News and events archive - 2009
March 2009
17 March 2009 Sukhdev Sandhu (NYU) Cries and Lullabies':
Ethnographies of Nocturnal London, Goldsmiths, organised by The Methods Lab.
On 17 March Dr Kate Nash gave a talk 'Comparing Cultural Politics of Human Rights' in the Gender Institute research seminar and public lecture series, LSE
Professor AbdouMalik Simone delivered a plenary lecture to the Urban Geography Group, Association of American Geographers, in Las Vegas in March 2009. He will also be speaking at University of California/Berkeley (Feb 5 and 11) Stanford University (Feb 4) University of California Santa Cruz (Feb 10), Harvard Graduate School of Design (Feb 14 and 22), University of Michigan (March 4) University of Cape Town (April 1-3), University of California Irvine (April 11) Dennison University (April 14) Ohio State University (April 15) University of Minnesota (April 18) Tate Britain (March 14)
Sociology Applicant Day - 25 March 2009
Uncanny Belongings: Bioethics and the technologies of fashioning flesh. Fiona K. O'Neill, Lancaster University, Wednesday 11 March. What is Medicine? Seminar Series.
Thursday 12 March, Craig Calhoun, Department of Sociology, New York University and President of the Social Science Research Council, will lecture on the topic: >"Is Humanitarianism Beyond Politics?"
Alberto Toscano spoke at the On the Idea of Communism Conference at Birkbeck College 13 - 15 March 2009
Wednesday 25 March, Interrogating the logic of care: the case of medically unexplained symptoms
Monica Greco, Sociology, Goldsmiths. What is Medicine? Seminar Series.
Nirmal Puwar presented at a Barcelona University on methodologies on 27 March 2009.
February 2009
Wednesday 25 February, 'What is the 'mental' in 'mental illness'?: Psychiatry, the 'double-brain and the problem of hearing voices'. Lisa Blackman, Media & Communication, Goldsmiths. What is Medicine? Seminar Series, the seminar room 12th floor Warmington Tower. Enquiries to: Trudi Kent, Department of Sociology, ext. 7707, t.kent (@gold.ac.uk)
On 21 February Les Back is giving a lecture at the Univeristy of Umea, Sweden entitled Hope's Ethnographer: Obama, Politics and Sociology
On 16 February Dr David Hirsh will present to the Experts' Forum of The London Conference on Combatting Antisemitism, hosted by the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.