News and Events
- Ann Leslie, Thursday 22 October
Ann Leslie was created a Dame by the Queen in 2007 for her services to journalism. The undisputed doyenne of foreign correspondents, she has written for the Daily Mail for over 40 years, and visited most countries in the world. Her highly entertaining memoirs, Killing My Own Snakes, both reveal a feminist reporter running rings around misanthropic curmudgeons of the old school, while yet deploying feminine wiles to extract herself from difficult situations in dangerous parts. Talking to Goldsmiths journalism students, she makes them laugh but reminds them of their duty to ‘shine a torch into those dark places’.
- Michael Mansfield and
Cólm Tóibin, Wednesday 14 October.
Michael Mansfield is one of the best-known lawyers in Britain, the flamboyant defender of civil liberties from his early career defending the Price Sisters who bombed his car outside the Old Bailey in 1973 to the long-running Bloody Sunday inquiry, which is still to report. Among the wrongly accused to profit from his defence have been the Birmingham Six, striking miners at Orgreave, the twice bereaved mother Angela Cannings and Barry George, who was eventually acquitted of the Jill Dando murder on his second appeal. Following the publication of his Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer, Michael Mansfield talks of the pleasures and pitfalls of a legal career in the spotlight, and his view that his most significant case was the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
Cólm Tóibin is one of the most successful Irish writers of his generation, with a literary output including journalism, criticism, short stories and plays, as well as novels. The one form he has given up writing is poetry, but his literary style is infused with a poetic sensibility. In this latest of the Richard Hoggart Memorial Lectures, he will be reading from his highly acclaimed new novel, Brooklyn , talking with Blake Morrison about his work, and taking questions from the floor.
- The Large Scale Immersive Audio Experiment
Workshop: Thursday 8 October. Presented by: Media & Communications Screenshool, Music Department Sound Practice Research Unit, Duran Audio and Illustrious
- Imagining a Radicalised Public Sphere in a context of global capital and digital networks
- The Politics of Work and the Changing Culture of Capitalism
- RAE 2008
- New MA programme: MA in Brand Development
- Goldsmiths, University of London Skillset Media Academy
- New MA programme: MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship [Download PDF]
- Goldsmiths, University of London Skillset Media Academy
- RAE 2008
The 2008 RAE exercise places Goldsmiths’ Department of Media and Communications among the top four in the country for this subject area. Eighty percent of work submitted fell within the two highest bands in the new system - that is to say ‘World Leading’ and ‘Internationally Excellent’. Indeed, a table taken from the website of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies rates Goldsmiths a clear top in terms of volume of staff working at a world-leading level. The same source ranks departments in terms of ‘Research Power’, an index which multiplies all quality levels by the number of staff submitted, once again Goldsmiths is the clear leader. ‘If our rivals say as much is true’, states Goldsmiths’ Head of Media and Communications, Dr Gareth Stanton, ‘then who am I to argue’.