What is to be done (Events)

What’s ON archive here.

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: Set your dial to the What’s ON archive here.

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*, and more recently in the What’s ON archive here.

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Coming Soon: Border Infection see here.

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To Gaza with Love – 6pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 30 Nov 2009

The true story a rag-tag team of international peace activists aboard two fishing boats, who decided to take on the might of the Israeli military and break the siege of Gaza. Refusing to be intimidated, only one thing could stop them; and that was them-selves.

Screening, 6pm Goldsmiths Cinema, Monday 30 Nov 2009

Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi2755068441/

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Workshop for PhDs at QM – 4 Dec 2009

Queen Mary and Goldsmiths PhD Master Class

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“Consensus is Oppression: Creating Conflictive Democracy through Global Movement Networks”

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Friday, December 4th 2009, 1.30 – 3.30 pm, Room 4.08, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London.

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Democratic rhetoric has never been so widespread, yet democracy is in deep crisis. Dominant approaches reliant on representative democratic practices view human diversity as a problem to be resolved, resulting in homogenisation and exclusion. Diversity, however, can be healthy for democracy when given room for expression. Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that conflict must be embraced in organisational processes.

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Marianne Maeckelbergh’s research uses a methodology of politically engaged anthropology that calls into question the demarcation of stark boundaries between theory and practice. Her work provides some answers to the double role researchers have in interpreting the cultural practices of organisation whilst simultaneously being actively involved in creating and transforming these practices. Moreover her research confronts important questions about university-based research, its subjects, audiences and purposes. These are key concerns for doctoral researchers today. In this PhD master class, Marianne Maeckelbergh will present her PhD research on conflict in organisation and discuss the methodological approach that informed her study. She will also address questions regarding the process of publishing PhD research.

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Dr Marianne Maeckelbergh is lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, Netherlands and received

her PhD from the University of Sussex. She has many years of experience organising and facilitating the decision-making processes that lie at the heart of her recent work.

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The PhD master class is open to all research students and is co-organised by Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies and Queen Mary School of Business and Management, University of London.

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Contacts:

Emma Dowling, e.dowling[at]qmul.ac.uk. Tel: 020 7882 8985

John Hutnyk, john.hutnyk[at]gold.ac.uk. Tel: 020 7919 7061

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WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER: AGAINST THE POINTS-BASED VISA SYSTEM IN UNIVERSITIES

Goldsmiths UCU and Goldsmiths Students Union Open Meeting

The new ‘points based’ new immigration rules represent a serious threat to campus democracy and freedom of speech. They require non-EU students and staff to have biometric ID cards, involve checks on the financial background of applicants and mean that staff are obliged to report students to the UK Border Agency when they have not attended regularly. Come and hear why these new immigration controls are unfair, unwarranted and undemocratic.

Helena Kennedy QC, Labour Peer and Civil Rights Campaigner
Manick Govinda, ArtsAdmin & Manifesto Club Arts Visa Campaign
Tom Hickey, National Executive, University and College Union
James Haywood, National Executive, National Union of Students

Time: 5pm
Place: The Stretch, Goldsmiths Students Union

For more information, email Matthew Fuller m.fuller [at] gold.ac.uk

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Also planning stuff with various guests and others who wanna land up in London for a day or a week, or a month…

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My lecture course on Capital Volume One is next offered again from January 2010, thursdays 11am-1pm.

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