Events Archive

Ann Leslie, Thursday 22 October 2009
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 2009
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 2009 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
2 June 2009

The Politics of Work and the Changing Culture of Capitalism
28-29 May 2009

Future of Sound/ Future of Light
Goldsmiths Screenschool and the Sound Practice Research Unit, Illustrious and the Sonic Arts Network
24 March 2009

The Olive Till Memorial Debate 2009 - Paul Greengrass, film director
Director Paul Greengrass was the guest of the Goldsmiths Screen School for the sixth annual Olive Till Memorial Debate.
10 March 2009

The Olive Till Memorial Debate 2008 - Danny Boyle, film director
Danny Boyle will be the guest of the Goldsmiths Screen School for the annual Olive Till Memorial Debate. [Find out more]
Date: 27 February 2008

An Animation Success Story
Each academic year, Anthropology and Media undergraduate students undertake the first practice course of their degree programme. Animation is always a popular choice and last year was no exception. On this ten day course students produce a two to three minute piece of animation to a very high standard.

Last Spring, Camila Carlos And Krzysztof Bierski worked together on a competition brief, set by the prestigious Design and Art Direction Student Awards (D&AD). Working with tutor Ceiren Bell, herself a graduate of the Media and Communications course and now a working animator, the two second year students produced an exceptional animation (with an original, commissioned soundtrack) on the theme of energy saving, entitled 'Danse Macabre'

They entered 'Danse Macabre' for the D&AD awards and received the honour of being included in the D&AD Student Annual 2007. Their animation was greatly admired by Greenpeace UK who put it onto their website where it can still be viewed. Greenpeace also featured it as a projected animation on their stand at the Glastonbury Festival in summer 2007.

At some point in the autumn term 07, Camila and Krzysztof were contacted by Saatchi & Saatchi who commissioned them to make a three minute animation from an interview with Stefan Sagmeister who runs a young, exciting graphic design company in New York. Despite enormous pressure of course work which included the undertaking of a third year illustration practice option, Camila and Krzysztof produced a wonderful and inventive piece of animation to this very open brief and the folks at Saatchi & Saatchi were staggered by the results.

View this commissioned animation, entitled 'Interview with Stefan Sagmeister'.

West End Premier of the graduation films from the Goldsmiths MA in Filmmaking 2007
Date: 8 February 2008
Location: Curzon Soho

LYNCH, Behind the Curtain: The Artist at Work
Unique David Lynch Event at Goldsmiths featuring an exclusive sneak-preview of the documentary:
Date: 18 October 2007

Inaugural Symposium: The Futures of the News
Date: 24 November 2007

The Future of Sound
Date: 1 March 2007
Demonstrations and discussion (hosted by ScreenSchool, Department of Media and Communications and Electronic Music Studio, Department of Music)

This event was live streamed and will be available as a podcast shortly.

Transnational Media and Cultural Studies Group Research Seminars 2006-2007
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Rain in My Heart: Screening - Paul Watson)
7 February 2007

What a Difference a Region Makes: Cultural Studies/Cultural Industries in East Asia
17 - 18 March 2006

Media Policy-Making and Power (Symposium)
23 September 2005 - Goldsmiths, University of London

Hallyuwood: Korean Screen Culture Goes Global
20 May 2005, Senate House, University of London (In association with University of London Screen Studies Group and School of Advanced Study, University of London)
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Largely unknown in the global backwaters of Europe, Korean popular culture is the success story of the last decade. K-dramas, or Korean television dramas, are emptying the streets not only of East Asia, but also from Mexico City to Cairo. Korean boy bands and Korean fashion trends are ultra chic throughout East Asia. And Korean cinema has the distinction of being the only national cinema to claw back from losing 80% of its box office to Hollywood and regain a majority of the domestic market, at the same time as it is exported globally. This symposium introduces the Korean Wave (hallyu), as this phenomenon is known.

Can Vote, Won't Vote - A one-day conference by the Unit for Journalism Research
6 November 6, 2003

Media Times/Historical Times - Symposium organised by Bill Schwarz.
25 April 2003

Cultures of Journalism - Organised by the Unit for Journalism Research. Opened by Greg Dyke, Director General of the BBC
24 April 2003

The Changing Faces of Television : Dept Conference
15 March 2003