What is to be done? (events)
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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Release!
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
10am – 6pm
Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
Graduate Student Conference
Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Release! is the Centre for Cultural Studies’ annual MA students conference: a moment of friendly and relaxing interactivity. Everyone is invited to attend, participate and discuss about the latest outcomes of cultural research at Goldsmiths.
To release refers in this case to the act of unbinding or undoing – not as a denial of the path followed over the course of the degree, but as a turning point. The momentum of the flow of the activity is no longer inwards, but becomes released outwards; the solitude of reading, researching and writing is replaced by the joy of sharing and questioning.
Being Released! can be a physical activity of liberation from confinement, obligation or even pain. It can also be a device put into place to unfasten a mechanism.
Release! provides the opportunity to celebrate an activity that has reached its end…in order to be replaced by other activity.
We extend a warm invitation to all to join us next Tuesday, 2 September in the Ben Pimmlot Lecture Theatre, 10am - 6pm.
Later, party!
This is the Release! of our papers and our Release! party!
Release.ccsgold@googlemail.com
http://releaseconference.blogspot.com/
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Inaugural Lecture - Tuesday 30th September, 2008
John Hutnyk - Professor of Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, 5.30PM - followed by a drinks reception.
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November 3-7, 2008 - Goldsmiths, Cross Border-Beyond Text International Workshop.
Sonic Diaspora Laboratory, mentioned here is on from November 3rd through November 8th. Invite only for the whole thing, but some of the days will be public. More details will be posted in due course.
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My lecture course on Capital Volume One is on thursdays 11am-1pm from October 2nd. (“Capitalism and Cultural Studies” for MAs and PhDs, with MA option seminars later in the afternoon). Again, email me for the room number and a course guide.
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Also, I’ll be giving a talk in Malmö (26 October tbc?) on a topic parsed from a recent post on this blog, though its not my parsing - still, an attempt off the cuff might just work (and the necessity is not all mine).
AT HOME AWAY FROM HOME
In what ways does movement imply change? What happens when the artists, musicians and performers move across and against boundaries between nations, languages, cultures and genres? Can consideration of creativity in terms of transformation and movement generate new methods for the study of home and belonging; of globalisation, creolisation, hybridity and fusion; of political work, alliances and aspirations?
HÖRA HEMMA?
Innebär förflyttning alltid förändring, och isåfall; hur? Vad händer när artister och musiker rör sig över och på tvärs mot vedertagna gränser mellan nationer, språk, kulturer och genrer? Om man talar om kreativitetens villkor i ljuset av gränsöverskridanden, föds kanske också nya sätt att se på begrepp som hem- och tillhörighet, globalisering, det mångkulturella och det hybrida. Och kanske reser det frågor om skapandet av nya politiska samhörigheter.
Medverkande:
John Hutnyk with Dritero Kasapi and Saadia Hussein.
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Afterlives of Postcolonialism
An international conference on Postcolonial theory, weekend of October 25-26
Location: Small Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, New Cross
How to get there: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/
Cost: free
Further information: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/postcolonial-studies/
In recent times some scholars have proclaimed that postcolonial theory has exhausted its critical energies- at the very time that it has been taken up by scholars and activists not located in English or Literature departments, the area where postcolonial theory made its early impact and sometimes found an institutional home. The Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths is organising a conference on the “Afterlives of Postcolonialism”- the ‘after’ referring both to its life/lives after the proclamation of its death, and also to its life after/outside the study of literature. In what ways can/has postcolonial theory been taken up by artists, architects and scholars of art and architecture, by those who study politics, anthropology and sociology, and area studies, and to what effects? Does it merely provide another way of ‘reading’ texts, to does it have the potential to destabilize and reconfigure practices and disciplines? And what happens to postcolonial theory when it moves into politics, art, sociology, and area studies; what mutations does it undergo, or need to undergo? Drawing upon speakers from a range of geographical (India, the U.S., South Africa, Palestine, the U.K.) and disciplinary locations (everything from architecture to art, film, music, politics…), involving practitioners as well as theorists, this conference asks whether postcolonial theory still has any life in it- and what sorts of lives it is leading once it travels outside of literature.
Confirmed speakers include:
Harry Harootunian, History and East Asian Studies, New York University
Lindsay Waters, Harvard University Press (Executive Editor of Humanities)
Ivor Chipkin, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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Eyal Weizman, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths Robert Fine, Sociology, Warwick University Sandi Hilal, UNRWA, West Bank Rangan Chakravarty, film producer, Kolkota Alessandro Petti, International Art Academy, Palestine Gurminder Bhambra, Sociology, Warwick University Paramita Brahmachari, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkota
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Any enquiries, please contact
E-mail: s.seth@gold.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7919 7740
