Past events
2006
Why Mao? Why Now? A Mao workshop
1 December 2006, Goldsmiths Cinema
A Leibniz Affair
A symposium on readings of the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Friday 24 November 2006, Goldsmiths.
Dis-Orient X
A party to discuss, and dance, about the new world disorder. Speakers - Sonia from ADFED, Anamik Saha of Goldsmiths, Sanjay Sharma, and Aki Nawaz showed the new Fun-da-mental video, with panel discussion. Friday 17 November 2006, Goldsmiths.
The Elasticity of the Almost - Dr Erin Manning
This event explored how movement takes form. The suggestion that movement does not have a form in itself but emerges ontogenetically as a taking form through an elastic point - inflection. This taking-form defies the gravitational pull of simple displacement, bringing to the movement a capacity to be more-than. This more-than of movement actively creates a becoming-body. This becoming-body is form in its passing. Monday 13 November 2006, Goldsmiths.
The Indian Queer, Media and the Arts - Professor Sumanyu Satpath (Delhi University)
This event examined 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. 3 November 2006, Goldsmiths
Samarendra Das. CCS presents a feature length documentary by Samarendra Das on the Adivasi and Dalit resistance to Alcan in Orissa, India. October, 2006, Goldsmiths Cinema.
Science Studies and Cultural Studies: Ideas from Latour, Stengers and other 'radical empiricists' - Stephen Muecke
a guest lecture by Professor Stephen Muecke, University of Technology, Sydney, October 2006
Between J-P Proudhon and Henry George: Liberal Socialism and the Future of China. A seminar with Professor CUI Zhiyuan, of the Centre for China Study, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, October 2006
Failing Better: The Greatest MA Student Conference on Earth! - August 2006
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 was 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.
MA in Interactive Media show, July 2006.
The 2006 show, including launch party, took place at Goldsmiths. Find out more www.feelshow.co.uk
David Bennett - CCS presented A TALK by David Bennett entitled 'Libidinal Economy and the Prostitute as Prototypical Consumer', July 2006.
Why western theorization of television is inadequate for understanding the non-West's encounter with the television apparatus: Abhijit Roy, Head of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India gave a talk in June 2006.
Cultural Fictions: June 2006, CCS hosted a postgraduate workshop, supported by the AHRC, on the significance of science fiction for disciplines and practices associated with cultural studies. Main speakers included Greg Tate, journalist, cultural critic and filmmaker, Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College; and Anthony Joseph, poet, musician, novelist and lecturer.
Sailing Through Colour - May, 2006 - Michael Taussig gave a 'color-reading' of Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, understanding colour as a living force taking you into the object of study. This is part of a book he is working on called "What is the Color of the Sacred?"
Composing Emergent Sound Art Using Simple Genetic Algorithms, internationally acclaimed sound artist, Kim Cascone, gave a talk on 26 April 2006.
Antimonuments and Subsculptures, Rafael Lozano Hemmer gave a talk on 13 March 2006.