Nawal el-Saadawi 31.5.11 Goldsmiths CCS

Tuesday 31st May 2005 at 4pm The Centre for Cultural Studies presents: Nawal el-Saadawi Talk by the acclaimed author Nawal el-Saadawi will talk with Raymond Lotta of the Revolution newspaper USA about the prospects for revolution in North Africa and the Middle East Location: NAB02, New Academic Building Cost: Free Department: Centre For Cultural Studies Time: 31 May 2011, [...]

Frat

Having watched a couple of snuff films, two wanna be frat boys send a message to the East – look out, we’re a team. High Five!

The Middle East, North Africa: The prospects for Revolution. 30.5.2011

The Middle East, North Africa The Prospects for Revolution! The recent uprisings that have rocked regimes in the Middle East and North Africa showed how quickly people can shatter what Marx called the “belief in the permanence of existing conditions”. Yet the local and international centers of power are even now trying to tame and [...]

Arundhati Roy, Jan Myrdal, Basanta Indra Mohan 12.6.2011 Euston

Please join us for a public meeting and an audience with celebrated authors who will discuss their recent experiences in India with a special focus on the raging war against the poorest of the poor, the tribal people living in the heartland of India. Arundhati Roy From India and the author of recently published books [...]

Marx Trot 29.5.2011

Hi all, As promised in one of the last lectures of Capital and Cultural Studies this year, it is proposed that we convene for ‘The Marx Trot’ on Sunday 29 May 2011 . This involves various cultural social and political highlights, including visits to Marx’s grave, a couple of houses Marx lived in, Engles house, [...]

Bougainville’s president aims to attract new investment

The Nasty Gang delegation to Bougainville – won’t step near Arawa I expect – ‘sea-change’ Mr Momis?: ABC Radio Online, 17 May 2011 The President of Bougainville John Momis told investors the peace process on Bougainville is well established and the island is open for business.[ABC] Jemima Garrett The Chairman of the Rio Tinto-owned Bougainville [...]

all-Nepal shut

The Workers Dreadnought For International Socialism Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) calls for all-Nepal shutdown on May 28th Comrade Matrika Yadav, the fiery former UCPN(Maoist) leader, and his Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [a party that is a splinter from the UCPN(Maoist) and purportedly continues to grow with growing dissatisfaction and defections from that Party] have [...]

Currently reading Andrew Herscher – Violence Taking Place

While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of “culture,” has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension [...]

Current Issues in Cultural Studies Sweden June 2011

Current Issues in European Cultural Studies: ACSIS Conference 2011 15-17 June 2011 at Louis de Geer in Norrköping, Sweden Organised by the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS) in collaboration with the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) In June 2011 ACSIS arranges its fourth biannual conference on cultural research, this time on the subject [...]

Nawal el-Saadawi 31.5.11 Goldsmiths CCS

The Centre for Cultural Studies presents: Nawal el-Saadawi Talk by the acclaimed author Nawal el-Saadawi will talk with Raymond Lotta of the Revolution newspaper USA about the prospects for revolution in North Africa adn the Middle East Event Information Location: NAB02, New Academic Building Cost: Free Department: Centre For Cultural Studies Time: 31 May 2011, 16:00 – 18:00

May CCS events

Upcoming events May CCS 2011: . May 23 Carriage – cultural transports workshop with Mick Douglas [CCS Goldsmiths] 1.30Pm: http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/carriage-workshop-with-mick-douglas-23-may-2011/ . May 26 Ishita Banerjea-Dube talk [CCS Goldsmiths] 5pm: http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/calendar/?id=4533 . May 31 Nawal el-Saadawi on The Prospects for Revolution in North Africa and the Middle East [CCS Goldsmiths] NAB 02 4pm. Chair: Raymond Lotta [...]

Carriage: Mick Douglas 23 May 2011

carriage: cultural transports and transformations with socially-engaged public art . workshop with Mick Douglas – 23rd May 2011 . Goldsmiths Centre For Cultural Studies – departure point: Goldsmiths G3 Laurie Grove Baths start 1:30pm, for two hours. Ends on the East London line somewhere. . The workshop will discuss and explore socially-engaged public art tactics [...]

A discussion today on cases of intrigue in our very own gulags of absentmindedness:

Two cases of note: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/04/nottingham-university-row-after-lecturer-suspended Row after university suspends lecturer who criticised way student was treated Rod Thornton accused Nottingham University of trying to discredit student, who downloaded an al-Qaida training manual Jeevan Vasagar, education editor guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 May 2011 19.09 BST Article history A view of Nottingham University’s Jubilee campus. The suspension of [...]

Flowers bloom in (Daisy’s) CCS “vegie” patch!

Jodi

Having the assassination cheer squads on heavy rotation on the Jingo channel (BBC news) is embarrassing us all. No critical voice yet on tv, as far as I’ve seen. Worse than the Saddam execution on the Hanging Channel. Who needs media critique when they cartoon it up so bad by themselves? And to think that [...]

The Paper: May Day Edition: Hutnyk on Images

Time Out for Scheherazade Reflecting on The Paper as a very serious play at theatre; the political as a theatrical serious playing at paper, and 1001 stories to tell, in pictures. JOHN HUTNYK As bombs still rain down on Libya, with cockpit-cam night video peep-show footage of tanks being destroyed to preserve the No-Fly Zone on [...]

May 1, 2011

. Here, from the cobweb-covered vault, a discussion document from  1992, on writing: ✪   Communists Must Write, and how! There are various ways in which the political vacuum which we have so sorely felt in recent years can be countered. The need for a party, its support and discipline, its organisational strengths and sense [...]