Goldsmiths Graduate festival 2011
During May a series of events will take placed organised and facilitated by Goldsmiths Graduate students. This month long festival of ideas will bring staff and students together in the context of conferences, symposiums, public discussions, performances and film showings.
The month begins with the MEDIA & THE SENSES a two day interdisciplinary and inter-departmental conference to celebrate the launch of the New Academic Building. It will take place on Thursday 5th May between 9.30 to 5.30 NAB LG01 and LGO2 + 6pm reception and Friday 6th May 9.30 to 5.30 NAB LG01 and LGO2
This will be followed on by a GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM on the Monday 16th -18th May. The symposium will consist of student presentations and performances along with a broader range of activities including film screenings, keynote speakers and master class discussions with prominent intellectual figures, art installations and more akin to a Goldsmiths festival of the social sciences and the humanities. During the week there will also be lectures and question and answer sessions with prominent researchers in the college about the craft of scholarship, the future of the public university and participants include Dave Morley (Media and Communications) Carrie Peachter (Education), Bev Skeggs (Sociology), Scott Lash and John Holmwood (Campaign for the Public University).
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Other events include a celebration of the life and work of Professor Gus John on May 20th 6.30-9.00pm NAB LG02. Professor Gus John is a fellow of the Institute of Education, University of London and visiting faculty professor of education at the University of Strathclyde. He is chair of Parents and Students Empowerment (PaSE), a body working with parents and with excluded students and those at risk of exclusion from school. He works with young people associated with gangs and with relatives of victims of gun violence in Manchester. He is a patron of Origin, a rites of passage programme for young black boys in South London.