two or three things I know about her
Nov 7 - reading week (film tbc - possibly Les Mempres??)
Nov 14 - Alphaville (tbc)
Nov 21 - band a part
Nov 28 - La Chinoise (link to 1 Dec Mao event)
Dec 5 - Godard on TV (if I can get it) or Historie du cinema

These dates/films are subject to change, but seem pretty solid for now.

All welcome.
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Dis-Orient X - friday 17 November

2006-10-06T05:22:00.000-07:00

Dis-Orient X - friday 17 November 3-6pm

Ten years after the book Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music (zed books 1996) we've decided to have a party (or a wake) and discuss, and dance, about the new world disorder...

3pm start - Goldsmiths Cinema
speakers - Sonia from ADFED, Anamik Saha of Goldsmiths, Sanjay Sharma, Aki Nawaz showing the new Fun-da-mental video, & panel discussion chaired by Ash Sharma...
finish 6pm

Then...

From 7.30pm (after hungry folks have eaten at a local diner):

Dis-Orient X club night 17 November 7.30 - 12pm.

@ New Cross Inn (on New Cross Rd opposite the venue)
with Aki Nawaz from Fun-da-mental and friends on the decks
- a benefit for the 1857 Indian war of Independence Commemoration Committee
(donation at door - and auction of John's old South Asian vinyl)

All welcome
(special discount offer on the F-D-M album ALL IS WAR on the night)
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Taussig - Tuesday 7 November

2006-10-06T03:54:00.000-07:00

GOLDSMITHS
University of London

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS

Centre for Postcolonial Studies

Public Seminar

Michael Taussig

Zoology, magic and surrealism in the war on terror

Tuesday 7 November 2006 in RHB 308 at 2.00pm

ALL WELCOME

Further details available from Professor Michael Dutton – tel: 020 7919 7751 email:m.dutton@gold.ac.uk

Tues Nov 7 Le Mepris 6pm Cinema

2006-10-06T03:05:00.000-07:00

Tuesday Nov 7 Le Mepris - 1963 by Godard, stars Jack Palance, Brigit Bardot and Michel Piccoli
6pm Cinema Goldsmiths College - All Welcome

Sumanyu Satpathy - Friday 3 Nov @ 5pm

2006-10-06T01:56:00.000-07:00

The Media and Communications Dept, the

Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths and

the Politics Department

present a talk by

Professor Sumanyu Satpathy (Delhi University)

The Indian Queer, Media and the Arts

The paper examines media coverage of the vexed subject of same-sex love in India by way of responding to specific news-worthy events such as sex-related murders, harassment, films, and even suicides, elopements and murders. More recently, the call for the repealing of article 377 has also featured in the popular print and electronic media. In these debates conducted through the media certain issues related to India’s “traditional” moral and ethical values are invoked by the proponents and opponents of the legislation. These media events are as much representations of same-sex love as any artistic ones.

How it that questions of ethics and public morality are are invoked as transcendentalist, universalist categories, without any clearly formulated ideas of what constitutes the ethical or moral in the Indian context? Does morality or ethicality pertain to the private or public domain? There is a criminal code to punish deviance from what is natural etc. Does the legal involve the moral or ethical? How can a matter of personal choice be debated in the public sphere? What is the relationship between the private and the public in questions of the moral or ethical? How much of the ethicality of one’s sexual choice is of public consequence? How is it that a case of crime and punishment being taken to the sphere of the sexual orientation of the victim, and becomes and occasion for public debate on the ethicality of a gayman’s personal life?

These are some of the questions that the paper seeks to address making use of news paper clippings, film clips and scanned paintings and sketches.

Friday 3 November 5pm-7pm
Goldsmiths Cinema (RHoggart Building)

All Welcome

Stellarc - Thursday, 2nd November 2006

2006-10-05T15:49:00.000-07:00

The Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths is pleased to
invite you to a talk by the international performance artist STELARC:

FRACTAL FLESH/ PHANTOM BODIES: The Prosthetic, the Plastinated, the
Partial and the Printed

Date: Thursday, 2nd November 2006
Time: 5 pm
Venue: Media Research Building (new building at the back of the campus
field, near the studios), Screen 1, Goldsmiths College, University of
London, New Cross

The event is free but places need to be booked by emailing Joanna
Zylinska <j.zylinska@gold.ac.uk>. They will be allocated on the first
come, first served basis.

FURTHER DETAILS
Stelarc is an Australian artist who has used prosthetics, robotics, VR
systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate, intimate
and involuntary interfaces with the body. Some of his projects include
the THIRD HAND, the STOMACH SCULPTURE, EXOSKELTON, the EXTRA EAR and the

PROSTHETIC HEAD. Recently he has performed and exhibited in
“Transfigure” (ACMI, Melbourne); the “Clemenger Contemporary Art Award”
(NGV, Melbourne); the Yokohama Triennale; the “Microwave Media Arts
Festival” (Hong Kong); and “Ars Electronica”. In 1997 he was appointed
Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. In

2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate and was artist-in-residence in

the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Caulfield. He is
currently Chair in Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University.
He is a recipient of a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia
Council for 2005-2007. His artwork is represented by the Sherman
Galleries in Sydney.

The talk will focus on Stelarc’s recent projects, which tentatively and
imperfectly explore alternate anatomical architectures that incorporate
physiologically plausible structures and re-wirings. They also postulate

hybrids of biology and technology and actual-virtual chimeras, i.e.
operational and living systems as mixed and augmented realities. In so
doing they raise questions about the obsolescence of the body and its
present form and functions. The Prosthetic Head, the Partial Head, the
Extra Ear and the Walking Head are indicative of virtual, partially
living and hybrid robotic systems that exhibit varying degrees of
liveness.

Stelarc’s website: http://www.stelarc.va.com.au

Tuesday Oct 31 06 "Two or Three Things I Know About Her"

2006-10-03T15:57:00.000-07:00

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Deux ou Trois Choses que Je Sais d'Elle) directed by Jean-Luc Godard. France. 1966.

Cinema, Goldsmiths 6pm

Nigel Watson started his pretty stupid review with a comment on the great coffee scene, a scene which could be the greatest cinematic coffee of all time.

"As the Time Out Film Guide, Eighth Edition 2000 puts it: 'Despite some time-bound concerns and irritating concepts, the sheer energy of Godard's dazzling sociological fable is enough to commend it.' Here I will look at some of these irritating concepts. A voice-over stating that language limits and constrains our view of the world accompanies a close-up of swirling coffee in a cup.... "
So come make up your own mind. The Godard 'season' continues with this film on Tuesday October 31 in the Goldsmiths Cinema at 6pm - and then in the weeks to come we might get to mock other great Watson miosconstruals. For example, when we get to Alphaville our Nige will tell us: "In Alphaville he [Godard] has a soul-less and inhumane computer ruling the city with rational and unwavering logic; those people who express love or poetic feelings are killed or brainwashed"... you kind of got the point, but missed it at the same time Nige. We will just have to decide for ourselves on the day...
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Samarendra Das - Friday 27th October

2006-10-03T08:55:00.000-07:00

CCS presents a feature length documentary by Samarendra Das on the Adivasi and Dalit resistance to Alcan in Orissa, India.

The director will attend the screening and answer questions on the campaign..

Friday 27th October - 3.30pm Goldsmiths Cinema RHB (124 minutes)

All welcome.

In a recent review of the film, Felix Padel wrote: "This is a documentary made with and for the indigenous people of Orissa, whose speech, song, dance, demonstration and gesture comes alive here in a way that is only possible because film-maker and camera have entered this indigenous world, and surrendered to the intention of serving them, becoming a medium for their expression.

What Adivasis and Dalits actually say is rarely heard in the media within or outside Orissa – a subtle form of censorship which is also tragic – especially on the subject of mining. In this film, as in their daily life, they speak with a clarity and vividness that pulls blinkers off our eyes, and brings us back to a reality grounded firmly in nature.

Running through the film is the commentary of one of the leaders of the Kashipur movement, Bhagavan Majhi, who narrates events before and after the Maikanch police killings of December 2000, and articulates a critique of mainstream ideas about "development" which should be heard by everybody concerned about Orissa’s future.

Basically the film interweaves a number of separate stories around resistance to mining and metal factory projects, and the big dams which supply them with hydro-power and water.
The Kashipur story involves 13 years of resistance to the "Utkal" project, where Alcan is the dominant partner (Aluminium Canada, a key supplier to Britain and its arms industry). Resistance centres in the Kond village of Kucheipadar, where Bhagavan and several other leaders live, alongside Salo Majhi, a blind singer and story-teller, whose songs start and end film, "from Genesis to Genocide".

Events reached crisis in Maikanch six years ago, and culminates again today, when Kucheipadar is virtually under police siege as the authorities try to force-start construction work on Utkal’s refinery next to the village. ..."

October 7th 2006: International Day of Action on Migrant Rights

2006-10-02T03:49:00.000-07:00

Details for the London demonstration on October 7th 2006
assemble at 12.00pm at the Imperial War Museum (Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park), Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ.

In an echo of recent actions in the US, the UK's migrants are coming out of the shadows and demanding that their rights are recognised. Saturday October 7th 2006 will see a march through London demanding equal rights for all. The organisers are calling on migrants, asylum seekers and their friends, families and colleagues to join the demonstration and build a movement to change conditions for migrants for the better.

The march on October 7 2006 will start at 12 noon from the gardens of the Imperial War Museum (Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park) and proceed through south London towards the city. On Sunday October 8 2006 10am-5pm a conference will be held at Queen Mary University where migrant communities, activists and specialists in the field will discuss the possibilities and implications of a regularisation in the UK.

Tuesday 24th October - Stephen Muecke

2006-10-01T20:59:00.000-07:00

The Centre for Cultural Studies presents:

a guest lecture by Professor Stephen Muecke - University or Technology, Sydney

"Science Studies and Cultural Studies: Ideas from Latour, Stengers and other 'radical empiricists'"

If critique is indeed 'running out of steam' (Latour), what would a post-critical cultural studies look like? Doing science studies means writing ethnographies of what scientists do, and in the process delving into their 'black boxes'. So maybe CS should observe what its practitioners do as opposed to listening to, then judging, their familiar critical positions. The subsequent analysis should give us a clearer idea of what such practitioners are capable of doing in their real empirical relations.

Venue, Goldsmiths Cinema, 6.30pm, Tuesday 24th October - all welcome.

(pic by Tom Carment, Sydney artist)
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Tuesday 3 October - Breathless

2006-09-15T05:29:00.000-07:00

a bout de Souffle - Cinema Goldsmiths RHB 6pm

all welcome

Weds 30 August - Injustice CD launch

2006-08-18T06:18:00.000-07:00

I N J U S T I C E

THE FILM THE POLICE DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!
NOW THE MUSIC THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO HEAR!

Launch of the powerful new CD from the makers of Injustice featuring music, spoken word and poetry by: shortMAN - Princess Emmanuelle - Hillz Yungsterz - Aricka Douglas & Dub Judah Yaz Alexander - Jimmy Chiozo - Ebele - WattsRiot feat. Scalper & Mr. Sparkes - Dee Warhouse - The Tribunes feat. Judy Green & Poetic Justic - Lowkey - Sebastian Jamison & Violet Corlis

WEDNESDAY 30th August 2006 8.00pm door'Catch'@ 22 Kingsland Rd, London, E2.
Tube: Old Street Entrance free Info: 07770 432 439

Live performances by
shortMAN, Princess Emmanuelle, Ebele and Warhouse
+Campaign updates from families of people that have died in police custody including
Brian Douglas, Paul Coker, Azelle Rodney and Mikey Powell
+Open mic session
www.injusticefilm.co.uk

For more information on INJUSTICE www.injusticefilm.co.uk
Information: 07770 432 439INJUSTICE - THE FILM THAT REFUSES TO DIE!

Thurs 17 August | G-HAD in the UK | Fun-da-mental | Aki Nawaz speaks out |

2006-08-15T21:18:00.000-07:00

Red Pepper Debate: 'All Is War (The benifits of G-Had)'

Discussion with Aki Nawaz from Fun-Da-Mental plus screening of the album video. Speakers include Louise Christian, Ken Fero (Injustice films) and Natacha Atlas. Freedom of speech is a Fundamental right. Surely, to protect all our civil liberties and democracy all voices should be heard? So why is Aki Nawaz demonised and his latest album censored?

17 August 6.45pm, RampART 15-17 Rampart St. London. E1 2LA
email redpepper@redpepper.org.uk for details or to book a place

12 August - Sound in Space

2006-08-03T01:48:00.000-07:00

Subject: [gcinfo] Music Event: Sound In Space - 12 August

Goldsmiths College Electronic Music Studios presents "Sound in Space".

Postgraduate students from Goldsmiths College present performances oftheir original and experimental compositional works. Featuringelectro-acoustic tape music, exploring both stereo and multichannel surround sound, electronic manipulation of live instrumental performance, and live interaction between dance, instrumental performance andcomputers.
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Date: Saturday 12 August 2006
Time: 8pm start
Place: The Space, 269 West Ferry Road, London E14 3RS (www.space.org.uk)

Buy your tickets in advance from ticketweb for only £5 using the linkbelow....<http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=uk&query=detail&event=174176>

Tickets will be £8 on the door, although there will be student tickets available on the night for £5.
I hope you will be able to come along and support us!
Many thanks,
John Box
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August 4th, 2006 Failing Better

2006-07-27T15:51:00.000-07:00

Goldsmiths College > Centre for Cultural Studies co-sponsors (with CUCR) >:

Exclusively for MA students at Goldsmiths College.

"Failing Better: The Greatest MA Student Conference on Earth!

August 4th, 2006

11am to 6pm in the Small Cinema (Main Building, Goldsmiths)

A joint CCS and CUCR conference for MA students in Culture, Globalisation and the City, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Politics, and Sociology.

This student conference is intended as an opportunity for Masters students in the fields broadly related to the study of 'culture' to have an occasion to share our own exciting research and writing, to hear other people's research directions, and to give creative feedback and input.
As part of departments related to the broad study of 'culture', whether urban cultures, cultural studies, or anthropology and postcolonial studies, we share an interest in critically engaging with key questions in contemporary academic and political debates. Addressing issues around culture industries (high and low), globalism, colonialism in all its neo- and post- guises, identity, politics, alterity, hybridity, community, race and class, our scholarship is linked together by its resolute combination of theory and practice, and its keen importance for contemporary social theory. Our conference title is a pilfered paraphrase from Samuel Beckett, suggesting that while perfection is impossible, there is always the possibility of failing better (we are thinking here in the realms of both politics and research). Though not limited to the subject, submissions that examine the relevance of cultural studies to politics and polity today are particularly encouraged."
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8 September 2006 - Masashi Iwasa

2006-07-24T01:32:00.000-07:00

Pacific Asia Cultural Studies Forum presents:

Time:5-7pm,
8 September 2006
Venue: 137a Main Building, Goldsmiths College (a.k.a. Richard HoggartBuilding)

Speaker: Masashi Iwasa (Research Fellow in Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)

Title:“Social movements in an age of cultural complexity: the case of anti-US base movements in Okinawa”

Abstract: Anti-US base movements have been active for decades in Okinawa, the southernmost island area in Japan. Discussion on them, either in sociology and cultural studies, have tended to take a certain collectivity of Okinawans almost as given, framing the movements as a matter of their collective engagements. However, the expanded opportunities for non-Okinawans to get involved with the movements in recent years remind us that communication processes among different participants of them need more careful understanding than the “collective identity” paradigm would assume. In other words, we need to pay closer attention to experiences and knowledge of each individual in the movements, who thereby seek to find their own meanings in them. The findings from my specific research will have major implications for the way a research on social movements ingeneral should be conducted in an age of cultural complexity.

Keywords: cultural complexity; social movements; individual; knowledge; experience
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5 July David Bennett

2006-07-04T15:55:00.000-07:00

CCS presents:

A TALK by David Bennett

venue 1pm, BPLT Goldsmiths

TITLE: Libidinal Economy and the Prostitute as Prototypical Consumer

Is desire something quantifiable that we can save, spend, squander orprofitably invest in productive activities and relationships? Caneconomic tropes make sense of psycho-sexual energy? This paperre-examines the history of libidinal economy as a tradition ofexplaining sexual psychology in terms of monetary models and metaphors, by tracking how the figure of the prostitute has featured in discoursesof libidinal economy ranging from nineteenth-century medicine, anthropology and pornography, through Freudian psychoanalysis, WilhelmReich’s ‘sex-economic revolution’, Georges Bataille’s ‘general theory ofexpenditure’, to Jean-François Lyotard’s 'libidinal-economic' re-readingof Marx. It will show how early Victorian constructions of the prostitute as both a compulsive shopper and capitalism’s ‘drain’ and outlaw were taken up by anti-capitalist radicals such as Reich, Marcuseand Bataille and deployed as images of libidinal subversion of capitalism — but also how the arguments of these radicals uncannily parallel those of capitalist economists who advocated a shift from a productivist to a consumerist paradigm, or a saving to a spending mindset. The paper will also suggest how the figure of the (female)prostitute, traditionally treated as an exemplary site of libidinal-economic exchange, has been symbolically rehabilitated in postmodern shopping culture through the so-called prostitute-chic andthe 'hooker look'.

David Bennett teaches literary and cultural studies at MelbourneUniversity, where he was the founding director of the Interdepartmental Cultural Studies Programme. His paper comes from a book-in-progress (provisionally entitled ‘Sexual Spending in Consumer Culture’) on the historical nexus between the discourses of economics and sexualpsychology since the 18th century. Previous parts of this project haveappeared in _Public Culture_ 16, 2 (2005): 1—25; _Journal for thePsychoanalysis of Culture and Society_ 6, 1 (2001): 123-38; and _NewLiterary History_ 30, 2 (1999): 269—94
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30 June Abhijit Roy

2006-04-22T13:54:00.000-07:00

Abhijit Roy will speak at Goldsmiths in room 137a main bldf on 30 June from 11am till 1pm

Abhijit is Head of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal.
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‘Flow’ and Television Theory: conjectures on their encounter with the Non-West (Abstract)

Since 1974, the notion of ‘flow’ as constituting what Raymond Williams calls the “central television experience”, has been subjected to repeated criticism, elaboration and reformulation. My presentation shall engage with these debates to investigate whether the television screen-form is historically conditioned to produce specific ideologies of subject-formation. I suggest that the recent onslaught on the tenor of ideological suturing in ‘flow’ is premised upon a certain ‘western’ experience and an utterly ‘modern’ assumption of a direct relation between ideology and form. The problems in such an assumption can be particularly understood when we try to locate the Indian context vis-à-vis the apparatus of television and show how the so called ‘pre-capitalist’ traits in the Indian popular performative forms are homologous with what the critiques of ‘flow’ try to specify as the fragmented, distracting and hence ideologically centrifugal experience of television. The presentation will particularly look at the Indian popular film as a key repository of the indigenous performative forms and as an instance where frontality, spectacle and discontinuity can perfectly produce, as in television, a set of ideologically coherent positions. While examining this formal correspondence between television in Late Capitalism and the ‘heteronomous popular’ of the territories that continue to be highly heterogeneous in production relations, I wish to hint towards a possible genealogy of the televisual flow-form. This genealogy, the paper suggests, would be incomplete unless one takes into account the appropriation and re-signification of the pre-modern (I prefer to use ‘alternative modern’) by the apparatuses of consumerism. Since a fragmentary, discontinuous, frontally addressing and open-ended representational form has historically sustained the non-western popular and has now entered into a correspondence with the new global televisual mode of representation, can we say that the televisual subject with the legacy of colonial modernity is enmeshed, albeit contingently, in a grid of ‘identification’ with the consumerist television’s form? How does on account for the kind of negotiations that are in process? What exactly is the historical location of the Western viewers in this mapping of the ‘modern’ across the televisual globe? The questions finally lead us to the efficacy of a discursive distinction between the inter-constitutive trajectories of modernity in the theorization of the televisual mode of representation.

Abhijit Roy
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27-28 June SAPC confernce, Manchester

2006-04-22T08:57:00.000-07:00

The University of Manchester - School of Arts Histories & Cultures:

"Journal of South Asian Popular Culture

3rd International Conference

The journal of South Asian Popular Culture (SAPC) conference will be hosted at the University of Manchester at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama.

SAPC's 3rd meeting brings together interdisciplinary contributions from across the different subject disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences to engage with notions of popular culture. 'South Asian popular culture' is defined in a broad and inclusive way to incorporate lived and textual cultures, the mass and new media, different ways of life, and discursive modes of representation. Central to the formation of popular cultures are articulations of the economic, social and political spheres and the conference will also aim to highlight these issues.

SAPC's 3rd conference will consist of papers from across all areas of South Asian popular culture, both in the subcontinent and from around the world. Contributions have been accepted from academics, postgraduate students, and from cultural practitioners (film-, radio-, television-, and web media-makers, artists, arts personnel, cultural activists, theatre practitoners, fashion designers, and sexuality campaigners).
For details of the conference programme and venue please click here (PDF, 29KB)"
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21-22 June Neo-Liberalism and its Post feminist Perversions; Young Women: ‘Illegible Rage’ or Complexification of Affirmation?

2006-04-21T15:35:00.000-07:00

THE WORD GIRL IN A GLOBAL FRAME.

This series of seminars ‘The Word Girl in a Global Frame’ will be part of the International Feminism and Theory Group at Goldsmiths College (Sociology and Media and Communications).

The Word Girl will comprise a website and various research activities to be hosted at Goldsmiths as a forum for staff, post-graduate students and also non- Goldsmiths academics and researchers working on relevant topics. We will be seeking contributions from ongoing research on the boundary setting practices of girlhood in a global frame. What are the limits of intelligibility in regard to the inhabiting of the category of girlhood? How might the case for the radical uninhabitability of normative girlhood or womanhood be defined within an international human rights discourse? We are particularly interested in work which pushes forward with new psychoanalytical perspectives in regard to body morphology, anger, anxiety, self harming behaviour, suicide and ‘illegible rage’. We are also interested in affect and emotion, and in transcultural work on youthful female embodiment. We look forward to receiving articles which examine a wide range of cultural phenomena which engages with these issues in a global frame. These might include films, music, art work, fiction, and autobiographical writing. We hope to receive work which documents activities which undermine or disrupt the various forms of power which operate as norms of social and sexual approval in regard to contemporary young womanhood. We hope to receive a good deal of work from outside the Anglo-American field. We also aim to bring discussions of young womanhood into current debates on neo-liberalism and globalisation, war and violence, race and post-colonialism, ethics and vulnerability.

Inaugurating Event. THE WORD GIRL IN A GLOBAL FRAME.

This evening and next day event to be held on 21st and 22nd June 2006 at Goldsmiths College, Ben Pimlott Building, will be an opportunity for senior scholars alongside PhD students to present innovative work. Numbers attending the event will be restricted to 50. Lunch and refreshments will be provided and there will be a dinner in the evening. The proceedings will be published in either book form or as a special issue of a relevant journal.

4-6pm 21st June.
PANEL ONE.
Neo-Liberalism and its Post feminist Perversions
Kim Allen (Goldsmiths), Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths) Ros Gill (LSE) Valerie Walkerdine (Cardiff) Chair Celia Lury
6pm Invitation out and pending to Tracey Emin to discuss her work
followed by drinks .
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10-12 22nd June
PANEL TWO
Young Women: ‘Illegible Rage’ or Complexification of Affirmation?
Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht) Shelley Budgeon (B’ham) Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) Susie Orbach (LSE and psycho-analyst) Ann Phoenix (Open University). Chair Claire Colebrooke

12-1 Lunch
1 - 2 30 PANEL THREE
Queer and Transgender Girlhoods
Gayle Salamon (Princeton), Emma Renolds (Cardiff) Judith Halberstam (USC). Chair Vikki Bell
coffee/tea
2 45- 4 15 PANEL FOUR
Ethnographies of Young Women’s Affect: Love, Hate, Violence and Vulnerability.
Beckie Coleman (Lancaster) Julia Dane (Goldsmiths) Niza Yanay (Ben Gurion). …chair Angela McRobbie
4 30- 6 30 PANEL FIVE
Sex/Race/Body/Generation..
Linda Duits (Amsterdam) Lisa Lowe (if available) Angela Phillips (Goldsmiths) Denise Noble (Goldsmiths) Jessica Ringrose (Cardiff) Chair Joanna Zylinska

DRINKS RECEPTION …..DINNER AT BERMONDSEY KITCHEN.
Free to Goldsmiths staff/students. Others £30 /£15 academics /post-graduates. Cheques to Goldsmiths College, send to Zehra Arabadji Dept of Media and Communications Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE 14 6 NW.

(event organised with support from the Centre for Cultural Studies)
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MPX in first London show - Wednesday, 14 June

2006-04-21T09:14:00.000-07:00

San Francisco-based artist micropixie and London poet Anjan Saha come together in this exciting double bill for micropixie's premiere UK performance of ‘Alice In Stevie Wonderland'

Wednesday, 14 June 2006 7.30pm - 12am Darbucka World Music Bar 182 St John Street, London EC1V 4JZT: 020 7490 8772 / W: www.darbucka.com

Nearest stations: Farringdon & Angel / Bus 153 [teleport ???]
Tickets: £5 / £3 conc.

Made in Bombay, born and raised in the UK, micropixie (MPX) is a self-proclaimed alien with extraORDINARY abilities. Not only is MPX a conceptual artist working with visual and verbal design, and a photographer, but she is also the extra-terrestrial alter ego of writer/ filmmaker/ human single beige female. Her debut album, Alice in Stevie Wonderland, weaves sensuous instrumentation with elaborate vocal textures as it narrates the enchanting story of one little alien whose mission on planet Earth is to try on the human experience. MPX\'s epic journey as a human being takes her through the stages of pre-birth, birth, confusion, solitude, disappointment, comprehension, then re-birth, affirmation and evolution. Fusing organic elements - such as tabla, thumb piano, puja bells and bongos - to electronica, the 12 tracks on the album cross many different styles from down-tempo jazzy lounge to spoken word to tabla bols.

For her London debut, micropixie will be accompanied on tabla by Indian/Latin percussionist Renu Hossain.www.micropixie.com www.myspace.com/micropixie
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[alien landing craft pic nicked from Dee - ta - http://dee-that-is-me.blogspot.com/]
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ARUN SALDANHA Friday June 2nd

2006-04-21T02:57:00.000-07:00

Friday June 2nd 3PM - Room 143 Goldsmiths Main Building

SEPRO presents: a talk by ARUN SALDANHA

DELEUZE AND RACIAL DIFFERENCE

Keen to insist on the rhizomatic, Deleuzianism has so far had little to say on race, leaving it to psychoanalysis and deconstruction to investigate the intricacies of the "social construction" of racial difference. My project seeks to retrieve a critical ontological potential from Deleuze and Guattari's work to argue for the differential materiality of race. That is, race does exist, but races don't: bodies become progressively stuck in uneven assemblages which constantly transform, but largely keep them locked in what might be called racial clusters. This paper argues it's high time to stop the political blunting of D&G, especially their explorations of racism and capitalism.

BIO ARUN SALDANHA Graduated in Communication Studies, Free University of Brussels, 1997. Worked as Teaching Assistant there, 1997-2000. PhD in Geography at the Open University, 2000-2003. Since 2004 Assistant Professor in Geography atthe University of Minnesota. Research interests include music, tourism, colonialism and drugs. Theoretical interests revolve around Deleuze, race and feminism. I've got a book coming out with the University of Minnesota Press next spring, Psychedelic Whiteness: Rave Tourism and the Viscosity of Race in Goa.
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Cultural Fictions II - on 15-16 June

2006-04-20T23:42:00.000-07:00

Cultural Fictions II

The Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College (London) is hosting a conference on the significance of science fiction for disciplines and practices associated with cultural studies, to be held on 15-16th June, 2006. In particular, we will be asking whether sci-fi’s privileged relationship to alterity – e.g. in the forms of the alien, the non-human and above all the future – is what makes it so attractive to politically and philosophically oriented research and other contemporary artistic practices.

Main speakers:

Greg Tate, journalist, cultural critic and filmmaker, regular contributor to Village Voice, founder of the band Burnt Sugar; publications include Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (Simon and Schuster, 1992) and Everything But the Burden (Broadway, 2003).

Roger Luckhurst, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck College; publications include “The Angle Between Two Walls”: The Fiction of J G Ballard (Liverpool UP, 1997), The Invention of Telepathy (Oxford UP, 2002), Science Fiction (Polity Press, 2005).

Anthony Joseph, poet, musician, novelist and lecturer; publications include Desafinado (poisonenginepress, 1994), Teragaton (poisonenginepress, 1997) and The African Origins of UFOs (forthcoming, Salt, autumn 2006).

There is no charge for this event (held in the Goldies Cinema, Main Building),
but please register your attendance by emailing culturalfictions@gold.ac.uk.

Call for Papers:

Postgraduate students with relevant research interests are invited to present short papers (15 minutes) alongside our main speakers. Please submit abstracts of 200-300 words to culturalfictions@gold.ac.uk by Monday 8th May. Topics may address any aspect of science fiction but preference will be given to those that emphasize its political and philosophical potential for research in cultural studies, the humanities and the arts. Suggested topics: utopia/dystopia/uchronia, alternative history, human-machine interfaces, philosophies and politics of time, future as ‘other’.

This event is funded by the Arts Humanities Research Council and the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths.
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Fri 21 April CULTURAL STUDIES OF INDIA AND THE INDIAN DIASPORA: A SYMPOSIUM

2006-04-20T19:49:00.000-07:00

On the occasion of distinguished scholar Dr. Veena Naregal of theInstitute of Economic Growth (Delhi)'s visit to Goldsmiths, we are pleased to present an afternoon symposium on cultural studies of India and theIndian Diaspora. PACSF has long wanted to extend its geographic scope beyond East and Southeast Asia, and we are pleased to present this first event focused on South Asia

Venue: The Small Hall, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London SE14 6NWTime: 1p.m, 21 April 2006-03-31

Veena Naregal
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
Re-forming Film Finance and Distribution : State Agendas andPopular Culture in India

As a cultural institution, Indian cinema encompasses many paradoxes. Onesuch is the gulf that separates the avid cinephilia of Indian audiencesand the largely disapproving biases against the film industry uponwhich the post-Independence Indian film policy has been founded.Arguably the mainstay of a national cultural mainstream, Indiancommercial cinema has survived, since the late 1940s, mainly throughexploiting surplus merchant capital available through parallel moneymarkets. These links between media industries and the informalsector -- between 'kala paisa' ['black' money] and 'phillum dhandha'[film business] -- have long been part of film industry lore. Forunderstandable reasons, however, such 'disreputable' linkages haveremained un-investigated or theorized. And yet, the expansion of Indianmedia audiences, first in the late 1980s, and later through thegrowth of cable and satellite television networks since themid-1990s, have only further accentuated these links between theinformal sector, film production and media distribution.Whereas up until recently, the Indian state seemed concerned to engagewith the film business primarily as tax-collector and censor, thepost-reforms period has seen a visible change in the state'sperceptions of Indian movies and film industry. In December 1998, thegovernment conceded the long-standing demand to confer the status ofan industry on the film business, and has since initiated various movesto encourage state and corporate financial institutions to invest infilm production and other aspects of the film business.So how do we understand these evolving trends? Do they indeed signify amajor shift in relations between the Indian film industry, state andmarket? This presentation aims to open up a discussion around some ofthese important issues and explore their links to other trends suchas shifts in audiences tastes and emerging markets for Indian mediaproducts.

Meeta Rani Jha
PhD Student, Goldsmiths College, Sociology Department, University of London

From Mother India to Miss Universe: The New Morality of the Self-fashioned body

The shift from the Mother India to Miss Universe feminine icon articulatesdramatic changes taking place in Indian economic and cultural life due toeconomic liberalization. The changes in the representations of women from'Mother India' to 'Miss Universe' is a dramatic change because the firstfocused on a struggle for existence and transcendence throughself-sacrifice while the latter prioritizes a femininity focusing only onthe exterior of the body and on physical beauty. Female autonomy andliberation comes to rest not on her access to an independent life (accessto employment, sexuality and life choices) but in her ability to imitate afemininity based on white beauty ethics.This article scrutinizes the key role of body as a site of British Asianpopular cultural expression and contestations in the practices of Bombaycinema viewing through an analysis of semi-structured interviews. Therespondents explained their criticisms of the newer heroines in terms ofregulation, homogenization, superficiality, and a lack of individuality.I argue that the filmmakers have failed to understand the complex andenmeshed relations of class, religion, gender and race in the subjectivityof the British Asian audience. The new morality of the self-mastered whitebody produces self-castigation and shame in respondents' articulations.The British Asian subjects are not globally mobile and certainly not aswest aspiring as the Indian urban elite. They are living in the belly ofthe Imperial beast and their anti-racist and decolonizing imaginary iswhat maintains the boundary of their identity even as it plays with itsWestern and Asian subjectivities, disavowing and authorizing one foranother depending on the situation and the context.

Menaka PP Bora
Doctoral Student, Department of Media & Communications

Visible and Invisible Borders: The politics of the 'national' (and) the'regional' identity in Indian contemporary music and cultural identity ofglobalizing India.

This paper is an interdisciplinary investigation of the relationshipbetween Indian contemporary musics and politics of the national and theregional cultural identity in metropolitan India from 1990s onwards. Theemergence of a homogenized global music culture on television, Internetand 'world music' in middle class India as a result of economicliberalization of 1990s has contributed to an awareness of a new visualculture in music and identity among influential music makers. I argue thatin the late 1990s Indian contemporary music making processes leadingtowards experimental fusion music suggest a growing trend of dualengagement with art music traditions and 'selective adoption' of Westernmodernity among music makers. These creative processes are not onlyconditioned through the complex co-existence of 'regional' and 'national'cultural identities within India but also through accessibility of'global' cultural forms and ideas. The 'national' identity in thearticulation of contemporary 'Indianness' contains critical sites ofstruggle with the growth of pan-Indian nationalisms or 'regionalisms' inlate 1990s. Drawing on, among others, British and Indian cultural studiesdisciplines such as works of Stuart Hall on cultural identity (1996) andG. N. Devy's Desivad (Nativism), I will elucidate the identity politicsassociated with the 'regional' and the 'national' cultural identity andthen analyze how and why it is necessary to discuss the socio-politicaldebates around 'Indianness' with cultural identity of Indian contemporarymusics. The methodology involves qualitative research methods in terms ofgrounded theory, primary interviews and textual analysis. The casestudies include musicians, critics, musicologists, music producers andglobal music television channels in India.

Atticus Narain
Doctoral student, Department of Anthropology

Hindi Cinema: a Guyanese perspective.

Indo-Guyanese watch Hindi films as if their very existence depended uponit, and in terms of identity it does. This thesis examines one of themajor sources of cultural renewal among the East Indians of Guyana:products of the Indian film industry. While Hindi films cater to diverseinternational audiences, there are few studies that examine how such filmsframe the expectations of audiences - as in the Guyanese case - for whichthese films are the primary sources of cultural confirmation. Much thoughHindi films provide a moralistic caricature of Indian mores, theyauthenticate a notion of 'Indianness' for Guyanese long severed fromdirect contact with the sub-continent. In the context of persistent ethnichostility between Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, Indian films denote acultural 'intactness' that links East Indians to what Anderson hasidentified, in his widely cited phrase, an 'imagined community'. Between1838 to 1917 two hundred thousand Indians were transported as indenturedlaborers to Guyana where they became a significant population in thisAfro-Caribbean state. I will explore ways in which this enclave groupcontinues to maintain an Indian identity despite the absence of continualrenewal of links once afforded by migration. Guyana - still overwhelminglyagrarian - presents an interesting case in which the (ex-) colonialantagonists (African and East Indians) operate within a space largelyvacated by the British agents of colonialism.

ALL WELCOME.

wed 3rd May Michael Taussig

2006-04-19T20:32:00.000-07:00

Goldsmiths - Centre for Cultural Studies presents a talk:

by Professor Michael Taussig

3 May 2006 Goldsmiths College BP Lecture Theatre (scribble Bldg) 1pm.

Title: Sailing Through Color

Absrtract: "I want to give a 'color-reading' of Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, understanding color as a living force taking you into the object of study. This is part of a book I am working on called "What is the Color of the Sacred,?" The title comes from surrealist-ethnographer Michel Leiris and my jumping off point come from Goethe's 1810 book on color where he states that people of refinement are averse to vivid colors whereas "man in astate of nature," kids, the women of southern Italy, love them. Seeing modern world history as the struggle between chromophobes and chromophilliacs, I side with Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs, and Marcel Proust is seeing color as something alive, like an animal, akin to what I call 'magical polymorphous substance.'

see you there.
John

Monday 17 April - Tokyo 2006

2006-04-16T05:27:00.000-07:00

John Hutnyk will give a talk in Tokyo, with live web stream.

The venue is "ROOM HEAVEN & EARTH"4F & 5F, Moai Chazawa, 2-2-14, Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0031 Tel 03-3412-0454

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See you on Monday. Yutaka

(organised by Toshiya Ueno)

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INJUSTICE

2006-03-22T03:56:00.000-08:00

News from the makers of 'Injustice' - the radical feature length documentary film about the struggles for justice by the families of people that have been killed by the police in the UK.

1. Free 'master'class by 'INJUSTICE' film makers- London:
We have been asked to run a 'master'class in radical documentary film making as part of the Wood Green Film Festival. It takes place on sunday 26th march between 12.30 and 2.00 at the Wood Green Library, High Road, N22. Nearest tube wood green. Rather than pontificating this will be an opportunity to discuss issues of imagination and intervention with the new film - Licence To Kill
The event is free and open to all with an interest in the subject. To secure a place email
martin.charter@haringey.gov.uk

2. 'INJUSTICE' - CD & Dead Prez:
We have been producing a music CD which will be out soon. It will feature artists who have been long term supporters like shortMAN , Princess Emanuelle, The Tribunes, Jimmy Chiozo and Hillz Yungstaz and much more talent. The CD will help raise the profile of the family campaigns for justice, after its launch there will be a touring 'Injustice Roadshow' with the Injustice film, family campaign speakers and live performances from the artists. The aim of the tour is to organise, raise awareness and raise funds to support the different family campaigns. The CD includes some radical rap, hip-hop, roots, spoken word, r&b and much more! If you can help with distribution of the CD or want to host the road show then contact: info@injusticefilm.co.uk

Breaking news: We are now involved in the forthcoming Dead Prez Tour for further details go to:
www.biggerthanhiphoptour.com

To read about other Migrant Media productions log onto http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk

JOB add - please tell all and sundry

2006-03-20T07:33:00.000-08:00

26 April - Kim Cascone

2006-03-20T04:39:00.000-08:00

Fri 17 March - Roshini Kempadoo

2006-03-17T03:21:00.000-08:00

Roshini Kempadoo will give a talk and presentation of her Photography work in the Representation class at Goldsmiths at 11am-1pm - in room 137a. All welcome.

Some info on Roshini below...
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[Please also note that we have the "SHOW" of films and photography made in this year's 'Representation' class on the day after - ie saturday 18th March (in the Cinema, + 142 and 143 Goldsmiths Main Building) from 11am till 5pm or 6.]
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Roshini Kempadoo:
Portfolio websites:
Autograph abp website
http://www.autograph-abp.co.uk
(see under artists)
Open Frequency - Axis curated programme
http://www.axisartists.org.uk/ofSELC.aspx
University of East London
http://www.uel.ac.uk/ssmcs/staff/roshini_kempadoo/index.htm

2006
Solo work:
Virtual Exiles - on-line artwork
http://www.mediascot.org/host/art/exiles/ve/index.html

Group show:
Culture Bound - East Wing Collection vii
Courtauld Institute of Art,
Somerset House, Strand, London
21st January - July 2006
www.eastwingcollection.org.uk

Talks/Presentations:
Monday 27th February 2006
New York University invited guest speaker
New York

20th -23rd July 2006
2006 Association for Cultural Studies
Panel: Beyond the Other? Interrogating postcolonial theory and practice
Crossroads Conference at İstanbul Bilgi University
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Bettina Papenburg Weds 15 march 6pm

2006-03-11T08:14:00.000-08:00

SEPRO presents:
Mechanical metaphors: transfigurations of technology in Cronenberg’s film VIDEODROME

by Bettina Papenburg

Wends 15th of March 6PM MB 137

The talk shall focus on an analysis of the filmic strategies thatCronenberg deploys for establishing a metaphoric relation between man andmachine. Therefore the examination shall address visual icons and theirinterconnections as materialized fictions that show how both technologyand the human body are transformed and reshaped in the process of theircoupling. Particular attention will be given to the different effects thatthis intimate relationship with technology exerts on the female and on themale body respectively. The ambivalences and ambiguities that are at theheart of these new, technologically informed bodies might point to thenecessity to rework conventional binary frames. Drawing on methods fromstructural myth analysis some selected sequences of the film shall be readclosely in respect of the question, how the various sensual channels playtogether and resonate in the process by which novel meaning is created andcommunicated.

BETTINA PAPENBURG is currently completing her PhD with Peter Köpping atthe Institute of Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Herinterests revolve around ideas of the monstrous, the grotesque and theludic and their representation in contemporary film. For her thesis shefocuses on the subversive potentials of the grotesque body as it isimagined in the idea of the coupling of man and machine in the films ofthe Canadian director David Cronenberg. Bettina has worked as a filmeditor on productions in Berlin and Rome and has directed a documentary onrituals in Japan. She has taught courses on mythology and film at theUniversity of Heidelberg and has written several articles on theaesthetics of deformation, mechanical desire, monstrosity and technology,and the reconfiguration of the gendered body in film.
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ZELIMIR ZILNIK 23rd March 2006, 5 – 7 pm

2006-03-10T07:14:00.000-08:00

Forthcoming event:

Screen School and the Transnational Research Unit of the Department of Media and Communications present:

DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING – RAW REFLECTIONS OF TIME

ZELIMIR ZILNIK

Ian Gulland Cinema, Goldsmiths College

23^rd March 2006, 5 – 7 pm

Zelimir Zilnik reflects back on forty years of making documentary films that capture social and political crises across different decades. Using examples of his work (June Turmoil; Old Timer; Tito for the Second Time Amongst the Serbs), but also the work by Janko Baljak (Anatomy of Pain; Crime that Changed Serbia), Zilnik is interested in documentaries as raw documents of time, juxtaposing them to the dominant representations of recent Serbian, Yugoslav and Balkan history.

Biography:

Zelimir Zilnik (born 1942, based in Novi Sad, Serbia) is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Balkans today. From the late 60s, his socially engaged films and documentaries in former Yugoslavia and his unique visual style earned him critical accolade (The Unemployed, 1968, Best Documentary at the Oberhausen festival, 1968; Early Works,1969, Best Film at Berlin Film Festival), but also censorship in the 70s for his unflinching criticism of the government apparatus. Low budget filmmaking and challenging political themes mark Zilnik’s prolific career, which includes over 40 feature and documentary films. Since the 1980s, he has been developing his unique docu-drama language, which he used throughout 1990s to reflect on political tensions, including EU sanctions, the NATO bombings, and Milosevic’s regime. His power to observe and to unleash compelling narratives out of the lives of ordinary people is the common thread throughout his documentary and docu-drama work, including the 1994 film Tito's Second Time Amongst the Serbs. More recently, his focus has shifted beyond the divided Balkans to question their relationship with the tightening controls of European borders, delving into the heart of issues concerning refugees and migrants, in Fortress Europe (2000), Kenedi Goes Back Home (2003) and Kenedi: Lost and Found (2005).

For more information, visit www.zelimirzilnik.com
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Monday 13 march - Rafael Lozano Hemmer

2006-03-08T09:30:00.000-08:00

Events @ Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College

Rafael Lozano Hemmer
Antimonuments and Subsculptures

13th of March@6pm, room 137a MB, Goldsmiths College

The Centre for Cultural Studies is pleased to announce the talk from
internationally acclaimed electronic artist Rafael Lazano Hemmer who
develops large-scale interactive installations in public space, usually
deploying new technologies and custom-made physical interfaces. Using
robotics, projections, sound, Internet and cell-phone links, sensors and
other devices, his installations aim to provide "temporary antimonuments
for alien agency". His work has been commissioned for events such as the
Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Cultural Capital of
Europe in Rotterdam (2001), the United Nations' World Summit of Cities in
Lyon (2003), the opening of the Yamaguchi Centre for Art and Media in
Japan (2003) and the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004).
For further information please visit: www.lozano-hemmer.com
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11am fri 10 March 06 - Richard Rudy

2006-03-07T16:26:00.000-08:00

Richard Rudy, co-director of "Rage against the machine" (2004) - a doco film about music creativity during the Bosnian war - will talk about his documentary, and the making of a feature film on the topic, at Goldsmiths on 10 March in room 137a at 11am. We will show the documentary too.

The pic is of Richard - on the right - and co-director James Harvey.
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Friday 3 March - Aki Nawaz

2006-03-03T12:00:00.000-08:00

Aki Nawaz will present several promos by the group Fun^da^mental and discuss the making of agit-propa-gandhi style video from over ten years of Nation Records uncompromising action.

Room 137a Main Building, Goldsmiths College 11am - 12.30 Firday 3 march 2006.
All welcome.
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