Have you been involved in radical politics at Goldsmiths in the past? We’d like to hear from you. Radical Goldsmiths, in conjunction with Rosa Sansone, a student in the Department of Anthropology conducting research on the ethnographic history of Goldsmiths radicalism, seeks to document the experiences, memories, stories and artifacts of Goldsmiths activists and organisers. Please contact us to get involved:
What happens if you throw a war, and somebody comes? ‘Multicultural Crisis’ after Breivik
Goldsmiths UCU are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a talk from Gavan Titley, co-author of *The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age* (http://bit.ly/HNgVdD).1pm Wednesday 2 May, Goldsmiths College, (room TBA) Gavan’s widely praised book challenges the familiar narrative of the ‘rise and fall’ of multiculturalism by questioning the existence of a coherent era of multiculturalism in the first place. Controversies and organised racist activity in recent years are argued to be a projection of neoliberal anxieties onto the social realities of lived multiculture. The talk, which will be around half an hour long and is titled *What happens if you throw a war, and somebody comes?: ‘Multicultural Crisis’ after Breivik*, is open to all. Please share the event on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/HNhTq3.
Read Marx’s “Capital” at Goldsmiths: everybody is welcome (unless your name is David Willetts)
Capitalism and Cultural Studies – Prof John Hutnyk:
tuesday evenings from january 10, 2012 – 5pm-7pm Goldsmiths RHB 309 Free – all welcome.
No fee (unless, sorry, you are doing this for award – and that, friends, is Willetts’ fault – though the Labour Party have a share of the blame too).
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This course involves a close reading of Karl Marx’s Capital (Volume One).
The connections between cultural studies and critiques of capitalism are considered in an interdisciplinary context (cinema studies, anthropology, musicology, international relations, and philosophy) which reaches from Marx through to Film Studies, from ethnographic approaches to Heidegger, from anarchism and surrealism to German critical theory and poststructuralism/post-colonialism/post-early-for-christmas. Topics covered include: alienation, commodification, production, technology, education, subsumption, anti-imperialism, anti-war movement and complicity. Using a series of illustrative films (documentary and fiction) and key theoretical texts (read alongside the text of Capital), we examine contemporary capitalism as it shifts, changes, lurches through its very late 20th and early 21st century manifestations – we will look at how cultural studies copes with (or does not cope with) class struggle, anti-colonialism, new subjectivities, cultural politics, media, virtual and corporate worlds.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media/CU71012A%20Cultural%20Studies%20&%20Capitalism%2
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The lectures/seminars begin on Tuesday 10th January 2011 between 5 and 7pm and will run for 10 weeks (with a week off in the middle) in the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB 309), Goldsmiths College. Students are required to bring their own copy of the Penguin, International Publishers or Progress Press editions of Karl Marx Capital Vol I. Reading about 100 pages a week. (Please don’t get tricked into buying the abridged English edition/nonsense!)
Note: The Centre for Cultual Studies at Goldsmiths took a decision to make as many as possible of its lecture series open to the public without fee. Seminars, essays, library access etc remain for sale. Still, here is a chance to explore cultural studies without getting into debt. The classes are MA level, mostly in the day – though in spring the Capital course is early tuesday evening. We usually run 10 week courses. Reading required will be announced in class, but preliminary reading suggestions can also be found by following the links. RHB means main building of Goldsmiths – Richard Hoggart Building. More info on other free events from CCS here: http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/what-is-to-be-done/
Strike: 30 November 2012
PICKET LINES FROM 8AMJOIN UCU AND UNISON MEMBERS ON STRIKE IN DEFENCE OF PENSIONS
TEACH-OUT FROM 9AM WITH SESSIONS ON:
EUROZONE IN CRISIS
ASSAULT ON UNIVERSITIES
PENSIONS AND WELFARE
THE FUTURE OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
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